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My Links
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The following links will provide you with additional educational programs you and your child can use for fun while learning.
Bad Examples!
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World's Worst Website
Spend a few minutes at the World's Worst Website. Identify 10 major design flaws guaranteed to drive visitors away from a website. -
WebPagesThatSuck
One of the best way to learn a craft thoroughly is to learn not only its central tenets but also its pitfalls. If you don't know which web design techniques are bad, you can't fix them. WebPagesThatSuck will show you where you're going wrong. Study the sites voted the worst of 2007.
Looking at Teacher Page Content
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Teacher Pages Created by Florence Gleason
This site belongs to Florence Gleason who teaches Special Education at School 80 in Buffalo, New York. Her site is packed with information about the Harcourt reading program, Social Studies and math along with special features like the Mastery Club. Take a look. -
Dr. Suess Fun
Seussville - Your online source for all things Dr Seuss. Books, author info, video, games and activities, characters, news, resources for educators and parents and more. -
abcya
Online games for kids in K-5 sorted by grade level. Games incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. -
star fall
A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books.
ELA
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Learn Zillion
A great educational website that is free to enroll. Offers both ELA and math videos and aligned printables that teach strategies to your student. Common core aligned and useful for multiple grade levels. -
Harcourt
This website offers lots of practice with reading, spelling, grammar and writing skills. -
ABCYa
ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade activities are equipped with sound to enhance understanding. Fun children's Holiday activities are available in grade level sections! -
Free Rice
This site is a great way to get your student helping more than just their brain! For each correct answer, 10 grains of rice is donated to help fight world hunger. Multiple subjects are included on this sight. It is free to register.
ELA Websites
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Harcourt Website
Try out the Grammar Practice Park to practice the ELA skills we have been working on in class!
Looking at Teacher Page Content
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Teacher Pages Created by Florence Gleason
This site belongs to Florence Gleason who teaches Special Education at School 80 in Buffalo, New York. Her site is packed with information about the Harcourt reading program, Social Studies and math along with special features like the Mastery Club. Take a look. -
Teacher Pages Award Winner
Louie, a TeacherSites™ user, was awarded the Best Teacher Website Award by the North Carolina Technology in Education Society. His site was produced using the same Content Management System employed by our Teacher Pages in Buffalo. -
Mr. Jim Healy's HistoryHead
Mr. Healy had an existing site which he folded into the new BPS Teacher Pages. Check out his exam center and his research page.
Early Elementary (PreK-2)
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Starfall
This is a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. This website has many fun, interactive activities that will help your child improve reading ability! -
ABCya!
ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. -
Ticket to Read
Ticket to Read® is a self-paced, student-centered online reading program that provides dynamic skills practice and improved reading performance. A motivating and fun reward system keeps students on task to learn critical word attack skills and phonics skills development. -
PBS Kids Island
PBS KIDS Raising Readers, where kids can play free reading games and activities with their parents, teachers, and caregivers! -
PBS Kids
This is a fun site where your child can play reading games with their favorite characters from PBS kids shows!
Math
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coolmath
This website provides students with many activities and games to practice their math skills. -
Dimension M
This is an online math game that students are able to compete as teams and against individuals. In order to move past certain points, they will have random math problems presented and they have to correctly solve them. -
Learn Zillion
This website provides students with math tutorial videos on how to complete a specific math skill. I am able to assign my student's with videos to watch, practice exercises, and a quiz to complete to further enhance their concrete understanding of specific math skills. -
xtramath
This website enhances students' rote memorization of the four basic math operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The students have to master each question within a specific operation, within three seconds, before they are able to move onto the next operation category.
Great Web Content!
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Interactive Websites
A great site to link to. It provide standards-based cross curricular web resources designed to enhance online learning opportunities. These sites interact with the user usually through either a text-based or graphical user interface. -
Storynory
Welcome to Storynory where Prince Bertie the Frog brings you an audio story every week. Each one is read specially for him by his friend Natasha. But Bertie likes to share - so you can hear them too, ABSOLUTELY FREE
Math
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ABCYa
ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade activities are equipped with sound to enhance understanding. Fun children's Holiday activities are available in grade level sections! -
Learn Zillion
A great educational website that is free to enroll. Offers both ELA and math videos and aligned printables that teach strategies to your student. Common core aligned and useful for multiple grade levels. -
IXL
Free Common Core Aligned math problems that are broken down by grade level and skill.
Math
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This website gives an interactive view of math. There are many activities on this website that students can work on to better their math skills.
Math Websites
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This website gives an interactive view of math. There are many activities on this website that students can work on to better their math skills.
Great Web Content!
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Strorynory
Welcome to Storynory where Prince Bertie the Frog brings you an audio story every week. Each one is read specially for him by his friend Natasha. But Bertie likes to share - so you can hear them too, ABSOLUTELY FREE -
Dance Mat Typing
Dance Mat Typing is an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years. You will need headphones or speakers to enjoy the song and dance in each game. The games use the Flash plug-in - if your computer doesn't have Flash, you can find information on how to download it here, or you can play the alternative interactive versions available at each stage. Worksheets are available for each stage that can be printed out and used offline with a typewriter or computer. -
Must Have Content
Ugly, ugly page....but some great information. What should be on your website? Look over the list of Must Have Website Content. Do you agree?
Late Elementary (3-6)
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ABCya!
ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. -
Free Rice Vocabulary
For each vocabulary answer you get right this site will donate a grain of rice to the World Food Program to help end hunger! -
Free Rice Grammar
For every grammar question you get right, the site will donate a grain of rice to the World Food Program to help end hunger! -
Natural Disasters Links
This is a link to my Nettrekker.com portfolio. Inside the portfolio, 5th grade Voyager students will find links to recommended research sites for their natural disaster projects. -
Ticket to Read
Ticket to Read® is a self-paced, student-centered online reading program that provides dynamic skills practice and improved reading performance. A motivating and fun reward system keeps students on task to learn critical word attack skills and phonics skills development.
Websites for Elementary School Students
Reading
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Harcourt School Reading/Grammar/Writing
This website will provide students with opportunities to practice and reinforce their skills in all areas of English Language Arts. (grammar,reading,writing)
Images: Editing and Information
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Image Editing OnLine
This free site offers such basic image editing options online as sizing, cropping, blurs and borders. It is easy to use and fairly reliable. The site has just been rebuilt! -
RoundPic
RoundPic is an online tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners for avatars and images. Very easy! -
What is a Pixel?
On the web, we calculate the size of our graphics in pixels. Just what is a pixel? Find out from the unlikely named website "auctionrepair.com". Using clear, real life examples, he manages to make us understand while "A pixel doesn't have a particular size,"it a reasonable measurement of size." -
Image Resizing How-to
This site is for the adventurous who want to know everything about the subject of resizing graphics for the web..and make their images look good.
Web Development Resources
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15 Awesome Tutorial Websites You Probably Don't Know About
The internet boasts of accommodating tutorials to absolutely anything. Here are 15 such super-useful sites which aim to provide you with all the tutorials you'd ever need.
Science
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National Geographic for Kids
This site offers useful science and social studies information and activities. Very kid-friendly!
Social Studies
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National Geographic for Kids
This site offers useful science and social studies information and activities. Very kid-friendly!
Social Studies Websites
Web Development Resources
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Free Stuff for Websites
Whether you're new to web design or just out looking for a little something extra to add to your current website, I'm sure you'll be surprised at all the free tools and resources available! Take your time browsing around and enjoy. -
Create a Horiztonal Menu
Add this navigation device...complete with a roll over effect when the mouse hovers over a menu option.. to your pages the easy way....using a code generator from www.websitestyle.com. -
Create PDFs On-line
Make your documents readable by everyone by posting them in PDF format. PDF is a universal, safe and virus-free document format that can be opened by anybody with free Acrobat Reader. With PDF, you can be sure that the document thay your readers see is exactly what you have sent out. You can create them on-line with this free service.....and convert PDF documents to Word...in case you need to do some editing! A FREE service to convert documents to PDF. -
Free School Related Graphics
Too good to be true....great stuff and free! Download backgrounds, buttons and graphics. Not everything on the site may be used. You may use only the graphics on the pages on Graphics by *snogirl. The site is definitely worth a look see. -
Web Content for Teens
What engages teenagers on the web? useit.com conducted a series of usability studies to determine how website designs can better cater to teenagers. Take a look at the results.
Computer Skills
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Typing Practice
Help to increase your typing skills and become more aware of the computer all while having fun!
Science Websites
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Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids is designed by meteorologist Crystal Wicker. It was designed especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather.
Neat and Fun!
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Build Your Own Online Jeopardy Game
Wolfe Science has an open source Build Your Own Jeopardy program that works on Window and Mac platforms. This build your own jeopardy program is better than some of the others I've tried because you can embed video and audio files as a part of your questions. The Build Your Own Jeopardy web page has sample games covering multiple subject areas beyond science. -
Flash for Class
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own website! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Free!Some of the most popular templates are: Flashcard generator, random name picker, Venn Diagram, animated book, timer and more. Great for use with the Interactive Whiteboards.
OnLine Teacher Tools
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Teacher Training Videos
These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology.
Video
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SchoolTube
SchoolTube is the only educator-moderated video sharing site where every video is screened by a classroom teacher before it goes live. The site hots 35,000 videos on just about any topic you can imagine--from arts to weather--organized into more than 100 categories. (An NEA Back To School pick) -
Video Basics Explained!
Do terms like codec, analog and aspect ratio scare you? Visit this site http://www.doicamera.com/digital_video.htm Not the prettiest site I have ever seen, but the author lays out his info in a straight forward easy to understand manner. Well worth your time.