Waitsfield Elementary School -- Waitsfield, Vermont

Cool Tools

Language Arts

• Time for Kids: Language Arts

• The Children's Literature Web Guide

• Seussville

  Everything you want to know about Dr. Seuss

• Writing Resources

  Links for parents and teachers to resources for improving writing.

Social Studies

• 50 States for Kids

  Kid-friendly information about the U.S.

• National Geographic for Kids

  National Geographic’s site for young readers is one of One of the best resources for information on the internet about the world, its people, and its wildlife. Read the newest edition of the magazine on-line, check out contests, polls, games and even go on virtual adventures.

• American Treasures

  Cool Site! Divided into three main areas—Memory, Reason, and Imagination—with approximately twenty items in each, this site is exceptionally rich. I

• American Memory

  Mrs. Baker's class is studying about immigration here, but explore the the rest of this cool site.

• South American Study: Every Culture

• South American Study: Atlapedia

• South American Study: South America

• South AMerican Study: Nations Encyclopedia

• South American Study: Food by Country

• South American Study: CIA Fact Book

Science

• Franklin Institute Online

  Explore the online exhibits of the Franklin Institute Science Museum located in Philadelphia

• Windows to the Universe: Geology

  Explore rocks, minerals, fossils, volcanoes, and lots more.

• Bill Nye the Science Guy

  Entertaining science from Bill Nye. Requires Macromedia Shockwave Plug-in to view.

• How Stuff Works

  Spend hours learning how just about everything you can think of actually works.

• Playing With Time

  This exhibit, developed by the Science Museum of Minnesota and Red Hill Studios, allows viewers to observe specific places or events over many different time periods. View a forest, for example, in real time, minutes, hours, days, months, or over the course of a year.

Math

• Math Cats

  Creative, open-ended math explorations

• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

  The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is an NSF supported project that developed a library of interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives and concept tutorials for K-12 math instruction.

• Everyday Math for Parents

  Explore mathematics at home

• Figure This! Math Challenges for Families

  Challenges families or classrooms to solve math and spatial problems. This site is great even for the "non-mathematician." Yes!

• Cool Math

  This site is fully interactive and allows the user to sharpen basic math skills, play math-related games and explore new math concepts.

Other Links

• Crayola

  Art based activities from the crayon folks

• Brain Pop

  Learn all about the world around you, from health, science, arts and music to mathematics, technology and even grammar, by viewing the educational films on this site. Non-subscribers are limited to 30 films per day.