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<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>4 Kids

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The website 4Kids includes topics from games to sports, and news to e-cards, combined with the latest technology for students to keep them updated on all the current events and modernized information for tecKNOWLEDGEy. The team that created the www.4Kids.org website is made up of educators, writers, artists, technology specialists, and students

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4> ALFY

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Alfy is an amazing interactive website for students, parents, and teachers. It provides a large variety of activities for all subjects.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Arizona Department of Education

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The Arizona's Department of Education website provides information about all Arizona schools, current education news, testing, and much more about education including the Superintendent Tom Horne.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>ATN - Book Lists

openbook.gif ATN - Book Lists is an enormous list of authors, titles, genres, subjects, themes, read alikes, and read alouds. The website provides the opportunity to search for literature for grade level and subject.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Awesome Library

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Awesome Library encompasses 30,000 resources for book, lessons, activities, and articles that deal with EVERY issue and topic in education from pre-school all the way up to college students. There are special links for teachers, kids, teens, parents, librarians, and college students.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Bill Nye, the science guy

Bill Nye.JPG Bill Nye's science-focused TV show is amazingly educational with exceptional science activities. Bill Nye creates ways to teach science in an exciting and educational way.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Booktrusted

bt1sm.gif Booktrusted is all about books! The website provides books for all ages, author information, illustrator information, book organisations, book events, prises, and awards. The website is dedicated to to helping teachers, librarians, and parents to find out about books for young people.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>CIA for kids!

CIA for kids.jpg Central Intelligence Agency website for students describes what the CIA is and what they do. There are games and quizzes set up for children by grade level.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Cheating in the Classroom

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Cheating in the classroom is a PDF/Adobe Acrobat article that discusses a study on cheating in the classroom.

In Education World there is a very helpful article on Cheating in the Classroom: How to Prevent It and How to Handle It If It Happens

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Children's Storybooks Online

boybook.jpg Children's Storybooks Online allows students, teachers, and parents the opportunity to read interactive children's storybooks on the internet. Each story has a cohesive lesson plan to accompany the story. The website provides children's books, rare books, links for grants for books, teacher resources, phonics, puzzles, and an opportunity to publish a book.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Cultural Diversity in the classroom

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The document, "25 Resources to Teach About Peace and Tolerance for Cultural Diversity," by Judie Haynes explains many ways to teach and handle cultural diversity topics. There are lesson plan ideas as well as ideas for the classroom.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Discipline Help

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The Discipline Help website provides discipline ideas at school and at home as well as additional resources to help with discipline.  

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Education Place

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Education Place is a website that provides K–8 resources for teachers, students, and parents which includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention, Professional Development, activities, games, and textbook support.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Education World

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Education World  is a website known as the Educator's Best Friend. It provides many lesson plans, professional development, technology integration, and school issues.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Educational Statistics

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NCES-National Center for Education Statistics is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education and other nations.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Fact Monster

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The Fact Monster provides world news which students can relate to, homework help, as well as numerous facts about anything and everything! This site catches the eyes of students and is very educational.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Fun Lesson Plans

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Ever get tired of the normal boring lesson plans? Well the fun lesson plan website has step-by-step formats with preschool-K themes scheduled for five days of fun and educational activities, games, songs, manners lessons, and crafts.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Gender Gap

gender.JPG This article titled, "An Educator's Guide to Gender Bias Issues," discusses definition of gender bias, information on the technology gender gap and gender bias, as well as ways that teachers and parents can encourage technology in their children.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Get Tech

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The GetTech.org website explains the details of more than 40 professional career paths, such as architecture and psychology. Discover why Math and Science are the building blocks for any career related to technology. You'll find everything you need to be an organizer who gets students excited about technology. Test your tech with a multiple-choice quiz or have fun playing GetTech Games.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Handwriting Printables for Kindergarten

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The handwriting printables are offered on this website to help with writing and each letter is presented in both capital and lower case on the same printable with helpful directional arrows. The letters and numbers are large and the page is printed horizontally.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Handwriting Worksheets and Printables

worksheet.JPG The kindergarten teacher's dream! This Handwriting Worksheet Printables website is remarkably amazing. It provides printable worksheets to download about the alphabet, numbers, colored words, days of the week, and seasonal paper.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Homework Helper

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Through BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper site, students can receive help on a wide variety of subjects. The site is run by the Discovery Channel which is a great educational resource for children. There are also links for lesson plans, teacher stores, custom classroom, teaching tools, and curriculum help.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Kids Reads

Kidsreads is the best place on the web for children to find information about their favorite books, series, and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors, and special features on great books are Kidsreads' specialties. For even more reading excitement, trivia games, word scrambles and awesome contests are available!

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Kindergarten

kindergartener.jpg The ALL Around Kindergarten Site has a million ideas for kindergarten for all subjects. It is an amazing website for kindergarten teachers including assessment, curriculum, center ideas, hand print ideas, recipes, room arrangement ideas, schedules, and themes for any kindergarten teacher.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Kindergarten Rhyme Time

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Kindergarten Rhyme Time provides numerous activities connected with various nursery rhymes. Each activity has a why and how section explaining the activity.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Magic Tree House

"Travel through time and around the world with Jack and Annie!" Magic Tree House

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>MultiCultural Calendar

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This MultiCultural Calendar site has been collecting dates for its cultural calendar since 1994. It includes numerous holidays from many cultures.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>National Education Association

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The National Education Association includes help and links for parents, news on education, as well as special events in education.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>No Child Left Behind

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Brought to you by the U.S. Department of education, this site is dedicated to No Child Left Behind. No Child Left Behind was signed by President George W. Bush on January 8, 2002.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>National PTA

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The National PTA site includes tons of information for parents to help their child succeed in school as well as teacher appreciation, schools of excellence certification, building a successful partnership, national standards, and much more.

<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000099 size=4>Parental Involvement

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Parents, need some help on building family-school partnerships that work? The evidence is in: when schools and families work together to support learning, everyone benefits. Parental involvement is very important in schools.

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Graphics:

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Alfy picture: Alfy.com

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Bill Nye from: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/News/02/21/showbuzz/nye.jpg

CIA for kids: graphic from CIA website

Pencil test: Microsoft Clipart Online

Cultural Diversity graphic from Microsoft Clipart online

Discipline: Microsoft Clipart Online

Education Place: Microsoft Clipart Online

Education Statistics: NCES.ed.gov

Education world: Microsoft Clipart Online

Fun Lesson Plans: Microsoft Clipart Online

Gender Gap: Microsoft Clipart Online

Handwriting Printables for Kindergarten: www.graphicgarden.com

Handwriting worksheets: Microsoft Clipart Online

Homework helper: Microsoft Clipart Online

Kindergarten:

Kindergarten Rhyme Time: Microsoft Clipart Online

NEA: from NEA website

No Child Left Behind: from NCLB website

National PTA: Microsoft Clipart Online

Parent Inlvolement: Moving star from: http://www.thekcrew.net/

Multicultural Calendar: Microsoft Clipart Online


 

Author: Kimberly Dinwiddie
Last modified: 5/5/2006 10:39 PM (EDT)