Educational Websites for Students

General Reference
Fine Arts
Reading & Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Science

General Reference

Amazing Space
Find all the classic Amazing Space activities. Get to know our vast universe by exploring its planets galaxies comets black holes and more

Discovery Education
Tools to help you study games to challenge your mind and tons of great clip art to use.

FunBrain
FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. (Math, grammar, science, spelling, & history)

FunSchool
Funschool offers free online educational elementary games for kids as well as printable activities coloring and crafts that will help kids learn and get ready for school.

Great Websites for Kids (ALA)
ALA | Great Web Sites for Kids

Museum Link
Links to official museum websites

PBS Kids
Welcome to PBS Kids Online home of your favorite PBS Kids characters with thousands of pages of learning and fun to explore. Play over 100 games hear your favorite theme songs and read interactive stories.

StudentNewsNet
Student News Net

The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library (IPL) features a searchable subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts newspapers and magazines; and the Ask A Question online reference service.

Time Magazine for Kids
TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine packed with stories about world and national events scientific discoveries sports entertainment kids in the news and much more.

World Book
World Book Online Reference Center

Yahoo Kids! - Web Guide for Kids
Yahoo Kids! is the ultimate web guide for kids! Features fun and educational resources for kids with games animals music jokes movies news astrology TV science e-cards reference and more.

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Fine Arts

Art Activities Website
Visual Art for kids.

Art Games
Artgames is an educational and interactive website for children to create art and play games online while learning about painting and sculpture at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo NY.

Arts Alive (Music)
Orchestral music is lots of fun and these activities and games prove it.

Creating Music
Creatingmusic.com is a children’s online creative music environment for children of all ages. It’s a place for kids to compose music play with musical performance music games and music puzzles. Come discover fun and easy ways to make music!

New York Philharmonic (Kid Zone)
The New York Philharmonic Kidzone is a place for kids to come and learn about the New York Philharmonic and about the instruments music musicians, composers, and conductors of symphony music.

Zoom Activities
Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids

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Reading & Language Arts

'Read, Write, Think - Interactive Language Arts'
Fun interactive activities to inspire a love of learning and art online books authorized art shows appropriate for children under 14. For parents and teachers corresponding lesson plans for each section and other resources

About English as a Second Language
About English as a Second Language

Basic Handwriting for Kids
Free lessons to teach kids how to write alphabets numbers sentences and even their name!

Biography
Read biographies watch interviews and video clips at Biography.com. Learn about upcoming shows and special events.

Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8.

Magnetic Poetry/Story
Magnetic Poetry Inc. creates Magnetic Poetry word magnets refrigerator magnets garden stones fridge magnets custom magnets word magnets Magnetic Poetry Kit magnetic picture frames magnetic calendars magnetic toys and magnetic games.

Merriam-Webster Online
Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary thesaurus audio pronunciations Word of the Day word games and other English language resources.

TeachingBooks Website
Help students read more ... and enjoy it.

The Poetry Zone
Poems by children and teaching resources for schools

TumbleBooks Website
An online collection of animated talking picture books reading comprehension quizzes educational games and teacher resources for:

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Math

A+ Math
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

AAA Math
AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons.

Aunty Math
Math Challenges for K-5 Learners

Interactive Math Manipulatives
A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics

Kids Numbers
Math for Kids

Math Cats
Fun, interactive math projects math art and crafts math writing contests math story problems even a magic chalkboard

Math Playground
Math Playground is an action-packed educational site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills play a logic game and have some fun!

PBS Kids CyberChase
PBS Kids CyberChase

Teaching Time
Teaching Time is a certified Curriculum Online product and can be purchased using eLearning credits.

The Math Forum
The Math Forum is the comprehensive resource for math education on the Internet. Some features include a K-12 math expert help service anextensive database of math sites online resources for teaching and learning math plus much more.

WonderVille
Wonderville - Fun science based curriculum based activities for kids

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Science

Adventures of the Agronauts
Online science curriculum for elementary students which teaches about plants and space

Bill Nye - The Science Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy

Cells Alive
A visual interactive tour of cells, bacteria, viruses, and their interaction.

Discovery Kids - Yucky Science
The best place for yucky science entertainment

Kids Health.Org
KidsHealth has doctor-approved articles animations games and resources to help kids learn more about their bodies and stay healthy.

Kids Schoolhouse - Energy
EnergyMatch.com provides tips to make your home or business more comfortable energy efficient and less costly to maintain as well as access to our select network of contractors.

Kinetic City
The most amazing collection of science experiments games activities challenges and more!

National Park Service
National Park Service - Experience Your America

Nutrition Explorations
An interactive kids section filled with games activities fun recipes and a kids panel to help kids learn about healthy eating and staying active. Kids will also learn about the Five Food Groups and the Food Guide Pyramid.

OLogy
American Museum of Natural History

Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science News for Kids
Science News for Kids

The Life of Thomas Edison
Edison: The Life of Thomas A. Edison

The Science Spot
The Science Spot: Links for Elementary Educators

Web Weather for Kids
Learn what makes weather wet and wild do cool activities and become hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids!

WonderVille
Wonderville - Fun science based curriculum based activities for kids

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Social Science

American Presidents Website
In-depth information reviewed by prominent scholars on each President and administration

CIA World Fact Book
CIA - The World Factbook

Colonial Williamsburg
Includes colonial people life and buildings teacher resources podcasts trades clothing gardens Electronic Field Trips study tours Fifes and Drums.

Exploring Ancient World Cultures
An introduction to ancient world cultures on the world-wide web

First Gov for Kids
Official Kids Portal for the U.S. Government

Immigration
Find out what it means to come to the United States as an immigrant from the early 20th century through the early 21st century.

Learn Illinois
Visit At Home in the Heartland Online to learn about the people the homes and the history of Illinois and the Heartland.

National Geographic Website
National Geographic provides free maps photos videos and daily news stories as well as articles and features about animals the environment cultures history world music and travel.

The History Channel
The History Channel is a cable television station offering programming related to historical events and people.

The Oregon Trail
If you home school teach elementary classes or just enjoy history The Oregon Trail is designed for you. Enjoy the adventure!

The Virtual Egyptian Museum
Museum with Egyptian and Mediterranean antiquities previously unavailable to the public. Includes stunning iridescent glass collection bronze statuettes shabtis scarabs amulets jewelry and mummy of King Pedibastet plus interactive reference tools.

The White House
The White House presents Life in the White House an exclusive presentation of the rich history of the White House and West Wing.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation study and interpretation of Holocaust history and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.

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