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From its humble beginnings as an elementary teacher's classroom website, on through the present, the KidsKnowIt Network has always had one goal, and that is to make learning free. Founded in 1998 in order to provide student's with a fun and educational way to spend their free time, a teacher's classroom project has grown into a worldwide platform attracting several million visitors every single month. Every website developed is painstakingly researched for accuracy, and appropriateness. This process begins with the planning and development of materials, activities, and articles by parents and educators, and ends with the final editing and approval of experts in the field being explored.

Common Sense Media reviews websites to determine age appropriateness, learning potential & what parents/teachers should know about the sites. Options to view same info as it relates to movies, games, apps, tv shows, books & music. Browse by learning rating, subject, skill, genre, topic, popularity, etc.

This website allows you to check the readability of a whole website or just a passage.

Content curation; free & premium options; share aggregated data via social media, websites or email

Content curation; free & premium options; share aggregated data via social media, websites or email

This is a website I created on wikispaces to share geography we cover in class. I also use this site to communicate weekly assignments they must complete in class.

For those teaching Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, this site has website-accessible or printable questions, activities, and resources. I've noticed a few errors in the web-based comprehension questions, but otherwise very helpful!

Interactive website requiring students to use context clues to identify unfamiliar words.

"Welcome! Nourish Interactive is your free one stop resource for fun nutrition games for kids, interactive nutrition tools and tips for parents and health educators to use to promote healthy living for the whole family. Created by nutrition and health care professionals, Nourish Interactive's nutrition education website gives children and families the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices."

Generate online poetry

QR codes to websites can have password protection and an expiration date -- good idea for teachers providing parents access to a class wiki/blog, etc. Also can generate basic QR code.

National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventure is the best everything-map site I have seen. The site was created by the Children's museum of Indianapolis. Maps are presented as the keys to adventure. Students learn to use maps to find their way, share information, look at patterns, and solve problems. There are six excellent interactive games for students to practice putting their math skills to use. Students can explore a pyramid by guiding a robot to hieroglyphs, find sunken treasure, explore Mars, go on an adventure, see GIS in action, and visit Adventure Island. I love the realistic feel of these games, as students explore and guide robots, they get a "live" video feed of where they are navigating. On the National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventures site, you will find information about the Indianapolis exhibit, how to use maps, related map links, and lesson plans. This is one of those websites that my description just won't do justice to, be sure to check it out!

Sites to help students learn how to find & evaluate information on the web.

This website will help to properly cite sources using the MLA writing style.

this website offers many online interactive tools for teachers

This website has three different levels of motion graphs. Students will try to match the graph by analyzing the graph and inputing specific information. They can not go on to the next graph until they pass the current graph. Contains both velocity vs. time and position vs. time graph.

A website that does citations for you! All you need to do is type in the information from the source you are using, click "submit", and it does all the work for you. All you then need to do is copy and paste it into your paper. It uses the 7th ed. of MLA, 6th ed. of APA, and 16th ed. of Chicago (7th ed. Turabian).