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A FEW SITES FOR TCAP REVIEW
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Word Girl -
Build Your Vocabulary Play games to build vocabulary,
read stories, and print coloring pages. |
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BrainPop
Junior games
- all in one location |
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Comic
Creator offers hours of fun creating scenes and comic
strips for all ages! |
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Fantasyscotus allows you to predict
all of the Supreme Court's pending cases as if you were the 10th member of
the court. Josh Blackman, a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Kim Gibson
in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, created the game in his spare time. |
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National Geographic Kids
This site offers visitors a wide variety of original games, creative
activities, true stories of adventure and discovery, and videos of wildlife and
cool places from around the world
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 Earth Day
Visit this
collection of
earth day lesson, games and activities to find just the right activity for
implementation in your classroom
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Earth Day online games at Kaboose
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 Make another trip to Seussville to help the Lorax "Save
the Trees"!
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Earth Day is almost here! To recognize this special day -- April 22 --
Education World offers five original lesson plans that will engage
students in creating maps of an astronaut's view of Earth, exploring issues of
junk mail and hazardous household waste, and learning about endangered species.
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If your habits resemble those of average Americans, you generate
about 4.6 pounds of solid trash per day. This adds up to big trouble for the
environment. Americans are generating waste products faster than nature can
break them down and using up resources faster than they can be replaced.
Visit this interactive
Garbage
site to learn ways to reduce waste.
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Trees
Are Treasures - an activity for lower elementary grades
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Clip
art for Earth Day
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| WOW! One of the coolest Flash sites
is Bembo's Zoo. Choose the
Flash option. Then click a letter and watch an animal appear
right before your eyes. |
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Martin Mystery is about a kid who likes to solve mysteries. Join Martin
and his friends as they investigate a spooky house. |
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Little People Activities from Fisher Price offers coloring pages,
stories, and more! |
| MaMaMedia
- the Place for Kids on the Net |
| Try a little
April Foolery
and an April
Fool Word Search from Surfing
the Net with Kids. |
| Pick a type of poem, plug your words into the form, and
presto: you're a poet at
Instant
Poetry Forms. |
| Something Fishy
is a game where Walter the fish eats smaller fish and tries to avoid being
eaten by larger fish. |
| Did you know that April is
Frog month? |
| Don't Know
Much About... provides answers to your burning questions about
dinosaurs, American history, the 50 U.S. states, the solar system, and more. |
| Earth Day is April 22. How much do you know about
pollution and its
affect on our planet? Try one of these
Earth Day Games. |
| Science
News for Kids includes a searchable archive of stories, as well as
plenty of fun activities that sneak in a little science knowledge in the
process. |
| For the very easiest recipes and articles about cooking
with kids, check out Kids as Chefs at
All Recipes. |
| The
Microscope Imaging Station produces high-resolution images and movies using
research-grade microscopes. This gallery contains a range of images and movies
that illustrate the diversity of what can be seen with light microscopes |
| Start your engines, search engines that is! Kids
Search Tools is the pit stop
for research. |
| There's lots to do at
Bananaboo! 4 to 8 year olds
will enjoy Bananaboo's big selection of puzzles, stories, craft ideas, jokes,
coloring pages, cut-outs, and more. |
| MedMyst is
an interactive, learning adventure in which you enter a futuristic world, and
solve medical mysteries in infectious diseases. |
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Instant Anatomy provides illustrations to aid the learning of Human
Anatomy. |
| Fossweb
has many interactive activities for grades K-8. |
| Geography quizzes, math practice, games, can all found at
Lyndsey's Mania. |
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Boohbah is an
exciting new that encourage both creative thinking and creative movement. |
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Test Your French
provides a test to measure a student's level of competence in French. The test
is in written, auditory and video formats. The site scores the test and then
directs the user to level-matched practice lessons. |
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Exploring Origami,
the art of paper folding is an art form in Japan, and new enthusiasts are taking
it to a higher level. Check out some of their creations at this Exploratorium
site,. |
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Clipart sites for
kids |
| .Global Warming is Hot Stuff is a great place to explore the concept of
Global Warming. Learn about the Greenhouse effect and the results of global
warming. |
| If you think
Crayola is only about crayons, think again. After registering as a free
member you can access multimedia craft ideas from A to Z. |
| Learn everything about earthquakes and play
games and read stories about them at
FEMA For Kids: Earthquakes. |
| The EPA Explorers Page
uses art, coloring, comics, stories and games to involve kids in environmental
science. A must-play activity is the Shockwave Dumptown
Game. |
| Try your hand at solving the problem of an overflowing landfill and
learn how to properly dispose of trash at Garbage. |
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On This Day
is sponsored by the New York Times. Each day a single story is featured, along
with a thumbnail of the front page from that day. Many stories include original
photos, illustrations or political cartoons. |
| Test your geography smarts online at the
National Geographic GeoBee. |
| Looking for music sites? Try
Happy Note's Music
lessons: play a game and learn the notes. |
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Kididdles is a fun musical site. Surf over and sing along! |
| Check out the
Phonics Song at
KiddyHouse. |
| Have fun with music at the
San Francisco Symphony Kids' Site
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| The animated, musical, and interactive tales of Merpy has a new story every month,
fun activities, and other adventures. (also in Spanish) |
| William Shakespeare, the world's most performed playwright, was born
in April 1564. Visit Mr.William
Shakespeare and the Internet for both original content (such as
a time line of Shakespeare's life) and annotated links to a wide assortment
of external sites. |
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The Internet Public Library Youth Division IPL goes beyond the mold with
their fabulous original features |
| The
Clay
Animation Station ThinkQuest site also gives you tips for making
your own claymation movie! Learn all about claymation, from
its history to popular characters such as Wallace and Gromit. |
| Check out the cool games from
Yahooligan Games. |
| Learn how to communicate in this visual language by watching animated
images at
American Sign Language. |
| JP Brown's
Serious LEGO turns the little building toy into something entirely
different. |
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Gazillionaire is a science-fiction fantasy game to download and play. |
| For a real taste of the dark continent, visit
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent. |
| Find out why the promise of freedom has attracted
millions of people from all over the world to come to America at
Freedom: A History of Us. |
| At the Healthy
Refrigerator learn what you should eat and why. |
| At Nutrition Café
you can open the Sleuth
Case Book to help find the missing nutrient, or visit Have
a Bite Café and build a meal from the menu. |
| Visit
CivilWar@Smithsonian to learn about the Civil War through collections
from the Smithsonian Institution. |
| The Virtual
Wall is a digital version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, D.C. which provides a view of the 140 panels, profiles of the people
who died, and remembrances left at the wall by visitors. |
| The Microbe
Zoo is divided into sections that include DirtLand, Snack Bar,
and Space Adventure. It's one zoo I'm certain you've never visited before. |
| Help Detective Leplant and his partners
investigate plant mysteries at
The Great Plant Escape. |
| Cockroaches came to this country as immigrants. At
Cockroach
World try your hand at guessing each roach's country of origin. |
| Feel free to tap on the glass when you visit the
Florida Aquarium. |
| If you think space is far out, check out these fun activities
for subjects ranging from comets to black holes to galaxies galore at Amazing
Space. |
| The National
Zoo contains web cams, a photo gallery, games, and of course, a peek at
the giant pandas. |
| Learn some shocking facts about lightning at National
Geographic's
Lightning, the Shocking Story. |
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What's Your Type? Find out how your blood is different from lots
of people around you. |
| After a long winter, there's nothing so cheerful to see as tiny crocuses
blooming in the sun. Did you know that most spring-flowering bulbs are
planted in the fall? At Bulb.com
you can find out everything you'd ever want to know about bulbs. |
