Online Library
Web resources for the interactive educator
Science
Access Excellence:
The Mystery Spot
www.backyardjungle.org
Explore this
collection of online and offline activities created by Access Excellence, a
national education program that provides teachers of health, biology and life
sciences with access to new scientific information. These activities use
science to solve mysteries, such as why frog populations are dying and the fate
of stranded Arctic explorers.
Science and Engineering Experiments for Kids
www.seekscience.org/interact
Check out these
action-packed interactive adventures that explore the sciences of light, sound,
forces and motion, electricity, Earth and the solar system through a series of
situations, including an alien invasion, an undersea odyssey and an astro
adventure. These hands on experiments are based on the UK National Curriculum
standards for science and technology.
Reading
and Language Arts
Read, Write, Think www.readwritethink.org
Try out these detailed reading and language arts activities located in
an expansive searchable database that caters to K-12 students. All lessons are
aligned with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) standards for
English Language Arts, and students can access an interactive area of the website
to further practice their skills.
Math
National Library of
Virtual Manipulatives
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
Explore visualized,
interactive math concepts, such as algebra, geometry, measurement and others,
that actively involve students in lessons and are arranged by grade level.
Project Interactivate
www.shodor.org/interactivate
Check out this science
and math resource that provides you with interactive lesson activities
covering a wide range of topics, including number and operation concepts,
algebra, geometry and measurement. These lessons are accompanied by detailed
lesson plans and are arranged according to the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics principles and standards for school mathematics.
Cross-Curricular
Crayola Creativity Central
www.crayola.com/educators/lessons/index.cfm
Explore over 700
lesson activities spanning the language arts, science, math, social studies and
visual arts subject areas that you can search easily by curriculum, grade and
time allowance. Links to curriculum standards are provided, along with subject
and grade-level suitability charts for each lesson activity.
Scholastic
Ready-to-Go Resources
www.funbrain.com
Check out this
comprehensive, searchable site of curriculum-spanning lessons, animated movies
and other fun, interactive Macromedia Flash activities. Monthly and yearly,
grade specific lesson guides authored by five outstanding teachers chosen by
Scholastic provide you with a handy planning resource.
History
Lesson Plans and Resources
for Social Studies Teachers
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/onlineactivities.html
Explore this
compilation of highly engaging online lesson activities for social studies,
economics or history lessons gathered by California State University,
Northridge (CSUN).
Arts
Albright-Knox Artgames
www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index.html
Discover art with
these colorful, highly interactive, multifaceted activities that encourage
students to explore their artistic sides while learning about color theory, and
other art related lessons, through Flash animations and famous paintings.
Art Safari
http://www.moma.org/momalearning/artsafari
Take your class on an
online adventure with the Museum of Modern Art's Q&A-style resource that
uses artwork to investigate and create different animals. Each safari module
encourages students to write stories about the paintings and animals they have
learned about.
New York Philharmonic for Kids
This entertaining
music resource offers interactive games and quizzes on famous composers,
musical instruments, music history, members of the famed New York Philharmonic
Orchestra and more in a series of Flash activities.