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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. |
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These linked
sites are not under the control of WCS, and the district is
not responsible for the contents of any of these linked
sites or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes
or updates to such sites. These links are offered to you
only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does
not imply endorsement of the site by our district. |
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