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Computer Skills

English/ Language Arts

Engineering
Design

Math

Social Sciences

Special Education

Websites

A. Pintura: Art Detective *

Alphabet Soup: art ideas for kids

Art of ancient Mali

ArtEdventures/A Lifetime of Color games*

Arts Connected *

Artist's Toolkit

Arts on the Internet

Crayola.com for educators

Destination: Modern Art *

Egyptian profile portraits grade 2

Elementary Art lesson plans

Kaleidoscope maker

Kali: symmetric sketching

Kids Space: share your pictures in the Gallery

Kodak art lesson plans

Mr. PicassoHead *

Pointillism practice page

Trash Matcher: art/recycling activities

Wordle: art from words

*Many thanks to Kaarn Thomas and Cristi Miller, elementary Art teachers for Alleghany County Schools

Keyboarding Skills

Websites

Dance Mat Typing (BBC)

Rapid Typing Tutor (windows download)

Keyboard Challenge

Sky Chase: home row keys

List of Touch Typing Tutors

Typing Games for Kids Review (software to buy)

Online Typing Tutors (review)

Your Text Here

Websites

Design Projects from CIESE:

Engineering Design Process for Children

Imagination Place (design club)

Kids Design Network

NASA Quests

Sample Design Briefs:

Teach Engineering Resources K-12

Teacher's Domain: Engineering

VDOE Children's Engineering: Design briefs for K-5

Subject

Websites

Alphabet

ABC Match
ABC Order (What comes next?)
Internet 4 Classrooms Alphabet Links
Alphabet Zoo (upper/lower case letters)
Match Alphabet Letters to Sounds/Pictures
Rainbow Corner ABCs letter recognition (sound)

Grammar/
Parts of speech

Free Interactive Grammar Quizzes (scroll down)Grammar Activities
Grammar Blast (Capitalization/punctuation)
Grammar Gold (common & proper nouns)
Grammar Gorillas
Rats! (adjectives & adverbs)
Rats! (common & proper nouns)
Verb-subject agreement treasure game
Wacky Web Tales

Phonics

Beginning/Ending Blends
CVC Words
Digby Mole
Frog Jump Game (sound discrimination)
Fuzzy Lion Ears: Blending Bowl game
Help Leo Find a Match (beginning letters)
Kinderstart Vowel Sounds
Readquarium: Phonics & Phonemes
Starfall
Word Family Sort
Words & Pictures

Poetry

Giggle Poetry
Magnetic Poetry Board
Pattern Poetry
Poem Machine (like MadLibs)
Poetry 4 Kids
Poetry Zone
Shape Poems
Web English Teacher: poetry page

Reading & Comprehension

Cyberchase Web Adventures
Li'l Fingers storybooks
MagicKeys Online stories
Primary reading activities & games
Reading Rockets: comprehension strategies
Reading Skills: Sight words
Reading Units (questions, activities, etc.)
Readquarium comprehension games/activities
Strategies for Reading Comprehension
Teacher Tap: Electronic books & online reading
Virtual Vine: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Rhyming

Rhyme-a-Week downloadable cards
Golden Books Fun Factory (Home-Rhyme Derby)
Reggie Loves to Rhyme
Roy the Zebra: interactive games (scroll to Words that Rhyme)
Frog’s Rhyming Machine (WordWorld)

Sentences

Finding Perfect Sentences (Quia)
Making Sentences games
Review: sentence structure
Scrambled Sentence board
Silly Sentence Machine
Wall of Words: Sentences

Vocabulary
& Spelling

3rd-4th grade Homophones
Boggler interactive word game
Funbrain: What's the Word
Free Rice: learn vocabulary, feed the hungry
Homophones Quiz
Room 108: Dolch Word Games (high frequency
sight words)
Spelling City
Spin and Spell
Syllable Factory
Vocabulary Maps
Vocabulary U

Writing

see also Graphic Organizers

Friendly Letter Creator
Read-Write-Think printing press
Techtorial: Writing Hyperfiction
Writing Skills PowerPoints
Online tools: Four Square Writing Method
Inspired Writing: Four Square
Writing Detective (writing passages/questions explaining a process)
Writing with Writers: write and publish online
Young Writers’ Workshop K-5 (story starters and online publishing)
Monster Exchange writing project
The Writing Fix (for teachers)
Scholastic Story Starters
Write On prompts & presentations
Creative Writing Prompts
Writing prompts & journal topics
Writing topics by grade
Ideas for Personal Narratives: starters & prompts
The Imagination Prompt Generator
Writing Prompt Builder (Discovery Education streaming)
Proofreading Makes Perfect (grade 4): good Smartboard activity
Interactive Editing Checklist

ACPS Writing Rubrics

JK

Virginia Department of Education

Online Writing Resources

5th Grade Writing Practice Tools
Writing Practice Tool
Writing Practice Guide
Writing Checklist

SOL Released Tests: 5th Grade Writing Prompts
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Websites

About Face (Arthur): recognizing feelings

Arthur: Online problem-solving game

Counseling and Guidance Resources

Counselor's Jeopardy Game

Guidance PowerPoint Presentations

Guide to Getting Along: online interactive show & activities (grades 2-4)

Pretzels: Responsive Classroom approach

References for school counselors

Virginia View: careers

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Subject	Websites
Authors & characters	Eric Carle books idea exchange Send a Jan Brett email postcard Games from Arthur books Clifford stories & activities Readquarium: Author sites Readquarium: Book & character sites World of Beverly Cleary
Library Resources	Library Media Specialist Resources Library Support Site Bulletin Board Ideas Librarian's Yellow Pages Library Resources: Virtual Reference Library news Book genre labels School library media research BUBL: search web by Dewey numbers
Reading programs	Between the Lions Reading Rainbow Reading Rainbow index of programs Read Across America
Dewey Decimal	Dewey Webquest Dewey lesson ideas from LM_Net Dewey & the Alien Dewey made fun
Copyright	Copyright Tip Sheet Copyright permission template U.S. Copyright Office Copyright information portal Copyright.com Copyright with Cyberbee (for kids) Copyright resources
Information Literacy	Information Power LibrarySmart:Information evaluation Critical evaluation of webpages: elementary
Big 6	Big 6 website Big 6 for kids
Organizations	Virginia Educational Media Assn American Assn of School Librarians American Library Assn

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Subject	Websites
All	AAA Math: all levels, all subjects Aunty Math Count Us In games Math Playground Virtual Manipulatives
Addition Subtraction	Around the World in 80 Seconds game (addition) Harcourt Adding Bricks game (grade 1) Addition & subtraction games (uses metric)
Calendar skills	Interactive Calendar Understanding the calendar Calendar activity
Counting	Count Us In game 3 Count Us In game 1 Sesame St: Find the Number Counting on a Cloud AAA math: counting down from 10 Pirate Counting
Decimals	Rounding Decimals/Whole Numbers (Quia) Saloon Snap (match fractions with decimals/percentages) Coolmath Decimals Match Decimals and Words AAA math: Decimals Decimal Addition Rags to Riches Subtract (one decimal digit)
Estimation & Measurement	Cyberchase: Glowla's Estimation Contraption Estimator 4 game DigitalBrain Estimate the angle Virtual manipulatives: measurement (all grade levels) Area & perimeter video clip Funbrain Measure It
Fractions	Coolmath: Fraction Games Visual Fractions AAA math: Fractions 1 Pizza party fractions Fraction Frenzy matching game Fraction Addition & Subtraction Visual Add/Subtract Fractions Math Splat Harcourt Add Like Fractions Old Egyptian Math Cats
Geometry	Make an Angle Create quilt patterns with shapes Geometry Polygons Millionaire Game
Money -counting -making change	Count coins (Rm 108 money) Counting Money Discover coin values Counting Change matching game (Quia) Learn to count money Buy It With the Little Farmer Funbrain Change Maker The Money Program
Multiplication Division	Click on Bricks (multiplication facts 1 to 4) Doorbell Division (also w/Kidpix or SmartBoard) --grade 3-4 Multiplication (2 numbers x 1): Batters Up Baseball (choose Double) Draggable Multiplication (choose any no. of digits) Math Playground AAA Math (2-digit numbers) Mental Multiplication
Numbers & Number Sense	Identifying numbers and numerals (Quia) Words & numbers Numbers Activity pages The Number Game
Spatial Concepts	Meddybumps spatial concepts game Meddybumps big and little Meddybumps patterns & sorting
Telling Time	Just in Time Learning Planet:Time Works game Compare analog & digital Time Quiz (to the hour) Time Quiz (to the half-hour) Time Quiz (to the minute) Cyberbee Time Teacher Identify correct time ClockWise Willy the Watchdog time-telling game

Websites

Arts (scroll down to Music): interactive hotlist

Backstage (American Symphony Orchestra)

BBC: Making tracks musical games

DSO Kids (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)

Educational Cyberplayground: Music Channel

Frank Tillery's Elementary music (by grade)

FunBrain's Word Turtle: musical instruments

Happy Note: Treble clef/bass clef game

Harcourt school pattern builder interactive game

Making Music Fun

Music clip art links

Music education: games & fun sites

Music education podcast directory

Music education viewlets (how to use software in music education)

Music lesson plans: grades 4-5

Musical instruments: Quia interactive hangman game

New York Philharmonic Orchestra interactive games

Note trainer interactive game

Practice Spot: music lessons

San Francisco Symphony Kids site

Slide show: lines & spaces in the treble clef

Technology in music education

ThinkQuest:Music notes (interactive musical experience)

Websites

Physical Education Lesson Plans

Physical Education Online

Elementary P.E.

Dental Health web tour

Subject	Websites
Animals	Animal Adaptation Webpage Animals of the World Butterflies Enchanted Learning: all about mammals Kidwings (virtual owl pellet dissection) Life cycles March of the Penguins game: Save the Egg World Wildlife Fund games
Biomes/ habitats/ ecosystems	Biomes of the world Habitat links Magic School Bus Habitat Matchup game Habitats-Biomes: maps, graphs, links Desert USA Living Edens: habitat virtual field trips Desert animal printouts Scholastic endangered ecosystems EcoKids interactive game Play Amazon Explorer World Atlas of Biodiversity (interactive) Mammals & their habitats
Classification	Lesson using Sammy's Science House Discovery School: Animal classification Classifying Critters
Earth Science	Earth's active volcanoes Mountain maker, Earth shaker: plate tectonics activity
Electricity & Magnetism	Theater of electricity Electricity webquest (grade 3-4) Exploratorium Science snacks Explore learning: Electricity & Magnetism gizmo (5 min. use) Grade 4 SOL magnetism quiz
Environment & Resources	Save the Trees game (Dr.Seuss' Lorax) Recycle City game Earth Matters 4 Kids KidsRgreen
Five Senses	Five Senses lesson plan Five Senses with Kidpix
Matter	Harcourt school States of Matter interactive Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter Building blocks of matter: Quia activities Matter online scavenger hunt
Oceans	Worlds within the sea game (continental shelf, deep sea, coral reef ecologies) Deep Sea Vents game Ocean links Ology: Journey to the bottom of the sea game Ocean trip Ocean Light zones Into the Deep game
Plants	The Great Plant Escape Biology of plants Plant germination
Seasons	The Seasons Changing Seasons webquest (3rd grade) Earth's tilt & seasons Who wants to be a Millionaire? game Hibernation Page
Simple Machines	Edhead simple machines game Kids' Guide to simple machines WickED: Interactive simple machines quiz Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Levers Simple machines Webquest Simple machines & the rats of NIMH
Soil	Soil Millionaire (Millionworm) game The Great Plant Escape: Soiled Again! Schoolyard Soil experiment
Space	Virtual field trip: Fly me to the moon Earth and Moon viewer Solar System interactivities NASA Space Place Science Monster: Solar system
Weather ---Hurricanes	Temperature & precipitation extremes Current hazardous weather by zipcodes Interactive weather maker (Scholastic)
Weather ---Hurricanes	Current weather/hurricane maps FEMA for kids: Hurricanes How Stuff works: hurricanes

Subject	Websites
American History	Civil War Spreadsheets Lesson (introduction, lessonplans #1-2, Battles step-by-step) Colonization & colonial life Jamestown Timeliner Lesson Captain Jack Jouett's Ride (Revolutionary War) Liberty's Kids (Revolutionary War interactive) Role of Virginians in the Revolutionary War Thomas Jefferson Webquest American Civil War Lest We Forget: American slavery Past to Present: Technology timeline Sights & Sounds of Slavery PowerPoint U.S. Historical maps
Ancient Civilizations Greece Rome Egypt China Mali	Ancient Greece ThinkQuest: Ancient Greece Ancient Greece SOL matching quiz Rome webquest Ancient Greece & Rome Introduction to Egypt Mali: Land of Gold & Griots PowerPoint & Lesson plan Panorama of the Great Wall of China Inventors & Inventions from China Virtual Field Trip to Mali Mali: Ancient crossroads of Africa Mali Millionaire game Good maps of Mali & trade routes
Community	What's my job? game Community map
Economics	Lemonade Stand game (may take a little timeto load) Economics & Literature (Goat in the Rug, grades 1-3) Clickety-clack let's keep track (grades 3-5) Kids Bank Kids Learn About Debt (thanks to Mrs. Parsons!) EconEd: Marco Polo Simple Simon meets a producer
Explorers	Columbus & Ponce de Leon cloze activity Christopher Newport information Jacques Cartier cloze activity (Quia) Explorer Lesson in Google Earth
Famous Americans	Abraham Lincoln matching game (Quia) Lewis & Clark game Martin Luther King Jr. Famous Americans Jeopardy game
First Americans/ Native Americans	The Sioux Native Americans Marilee's Native American resources Powhatan Indian Village Native American Desert peoples
Geography	Outline maps World Map game Continents & Oceans matching game (Quia) Making Mental Maps Continents Map puzzle Interactive Continents Continent-Ocean Game
Inventions/ Innovations	Inventor's Hall of Fame Inventors & inventions
U.S. Government & Symbols	KidInfo: American government, symbols, etc. THOMAS: U.S. legislative information The Government SPOT Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids Bald Eagle interactive puzzle U.S. Symbols-Enchanted learning
Virginia Jamestown	Innovations That Changed Virginia KidSpace Virginia facts & links Virginia Facts, Map, & Symbols Kidzone: Virginia state symbols color sheets/activities Virginia regions map Colonial settlement (Virginia) timeline Selling the Five Regions of Virginia Webquest Jamestown: Journey of Democracy Jamestown: America's 400th Anniversary Fort Discovery: Jamestown games Founding of Jamestown timeline Virtual Jamestown Virtual Jamestown Timeline Jamestown Virtual Colony Colonial America: Jamestown African-Americans at Jamestown Jamestown Changes lesson Jamestown: Why There? Jamestown Online Adventure Love-a-Tree Guide (Capt. Smith's exploration of Chesapeake Bay) Can You Survive at Jamestown? Webquest Jamestown Rediscovery: the Jamestown archaeological project Begin Your Adventure, the British Jamestown site Jamestown Gazette Thinkquest James Fort Rediscovered

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Websites

Awesome Library: Special Ed

Assistive Technology

ADD/ADHD Directory

Learning Disabilities

Virginia DOE Special Ed

Education World resources

Special Ed Resources

IEP hints for parents: ADD/ADHD

Cyberplayground links

I'm Determined One-pager One-pager How-to

Tech Integration

Alleghany County Public Schools	Carol Almarez	Instructional Technology Resource Teacher -Elementary
Low Moor VA 24457	calmarez@alleghany.k12.va.us	540-863-1737 x459