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Ditto Elementary
Principal, Julie Harcrow
3001 Quail Ln.
Arlington, Texas 76016
(682)867-3100
(817)492-3105 fax
(682)867-3106 Nurse

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Age Appropriate Search Engines

http://www.yahooligans.com

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ web search for kids geography and vocabulary

http://www.ajkids.com/ - Ask Jeeves for Kids

http://cybersleuth-kids.com – CyberSleuth Kids – Internet search guide

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html Little Explorers Dictionary - primary

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ Internet Public Library – ask ? and get answers


Web Sites for Parents
On-Line Stories – to read and hear

http://www.storyplace.org English & Spanish

http://www.web-pop.com/bookpopchooser.html read by author Steven Cosgrove

http://www.merpy.com k-2

http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/ student reads

http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm Beatrice Potter books

http://www.bookhive.org/zingertales/ students listen to stories told by storytellers

http://goodnightstories.com/stories.htm read story, read rebus story, or hear story

http://lightupyourbrain.com/stories.html stories read by Chuck Brown

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1

http://www.readmeabook.com/audiobooks.htm listen to story

http://www.stonesoup.com/main2/listen.html student read stories


Beginning Reading Skills

http://www.starfall.com emerging reader, vowel sounds, digraphs, and stories

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/alphaorder1.swf abc order

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/toftwood/lcwc.html spelling

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/ literacy activities


Literature Websites
literature resources and reviews and novel extensions

http://www.carolhurst.com/ book reviews

http://frankrogers.home.mindspring.com/ guide to literature on the web

http://www.bookhive.org/

http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/

http://www.scpl.lib.fl.us/kids/kids_booklists.html

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html novel extensions w/ student activities k-3

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html novel extensions w/ student activities 4, 5

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy68.html novel extensions w/ student extensions 6, 8


Writing with the Internet
developing writers and publishing

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/ how to get an “A”

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/ ABC’s of the writing process

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/ graphic organizers

http://www.eduplace.com/tales grade 3 and up

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/diary/index.htm grade 4 and up

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/index.htm grade 4 and up


Math Skills
manipulatives, problem solving, extension

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/elementary/clock.html clockwise applet

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/MulTab/applet_s.html multiplication template

http://www.visualfractions.com/ identify, rename and operate fractions

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

http://www.mathtv.org/ videos to present and solve problems

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/addem videos to explain math concepts

http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/index.html problem solving

http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain brain teasers

http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html A Plus Math

http://www.aaamath.com/

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/counting/ k-1

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm k-1

http://mathematics.hellam.net/ need to go through all

http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/math_advantage.html more math skills

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/maths.htm word problems

http://fen.com/studentactivities/Piggybank/piggybank.html counting money

http://www.teachrkids.com/

http://www.dositey.com/addsub/add2rbasic.html adding with regrouping

http://www.dositey.com/addsub/as85/add3r.htm

http://dositey.com/addsub/as85/add5ar.htm

http://www.dositey.com/addsub/sub2dig.html subtracting with regrouping

http://www.dositey.com/addsub/suba.html

http://www.dositey.com/addsub/subra4.htm

http://www.homeschoolmath.net money


Science on the Internet

http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ solar simulator

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/graphics/hurricane/hurricane_explainer/flash.htm evolution of a hurricane

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/baby/ videos great

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/bargraphs/bargraphs.html k-2

http://www.adventuresinenergy.org/ upper grade levels

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/GadgetAnatomy.html Simple machines

http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm cell mitosis

http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/ grade 5, 6

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/index.html kingdom, phylum, etc

http://www.sciencespot.net all grades

http://place.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/sound/index.htm sounds

http://place.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/colgate/index.htm environment

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index.html rock hounds

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/states_of_matter/index.html ***states of matter

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/ grades 2-5

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter/blizzard/index.htm weather

http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/index.html kids’ habitat


Social Studies on the Internet
including audio clips

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/index.html citizenship

http://www.funbrain.com/who/index.html who is that

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/ white house for kids

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inca Virtual mummy

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html virtual Jamestown

http://congressforkids.net/cartoonintro.htm congress for kids

http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/ audio clip

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/seymour/chapter3.htm Ellis Island


Virtual Field Trips and Web Cams

http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic35.htm All about virtual field trips

http://www.efieldtrips.org

http://www.desertusa.com/life.html desert environment

http://www.plimoth.org/visit/virtual/ Plimouth Plantation

http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/ rainforest

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flaghome.html Betsy Ross

http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/ caves

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/kids/vrtrips.html volcanos

http://www.field-trips.org/sci/hurricane/ inside a hurricane

http://www.monticello.org/ Monticello

http://www.mountvernon.org/index.cfm Mansion tour

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/tour/ Spotty’s White House tour

http://www.toweroflondontour.com/kids/index.html Tower of London

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/cpzoo/ Penguins at Central Park Zoo

http://www.gatorland.com/webcam/index.html Gatorland’s Cam

http://www.fallsview.com/Stream/PanLive.shtml Niagara Falls

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/cam_menu.asp Monterrey Bay Aquarium

http://www.zooatlanta.org/animals_panda_cam.htm Panda Cam


WebQuests
what are they? examples

http://kathyschrock.net/webquests archives

http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/wqmatrix.html 282 webquests

http://education.nmsu.edu/webquest/examples.html

http://webquest.org search on left


Current Events

http://www.nytimes.com/learning New York Times Learning Network

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/kidspost/ Washington Post

http://www.timeforkids.com Time for Kids Online

http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/ Kids Newsroom


Math Interactive Websites

www.aaaknow.com/gefmra10.htm
Patterns
Counting by 10, 5, 2
Time Words to Number

www.coolmath4kids.com
Additon lessons
How Addition Works
Place Value Review
Two Digit Addition
Scratch Addition
Flash Cards for kids to color

www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_2nd_math.htm
Match number and amount – concentration
Count-by match
Hundreds chart to find numbers
Sequencing, patterns, count-by
Place value
Count forward and back to 999
Read & write numbers to 999
Odd & even
Comparing numbers
Concrete models of fractions
Story Problems

www.dositey.com
Addition
Subtraction
Number Sense
Problem Solving Math Challenge

www.edweb.tusd.K12.az.us/ekowalcz/math/elementary_web_sites.htm Change maker
Dog Bones – hundreds chart
Fraction Flags

www.osego.org/ocsd- web/games/fractionflags/fractioflags.html
Ghost Blasters
multiples
evens
odds
Space Hopscotch

www.funschool.com