Barnyard Friends

• Kids Farm
  http://www.kidsfarm.com/wheredo.htm
• Farm Service Agency for Kids
  http://www.fsa.usda.gov/fsakids/

Playful Pets

• Invitations to Literacy
  http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/itl/index.html
• These sites are from the American Veterinary Medical Association web site. 
  http://www.avma.org/care4pets/
• Pet stories this site tells human interest stories about pets 
  http://www.avma.org/careforanimals/kidscorner/default.asp
• This site allows a child to pick an animal, then they color it on the web page by clicking on a color then an area on the object.
  http://coloring.com/
• Hedgehogs This is a web unit about a class pet hedgehog and
   includes stories and 
  activities.
  http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/hedge/index.html
• First Dog This is a web unit about the book First Dog by Jan Brett.
  http://www.janbrett.com/piggybacks/firstdog.htm

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Get the Giggles

• Between the Lions
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/lions/
• Bookworm Bunch
  http://pbskids.org/bookwormbunch/

Big and Little

• Sue the T. Rex
  http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/default.html
• The Butterfly Conservatory at the American Museum of Natural History
  http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/butterflies/

• Mrs. Payton's first grader's class book on the Months of the Year! This class book was 
  developed in conjunction with Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy. Visit their web site 
  for additional activities and books to read that correspond with that theme. 
  http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/month/index.html
  
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Good Friends

• PBS
  http://www.pbs.org
• Net Kids
  http://www.chirpingbird.com/netpets/html/
• Whootie owls site stories and writing activities
  http://www.storiestogrowby.com/
• Friendship written by kids
  http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/pges/kid-pages/friendship/default.html
• Kidscom
  http://www.kidscom.com/orakc/Mousers/mouse.html
  http://www.kidscom.com/

That's Incredible

• Guinness World Records
  http://www.guinnessrecords.com/
• Dinosaurs a teacher developed page all about dinosaurs
  http://www.marshall-es.marshall.k12.tn.us/jobe/Read-Write/dinosaur/maindino.html
• Frogs This is an excellent story about frogs (virtual field trip)
  http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow9/jun99/
• Underground Adventure Virtual Field Trip
  http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ua/nettop.htm
  http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ua/default.htm
• Chris Van Allsburg author of Polar Express
  http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/cva/index.html
• David Wisniewski author of Golem and Rainplayer
  http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/wisniewski/index.html
  
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Disaster

• Fema for Kids
  http://www.fema.gov/kids/
  
• Nova Escape
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/escape/
  
• Nova Titanic
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/titanic/
  
• Beauty and the Beast
  http://library.thinkquest.org/J003007/menu.html

What's cooking.

• Nutrition book Hunt
  http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/nutritionhunt.html
• Food in Children's Literature
  http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/food.html
• Tomie dePaola
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/depaola.htm
• Strega Nona
  http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/106.html
• Christopher Columbus- find out what Columbus and his crew had to eat on their various 
  voyages.
  Christopher Columbus - A Culinary History
• The House of Food this Think Quest site talks all about food: how we eat it, how our bodies 
  use it, what it's made out of, and much more!
  http://library.thinkquest.org/15873/
• Real Truth About Fast Food - learn about good nutrition in general and compare the nutrition 
  of several fast food restaurants in this winning 1998 Think Quest Junior site.
  http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4485/
• Patricia Polacco official site from the author of The Keeping Quilt, Reshenka's Eggs, Tikvah 
  Means Hope, and many more! Read about where she lives, how she works, and information 
  on her life and books.
  http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
  
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Super Sleuths

• Official Carmen web site. Learn about this ace detective, get information on all the Carmen games, or find out about special offers.
  http://www.carmensandiego.com/
• This Think Quest site, developed by students from the Robert Healy School in Chicago, teaches the virtues of mysteries and includes stories you can finish on your own. http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5109/
• Play this game and learn about artists such as Picasso, Van Gogh, Raphael, and Gauguin while you help solve a mystery 
  http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/  
• Educational Web Adventures 
  http://www.eduweb.com/adventure.html

American Snapshots

• The Fifty States
  http://www.50states.com/
• Cobblestone Magazine read interesting articles or take a quiz on world cultures and history 
  from Cobblestone's nonfiction magazines for kids.
  http://cobblestonepub.com/pages/kidmain.htm
• Statue of Liberty this official site contains the history of the Statue, some statistics, and 
  activities to do while you're visiting.
  http://www.nps.gov/stli/prod02.htm
• Allen Say author of Grandfather's Journey
  http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/say/index.html
  
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Try to See It My Way

• Seeing is Believing
    http://library.thinkquest.org/C001464/cgi-bin/view.cgi
• How class conscious are you?
  http://www.pbs.org/classinamerica/ This PBS site lets you test your knowledge of class differences by playing some games and reading personal stories

From Prairie to Sea

• The Fifty States
  http://www.50states.com/
• Texas
  http://www.janbrett.com/piggybacks/armadillo_rodeo_book.htm#one
• Pioneers learn what it was like to travel across the US Frontier!
   You can read all about life 
  on the trail, tools, pastimes, toys, and dangers in this cool Think Quest site.
  http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/
• Reconstruction and its Aftermath historic documents and info tell how Southern slaves 
  experienced freedom for the first time, and how some started new lives out West. From 
  African American Odyssey.
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html
  
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• http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.htmlthis awesome site explores what life was like in Ancient Egypt. Learn about the pharaohs, pyramids, temples, gods and goddesses, and much more.
• http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4368/learn all about Ancient Egypt and play some games testing your knowledge at this winning 1998 Think Quest Junior site.

Imagination At Work

• The Way things Work
  http://www.waythingswork.com/gallery.htm
• The Wright Brothers
  http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/
  http://www.fi.edu/flights/
  http://www.aero-web.org/history/wright/wriframe.htm
• Paul Bunyan
  http://www.paulbunyantrail.com/index.html
  
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Wacky Web Tales
Choose one of the tales and create your own story.
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html

Science:

The American Museum of Natural History's 
"Online Field Journal" web site. Here, young children can
explore the wonders of nature with a parent, grandparent, older brother or sister, 
or an adult friend.
http://www.amnhonline.org/NationalCenter/online_field_journal/

Living Things site is good for an ecology unit.
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/

Rocky Rock Hound studying earth science this is the site for you.
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index.html

Math:

Fractals Math
http://library.thinkquest.org/3288/links.html

Social Studies:


These are Internet projects and activities developed by the staff and students at Loogootee 
Elementary West. Visit their pages and see how they are integrating the Internet with their 
classroom curriculum!
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/index.html

Web Projects written by students of Loogootee Elementary West
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/

Arts:

Arts Edge at the Kennedy Center Bringing art to the classroom
http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

Art Lessons 
http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/les.cfm

School Sites:

These are Internet projects and activities developed by the staff and students at Loogootee 
Elementary West. Visit their pages and see how they are integrating the Internet with their 
classroom curriculum!
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/index.html

Web Projects written by students of Loogootee Elementary West
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/

A Principal's Home Page with lots of activities for kids
http://www.marshall-es.marshall.k12.tn.us/jobe/

Franklin Institute fellows program What does it mean to be "Wired@School?" 
The Franklin Institute Online Fellows are pioneering the use of the Internet in K-8 schools. Browse to the bottom of the page to find the lessons.
http://www.fi.edu/qa98/wiredindex.html

Back to School Tips
http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/sept.htm

Learning Games:

FunBrain Site for Kids Parents and Teachers
FunBrain.com was founded in May 1997 by associates of PM publishing, a Chicago based 
software company that specializes in developing risk management and training 
systems for banks and options traders. Applying this same technology to kids 
learning games quickly produced the number one education site for K-8 kids and teachers.
http://www.funbrain.com/index.html

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