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February Tech Update
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The Winter Olympic Games will begin on February 12, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.  Follow the games, learn about world cultures and geography, and make applications to all curricular areas.  Visit the Winter Olympic Games, a collections of resources, activities, and lesson plans.  Vancouver 2010 is an official site of Olympic information and you can follow the closing days of the Olympic Torch Relay.
Valentine’s Day activities
Presidents’ Day resources      
Snowflake Workshop is a cool place to make "old fashion" paper snowflake online.

Snow, Snowflakes, and Ice- resources

Kindersite has numerous games, stories and songs for preschool - age 12!
SCIENCE NEWS FOR KIDS is a great site to keep current in the world of science.  The site also features a Puzzle zone, ScifiZone, LabZone, and a Teacher Zone.
WWild Team PowerPoint Games has 60 games to play.  The games are divided by curriculum and grade spans.
Are you preparing yourself for admission to the college of your choice?  Visit the following sites and review the recommendations offered.
Loads of online games wait for you at Oswego's Interactive Games.
The folks at Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences have built a special website for you and your teachers so that you can join the scientists in the COOLroom as they explore the waters off New Jersey.
Spell Check provides twenty sets of four words. Place a check next to the word which is spelled wrong. Spell the word you checked correctly in the box. When all twenty problems are correct, you can put your name on our leader board."
Online games from Bob Rankin offers a wide variety of games.
Blast your way through Multiplication Tunnel Blaster as you answer multiplication questions in this fun online game!
The Robot Calculator answers addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division math problems at this online game.
Billy Bear's Valentine's Day Page
Figure out the number pattern, and then you'll be able to find the ghost's correct number in the Spooky Sequence Square Numbers and Triangular Number game.
Use these games to practice spelling skills with Whacka Moley and the Grabber Grammar at Fairground Spells.
Maggie's Earth Adventures has a dozen nicely done interactive games designed to help practice English grammar, vocabulary, Spanish, math, and science.
Golden Books: Fun Factory has a collection of six games designed to help practice reading-related skills.
Lincoln Park Zoo: Zebra Online is an extensive interactive site to help students understand how animals adapt to their environment with camouflage, speed, size, etc., and the roles of predator and prey in the animal kingdom.
Play a card matching game with Arthur to learn about different countries and cultures at PBS Arthur: Connect the World Game.
Do you know your prime numbers and composite numbers? Practice your skills at Toon University: Prime Factoring Game.
At Treasure Trove Contractions Game match the contraction with the two words on the treasure chest.
Need help learning vocabulary?  Quizlet was developed by a high school student  to make learning vocabulary not a chore.  Give it a try!
Muddy Publishing creates engaging, visual media productions ranging from educational websites to traditional children's illustration
Explore the entertaining educational activities online at Houghton Mifflin's Education Place.
Welcome to Recyclezone, the site for schools, children and teachers that tells you what's what in the world of waste!   Be sure and check out the Fun Zone with games and activities.
The Research Guide for Students provides all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings.
The Blobz Guide to Electrical Currents provides a  'hands on', (using technologies such as drag and drop) in order to make learning fun.
LearningPlanet offers a terrific collection of educational games for grades K-6.
Check out the news (also in Spanish) at Science at Nasa, with stories based on scientific inquiry. Topics covered include Space Science, Astronomy, Living In Space, Earth Science, Biological and Physical Sciences, Beyond Rocketry, and Satellite Tracking, all links to additional resources.
Join Science Bob and visit his online lab for experiments and answers to your science questions.
Have some online fun with Daniel Cook!
Visit the Mars Rover website to view the latest pictures from Mars.
The Center for Disease Control presents, BAM, a website for the body and mind with a variety of interactive activities.
The Library of Congress provides Panoramic Photographs of the United States.
At Biodiversity explore the variety of life on Earth.
Compare a variety of baseball fields at Physics: Baseball: Denver's Big Advantage and see what it takes to hit a homerun at different ball parks.
Cool Math 4 Kids is an amusement park of exciting math activities.
At Way to Go Einstein learn about the man and his works or for a more serious approach explore A. Einstein, Image and Impact.
Play GeoNet and learn more about the geography of the United States.
Have fun with the interactive activities at 4 Kids 2 Play.
Become an Alien Explorer and learn about prehistoric animals, view clipart, and create your own aliens.
Learn all about Adverbs and when you think you know it all, try an online exercise.
Put the words in Alphabetical Order Game in this online game.
the Bell Museum of Natural History has developed the Watershed Game that lets you take on the role of a scientist concerned about water quality.
Introduce a little culture in your life at NIEHS Kids Pages where you will find great hits from musicals with accompaniment and lyrics.  Get ready, get set, perform!
Visit Zoom:Kitchen Chemistry, the virtual kitchen to perform online experiments, solve a puzzle, and get a reward.
 
Try your hand at these word puzzles at Wilstar's Puzzle Games.
Check out the great games at Kidscom.
Visual Fractions allows you to see fractions on a number line and get help identifying, adding, subtracting,  multiplying, and dividing them. Play some games for practice.
Make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo, by switching the animals' heads, legs and tails at Switcheroo Zoo.
Visit the Comic Strip Generator and create great projects for your classes. These can not be saved but they can be printed as a pdf.
From the developers of Eduhound, Edupuppy provides a search directory and clipart for primary students and their teachers.
Play the Phonics game at Words and Pictures.  You'll need Flash plug-in to play.
KidPort is a great place to learn and have fun.
Choose two countries and InfoNation will compare them statistically, economically, and more.
 

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