Daily Grammar provides simple and clear lessons on the basics of English grammar for grades 5-12. Set up in modules of five examples and a follow-up quiz, the simiplicity of the approach and the explanations make this a great site for students to use on their own when they feel they need self-paced remediation or enrichment. Mr. Bill Johanson, the author of the material, is a former junior and high school English teacher, with 30 years experience in the classroom.
cluemaster, a free subscription service for grades 5-12, offers a collection of hundreds of crossword puzzles, word searches, and othe rword games that can be pirnted from your browser. The 50 quizk crosswords and word searches are suitable for younger students, whereas the more challenging cryptic crosswords are suitable for high school students. Each word puzzle includes a printable answer sheet.
This site is terrific for students and teachers for all grade levels. Click Online Tours and you can explore an artist, theme, or artwork. Click NGA Kids and you will find interactive games and activities for elementary school children.
Asian Arts is an electronic journal for the study and exhibition of arts of Asia. For an online tour, click Exhibitions and Galleries. The site, suitable for grades 5-12, includes articles and links to other relevant resources.
Art Access looks at objects from the The Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection. This site has a variety of online resources including lesson plans for the classroom and art projects for the home. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.
This PBS site has a Galileo biography, an exploration of Galileo's telescope, and other interesting articles as well as fun interactive activities for grades 6-12. These games feature animated experiments including Galileo's ingenious experiment on gravity demonstrating that all objects fall at the same rate. Teacher's can find an archive of over 120 companion Web sites to past Nova TV programs by interest, program title, or year of broadcast. There is a searchable teacher's section with classroom activities, TV program descriptions, related NOVA resources, and explorations for students. The video is not free but the interactive experiments on this site are very nice. They are animated and the kids predict what will happen before you activate the animations.
This National Geographic site, suitable for grades 6-12, makes excellent use of multimedia to explore the pyramids individually, and place themwithin historical context. It also includes photos and videos from King Tut's Final secrets as well as other ancient Egypt resources
This is a free online typing skill development program. It provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help students learn how to use their keyboard correctly.
Typing Lessons Online is a free touch typing program that allows its users to type fast using their ten fingers. It offers free and interactive typing lessons and exercises for all levels.
TypeFaster is a tool that teachers you how to touch type fast using a set of free typing tutorials. This program comes in three versions: Standard, Accessible and Spanish. The standard version is the ideal on so far it has quite many interesting features.