Internet Supervision
While the content on the following links is age appropriate for researching
and learning, adult supervision is needed ANY TIME students use the Internet!
Internet Links
Holidays Around the World
http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/holidays.htm
Learn about our government. Click on links to visit government sites
especially for kids.
http://www.ustreas.gov/kids/
Lady Liberty
Student Link: Learn about the history, planning, symbolism, and tourism
regarding the Statue of Liberty.
http://library.thinkquest.org/5102/
This link on the kid's page is a link to other kid's pages for other states.
Great for reports or information or just fun!
http://www.state.me.us/sos/kids/links/statelinks.htm
Learn About Life at Plymouth Colony--In this interactive site the children
will learn about what life was like for the Pilgrims and the Native
Americans.
http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html#
Play Geo-Net
Practice identifying continents, countries, oceans, rivers, etc. on maps.
http://eduplace.com/geonet/index.html
Learn about American History. Study artifacts and other clues to learn
about how people lived in the past.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/
San Francisco Symphony--Teaches the instruments of the orchestra, the basics
of reading music, and has fun online activities.
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1
White House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/whlife/index.html
Animated Atlas
Growth of the U.S. Timeline
(Including the Oregon Trail)
http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie2.html
Online Atlas
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm
The FBI Kid's Site...Take a field trip through the FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/kidsk5th.htm
Meet Amazing Americans--Use this site to learn about the presidents,
explorers,and other famous people.Fun facts and games are
included.http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa
State Web Games
Do you know the location of our states?
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
Second Grade Social Studies--This site sponsored by Scott Foresman
Publishers . This is an excellent companion to our school curriculum.
Click on People and Places (Gr. 2 curriculum) and complete any unit's
activities. Also there is a link to a good site "This Day In History".
http://www.sfsocialstudies.com/activities.html
Second and Third Grade Geography--Learn about different landforms and bodies
of water on Earth.
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/activities/landformations/
Educational Movies--Movies and activities for Health, Science, Technology,
Math, English, and Social Studies. There are games and Science
experiments. You are permitted two free movies or activities a day.
http://www.brainpop.com/
State Capitals Reference
Do you know our state capital cities?
http://www.netstate.com/states/study/map.htm
New York Philharmonic Orchestra Kidzone--Learn about the various instruments
in an orchestra, famous musicians and composers, create your own musical
compositions, and see videos of famous musicians. Games and puzzles are
also featured.
http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml?
Castles for Kids
http://www.castles.org/Kids_Section/Castle_Story/
The official Punxsutawney Phil site!
Information and activities to celebrate Groundhog Day
http://www.groundhog.org/
Pioneers--This is an excellent site to accompany the Second Grade Social
Studues Unit on "Pioneers and the Oregon Trail"
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/default.htm
Map Quiz--Test your knowledge of the continents and countries.
For all ages
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html
Maps and more Maps--Another site to practice identifying thre 50 states.
Click the green arrow to get maps of other continents and reach the
home page,
http://www.jayzeebear.com/map/usa.html
The Smithsonian Magazine Kids' Castle
Imagine digging through our country's attic. That is what visiting the
Smithsonian is like. This group of museums, located in Washington, D.C.,
collects everything from moon rocks, bugs, flags, old cars and the first
airplane. Great artifacts from our country.
http://www.kidscastle.si.edu/
Virtual Tour of Washington DC--Click on the buildings and monuments to
learn about our nation's capital.
http://ahp.gatech.edu/dc_map.html
Ellis Island Interactive Tour
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm
Kids and Community--Learn how to plan and change a community
http://www.planning.org/KidsAndCommunity/index.htm
Landforms--This is a good site to helf reinforce October's unit on Landforms
in Grade 2
http://www.needham.k12.ma.us/Newman/learningmaps/webquests/lanforms_vincent/main.htm
More Landforms--Beautiful photos of major landforms with good descriptions.
http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm
Discover Christopher Columbus
http://www.geocities.com/ljacoby_2000/columbus.html
Learn about the 50 States
http://theus50.com/
Learn Abou the World--Click on a continent and learn all about it. Print
out a world map to color.
http://www.gokidding.com/learnworldnew.htm
MapZone
http://www.gokidding.com/learnworldnew.htm
Math Journey--Travel around the world by answering math problems. The
journey begins and ends in London, and has stops in 30 cities along the way.
To board the plane to each new city, you must answer a math problem
correctly. If you get a problem wrong, you have "missed your flight". Miss
three flights and the game is over.
http://www.quia.com/mathjourney.html
Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government--Let Ben Franklin explain the workings of
federal and local government. Click the appropriate grade range for
activities.
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/index.html
Jamestown Adventure--Discover what was needed for the first permanent English
settlement in America with this online game.
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
Kids Newsroom--Great site for current events explained in a way children can
understand.
http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/
Children's Encyclopedia of Famous Women
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/womenenc.htm
Types of Communities--Learn about cities, suburbs, and rural communities
with interactive maps. This is a good review for units one and two in
the second grade social studies unit. Click on Grade 2 Communities book and
follow the menu to interactive maps.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmss05/applications/imaps/maps/g3_u1/index.html
Social Studies Vocabulary Games--Play matching games online to drill
vocabulary for the units covered in Second Grade Social Studies in order to
prepare for unit tests.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmss05/bkc/ewordgame/index.html
Lewis and Clark--Learn about this famous expedition by taking part in this
interactive activity. You pretend you are on the journey west and make
decisions for your crew.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/
Native American Site for Children--Learn about the customs and traditions of
Native American tribes in the United States and Canada.
http://www.nhusd.k12.ca.us/ALVE/NativeAmerhome.html/nativeamhome.html
McGraw Hill Site--This is the publishers' site which accompanies our
Social Studies Units. There are crossword puzzles and review activities to
help prepare for tests
http://www.mhschool.com/socialstudies/2003/student/level1.php?isbn=0021492638
Time Magazine for kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
Colonial Williamsburg--Learn what it was like for children growing up during
colonial times. There are games and many activities on this site.
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/kids/
The Underground Railroad--Learn about the life of a slave escaping on the
underground railroad.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
President For A Day--Take on the role of president of the United Stated
through this on line activity
http://pbskids.org/democracy/
Official Iditarod Official--learn about the dogsled race in Alaska.
http://www.iditarod.com
Animated figure teaches you what it takes for dogsledding.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/sleddogs/multimedia/sleddogs-game.html
Native American Technology and Art
http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php
Write like an Egyptian--use ancient writing to write your name.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cartouche/cartouche.html
Netrover--Great site to practice geography skills.
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/social.htm
Learn about Communities--animated fiels trips of different places in a
community. This site gives good information for our unit on communities and
services.
http://www.hud.gov/kids/field1.html
Learn about the White House--great site for children in grades 1-3 to learn
about the presidents and thei families.
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/04/subs/04_a01.html
Democracy Project--A day in the life of a president
http://pbskids.org/democracy/presforaday/index.html
Inside the Voting Booth
http://pbskids.org/democracy/vote/
American History Museum
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
Other Resources