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This website allows users to create easy animations with cartoon-like characters. What sets this site apart from others is creators' ability to add their own voices to the animations.

From the list from Dr. Topp. Very complete zoo website with photos and live cams of the animals, stories about the zoo animals, and education programs. Kid friendly and useful if doing a project on a specific type of animal residing at the National Zoo.

Great site for internet safety for all ages. This site offers a special kids link for an animated web tour on internet safety and other ways they can remain safe. On the main internet safety link it offers a variety of links and documents.

Explore animals at sea world.

This site is focused on adaptations and how they help animals to survive in their environment. You build your own creature and then the website tells you how the different body parts you pick help it survive in its environment.

University of Iowa has a great section on phonetics (you may also select English or German) which includes animated graphics that show what your mouth should be doing for each sound. Also has short video of a native speaker pronouncing each letter of the alphabet and using it in words. Excellent tool for foreign language teachers.

A large collection of reference resources organized into categories. There are animations, calculators, data bases, readable science journals (in Frank Potter's resources), and even college level video lecture series in Physics- just in case you didn't get enough of it in high school.

This is a very safe website for students to look up information. It is very basic and very limited but the facts are accurate. It's a great place for Elementary to go to if they are doing a fact chart or basic report on an animal, country, or dinosaur. Its a neat website but little annoying because when ever you go back to home page you get the welcome announcement and I couldn't find anywhere to turn it off, accept for mute on my volume

This website has great information about cells in general, but also has information about microorganisms, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and animal systems. There are also quizzes available, and links to other topics such as astronomy, physics, chemistry, and earth science. The site is also easy to navigate with well described buttons to various pages.

Web site with a lot of tutorials on many different diseases and conditions, tests and diagnostics, surgeries and treatments, and preventions. Students can be guided through these finding information such as symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments. The tutorials use images, animations, and sound in addition to the reading to convey the information.

This site offers students elementary students animal information, activities, games, and videos. It is ver user friendly.

Games, stories, activities, videos, and even blogs for kids.

The National Geographic website is a great resource for both students and teachers. The site has activities and games that students can use to help guide learning.