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Realistic - Animals/Ecology


Animal Atlas

You can watch past episodes of this great educational t.v. show. This site also has links to the t.v. show Zoo Clues.

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Animal Biomes /Habitats

Environments that animals live in- such as jungles, deserts, etc.

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Animal Games for Kids by Sheppard Software

Lots of fun games for young kids

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Animal Pictures

Online Coloring book of Animals

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Animal Videos on Teachertube

Teachertube is a website that can be viewed (seen) by kids too! Here are some animal videos. --- Skip the advertisements (green box with ad) on the top of the page. The videos will begin when you see the first animal picture.

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Animals that can count

This is a skill that scientists used to think only humans could do.

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Connecting Kids and Nature National Wildlife Federation

Do you like nature? If so, this website is for you. Explore the beauty of our natural world and learn more on how to potect it (ecology).

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Defenders of Wildlife

Animal Facts Use Go to: Select a species to change animals

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Enchanted Learning Dinosaurs

Learn about dinosaurs

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Insect Facts by Science Trek

Do you want to know more about insects and other animals? This site sponsored by Idaho Public Television is a good site to get basic information about animals and many more science topics. The reading level is fairly easy. Some videos, pictures, and diagrams are also included.

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Kelp Forest Cam: Monetery Bay Aquarium

See inside this huge aquarium of animals that live in the kelp (seaweed) forest in Montery, California. In the 1960s, surfing became popular near here as well (brought over from Hawaii).

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Kidzone Animals

Animal Categories and information about some commonly known animals

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National Geographic Kids

Kid's Science and Geography Magazine

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Rainforest Alliance Games

Learn more about our planet's rainforests (jungles). We get a lot of oxygen to breath from these habitats. There are also many animals and plants that we have not discovered yet.

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Tool use by animals

Humans are not the only animals that use tools! Website also has other interesting articles about science. READ instructions

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Zoo Cams

If you like looking at zoo cams focused on animals (that are not in their natural habitats) --Here is a list of animals that are housed in zoos around the world.

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Zoom Animals: Mammals

Simple descriptions of many mammals.

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Zoos and Aquariums (International)

Here is a listing from Best of the Web for Zoos and Aquariums online or without websites.

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Zoos: Monterey Bay Aquarium

Here is a world-class aquarium with a fantastic jellyfish exhibit. There are many other animals to see and learn about at the San Francisco Bay Area landmark.

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Zoos: Oakland Zoo

This website has nice photos of animals. Check out the Webcams ! --READ Instructions to see full-screen.

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Realistic - Building and Construction


ABCya's Build a Car

Make a car from parts that you choose

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ABCya's Make a House

Build your own house to live in.

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ABCya's Make a Robot

Make a robot-a little more difficult than the car or house

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Arthur's Animal Home Builder

Build a home for an animal- An animal's home is its habitat.

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Build your Wild Self

What kind of creature do you want to be? You can create a really interesting, fabulous, and fantastic version of yourself! Express your creativity in this fun activity.

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Lego Customer Service: Building Instructions

Lego Instructions. Directions for many kits. You might need a grown-up (adult), older brother or sister to help you download and open the directions.

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Rube Goldberg Machines

Inventions are cool. Rube Goldberg is famous for creating silly machines. Other people started making silly machines too. This site will show you some of them. To build these inventions, you need to learn about physics and engineering-- both interesting and useful subjects.

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Realistic - Geography


Google Maps North and South America

Can you find where you live on this satellite view?

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Google Maps Street View of Disneyland

Take a vitural (not real) walk around Disneyland using Google Map's Street View. ---Streetview works in many cities and places all over the world so try it out! --READ instructions

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Hayward, California OR any other place on Earth

Google map of Hayward, California. --to see another city or town --- Click on the place where you see the word--Hayward. Erase Hayward and type in the name of the place. ---You should also put a comma (,) and the name of the state or country--for example: New Orleans, LA Then click the magnifying glass OR hit the ENTER key. Hint-- you can also look up famous places like the Grand Canyon.

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Information: 50 States by Fact Monster

You can find information about each of the fifty states of the United States on this site. Also check out 50 birds, 50 states videos and the National Geographic Kids site for more even more information.

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Information: More Countries and States

You can find more links to countries and states on Myplearn by looking at this Section (Classroom Reports).

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National Geographic's Map Maker Interactive

Use this tool to create and save your own maps.

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New York City, New York

Google map of New York City

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Paris, France

Google map of Paris, France

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Google map of Rio, Brazil

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San Francisco Map

Google map of San Francisco, California

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San Fransisco Bay Area Terrain Map

Google map of the San-Francisco Bay Area. Terrain means landforms like mountains, lakes, plains, etc.

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Venice VR

You are in Venice, Italy taking a virtual reality (VR) tour using Google Maps-"Street View. Click on the arrow inside the circle to move down one of Venice's famous canals.

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Vienna, Austria Arial Map

Using Google Maps' 3d view to see a part of this well known European city.

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Washington, D.C.

Google map of our nation's capitol

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Realistic - Math


4kids.org techknowledgey! Math

Educational Math games. This site also has a link to "cool spots" (places) and some videos.

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A kid's Heart: Math Games

A bunch of math games and a few logic games.

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Arcademic Games

If you like competing (playing against other kids) you will probably like this site. You race against other kids while doing math.

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Computer Programing / Coding for Kids

Do you want to learn computer programming? Its also called coding. Coding can be fun and challenging. --- The first part of the website has apps for tablets. Websites for laptops and desktops begin with SCRATCH (not Scratch Jr). Some of these websites require that you register with your email and create a password. But all are free to use.

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Cool Math Games

Seveal different games to improve your math skills while you are having fun. In England (and the rest of the UK-United Kingdom)they use the term Maths for mathematics.

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Coolmath

Math lessons and math games. Some of the games are against other players (competitive).

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Elementary Math Games



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Fractal Curve Generator

Create simple Fractals. Shapes/ patterns that repeat at different zoom levels (small pattern and big pattern are the same shape) This type of fractal is called an iterated function system (IFS) ---See Instuctions for more.

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Fun Math

This math site includes lessons, fun facts- including a short history of math, and some matn and logic games.

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Funbrain Math Games

Lots of fun math games including Math Power Football.

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Hooda Math Games

This site has math games and other activities by grade level or by type of math.

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Interactivate Math and Science

This is a great math website for older kids. It allows you to investigate many mathematical and scientific topics. You are able to interact with several models. There are simulations of many mathematical and scientific principals.

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Iterated Function System Applet

The branches of a tree and the many other natural systems have shapes/patterns tha reapeat at different scales. These are called fractals in mathematics. Here is another website that includes an interactive program to make IFS fractals. ---Press the random button to see some examples.

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Learn Your Times Tables

Learn your times (multiplication) facts with the help of this site. Remember- You can think of multiplication as reapeated addition-- so 8X4 is 8 8 8 8 OR 4 plates with 8 cookies on each plate OR a grid with 8 rows and 4 columns (or vice-versa)!

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Learning Games for Kids Math --Addition

These are the games for first grade math. Other grades and other math areas can be found on the left hand side bar under MATH GA
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Math Lessons by Khan Academy

Here you will find math lessons from kindergarten all the way to college level. Khan Academy has become famous for helping people learn at their own pace (speed) for free.

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Multiplication.com Games (also addition, subtraction, and division games)

Learn all about multiplication. Did you know that you can view multiplication as repeated addition, rows and columns, or sets of objects? --click on addition, subtraction, or division for that kind of math.

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Nasa Addition Blast-off

Find the two addends (2 numbers) that add up to the sum (answer) in the circle -- for example if the number in the circle is 15- you can click on the 7 and 8 because 7 8=15. Then the rocket will blast off ! -- READ instructions to enter Kid's Club.

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Nasa Mathematics

Nasa offers real world mathematical problems for students to solve.

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Professor Garfield Math

Learn about number families using a math rack (like an abacus) with Garfield.

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Sheppard Math Games

Addition Games and other math games. I don't like guns but the shoot the fruit games are fun!

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Softschools Math

This site has math games for many types of math including addition, algebra, and probability.

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Tesselation Math

Make cool and colorful patterns that repeat at this site. --See Instructions for some help. You can make real life patterns with pattern blocks or tiles. Maybe you can even make a mosaic floor!

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Wolfram MathWord

Wolfram Mathworld is a large resouce on mathematics. It is for more advanced students.

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