White House for Kids
The White House!
National Geographic for Kids
All about National Geographic topics.
How Stuff Works. Great site to find out all about how things work.
How things work.
Discovery Channel - Social Studies site to help students with
their
schoolwork.
Discoveries
A wonderfully interesting site that describes NJ Lighthouses.
Lighthouses
Gilder Lehrman is a museum par excellence in New York City that
has a
searchable database of historical documents. Check it out!
History
The best search engine, because it searches many, many other
search engines
all at the same time to give results.
Search
FunBrain - A super fun site, full of fun and games.
Games
FactMonster - Need information? This site can help with any topic.
All the facts you need!
San Francisco Science Center - Fun hands-on, minds-on science
experiments.
Science experiments
The Yuckiest site on the Internet!
Yuk!
Play Kids Games - Learn something while you have fun
Games
I'm a Hero - Choose this to see timelines, history, even books
about many
heroes.
Heroes
All about the animals that we sometimes have for pets.
Pets
Time for Kids - Homework and research help
Homework help
A place to enter your writing competitively. Check this out!
Writing contests for kids
Do you like to solve mysteries, puzzles and crimes? Then this
site is for
you.
Mysteries, puzzles and crimes
Occupational Outlook Guide - a most complete description of
careers in the
United States
Occupational Outlook Guide
Do you love CSI and the court cases that we solve in third grade
TAG? Check
this out!
More mysteries to solve!
Games, puzzles, and mysteries to solve!
PBS detective site
The Stock Market Game - for fifth grade TAG students who are
participating
in the Game. This is where you can log in for your team.
Play the Stock Market Game!
A great site to discover the Maya civilization, for fifth grade
TAG
The Maya!
About the Maya: Why did Copan collapse? Click on the Maya
pulldown menu.
Why did Copan collapse?
Essays and other writing activities for budding writers
Writing fun
Do you wonder what the winning entries are? Here is where you can
read the
winners.
Writing contest, and winners' stories to read
Tips, writing exercises and even mini-courses to help improve
your writing.
Breaking through writers's block, and other fun writing helps
Scholastic's site for readers and writers
Reading lists, tips and more
A site for educators that gives many links to games and resources
of various
types
Many, many games that will delight and inform
From here, you can link to all kinds of interesting things about
dragons!
All about dragons!
Maya Discovery
Discover the history of the Maya Civilization
Learn about the Maya and other civilizations that collapsed.
Have some fun
and complete the activity on "Why did Copan collapse?"
which is under the
Maya pulldown menu.
Learn about the Maya and other civilizations that collapsed. Have some fun
Here is a good site for information about some of the new sites
that are
still being discovered in the Maya world.
The Maya in Belize
Fourth grade TAG students - do you want HyperStudio at home? Some
of my
students have asked for it, and here is where you can get it. Be
sure you
get the Student Edition.
HyperStudio
Tornadoes are powerful storms that form over land and do terrible
damage.
Here is a site from National Geographic where you can learn about
these
storms.
Tornadoes!
A tornato called "The Monster" destroyed cities in
Oklahoma on May 3, 1999.
Its winds were clocked at 318 miles per hour! Here is the story.
'The Monster'
The path of tornadoes leaves destruction in their path. This
tornado is
menacing the East coast.
This tornado happened today, November 16, 2006
This is the web site for the author who visited Warnsdorfer on
November 15,
2006. He has written about the Maya, the Hudson River and the
Lewis and
Clark Trail, to name a few.
Peter Lourie's site
Written by an archaeologist in interesting language, this site
answers many
of the frequently asked questions about the Maya, including:
"What happened
to them?"
All about the Maya
The NJAGC makes many resources available for gifted students,
their teachers
and parents. This includes books, links, and a conference every
year.
The New Jersey Association for Gifted Children
This is a collection of artifacts about the Aztecs and the Maya.
The Maya collection of the University of Pennsylvania Archaeology Museum
Want some suggestions about what to read this summer? Click here,
and go to
Photos/Docs for even more suggestions.
Scholastic's summer reading list
This is where Joseph Renzulli is a professor. There are many
links for
gifted education here, both for students and for parents. Their
list of
resources is excellent.
Find out more about gifted education
Find a personalized reading list - just for you! Click on the
link and put
in your grade or reading level, or a book that you're interested
in. Check
it out!
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do
Children of the Holocaust
http://www.graceproducts.com/fmnc/main.htm
Children's stories of Holocaust survival
http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/children_main1.asp
Poetry for Children
http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/poeform.htm
Lighthouses with pictures!
http://www.njlhs.org/Favorite/Favorite.html
Kid Power!
http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/~keheley/kidpower/kidpower.htm
A story about twins who committed a jewelry theft.
Who did it?
Some people tried to help.
Rescuer Link 1
Even during the Holocaust, some people cared.
Rescuers Link 2
Rescuers were called "Righteous".
Rescuers Link 3