Helpful Links for Students, Parents, and Teachers!


SCIENCE

Dancing Raisins (http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/homeexpts/dancingraisins.htm)

A simple experiment for children to do at home or in a classroom.  

Simple Kids Experiments (http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments.html)

Various different science experiments, most of which are very simple. These can all be done in a classroom or at home.

National Geographic - Kids (http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/)

            Everyone knows what National Geographic is! Well… This is the National Geographic website for children! On the site are games, videos, photos, articles, and more. This is a large website and has a great deal to offer children, especially those curious about science, nature, animals, and so on!

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS

PBS Kids Reading Games (http://pbskids.org/games/reading/)

            This site has multiple games for children relating to many different content areas. This link connects to a page of games specifically related to reading. There is one featured game at the top, as well as additional games as one scrolls down the page. There are games involving vocabulary, rhyming, interactive stories to read along to, and so on.

Starfall (http://www.starfall.com)

            This website have many different activities at varying degrees of difficulty. It ranges from identifying letters of the alphabet and their sounds to reading texts up to approximately a 2^rd grade level. This is a website aimed toward younger children, such as preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade.

Book Adventure http://www.bookadventure.com/Home.aspx

            Book adventure is a site maintained by Sylvan Learning, meant as a means of reading motivation for children from Kindergarten to 8^th grade. Children are able to make their own book lists, take quizzes on the books they have read, and earn for their success in literacy. This site is free, although it requires a login.

Free Rice – Quizzes (http://freerice.com/#/multiplication-table/17501)

            On this website there are various different categories of quiz questions, such as English, Math, or Geography. The website is called free rice because for every question that it answered correctly, ten grains of rice are donated to people in need. This website is owned by and supported by United Nations World Food Program, and is meant to provide food to people in need while helping people of all ages further their knowledge and education. 

MATH