Websites of the Week
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| Each week we examine ten websites worth a visit. | |
| Especially for Students . . . | |
| Reading Rainbow | |
| URL: http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/ | |
| Storytelling, activities, more. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: Pre-K-3 | |
| AAA Math | |
| URL: http://www.aaamath.com/ | |
| "These pages illustrate and provide interactive arithmetic exercises and problems." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: K-8 | |
| Web Gallery of Art | |
| URL: http://www.wga.hu/index.html | |
| "The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 14.500 reproductions." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 5 and up | |
| Brian Jacques Redwall Abbey | |
| URL: http://www.redwall.org/ | |
| Official site of children's book author, Brian Jacques | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 6 and up | |
| KeyPals Club | |
| URL: http://teaching.com/keypals | |
| "Start a project with another class, or just create a new friendship with someone on the other side of the globe. KeyPals Club is a free educational service from teaching.com." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: All | |
| Especially for Teachers . . . | |
| News and Newspapers Online | |
| URL: http://library.uncg.edu/news/ | |
| "News and Newspapers Online lists hundreds of news resources from around the world in a variety of languages that offer free access to current, general-interest, full-text news." | |
| Map History/History of Cartography | |
| URL: http://www.maphistory.info/ | |
| "Use this site to find worthwhile information about old maps, both on the web and in the real world." Bills itself as The Gateway to the Subject. | |
| Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers | |
| URL: http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/ | |
| Excellent source for lesson plan links and more. | |
| Headline Spot: Science News | |
| URL: http://www.headlinespot.com/subject/science/ | |
| Links to headlines concerning science in all types of media. | |
| EcEdWeb: Teaching K-12 Economics | |
| URL: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/K-12/home.cfm | |
| Standards, resources, lesson plans, and more. | |
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