Core+web+sites

[[image:folder.JPG width="72" height="52"]]Core web sites
Choose a subject:

Reading:

 * Reading Rockets
 * Read Write Think
 * What Should I Read Next: Enter a book and the generator will tell you of some similar books.
 * Reading is Fundamental
 * Story Jumper: Create and illustrate your own story.
 * Laura Candler's Literacy Printables
 * Speakaboos: children develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment
 * What Should I Read Next

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Writing:

 * Read Write Think
 * Instant Poetry: Fill in pre-made forms, several types of poems

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Math:

 * Math.com Basic Math
 * Tangram game
 * Teach Engineering: Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms.
 * SuperKids Educational tools: Make Math worksheets. Nice telling time work sheets.
 * Math For Kids: once you click on a function, scroll down to choose a practice.
 * Telling Time: activities and worksheets
 * InterActivate: Math Lessons 3rd grade and higher.
 * Show Me: Tutorial videos for grades 1-6
 * Math Tube: video and text tutorials for a variety of Math topics
 * Math Playground: video tutorials for upper elementary
 * Mr. Nussbaum: tutorial videos
 * Mr. Nussbaum Math games: Grades 1 and up
 * Math Frog: Practice activities for 4th-6th grades
 * The Math Worksheet Site
 * Math Fact Cafe: Create worksheets - fact sheets, flashcards, time, money
 * Southfield Christian Math Links
 * Number Time: games, printables, more
 * Primary Krypto Game (preK-8) Great Math Game
 * Centsables: six super-hero friends who teach teach kids ages 6-12 about money, savings, sound financial responsibility and positive behavior.
 * Laura Candler's Math Printables
 * Laura Candler's Math Centers

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Social Studies:

 * Michigan Historical Museum Teacher's Stuff
 * KML Factbook: CIA Factbook for younger students
 * Expeditions: Lesson plans, activities, maps
 * Outline maps
 * World Atlas: Maps, flags, quizzes & more
 * American Museum of Natural History's Ology
 * Our Documents: 100 Milestone documents
 * Civil War wiki
 * Southfield Christian's Social Studies page
 * Museum Spot: Find a museum
 * K-12 Historic Maps & lessons
 * Grand Canyon Traveling Trunk: For $45 receive a trunk of items to explore for two weeks.
 * Teaching with documents: lesson plans that organize primary documents into key periods of U.S. history
 * This Week in History from the Detroit News, links to activities and resources.
 * Laura Candler's Social Studies printables
 * Library of CongressAccess to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services
 * Secret Annex Online: Anne Frank bibliographies, timelines, and an interactive view of her hiding place.
 * D-Day: view photos, maps and posters of the operation. Find out about the units that fought. And listen to General Eisenhower's pre-launch speech.

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Science:

 * NASA Education: Choose your grade level
 * NASA Space Place: Games and projects
 * Chandra the X-Ray Observatorysattelite that photographs the universe. Check out the Sky Map.
 * Teach Engineering: Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms.
 * Observing the Earth
 * SMART Imagebase: Scientific and Medical Art
 * HubbleSite
 * Sky and Telescope
 * American Museum of Natural History's Ology
 * Academy Curricular Exchange: Elementary Science Lessons
 * Scirus: a science-only search engine
 * Southfield Christian's page
 * Reasons for seasons: scavenger hunt
 * Spring's journey North: wildlife migration and seasonal change
 * Popular Science archives: entire 137-year archive for free browsing
 * Universcale: This site puts big and small into proper context. It presents a linear scale of size ranging from subatomic to astronomical.
 * Summer Science Fun: Books, experiments and interactives for the world around you.
 * **Daily Science Audio Webcasts****:** Each weekday, **Pulse of the Planet** provides a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.
 * Laura Candler's Science Printables
 * USGS Volcano SiteAlerts, webcams, data, and more

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