Links

Resources:
Facts		World Wide Metric provides a conversion engine for calculating metric to standard measurements and Celsius to Fahrenheit, and vice-versa. A more complete list of conversion engines is at Online Conversion.	At OldMagazineArticles.com you can find digitized or transcribed articles from old magazines. A subject index greets you!
FactMonster.com: Quick information when you need it. Sort of an encyclopedia.			Refdesk.com: An informative collection of facts and links to other useful sites.
National Institute of Standards and Technology sets rules for standard measurement and data.			U. S. Naval Observatory: Sunrises and sunsets, tides, movements of the moon and planets, plus lots of other data.
Social Studies		Mr. Donn provides activities and links to learn about the US states at U. S. States & Regions.	Economics and Geography Lessons for 32 children’s books for 1-5, from Montgomery County Public Schools.
Country Watch: Facts about the world, continents and other countries.		The Democracy Project is a PBS activity to introduce government and voting to children.	Geography World provides links to all sorts of lessons and resources, including merchants.
National Atlas: The Department of the Interior site. It provides a large collection of maps and interactive searches.		Lizardpoint.com: An interactive quiz for learning about the United States.	MSN provides a searchable map, with zoom-in capabilities. I found the street I lived in when I was working in Belfast, Northern Ireland!
TerraServer USA is a Microsoft service featuring satellite photographs of every square inch of the USA.			Mapquest.com: A searchable map making site. Input an address and find any location in America!
Topozone: Create a topographical map of anyplace in the United States.		50 States.com: Information about our own country and each of the states.	Maps4Kids has maps and data on all of the states and for 200 countries around the world. There are games and puzzles, too. Also try Geography4Kids.
Facing the Future develops young people’s capacity and commitment to create thriving, sustainable, and peaceful local and global communities.		Learn about Benjamin Franklin through the guides, materials and displays.	A Martin Luther King, Jr. study guide is one feature of the Seattle Times site honoring this American hero.
Find or identify national flags at All National Flags +. A similar list, with more provincial flags is at World Flag Database.		Read about conditions in Puget Sound before European settlement in Murray C. Morgan’s essay, Peter Puget on Puget’s Sound.	KidNews.org provides links for news in Science, Weather and the World, plus links to various newspaper sites.
Social Studies for Kids encompasses all subject areas within Social Studies. Lots of good stuff!
Washington State:			NEED A MAP?
You can choose your own Washington State festival from the list at Northwest Charm.		Washington State International Kite Festival: Another fun festival you can use for your Washington State On-line project.	To get tourist information of many different sorts from the Washington State Tourist Agency, click here.
For our fourth grade on-line study, you can get more information about river rafting opportunities at these sites: Osprey Rafting or Riverdrifters.net. Caution: commercial sites.		Get some information about our Scenic Byway, The Mount Baker Highway. Want some fishing in the North Cascades? Try Baker Lake Lodge’s site. For fishing in the South Cascades, try The Klickitat River. Caution: commercial sites.	Here is some more information about recreation and facilities in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Washington State Council for Social Studies hosts a long list of informative links about Washington Geography.		The Ice Age Floods Institute studies phenomena that helped shape Washington geography. The National Parks Service provides a good study on the Ice Age Floods. The impressive NOVA episode, Mystery of the Megaflood, has a companion web tour of the flood route.	The USGS provides a collection of photographs detailing the geology of the Grand Coulee and Columbia River Plateau…use your 3-D glasses for a realistic view! Photographs of a road trip through the region are found at Steven Dutch’s University of Wisconsin site.
Search for state parks by regions of Washington at this Washington State Parks site.		A site designed for children that informs about the ice age floods and Washington’s Channeled Scablands.	Field Trip to Mars takes a student on a tour of Washington landscape features that mirror what astronauts expect to encounter on Mars.
A map and links of the overlooked region of our state: Eastern Washington.		Sunny Walter’s Washington Nature Weekends is a listing of links to parks and geologically significant sites.	Tour the Puget Sound coastline of Washington State courtesy of the Department of Ecology.
Try out Mr. Danielson’s online ProProfs quiz about Washington!		Find out about Kennewick Man at a Tri-Cities Herald site, or at the NOVA site. Also, find out what the anthropologist who first worked on the skeleton has to say at Northern Clans, Northern Traces.	Follow a college-level history of Washington State from University of Washington professor John Findlay. For regional history of Northern Puget Sound, try Skagit River Journal.
More Social Studies
Native American architectural examples are shown at Encarta online under Native American Architecture.		At The Vinland Map you can take a look at a Viking map of North America, purportedly made fifty years before Columbus sailed. There is a great site about Vikings at the Smithsonian.	Keith A. Pickering delivers several pages of information relating to the voyages of Christopher Columbus at The Columbus Navigation Homepage.
What do we know about our world? Compare historical world maps at James S. Aber’s site What is a Map?		The Mariners’ Museum provides an interactive map of Captain John Smith’s Virginia (1612). The site contains details of early colonial exploration in Virginia. See a map of Smith’s New England.	Virtual Jamestown has an interactive map of the voyages of discovery taken by Captain John Smith.
The Real Pocahontas compares the historical truth as we know it with popular representations of Pocahontas and other major players in the Jamestown story.		A collection of fine historical maps is shared at Index of Renaissance Maps. A Sebastian Munster map of 1544 exhibits the way North America looked to early explorers.	Locate links to resources about the Hispanic Colonization of North America from Latin American Studies.org.
Discoverer’s Web: North America contains a list of links to information and maps about the discovery, exploration and colonization of North America by many people.
Museums:		Visit Virtual Library Museums Page, listing online museums.
National		The Snowflake Bentley Museum honors photographer Wilson Bentley, who made it his life’s work to capture snowflake images.	PBS provides instruction about government, democracy and voting at The Democracy Project.
The British Museum has an online presence for children, Children’s Compass, hosting tours of exhibits and programs for teachers and families.			Explore the Fur Trade in Canada, and try to figure out what it has to do with Washington State history! Let Ned Eddins explain it to you at Mountain Men…
Library of Congress: Explore the many services and activities provided by the Library of Congress. See the American Memory Project for photographs and exhibits.		USDA Historical Photos provides images we use for practicing writing, and they are wonderful pictures!	The University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library features a fine historical map collection online.
Ellis Island: An intriguing historical resource. Try searching for your family’s immigrant ancestors.		The United States Mint: Visit this site to learn about money. Designed for children, it offers lots of informative activities.	Yale Law School’s Avalon Project is a digital library of original documents in history, law, diplomacy and other areas.
Smithsonian Institution: Jump to our country’s premiere museum. Tour exhibits, learn about history and science and cultures of our world.		The New York Public Library hosts the NYPL Digital Gallery, a searchable collection of illustrations, drawings and photographs.	Jamestown Colony was founded four hundred years ago. Jamestown Rediscovery is investigating the remains of 1607-1698 Jamestown on the APVA property on Jamestown Island, Virginia.
Colonial Williamsburg is the commercial site for a living history museum about Colonial Virginia.		The Jamestown Colony offers information about major players and events in early Virginia.	The British Library features an online gallery, which includes interactive pages of great books, like the Codex Arundel, one of Leonardo’s manuscripts.
Plimouth Plantation is a private foundation exploring the culture and heritage of the Pilgrims. Their online project about the First Thanksgiving provides useful experience for novice historical researchers.		The Columbus Navigation Homepage explores topics related to Columbus’ voyage, including navigation, the ships and crews and dead reckoning. See also 1492: an Ongoing Voyage from the Library of Congress.	Mesoweb is an exploration of pre-Columbian cultures in middle America. It provides up-to-date information, articles, photographs, maps and analysis.
Museums in the U. S. is a listing of Museums on line in the United States, providing an indexed list of 45 sites.
Northwest		Bellingham’s own American Museum of Radio & Electricity provides educational opportunities and lots to look at!	Washington State history is all tangled up in a web of railroads. The Washington State Railroad History Museum attempts to sort it out.
The Fort Vancouver National Historic Site brings us closer to the early days of the fur trading industry in the northwest.		Washington State Historical Society Museum: Take a virtual tour of the museum or engage in some fun activities on line.	The Burke Museum at the University of Washington provides excellent historical and cultural exhibits.
The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle provides photographs and historic recordings that celebrate the Northwest.		Center for Columbia River History: A cooperative effort of several Washington and Oregon institutions that explores the history of the Columbia.	The Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society features facts, photographs and links that chronicle our connections to the nautical world.
HistoryLink provides an online Encyclopedia of Washington State History.		The Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation hosts news, festivals, programs and events concerning ships in Puget Sound. Based in Port Townsend.	Mark Rosenstein’s Sailing Page is rich with links to nautical history, sailing and photographic displays about sailing vessels.
Lewis & Clark		PBS provides this interactive game to teach about the Lewis & Clark Expedition.	National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial. How is the expedition being celebrated?
Lewis & Clark Trail – Relive the Adventure…: an interactive tour of the expedition’s route, from LewisandClarktrail.com
Language Arts:
Writing		Guide to Writing a Basic Essay gives a step by step process for composing a simple essay.	Research Papers: A useful site that steps you through the process of writing research papers. It’s suddenly easy!
Where can you find the right word, or get a quick definition? Try Merriam-Webster On-line or Dictionary.com. There’s also Yourdictionary.com.		Here’s an interactive guide for writing informational essays, online from ReadWriteThink.	There is more about the basic five-paragraph essay at The Five Paragraph Essay.
Want to figure out how to say it right? Try this site: Big Dog’s Grammar.		One of my favorite writing workshop instructors, Barry Lane, provides tips about writing for kids, and from kids at Discover Writing Company for Students.	BBC Bitesize has a number of online activities to teach writing and composition skills.
Need some elementary writing prompts? The Canadian teaching site CanTeach provides a long list of ideas.		Writing poetry can be easy and fun when you do it with Giggle Poetry. If you need your poetry to rhyme, check out your word on Poetry.com’s Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus.	Fiction Writing Tips is designed for adult writers, but can be adapted for classroom use, too.
Complete a silly tale using Mad Lib techniques at Wacky Web Tales, a service of Education Place from Houghton Mifflin.		Teen Lit sponsors a Writers Workshop online, aimed at teenage writers, but useful for younger writers, too.	Tips for parents of developing writers from the U. S. Department of Education.
The Library of Congress suggests ways to use Chicago Daily News photos from the early 1900s as writing prompts.		Edselect’s Writing page has lots of information and activities to promote writing skills and comprehension.	Artsedge from Kennedy Center features Island Online, all about storytelling, centered on Ireland.
An online Science Writing and Research task, Got Broccoli prompts the student to create an advertisement extolling their chosen vegetable. From Science Netlinks.		Find children’s writing on the web at Children’s Writings. Another page of links to online publishing for children’s writing is Children Writing and Publishing.	Kidsspell.com contains customizable spelling games to increase children’s interest in learning their spelling.
Reading		An exercise in poetry…ReadWrite Think’s Line Break Explorer is an interactive journey through a poem.	Interactive Graphic Organizers for a number of Literature Elements are available online, from ReadWriteThink.
ArtsEdge provides an exercise comparing versions of Cinderella with a Venn Diagram. Provide your own books.		Confused and lost in the world of mythology? Consult the search oracle at Encyclopedia Mythica to discover the meanings of myths.	Find classic American poetry through the University of Michigan American Verse Project.
Adrian Bruce provides phonics practice games and other resources for teaching and learning reading skills.		Scholastic.com provides Teacher Resources for Reading, Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies.	Aaron Shepard and others offer free scripts for Readers Theater, mostly based on folk tales from around the world.
Other Readers Theater script sources include Readers Theater Scripts and Lisa Blau’s site.		BBC Bitesize provides online activities in Reading, Spelling and Grammar.	You can practice your understanding of idiomatic expressions at ReadWriteThink’s game Eye on Idioms.
Bookadventure.com: A free interactive motivational site for children. Find books you’d like to read and take quizzes about what you’ve read.		The League of American Poets keeps Poetry America, featuring thousands of poems categorized by type. Contests, too!
Books
Our class experienced Silent Thunder, by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Follow this link to experience the Underground Railroad at Safe Passage.		Christopher Paul Curtis talks about his books, and gives students advice about writing. His books include Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963.	Students can explore lots of authors and their books, and keep current with what’s coming up, at Kidsreads.com.
Carol Hurst has a very nice children’s literature site, featuring reviews, professional resources and author studies.		A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, is available online! A biography of Stevenson is available.	Local author Royce Buckingham writes fantasy novels. His newest is Demonkeeper. Read a review at Bookpage.com.
Another book review page is Allreaders.com, featuring in depth reviews of all sorts of books.
Math:
Create a Graph provides five different computer graphs you can make.		Worried about the WASL? For what it's worth, Kent School District provides information and tips for students, parents and educators at Preparing for the WASL.	A+ Math: Explains different math skills and provides flashcards for practice
About Tangrams: A very informative place to go. Find out about the history and lore of the ancient Chinese puzzle.		The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives provides Math practice using pattern blocks and other manipulatives on your computer. Choose your grade band and Math strand.	I use problems from the Port Angeles School district’s Sample WASL Problems site for my weekly homework packets. Lots of practice here!
Math League Help Topics gives information about topics in Mathematics in brief statements.		Ambleside Primary School in England’s Lake District has several great Math activities, including protractor work.	Kids’ Place provides a weekly Brain Teaser and an archive of earlier activities.
Numbernut.com is an engaging site full of games and puzzles to help children learn Math concepts in a fun way.		Explore the beauty of Mathematical art in the Fractal Gallery.	For help understanding a variety of math and physics concepts, visit the Free Mathematics How-to Library. Designed for high school support, but nonetheless helpful at intermediate.
Billy Bug and his Quest for Grub is a site for practicing coordinates, designed for intermediate children. A simpler exercise is here.		Lots of children have a tough time figuring out the time. Maybe practice would help! Check out Mark Cogan’s Analog & Digital Clocks game.	More Math and other educational games are kindly provided by Gary Nussbaum at MrNussbaum.com.
The Math Mojo provides games and activities to increase speed and understanding in Math. Look for the spoken Math problems, the left-to-right subtraction and logic problems.		The Measurement Game from FunBrain.com allows practice using centimeters or inches at various levels of difficulty.	AAAMath Fourth Grade Topics gives a menu of fourth grade math topics to learn about and games to practice the skills. Other grades levels are also available.
Shodor’s Interactivate provides more advanced games for more challenging concepts in Math.		ICTeachers has a menu of interactive mathematical activities or instructions for instructors of Math.	Confused by all those metric prefixes? Gordon Speer has posted a useful chart that provides them, with very large and very small notations in the metric system.
Leonardo Fibonacci developed his theories way back when (that’s around 1200 AD)! Find an explanation and some games here. A demonstration of the Fibonacci Spiral is found here.		The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives provides this online version of the Sieve of Eratosthenes for intermediate students.	Investigate Prime Numbers, using the Prime Number machine, or check out the largest known prime number at the University of Utah.
Harcourt Publishers sponsors a Multimedia Math Glossary, with division into grade level bands.		Practice competitive multiplication! Illuminations provides the Product Game. For another multiplication challenge, they also have the Factor Game.	BBC Bitesize provides several engaging online activities in Number, Shape, Space and Measures, and Handling Data.
Here’s a student-created Math game show, played by up to four students who…compete! It’s called Your Number’s Up.		Practice multiplication tables in a student-created game: The Table Trees. Another interactive math game from Ambleside Primary School in Cumbria. Uh-oh, better go up and click on the Atlas links!	What’s My Angle? allows teachers to demonstrate how to use protractors and gives students practice using a virtual protractor. Angle Activities uses the same virtual protractors in 20 investigations.
Open the Mummy’s Tomb by practicing addition in Callum’s Addition Pyramid, also from Ambleside.		Eric Harshbarger has a great page all about Pentominoes.
Science:
Life Science		Animations about plants? Virtual Plant Animations provides information to help classify plants by their structures.	Get your fish questions answered at the Fish FAQ from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Wildlife Search provides lots of links to educational sites with information about whales and other sea animals.		Do you like whales, seals, sea lions, sharks, penguins and walruses? Whale Times will take you on an adventure to the ocean.	Salmon Challenge is a game to help you see how your decisions help or harm our environment and our salmon.
You’ll find sea animal information presented in an entertaining way, with some advertising, at SeaWorld. They also sponsor Animal Bytes, with fact pages about animals. Caution: commercial site.		Wheelock College in Boston sponsors the educational site about whales, called WhaleNet.	Swim for Your Life! provides information about anadromous fish like salmon, and an interactive game.
The Whale Museum at Friday Harbor specializes in whales and the Northwest Coast ecosystem. There are lots of interesting links.		We will learn about Killer Whales from Killer Whale Tales.org, a remarkable organization that teaches environmental science through the study of killer whales.	The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has a Wild Salmon Cam, with underwater views and information. Check out their other wildlife cams, too!
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife provides information about outdoor pursuits and about Washington’s wild resources.		The U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service sponsors a web page aimed at children, providing resources for teaching about endangered species and other wildlife.	The Whatcom Creek Hatchery provides salmon run information for Bellingham’s Whatcom Creek estuary, through Bellingham Technical College’s Fisheries Technology Program.
Birds of Northwest Washington State is a trip report of a birding journey through our area, with photographs and lists of birds. Check out the gallery!		The EPA hosts About Estuaries, a program to educate people about the importance of estuaries.	Use this site to gather information about almost any animal through a collection of resources. NetVet from Mosby: The Electronic Zoo. Another fine site for animal information is the Animal Diversity Web.
Learn about Washington’s state fossil, the mammoth, or visit mammothsite.com.		Biology4Kids is another of Rader’s free science sites, with an emphasis on life science.	The National Wildlife Federation has online field guides for various species of plants and animals at eNature.
What role do forest fires play in a forest ecosystem? Check out what SmokeyBear.com has to say about it.		You’ll find information about coral reefs and the species that inhabit them at CoralRealm.	Cyberzone has a page about biomes and animals. The University of Richmand also provides information at Learn About Biomes!
An Introduction to Microscopy provides information about microscopes and views of microscopic life.		Explore Classification and Taxonomy at Classification of Living Things.	The U. S. Department of Agriculture has posted a Plants Database online. It is searchable and sorted by state, so you can identify the types of plants in your area!
Deep-Sea Pages are maintained by Dr. Paul Yancey from Whitman College in Walla Walla. He provides photographs of deep sea life.		Time For Kids featured photographs from this book and an article about how the photographs were taken. See a gallery of Claire Nouvian’s deep sea photographs at The Deep.	For more information about exploring our oceans, see the galleries and articles at Venture Deep Ocean.
Earth Science		The Earth Floor provides a simple explanation of the way rocks are formed and changed.	Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. is a site allowing you to model geologic changes to the earth’s surface.
The Mineralogical Society of America provides another introduction to geological processes.		Burke Museum: Fossils, Anthropological exhibits, and always lots of interesting displays. Take a virtual tour of the University of Washington’s Burke Museum.	The very first complete dinosaur fossil was discovered at Haddonfield, in New Jersey. Visit the Hadrosaurus web site.
Volcano World gives a lot of links and information about earth processes.		Dr. Vic Camp of San Diego State University maintains a site about volcanoes called How Volcanoes Work.	The United States Geological Survey (USGS) keeps this Volcano Update page.
The Cascades Volcano Observatory hosts a fine site dedicated to Cascade Volcanoes. Compare hot areas of the mantle with volcanic regions, using Exploring Earth’s Seismic Tomography.		Another USGS site provides current information about earthquakes. See the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. How do we use earthquakes to model the interior of the earth? See Exploring Earth’s Locating Layers.	The University of Washington maintains The Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network to study northwest earthquakes.
The Indianapolis Children’s Museum has a fine exploration of some of geology’s mysteries at Geo-Mysteries.		The Scripps Institution sponsors a site about plate tectonics, aimed at the young learner: Earth Like a Puzzle. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory demonstrates present movement and speed of tectonic plate drift at GPS Time Series.	Learn about the structure of the Earth through NASA’s Southern California Integrated GPS Network. An interactive base map at Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. allows you to view selected details about plate movements.
PBS offers links to animations about tectonic plates, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.		See an animation of continental drift from UC Berkeley. Be patient. It’s heavy in graphics and it moves quickly when it’s loaded.	Other Berkeley geological animations are available here.
Another PBS site, Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker, allows interactive learning about tectonics.		USGS provides a graphic map describing the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate and its movements.	See the USGS menu about Cascade Volcanics for maps, diagrams, lists and descriptions.
The Mineral Information Institute hosts a special set of pages with information for students. Teachers can become members for free to receive discounts on marketed materials. Great mineral photos!		The National Caves Association has a homepage with gallery photographs of sensational caves across America. For an international caving site, visit Western Australian Speleological Group.	At Sun Lakes/Dry Falls, a study of the Bretz floods, complete with animation and maps, explains why Eastern Washington looks the way it does today. For a static look at the animation frames, go to Failure of the Lake Missoula Ice Dam.
This link takes you to a photograph of the ancient shorelines of Lake Missoula in the vicinity of Missoula, Montana.		The Bonneville Power Administration hosts a site detailing the geologic history of the Columbia Basin.	Get a collection of Washington geological maps online through Christopher Heg’s Washington State Geology Index Map. High speed internet required.
Rader offers us Geography4Kids, with explorations of current knowledge in the earth’s structure, systems and climate.		Will Steger is involved in a National Geographic expedition in the arctic to research Global Warming. See Global Warming 101.	The PaleoMap Project collects and distributes information about how the earth got to the way it looks today, using maps and interactive demonstrations.
Find out about Antarctica at Classroom Antarctica.		The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hosts Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI), a satellite image resource for current significant events.	The Devonian Times is a mock newspaper that explores news and information about life in the Devonian period, about 382 million years ago.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network brings information about earthquake activity and volcanoes in our region.		The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute studies environmental changes at the Ocean and Climate Change Institute.	Carnegie Museum of Natural History hosts Carnegie’s Dinosaurs. It includes looks at Sampson, a T-Rex, being prepared for exhibit, and studies of an oviraptorosaur from the Late Cretaceous.
Atmospheric science and the greenhouse effect are subjects covered in this series of websites. Water as solid, liquid and gas is one of the subjects. It gets pretty technical for elementary students. It comes from University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.		The Paleontology Portal is a site hosted by the University of California Museum of Paleontology. It features information, galleries and a great educational module called Life Has a History (available in two skill levels). Another fine module deals with fossils: Getting Into the Fossil Record.	Explore fossil stratigraphy around the world through the links at Fossil Lagerstätten
Physical Science		Create or solve a kinetic-mechanical puzzle on Discovery Kids. Whizzball lets you share your creations with the world!	Learn the real science behind the Deoxys characters in the Pokemon Trading Card game. This comes from NASA, and teaches about viruses, extraterrestrials, ozone and DNA.
Why is there frost on my propane tank? This Arachnoid.com page demonstrates some elementary gas physics.		The Museum of Unworkable Devices explores physics and invention by looking at basic misconceptions in our understanding.	Donald Simanek gives us a lot to think about in many areas of physics and the history of science.
Satisfy your secret yearning to understand elementary physics in this online tutorial from ThinkQuest. Learn Physics Today!		Physics4Kids explores motion, heat, magnetism, light…just about any field in physical science. One of Rader’s free science sites.	Learn about the states of matter at Ron Kurtus’s School for Champions page.
The Gander Academy of Gander, Newfoundland, provides a third-grade explanation of Matter.		Don’t let the name fool you: Cute Science.com provides great free movies to help explain scientific and mathematical concepts.	For an explanation of the physics of Buoyancy, try this site. NOVA also explains buoyancy in simple terms. Why flat objects float better than round ones is explained in Reeko’s Mad Scientist Lab.
Air Travelers offers an upper elementary introduction to the basic principles of buoyancy, properties of gases, temperature, and the technology involved in hot air ballooning.		This website explores the science behind the legendary Foucault Pendulum.
Space Science		The World Health Organization hosts a site dealing with Ultraviolet radiation and its effects.	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) provides support for professionals and educators involved in space or aeronautics.
The website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) blends news, information and educational activities for students.		Earth Observatory is NASA’s eye on our world, its environment and ecology. Use the “glossary on” function to share stories with students.	Another NASA service is Visible Earth, featuring a catalog of images and animations about the earth.
What’s the weather like in space today? NOAA also operates the Space Environment Center, where you can get reports on solar flares, aurora borealis, magnetic wind and other astronomical events.		A collection of space images is available at Views of the Solar System, by Calvin J. Hamilton. Another nice tour is at The Nine 8 Planets.	KidsAstronomy.com has pages about the solar system, planets and space designed specifically for children.
Phil Plaitt explores misconceptions in science at Bad Astronomy.		AIAA hosts Kids Place, with a collection of outstanding interactive learning activities about flight and other areas of science.	Discover Engineering Online has information and activities about designing homes, airplanes, bridges and inventions.
IBM sponsors a series of activities in various areas of science, teaching children concepts by using engaging online games at Try Science.		Explore the moon with the Apollo astronauts by visiting Google Moon. Or fly over anyplace on earth at Google Earth.	Seeing in the Dark is a website from PBS, companion to a film of the same title. At this site you can experience astronomy through the web.
Arts		Need some help with artistic expression? Try the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) Art Education page.	National Standards for Art education? You bet. ArtsEdge, part of the MarcoPolo system, also provides links to state standards in art.
Find handsome quilt block designs at Quilt Collections.com. Check out their preview tour. Another source of quilt designs is Quilt Block Central.		Paleolithic Art for the Masses! Here is a link to a Virtual Museum of Prehistoric Art, including the cave paintings at Lascaux. The French government has a Lascaux site, too.	More Prehistoric Art is available at Links Interesantes, a Spanish site.
Literacy		Nada Salem AbiSamra hosts a webpage about teaching writing. Links cover a lot of helpful areas.	Chicago Teaching Partners posts a pdf guide for Special Ed that provides a number of useful scaffolds for emergent and developing writers.
DiscoverySchool.com provides the format for creating a custom word search puzzle. Or try the form at Wordsearch.		The Northwest Regional Educational Lab supports educators through applied research and development.	Find almost anything in Language Arts at ReadWriteThink, a service of NCTE, MarcoPolo and the International Reading Association.
Teachers can get help with poetry at Poets.org.		The BBC and the British Council Teaching English provides tips for Teaching English. For other BBC School Resources follow the Primary link.	Exercise your critical thinking with the Pacific Tree Octopus site. How to use this? The Tasmanians know!
Family Support		For parents, find support at Family Education.	Parenting.org is a service of Boys & Girls Town, with free advice for parents, provided in age-bands.
WASL Support		The Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Schools (OSPI) provides released WASL items here.	Preparing for the WASL at 4th grade, students should know the meanings of these terms.
For what it's worth, the Kent School District provides students, teachers and parents some support for the WASL at their WASL Preparation Homepage.		OSPI also has WASL highlights starting at this page. Follow links in the left-hand column for specific information on all the WASL tests.	The Washington State PTA has ten simple steps for parents to follow in order to increase the chance their child has of achieving success in the WASL.
The state PTA also provides parents with more detailed suggestions about WASL subject areas.		Port Angeles School district’s Sample WASL Problems site.	Do you wonder what your child should be learning? The Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction provides the Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs).
Science Practice		Two great sources for help with Science Notebooks are: East Bay Educational Collaborative (RI) and Sciencenotebooks.org.	Find plenty of useful tips and resources for teaching Science at the website of the North Cascades & Olympics Science Partnership (NCOSP)
The United States Department of Agriculture provides a simple description of the elements of the Scientific Process.		Philip McClean at North Dakota gives a schematic view of the Scientific Process in his Genetics page.	Prince William County Public Schools provides a basic definition of Scientific Inquiry.
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) provides resources, philosophy and news for teachers of Science. Their Elementary School page is here.		More links and intriguing demonstrations are found at the Science Learning Network.	The Franklin Institute has collected a variety of activities For Learners in Science and Math.
What are concept cartoons, and how can they be used to teach Science? See Cary Clark’s slide show from South Alabama University.		The government of Saskatchewan posts this interactive outline of thinking about Scientific Literacy.	ScienceMan.com offers a fine selection of fantastic site links and activities for learning. See their content area links!
Science kit support can be found at FOSS WEB and at STC.		A superb collection of links concerning inventions and inventors from Edtech at KSU in Kennesaw, Georgia.	Science News For Kids is a weekly news site with games and activities to engage young children in learning.
Keep current with weekly events in the Science world at Science News Online.		Wendy Saul and others provide a leveled booklist of Science literature of young students at the Project Astro Lending Libraryä booklist.	Expected Scientific Vocabulary from OSPI provides information about the terms that the state assessment in Science uses. A similar list is available from LASER. North Thurston School District has it in worksheet form.
Washington State LASER is Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform.		Lots of resources for making Science Notebooks are available on the pages of NCOSP.	The Lewis Center for Educational Research considers Learning, Doing and Sharing Science. Learning includes some tips about notebooking.
The Washington Space Grant Consortium is NASA’s support for teachers and science students in the Northwest. Grants and a periodical online newsletter available!		The National Science Foundation website keeps you current with news and information, providing grant and contest opportunities, too.	North Carolina State University provides a fine collection of inquiry-based Science lessons for Elementary students at Elementary School Lesson Plans.
Exploratorium.edu hosts a library of Tools for Teaching. Dennis Palmer Wolf has an interesting article in their Institute for Inquiry, called The Art of Questioning.		Newton’s Apple is a Science site featuring streaming video of events in a number of areas. Requires large download time and the right video plug-in.	Flinn Scientific is a supply house for science supplies. They provide a categorized list of Teacher Resources with lesson plans.
Fine examples of contemporary scientific illustration, the portfolio sites for artists Joy Fatooh and Gina Mikel.		Aristos has an essay and reproductions of classic scientific illustrations by John James Audubon.	The New York Public Library posts a searchable collection of historical and scientific illustration in their NYPL Digital Gallery.
The Franklin Institute provides Resources for Science Learning, a searchable database of lessons and examples.		BBC Bitesize has a number of engaging online activities to teach vocabulary and concepts in Living Things, Materials, and Physical Processes.	Lots of “Cool Experiments” are posted at Science Experiments. You can share! They also step you through the Scientific Process.
You’ll find current stories in Science and Social Studies at National Geographic for Kids.		Science Netlinks provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences.	NSTA gives away lots of grants. Check out their list here. Toshiba’s ExploraVision Competition gives small student groups a chance to reimagine technology.

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