Useful Sites

Teachers TryScience - STEM Lessons and Resources for Educators

Teachers TryScience is a web site for teachers. This site provides free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). What’s more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices.

http://www.teacherstryscience.org/

National Geographic Kids

Watch animal cameras, learn interesting tidbits about animals, see and share photos of nature, learn about different countries and try science experiments. These activities don't even begin to scratch the surface of the National Geographic Kids website. There's even a "Little Kids" section for the younger explorers in your house.

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

CoolMath4Kids

CoolMath calls itself "an amusement park of math and more." Children can play online math games that help them with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, money and more. CoolMath4Kids.com is appropriate for ages 3 through 12.

https://www.coolmath4kids.com/

ABCya

ABCya.com is a website that provides educational games and activities for school-aged children. The games on the website are organized into grade levels from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, as well as into subject categories such as letters, numbers, and holidays.

http://www.abcya.com/

Starfall

Starfall teaches children how to read by using games and phonics. Starfall has four reading levels to teach children from ages 2 to 15 how to read. The levels, in order from the most basic to the most advanced are: "learning ABCs" (2-6), "early beginning reading" (2-6), "intermediate beginning reading" (6-10), and "advanced beginning reading" (10-15).

http://www.starfall.com/

Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning® produces children's educational web sites which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Ease of use is a hallmark of our material

http://www.enchantedlearning.com

Brain Pop Jr.

BrainPopis a group of educational websites with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 (ages 6 to 17), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.

http://www.brainpopjr.com

Brain Pop

BrainPopis a group of educational websites with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 (ages 6 to 17), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.

https://www.brainpop.com/

Culture Grams

Culture Grams: Concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 200 cultures of the world. A trusted perspective on our changing world. Browse, print, or study the complete Culture Grams Online Database, including Kids, States, and World Editions. Culture Grams. Concise, reliable, and up-to-date.

http://online.culturegrams.com/?a_username=87-18809&a_password=BIGCHALK

World Book Online

An encyclopedia published in the United States. The encyclopedia was designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, and medical subjects.

http://www.worldbookonline.com

Encyclopedia Britannica

Explore the updated online encyclopedia fromEncyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.

http://novelnewyork.org/databases.php

FactCite at The Lincoln Library

FactCite is a collection of databases that support curriculum and stimulate young researchers.

  • Fact Cite 1-2-3
  • Biography for Beginners
  • Mythology
  • American History
  • Science

http://www.factcite.com/texis/user/login.html?to=/

Scholastic Go!

Providing credible, accurate, reliable content on almost every core-curricula subject,Scholastic GO!®offers endless resources for research in a multitude of media. Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more with this easy-to-navigate digital resource designed to strengthen content knowledge, vocabulary, and core proficiency skills.

http://go-elem.grolier.com/

PebbleGo Next

PebbleGo Next is the next step in research for students grades 3-6. Launching with a States, American Indian studies, Science, & Social Studies modules, PebbleGo Next is carefully aligned to grades 3-6 curriculum objectives. The databases is simple to navigate and offer key reading supports such as read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting along with a variety of downloadable, including prompts to inspire critical thinking.

http://www.pebblegonext.com

PebbleGo

Each database features expertly-leveled text and navigation specifically designed for your beginning researchers. Enriched with spoken-word audio, text highlighting and audio/video media, PebbleGo builds a foundation of research skills for every learner.

http://www.pebblego.com

TrueFlix

Trueflixis an award winning online resource that leverages the award-winning True Books content to help students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.

http://tfx.grolier.com/

BookFlix

Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks to reinforce reading skills and introduce children to a world of knowledge and exploration.

http://auth.grolier.com/login/bookflix/login.php