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Math
Sources |
Ask Dr. Math
Students can use this site to ask questions or get assistance with their
math homework for experts or discuss math topics with other students. |
A+Math:
Advanced Problems
Select the type of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division
problem you want to practice. Then click Start. |
Escape
From Knab
A math game in which students rocket through space toward Knab. On
your way there, you learn that the beings there, although friendly, emit
a foul smell and leave a slippery slime trail as they move about.
You also discover that a ticket to return to earth is $10,000. You
have to earn and save enough money in order to buy your ticket home. |
Consumer Math
These pages help student in money conversions, making change, and
computing interest and sales tax. |
A+Math
This site helps students improve their math skills interactively.
They can create and print their own set of flash cards; do practice
worksheets, and play a variety of math games. |
King's
List of Online Math Activities
This site contains many links to sites for basic facts, fraction,
geometry, etc. |
KidZone Math
This site has on-line math games, math brain teasers, and printable math
worksheets. |
Interactivate
This site has interactive lessons and activities for science and math. |
Jefferson Lab Games and Puzzles
This site contains science games and math games. |
National
Library of Manipulatives
A wide range of math manipulatives is now available online. This
is a good place to start exploring some of these "virtual
manipulatives." |
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Language
Arts Sources |
How to Study
This site gives tips for studying, reading, presenting and writing. |
An
Animated History of Books
The BBC brings this website to life with your choice of a high tech or
low tech versions of the history of books and writings from cave
paintings to the future of electronic media. |
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Science
Sources |
Planet Quest
Created at the Jet Propulsion Labs, this website offers online resources
as well as offline activities for middle school students.
Highlighting the technology of interferometry (a method of employing the
interference of electromagnetic radiation to make highly precise
measurements of the angle between two rays of light), students can begin
to understand how this technology can change our knowledge of the
universe and the search for life on other planets. |
Periodic
Table Adventure
Middle school teachers will love this website with 5 lessons and
activities that introduce the periodic table. The Element
Adventure Webquest allows students to research an element and create an
advertisement for that element. |
Marine
Reserves
A game that lets students protect, maintain, restore and enhance living
marine resources through new management strategies that encompass an
ecosystem perspective and promote collaboration between competing
interests. |
Jefferson Lab Games and Puzzles
This site contains science games and math games. |
Interactivate
This site has interactive lessons and activities for science and math. |
Fear of Physics
As the creators of this website say "we created this site to be a
friendly, non-technical place for you to come and 'play' with the laws
of physics for a while." Middle school students can try the
different simulations, including Sound, Collisions, Making Your Jump
Shot, and Zero G. |
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Social
Studies Sources |
Library of
Congress
This is a primary source material location for American
History-colonies, the Civil War, etc. |
The Perseus
Digital Library
This is a digital collection of materials for ancient Greece and Rome.
It also contains hundreds of links to other sites on these topics. |
Food
and Agricultures of the World
Agropolis-Museum is a Science Center with three online exhibitions: The
History of Food and Agriculture, Farmers and Farming Over the World, and
The Banquet de l'Huamite. Visitors will find a global perspective
of agriculture and the foods consumed by people in different nations. |
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Miscellaneous Sources
& Games |
Cyberhunt Kids' Library
This site contains cyberhunts on a variety of topics including language
arts, social studies, science and sports. |
Teachnology Games
This site has a variety of interactive educational games such as
Lemonade Stand which simulates the real-life task of running a lemonade
stand or Mad Libs which let you add words and create a story in a single
click. |
Funbrain
This site has arcade style games that help students with math and
reading. There are also quizzes. |
Education for Kids
This site contains drill games for kids in the areas of math, social
studies, science and language arts. |