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5F Helpful Links

Quia games

http://www.quia.com/pages/fosterdl.html

ISAT practice

http://metacat2.com/iltestlinks.html

Rush Hour http://www.thekidzpage.com/freekidsgames/games/rush/index.htm

SIT (Students Involved with Technology) Conference Info http://www.sitconference.org/

Download registration form, fill it out, return it to school by January 9 and your registration fee will be paid by Unit 5!

 
Math

Math flashcards/games

http://www.aplusmath.com/

Everyday Math

website for Everyday Math (parent help)  http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/

 

games http://media.emgames.com/emgames/demosite/demolevel3.html

more games http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/Edtech/edm/5.htm

Fraction Frenzy http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/ff/index.asp

Tessellations

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/tessellate/#

http://library.thinkquest.org/16661/

M.C. Escher http://www.domaindlx.com/Escher/diversion.as

http://www.mcescher.com/

 
Science

SPACE

Stars/Planets

Planet relative size model project http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/planets/pplan.html

Stikky Night - learn to locate Orion http://www.stikky.com/0001-nightskies/sample/s2.html

Twin City Astronomer Club http://www.twincityamateurastronomers.org

Constellations and their stories:

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/the_universe/Constellations/north_constellations.html&sw=false&sn=22&art=ok&edu=mid&cdp=/windows3.html&cd=false&fr=f&frp=/windows3.html

Voyager 2 http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA Voyager 2 http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1977-076A.html

PLANETS http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/planets/

9 Planets  http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/

Absolute Beginner's Astronomy Page http://www.absolutebeginnersastronomy.com/

NASA StarChild http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

Astronomy for Kids http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/

Hubble Space Telescope's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/BestOfHST95.html

Sky & Telescope magazine http://skyandtelescope.com

NASA Deep Impact (comet) http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

Keck I and Keck II http://www.keckobservatory.org/

Current astronauts and biographies http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/astrobio_activemgmt.html

Former astronauts http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/astrobio_former.html

Sign up to have your name orbit the Moon!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html

Circuits http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/

COMETS

Resources http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/%7Ewenning/clcrendezvoustg/students/webquest2/resources.html

COMET GAMES/PUZZLES http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/

Holmes comet http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071030.html

The Space Stores

Astronaut food, gifts, etc. http://www.thespacestore.com

Astronaut food, gifts  http://www.alltherightstuff.com

Challenger Learning Center http://www.challengercentralillinois.org/  Check out student section and the gift shop

uv beads http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/search.php?s=0&q=uv%20beads

black light and pen http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/search.php?s=0&q=uv%20beads

Del Sol (uv changing items) http://delsol.com/

 

Cells

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/activities/electronmicroscope/

Quiz http://www.glencoe.com/qe/science.php?qi=258

Muscles  

Online quizzes to help you study, even check your answers online!

http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/jensen/1135/webanatomy/wa_muscle/

Cool little movie that shows how the muscles work:

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/closet/how_the_body_works_interim.html

Growing crystals

http://www.kerala.com/science/project1_page1.htm

http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/projects/crystal_gardens.html

http://rockhoundingar.com/pebblepups/growcryst.html

http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/publications/crystal.html

 
SOCIAL STUDIES

Explorers

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/1600.shtml

Jamestown game

http://www.quia.com/rr/68582.html

Colonies

Colonial trades http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm

http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/13mapnew.htm

William Penn http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4547/penn/html

Anne Hutchinson  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhutchinsonA.htm

LaSalle http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/l/lasalle.shtml

King Louis XIV http://www.geocities.com/daniellla.geo/LOUISXIV.htm

 

National Treasure webquest   http://www.benmatthews.net/treasure/

http://www.realnationaltreasure.com/

Sign the Declaration yourself!

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration.html

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Liberty Bell http://www.nps.gov/inde/liberty-bell.html

http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/

Music http://www.contemplator.com/america/

Games/recipes/crafts/clothes http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/index.htm

Clothing http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/clothing/home.html

Colonial buildings/misc. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm#K

Many sites http://www.unit5.org/links/revolutionary.htm

Colonial recipes http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/life.cfm

Cookie recipes http://www.monroehistoricsociety.org/cookies.html

Recipes/crafts (click on sample lesson plans) http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/4/92.04.02.x.html

Virtual tours http://www.pitt.edu/~press/goldentrianglebooks/ghfamily.html

Kid Info Colonial Life http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Colonial_Life.html

Early American Colonies   http://www.esd.k12.ca.us/cadwallader/room%2020/colonies/main.htm

 

Washington, D. C. Monuments

http://www.tourofdc.org/monuments/

White House history

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/history/

Government

Cabinet positions  http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html

 

Star Spangled Banner

http://americanhistory.si.edu/ssb/2_home/fs2.html

http://web8.si.edu/nmah/htdocs/ssb-old/2_home/fs2.html

 

Lewis and Clark

Game http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/

The Corps http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/corps.html

The Corps http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Activities&Kids/CorpsProfiles/CorpsProfiles.htm

Interactive game http://www.usaweekend.com/97_issues/971102/lewis_and_clark/971102trail_intro.html

Animal/plant life on expedition http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/ScienceofExpedition.htm

More animals/plants http://www.lewis-clark.org/index.htm

 

Oregon Trail

recipes http://www.nhlink.net/education/teaching/es/es03d.htm

recipes http://www.nps.gov/archive/whmi/educate/ortrtg/ortrtg14.htm

recipes http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Friend/1975.htm/friend%20july%201975.htm/pioneer%20recipes.htm?fn=document-frame.htm&f=templates&2.0

recipes http://eduscapes.com/42explore/pioneer.htm

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

http://www.ku.edu/heritage/trails/othist.html

 

CIVIL WAR

Civil War Causes http://www.ccsd.edu/link/LMS/CivilWarDBQ/CivilWarDBQ.htm

Civil War hat site  http://www.e-gettysburg.cc/merchant.ihtml?pid=21&lastcatid=151&step=4

http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/cookbook.htm  Recipes, homemade medicinal remedies

https://33rdband.com/   33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment band

http://www.loc.gov/index.html  Library of Congress

http://www.unit5.org/links/civil.htm  Many sites

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/  Many sites including music/biographies/battles and more!

http://www.historynet.com/gas-balloons-view-from-above-the-civil-war-battlefield.htm hot air balloons

http://www.civilwar.com/content/view/3775/47/  hot air balloons in the war

http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/page11.html Union currency

http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/index.html Confederate currency

http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/parks.htm battle site parks

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.htm   links to hundreds of sites

http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/ 

http://www.civilwarhome.com/ battles, biographies, medicine, soldier letters who had seen "the elephant"

http://www.jewish-history.com/Clipartgallery/clipart.htm  clip art

Black regiment http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/54ma.html

Illinois regiments information:

http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/searchco.html

http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/datcivil.html

http://civilwar.ilgenweb.net/

http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/cwflags.html

 
LANGUAGE ARTS

I Have a Dream Speech

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1732754907698549493&q=i+have+a+dream

Martin Luther King Jr. speeches

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm

http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/mlk.html#audio

Tornadoes

The real night of the twisters http://www.gitwisters.com/

Grand Island June 3, 1980  http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/grandisland1980-2000.htm

Tornadoes - many, many topics  http://www.tornadoproject.com/

Tornado information  http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/wtwist0.htm#mor

Tornado  http://skydiary.com/kids/tornadoes.html

Fujita scale http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/f-scale.html

Fujita scale http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.ht  

 

Presidents

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html

http://www.time.com/time/campaign2000/whitehouse/photo_01.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/index.html

http://www.presidentsusa.net

http://www.firstladies.org/

http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home

 

Holes game - find Zero and the treasure!

http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/liveaction/holes/main.html

 

 

 

Turkey trivia quiz http://home.aristotle.net/Thanksgiving/trivia.asp

Make a Wish Foundation http://www.wish.org/help/shop_to_help

 

Dear Abby Letters to Servicemen

http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/MessageSend.htm