St. Joseph Teacher Online Resources

Great Websites that we learned about at a Smartboard seminar.  Most of the sites are Interactive Websites (Good for use with our new Mimio Boards!)

Educational games www.gamequarium.com or www.learninggamesforkids.com

Activities by subject and skill - lots of games! www.internet4classrooms.com

Math facts practice  - math magician

Engineering/Science activities - www.edheads.org

You can get a free trial of awesome games - www.educationcity.com

Awesome spelling activites - www.spellingcity.com (I have already registered our school as St. Joseph Catholic School)

Science - www.howstuffworks.com

Mimio lessons - www.mimioconnect.com (You will have to create a username and password to download lessons)

Website recommended by Mimioconnect.   This has lots of interatctives, lesson materials, media resources, and more.   www.thinkfinity.org

http://www.4teachers.org/

www.edutecher.org

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Free printables (graphic organizers, border paper, calendars) http://www.teacherprintables.net/'

Kidsclick http://www.kidsclick.org/

ALA Great Websites for Kids http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm

Surfing the Net with Kids http://www.surfnetkids.com/

Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org

Librarian’s Internet Index: http://www.lii.org

General Reference Sites: 

Choose the Best Search for Your Needs: A list of search engines, websites and digital collections that correspond to specific needs. http://noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com/

Information Please Almanac. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1947- . Annual. [now TheTime Almanac] http://www.infoplease.com

Old Farmer’s Almanac http://www.almanac.com/

Encyclopedias:

Encyclopedia Britannica  http://www.britannica.com/

Microsoft Encarta Online. http://encarta.msn.com/

Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org

Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/

Homework Help:

Discovery Homework Help: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html

Multnomah County Library Homework Center http://multcolib.org/homework/

Books: 

Teen Reads http://www.teenreads.com/

BookSpot  http://www.bookspot.com

No Flying, No Tights - Readers Advisory for Graphic Novels http://www.noflyingnotights.com/

Primary Sources:

Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Spanish: 

LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center is a gateway to internet based information on Latin America

http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Scholarly research

Intuite Is produced and maintained by the University of Machester. It is a gateway to scholarly sites divided by subject on the web.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Infomine is a collaboration site produced by librarians form several different universities. It indexes scholorly information by subject headings.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/