Websites of Interest
New web sites and the old sites.
by Karen Boehmer
orNew Web Sites -2/14/10
Primary Games website provides learning opportunities including Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs--contains games, music, characters from the story.
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/cloudywithachanceofmeatballs/
Web sites for fun
The Puzzle Depot--www.puzzledepot.com
The Puzzle Depot is devoted to puzzles, board and logic games, skill contests and trivia as well as related books and software for recreation and K-12 education.
www.freerice.com---fight world hunger
http://comiqs.com--make a comic
http://gizmoz.com---make a comic
http://animoto.com--video
www.factmonster.com-A free reference site for students, teacher, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects.
Wordle:Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. http://www.wordle.net/
Web sites for travel and discovery
Nebraska Online--www.nol.org
Here you can take a tour of the Nebraska State Capital, there is a Nebraska Quick Reference page and much more.
White House for Kids--www.whitehouse.gov/kids
Kids Click! Worlds of Searching--www.worldsofsearching.org
2010 Winter Olympicshttp://www.vancouver2010.com/mascots-games-and-more/
Fine Arts
This is a free music writing website used with the fifth and sixth grade general music students.
http://www.finalemusic.com/NotePad/
The following sites contain music theory, composer information, background information on styles and music to listen to from various composers.
http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm
http://www.musick8.com/rkdojo/rkchart.php-- this is an interactive website pertaining to recorder fingerings/notes.
Web sites for research
World Book online--access link on school home page
Home Access ID= esu1
Password=world
NebraskAccess--http://nebraskaccess.ne.gov
updated password 9/2010-
password--landed4
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park-http://ashfall.unl.edu/ashfallanimals.html
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/
A site by Discovery, it has Yucky Fun & Games, Roach World, Gross & Cool Body, Worm World and more. The Gross & Cool Body section covers everything from Belches and Gast to Spit, Zits, Ear Wax and much more. Its Science and Health!
Bibliography citation formats-
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm
University of Nebraska at Kearney Library
