Language Arts

1. Toon Doo: This fun website allows you to make cartoons and add dialogue, students would have a blast creating these. http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon

2.  Papercrafts: As part of an integrated unit I am going to have students create a paper craft, and then do a descriptive writing piece about the craft.http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/index.html

3. Visual Words : This link allows students to search a word and see what words it is linked to. A cool vocabulary tool. http://www.visuwords.com/

4. Reader's Theater : this page allows you to find different forms of reader's theater, great for all grade levels. You can find scripts to meet your needs here.http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/

5. Information on Children's Authors: this great site has links to different children's authors. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dKbrown/rteacher.html

6. A few game ideas- there are loads more!
   The Reef of Lost Words
   The Plural Girls

7. Grammar Girl This site has podcasts with quick writing tips for anyone to learn from. A great resource, or create your own with students! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: This is a great little online book to get kids hooked on reading. http://www.funbrain.com/journal/Journal.html?ThisJournalDay=1&ThisPage=1

9. Glencoe Literature Library: a great site for you as the teacher to find resources on books http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/

10. Online Writing Collaboration: a great webquest for students http://library.thinkquest.org/2626/

11. A-Z Books: this is a fee based site, but allows you to print books for students http://www.readinga-z.com/allbooks/index.html

12. A great classroom webpage example, teacher is really using technology to engage her students. http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

13. Six Traits Writing Program: this site gives nice kid friendly descriptions and some activities for students and classroom resources http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/sixtraits.html

14. Time for Kids: a weekly publication, this site is a great companion to get kids reading for information. http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

15. Digital Storytelling with Students: Allow students to tell their own story with images, narration and fun. Students could explore family oral histories, or interview a grandparent. http://www.digitales.us/

16. WikiJunior You've all heard of Wikipedia, well why not WikiJunior- as your students learn about a topic, have them publish their own wiki texbooks! http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior

17. Monster Exchange This is a great project idea for using digital images and writing for authentic purposes http://www.monsterexchange.org/

18. Reader's Theater : this page allows you to find different forms of reader's theater, great for all grade levels. You can find scripts to meet your needs here.  http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/

Social Studies

1. Smithsonian http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/

2. http://www.iearn.org.au/fp/

3. Plimoth Plantations http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html visit this site to begin learning about Plimoth Plantation

4. Let's use this site from PBS to learn about the journey and staying safe http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/teachers/pilgrims/index.html

5. Using this site we are going to compare Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people that lived where the Pilgrim's landed http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/daily_life/index.htm

6. Jamestown http://www.jamestown2007.org/kids-jamestown-adventure.cfm

7. Panwapa http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/pressroom/presskits/panwapa/index.php

Science

1. Science Clips http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml  Very interactive site to explore different science concepts
2. Cool Science for Kids http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
3. Science Topics http://www.covenantworks.com/Bouncy-A/Science/index.htm

1. Online Play simulations http://www.inventionatplay.org/playhouse_main.html

1. Unifying Themes

1. Journey North http://www.learner.org/jnorth/ a global activity to look at wildlife management.

2. How Stuff Works http://science.howstuffworks.com/ a good place for students to do research, careful though, it is not all G rated!

3. Gizmos –online demonstrations of science concepts there is a fee, but you can also do a free demo – may take a bit to load, but VERY cool demonstrations

4. Magic Schoolbus: Simple Science http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/simplescience/home_noflash.htm

5. Human Body tour http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/htbw_main_page.html  

6. Design a Roller Coaster http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster/

2. The Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry and Technological Design

1. Learn about the probability involved with certain games http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20071003/Feature1.asp  

2. Exploring Leonardo http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/ this site allows you to explore the many different inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci

3. Lego Design online http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/design/

3. The Scientific and Technological Enterprise

1. All about inventors for kids http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Science/Inventors/  

2. Get kids excited about designing and inventing on their own http://www.bkfk.com/

3. Smithsonian Site about Inventions http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/

4. The Physical Setting

1. Brain Pop http://www.brainpop.com/  this site has all different type of information for all content areas, great little clips to introduce or review a topic, also has built in quizzes

2. Label the planets this could be a good review activity for students

3. http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/planet_go.html 

4. NASA for kids http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

5. Questacon http://www.questacon.edu.au/  Australia’s site for Science and Technology. Online experiments and references

6. Bill Nye the Science Guy http://www.billnye.com/  Great site with information and experiments

7. Amazing Space http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/  

8. The Planets for Kids http://kids.nineplanets.org/  

9. Stargazers http://stargazers.gsfc.nasa.gov/students/stories_fun.htm  Good reading materials from NASA about space

5. The Living Environment

1. Hoot Habitat – play this game and learn about ecosystems and habitat http://www.funology.com/habitat_funology.swf  

2. Demonstration of a synapse http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/animations/synaptic.swf 

3. Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection http://www.kidwings.com/owlpellets/#  a great activity to do with your students

4. Iditarod http://www.ultimateiditarod.com/teachers.htm

5. Sea and Sky http://www.seasky.org/  You can learn about either the sky or sea, includes some great pictures

6. Kids Biology http://www.kidsbiology.com/  All different topics for students to learn more about biology

7. Cells for Kids http://www.smm.org/tissues/  Learn about cells and tissues types. There are topics to explore, pictures and activities.

8. Cells Alive http://www.cellsalive.com/  pictures of cells

9. Weather information for Kids http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/

Math

1. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

2. Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx

Lesson Planning

1. General lesson planning information http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/

2. General lesson http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/

3. Discovery School http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/

Digital Literacy

1. This tool http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

2. This tool http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

3. This site http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html

4. This site offers a good handout on evaluating websites, along with some to practice on http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/cof/classrooms/grade5/kittredge/criticalreview/index.htm

Computer Ethics and Safety

1. An article about internet safety and students http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/04/how-do-we-teach-kids-to-cross-busy.html

2. An article about using custom search engines in your classroom http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/05/teachers-often-bemoan-their-students.html

3. A reference source for internet safety http://www.netsmartz.org/

4. A good annotated hot list of different links related to fair use and copyright http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/refdesk/

5. The United States government site on copyright http://www.copyright.gov/

6. A site on fair use from Stanford University http://fairuse.stanford.edu/