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This is a great learning tool for fourth graders on up to learn math skills of tables, graphs, maps, statistics, mean, median, mode and range.There are interactive learning activities that have excellent graphics in the games. I found the instructions easy to follow.

Kids learn about the Internet, safely traveling through it, and becoming aware of the hazards of its use. Requires an adult's email address but otherwise free. It is brightly animated with games, prizes, videos and play along with the cute characters of Clicky, Nettle, Webster and Router. Developed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This is great for the library teacher to use for teaching Internet safety.

Discover the world of musical instruments of the orchestra. Animated with bright colors and designed specifically for kids. Listen to each instrument's sound and learn details about each one. Visit the Music Lab to learn music theory, perform and compose your own music.Great for any music teacher to use as well as any classsroom teacher or students to compose music to incorporate into a project or lesson. I used to teach piano lessons and I absolutely fell in love this with this website.

This website is for kid's weather research. There is a breath-taking photo gallery along with a video gallery, games and activities, Science Fair project ideas, a picture of the day and cool facts. My 10 year old daughter was simply fascinated at the photographs! This could definitly supplement the second grade weather unit in Lincoln.

This collaboration between NASA and NOAA provides educators and children (K-12) resources (

This site gives complete explanations on some commonly asked questions about weather. It includes video, images, and experiments. Great site for kids to use when doing research.

This site is a wonderful way to get kids questioning about what happened in history. The site provides information to kids about what happened on a specific date. Students can understand what history is when looking up prior events. A great site to get kids questioning and investigating.

This site has many primary documents throughout our history. There are 362 searchable primary document collections. As I looked through this site, it seemed to have a lot of photos throughout history. It would be a valuable resource to any multimedia project in the media center.

This site includes digital photographs, sheet music and background information on artifacts. Researchers can locate primary sources by topic, such as African American, Asian Americans, Civil War, Native Americans, just to name a few. Photos can be enlarged and pdf sheet music can be printed. Great resource for history, art, and literature.

NOAA has primary resource collections on the Gulf oil spill, hurricanes, El Nino, tides and sea turtles. I really like the way they feature current topics of importance in the news right now. This would be a great way to teach media literacy to our students. They also have a feature activity section called "Data in the Classroom" where students can make real world connections with real data related to El Nino, sea level, and water quality.

This site is an excellent weather website with resource collections divided into the following areas: ocean and coasts, climate, weather and atmosphere, marine life (sea turtles), freshwater (water cycle), and special topics. There data visualizations for weather events, lots of maps and charts for middle/high school students to analyze weather events, water cycle lessons, and a section with activities for teachers to bring real world data into the classroom.

I love the visual approach to this website! This could be a great starting point for students to use to experience primary sources. The interactive activities let you use documents to create posters and movies. The pathways option lets you solve the paths that are created and also to create your own paths to share. Students would really love this kind of research!

This site include LOTS of photographs and documents from historical events. They are described briefly and organized by tags. Interesting organizational format could teach not only about historical events, but also about the value of how good tags work. Visitors to the site are challenged to make their own "pathway" through the pictures and documents. Visitors can also make posters and movies with the content they find.

This site has different links for all age groups including safety tips, a day in the life of an agent and FBI history. This site could be used in conjunction with literature where students could compare the day in the life of a real FBI agent compared to a fictional agent in a novel. It could also be used with the study of government.

This is a very kid friendly site. There are nonfiction articles on this site that are very engaging. The nonfiction articles that are available are great for monitoring comprehension because of the high interest level. This site provides education and information for kids of all ages.

Wow! This site has a wealth of sources for the science teacher looking for great science projects, cool things to do with kids in agriculture, and podcasting of neat experiments. There is even something for the counselors helping students that want a career in the sciences.

This is a site for science as it relates to agriculture. It has experiments and activities. There are videos and slide shows to watch on a variety of topics. If you are studying careers, there is a section on science jobs related to agriculture. There are also links to various ag related sites.

This site is a great site for kids and teachers to go to! It is a site that focuses on the House of Representatives. Teachers and students can become more aware of its Members and their responsibilities while exploring. Some common questions that can be answered are: What is Congress? How are laws made? This site is available by age group. Each age group has a different level of understanding and new terminology to be learned.

This is a kind of database of author interviews that would be awesome to share during an author study unit.

Thanks for the heads up on this great site. I found lots of good reading info I plan to share with primary teachers and parents.

This site gives a lesson plan on why we explore. This lesson plan is geared toward the study of space, but I feel it could be adapted to the study of explorers in history. Great activity and very engaging for students. Many of the literacies are covered in this lesson plan.

Great site to build skills in math. This tool is easy to access and have kids use. It is easy to show skills such as probability and graphing.

National Center for Education Statistics Dare to Compare allows students to check what they know about subjects (social studies, math, science) compared with other US and international students from a 600+ question database. The "Create A Graph" page is a useful interactive tool for teaching ways to communicate statistics.