Island Park Resource Links Page
We developed this page to help teachers, students, and parents access
more information. Click on one of the subjects below and link to some
great educational web sites! If there is a site you feel we should add,
please contact us.
last updated
12/8/11
Math
Houghlin Mifflin Math Expressions
1. Houghlin Mifflin Math Curriculum - lost your homework? Going on vacation? Click here to link to math assignments and materials online
2.
Houghlin Mifflin Student Resources - MI math curriculum student resources including a glossary, manipulatives, and games
3. Houghlin Mifflin Parent Resources - MI math curriculum parent resources including unit overviews, family letters, and math background
Flashcards and Drills
1. Flashcards - Math Playground's flashcard page
2. Math Magician - practice addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication
3. Free Rice - practice you facts while donating rice through the UN World Food Program. Includes facts about math, grammar and vocabulary, languages, and more!
4. Math Baseball - Funbrain.com has a baseball game format to practice facts
5) All Math - flashcards and some tricky math magic squares
Geometry
1. The Geometry Webpage - Sixteen geometry activities apply to a range of skill levels
Fractions and Measurement
1. Measuring Measurement - units of time, capacity, length, weight, and the metric system
2. Shapes and Fractions - fun and visually engaging lessons and games for fractions and shapes
3. Find Grampy - an interactive game to help visualize fractions
4. Other Grampy Games- more games that work with fractions and scales
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Keeping Time
1. Bang On Time - helps student practice telling time
2. Class Clock - tool for teachers to help tell time
Math Worksheets
1. Math Fact Cafe - free math worksheets! Create your own or use pre-made worksheets
Word Problems- Games and Worksheets
1. Math Playground - hundreds of self-checking word problems and games for students in grades 1 to 6
2. ThinkingBlocks.com - model your math problems with the use of comparison blocks
2. Super Teacher Worksheets - free printable word problem worksheets
3. Teachnology Worksheets - multitude of free teacher worksheets focused on word problems
4. SoftSchool.com - generate your own addition and subtraction word problem worksheets
5. Kid Zone Math - grade level story problems by season
6. TLS Books - free printable worksheets for preschool through 5th grades including word problems
More Math Resources
1. The Khan Academy- videos of thousands of lessons... from the basics of simple arithmetic to calculus, chemestry, and more!
2. Ask Dr. Math - weekly challenges and answers to your questions
3. AAA Math - pages of K -8 basic math skills including interactive practice and challenge games
4. A+ Math - visit the game room, homework helper, flashcards, or solve advanced problems
5. Math.com - great site with homework help, practice games, calculators and tools
6. Coolmath 4 Kids - An "amusement park" full of math activities and games
7. Funbrain Kid's Center: Numbers - Over 10 great online games on different math topics
8. Scholastic's Math Maven Mysteries - Solve math mysteries by solving math problems
9. Math Playground - an action-packed site! Practice math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!
10. Mathematic Lessons that are Fun - award winning site with over 20 lessons
11. Interactive Games by Lake Oswego Schools - lots of fun, interactive math games
12. IXL Math- interactive math questions in more than 1,000 topics organized by grade level and standard
13.
Multiplication.com - techniques, tips, games, self-correcting quizes, and videos used by master teachers
14. Soft School.com - lots of games and worksheets organized by grade level. Check it out!
15. Math
Ideas For Science Fair Projects
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Writing
The Writing Process
1. Interactive
Six Trait Writing
2. The 5 Step Writing Process - description of the 5 steps of writing as well as slideshows on writing a paragraph and the traits of good writing
3. Writing Fun - Explains types of text with examples showing text structures, grammatical features and publishing ideas
4. Write Traits - videos and more explaining the Six Traits
Essay Writing
1
. The Five Paragraph Essay - learn how to write essays and writing prompts to help develop your skill
2
. The Essay Map - interactive graphic organizer which helps students develop an outline that includes an introductory statement; main ideas they want to discuss or describe; supporting details; and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas
Cursive Writing and Keyboarding Sites
1. Cursive Writing -
create worksheet to practice cursive writing
2. Keyboarding -
improve your typing skills on BBC Home
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Reading
Houghton Mifflin and More
1. Houghton Mifflin Reading - Connection to our reading curriculum for grade level appropriate activities
2. Houghton Mifflin Spelling Match - practice your grade level spelling words
3. Dr. Suess's Suessville - interactive games and resources relating to Dr. Seuss books.
Letter Sounds and Word Construction
1. Picture Match - an interactive game in which children place words according to their beginning letter or vowel sounds
2. ABC Match - children match pictures with their beginning letters
3. Construct a Word - students generate words by choosing an ending and adding beginning letters or blends
4. Starfall - great site for forming early literacy skills
5. Fun Fonix - a great way to practice letter & sounds and fill in some potential gaps in phonemic understanding
Reading Resources
1. Raz Kids - improve reading comprehension and reading fluency by listening to read-aloud books and reading with vocabulary and pronunciation support. Contact your K-3 classroom teacher for log in information.
2. Helping
All Children To Read Independently - simple things you can do to help children read well
3. Bookhive - a great site to help kids choose a book
4. Book Wink - another great site for finding a book
5. ALA Children's Book Awards - see what books have won awards
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Social Studies
Japan
1. ABC TEACH: Japan - Teacher resources for Japan Unit
2. Mama Lisa's Japan - Children's Songs and Rhymes
3. Japan Through the Eyes of an American - photo gallery and information about schools, food, houses, and more
4. Kids Web Japan - Japanese, geography,history, language, education, sports, government, regions
US Presidents
1. Presidents of the United States - loads of information as well as "Frequently Asked Questions" from Internet Library
2. The White House Pages on the Presidency - all about the Presidents and the history of The White House
3. Presidential Resources - sponsored by New York Life
4. The American Presidency - Presidents, VPs, First Ladies, election results, special essays, and more from Encyclopedia Britannica
5. Portraits of American Presidents - from the American Memory Project
6. American Presidents Life Portraits - Brief Biographies from C-SPAN
The States
1. 50 States - fun facts
about each state
2. 50 States Quiz - quiz yourself!
3. The
US Constitution for Kids - great site for grades 4-7
4. Save
the Bill of Rights! - an interactive game to learn more about
our Bill of Rights
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Explorers
1. Explorers of the Americas - extensive site of the explorers of the Americas and links to other explorers
2. Discoverers Website - Explorers from A to Z
3. Explorer Biographies - by location and alphabetical
4. New Perspectives on the West - Biographical information as well as data on places, events, extra resources and quizes from PBS
Colonial America
1. Colonial Williamsburg - games, activities, and resources about life in colonial America
2. Colonial Kids - learn about life in colonial times
3. Have Fun with History -
a resource for students, educators and all lovers of American History
4. Social Studies for Kids - life in the 13 American colonies compared to life today
5. Houghton Mifflin US History: Early Years - glossary, biographies, word games, interactive maps, and games
4. Jamestown: What did the colonists eat?
5. Recipes from Colonial Williamsburg - recipes as well as links to animals, manners, religion, tools, clothing and more
6. Colonial Resources: Games - from The Paul Revere House
7. Pilgrim Clothing
8. Clothing of the Pilgrims - by age and gender with diagrams
9. More Colonial Sites - learn more about currency, education, food, gardening, government, and more!
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Westward Expansion
General Sites
1. All
About the Oregon Trail - Great site to help out your Oregon Trail
Journal writing project!
2. Lewis and Clark -
Great, interactive site with expedition overview, journal excerpts,
maps, , Native nations, technology and more! Much written in Spanish
and English
3. National Parks Service "Journey of Discovery" - this site includes: The Symposia, Corps of Discovery, and The Journey with more links to come (they are updating their site)
Interactive Games!
1. Go
West with Lewis and Clark Game - interactive game from National
Geographic
More Lewis and Clark Sites
1. Frequently
Asked Questions
2. Timeline
Map - click on the map to see what they discovered and when
3. History,
Maps and Travel information - interactive map with present day
sites included
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Civil War
1. Civil War Links from King County Library System
2. The American Civil War Page - links to useful sites about the American Civil War, award winning site
3. Civil War Women - Sponsored by Duke University
4. Civil War Timeline - Excellent resource including photos. Some graphic battlefield photos (thumbnails) are included
5. Virginia Military Academy Civil War Resources
The Klondike Gold Rush
1. Yukon Indians and the Gold Rush - Klondike Weekly
2. Klondike Gold Rush, The perilous Journey North - University of Washington
3. Klondike! Special Report - Seattle Times
4. Gold Fever: The American Experience - PBS
5. Gold Rush Homepage - Smithsonian Institute National Postal Museum
6. Gold Rush Family Chronicles - Participants of the Klondike Gold Rush
Washington State
1. Denny Party - a brief history of Seattle's founding
2. Denny Party on the Oregon Trail - an account of the Denny journey from Illinois by Dorothea Nordstrand
3. The Denny Party Arrives – by Historian in Residence
4. History Link Timeline Library Events -
7. Denny Party Member Biographical Articles –
8. Seattle’s First White Settlers - an indepth article including photos and a timeline
9.
Pioneer Women of Seattle - an account of the women of the Denny Party contributed by Dorothea Nordstrand
10. Who Settled First? - Historical evidence suggests first white settlement in WA was actually the Collins Family in Tukwila, not the Denny Party in Seattle! (Seattle Times)
11. Experience Washington - official site of Washington State Tourism
12. Access Washington - official site of the Washington State Government
13. Washington State Historical Society - gateway to learning about Washington’s past with resources and more
14. Enchanted Learning: Washington State - facts, map and state symbols
15. 50 States: Washington - facts about Washington State
16. Washington State Maps
17. Washington Apples - facts, recipes, games and activities focused on apples
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Science
Butterflies
1. Butterflies of Washington State - lists of the species of butterflies that can be found in our state with links to information about them
2. Butterfly Life Cycle - all about the life cycle including photos
3. Butterfly Website - the oldest and largest website dedicated to butterflies including clip art, videos, stories and gardening tips
4. The Children's Butterfly Site - coloring pages of the different stages in the lifecycle
5. Enchanted Learning Butterflies - includes a hypertext book "All About Butterflies"
6. Monarch Butterfly - a load of information including life cycle, migration, diet, how to help butterflies, coloring pages and more
7. Monarch Watch - a network of schools helps trach the monarch on its migration
The Moon
1. StarChild Moon Page - a learning center for young astronomers created by NASA
2. Moon's River - from Bill Nye the Science Guy
3. The Moon - history, statistics, animations and view on solarviews
4. Wikipedia and the Moon - tons of information found on Wikipedia
5. NASA information about the Moon - information, images, videos, interactive features (play with Buzz Lightyear!) and more
6. Moon Phases - animated moon phases and explanation
7. Current Moon Phase - see today's moon phase!
8. Earth and Moon Viewer - view the earth and moon live
9. Astronomy for Kids - phases of the moon and other astronomy facts
10. Once in a Blue Moon - all about the Blue Moon!
Space
1. StarChild - a learning center for young astronomers created by NASA
2. Planets - a multimedia tour of the planets and overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of our solar system
3. Auroras:
Paintings in the Sky - self-guided tour to learn more about auroras along with more links
4. Windows To the
Universe - award winning site which covers the earth and space sciences
Flight and Rocketry
1. Forces of Flight - explore the science behind flight
2. Mechanics of Aeronautics - principles of aeronautics including fundementals, history, and more
3. Principles of Flight - an interactive, animated video explaining the principles of flight created by Wonderville
4. Rocket Builder- an interactive game from NASA Kid's Club
5. The Wonder of Flight - learn how things fly and the history of flight (created by Boeing)
6. Kids Astronomy.com - learn about our solar systems, its moons, asteroids, comets and more
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Salmon
1. 5th Grade Salmon Projects - IP, LR, & WM Chinook Salmon Raising Project
2. The Salmon Challenge - an interactive game to help you see how your decisions affect our environment and salmon
3. The Salmon Life Cycle - by Puget Sound Department of Ecology
4. Fish FAQs - the answers to the most frequently asked fish questions here!
5. Chinook Salmon - description, range, and life history
6. Chinook Salmon: Salmon Friendly Seattle - how Seattle is helping the recovery of Chinook Salmon
7. Chum Salmon - description, range, and life history
8. Coho Salmon - description, range, and life history
9. Pink Salmon - description, range, and life history
10. Sockeye Salmon - description, range, and life history
11. The Water Cycle- by Kids Zone
12. Water Cycle in Action - interactive diagram and quiz about the water cycle
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Marine Life of Puget Sound
1. Alaska Fish and Game - species description of marine mammals, fish, shellfish, and more
2. Monterey Bay Animal Guide - natural history, conservation, and cool facts about California sea life
3. Enchanted Learning Marine Life Sites: information including illustration, anatomy, diet, and more
* Sea Anemone
* Crabs
* Hermit Crab
* Clams
* Scallop
* Sea Urchin
* Shrimp
* Sea Otter
* California Sea Lion
* Northern Elephant Seal
* Harbor Seal
* Killer Whale (Orca)
* Gray Whale
4. Make a Tide Pool - interactive game
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Rocks and Minerals
1. Geology for Kids - a database of links under the titles: "what is dirt made out of?", "rock and roll", and "x-ray the earth"
2. Rocks & Minerals - Award winning site sponsored by Kennesaw State Univ. Dept of Education
3
. Rocks for Kids - find out stuff about rocks & minerals and where to go to find out more
4
. Earth's Rock Layers - sponsored by United States Geological Survey
5
. Earth Forces - how our Earth's forces work
6
. Fossils and Rocks - sponsored by United States Geological Survey
7
. Fossils, Rocks, and Time - a study of Earth's rock layers and what they tell us (sponsored by USGS)
8
. The Mineral and Gemstone
Kingdom - complete information about rocks, minerals, and gemstones
9
. Collecting Rocks - sponsored by United States Geological Survey
Reptiles, Fossils, and Dinosaurs
1. The Age Of Reptiles
2. Dinosaur
Digs - check you dinosaur knowledge with these interactive games
3. Mammoth Site
Museum
Sound
1. Sound Waves- learn how music and sound waves work!
2. Sound Exploratorium- explore how sound works with these experiments
More Science Resources
The Recycling Game
Energy Quest - information, games, and more about electricity and energy conservation
Butterflies
Insects
Up Close
Exploratorium "Snacks" - hands-on science activities using common materials covering many subjects including chemistry, electricity, magnetism, sound, and more
The
Why? Files
Science
Fair Resources
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EALRs
Washington
State Learning Standards and Assessments
Office of Superintendent
of Public Instruction (OPSI) Home Page
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