Hazelwood students can access their H drives from home –https://netstorage.nafcs.k12.in.us

Destiny Library Search Catalog

Destiny Library Search Catalog from home

Reading Lists
HAISLN 2009 Recommended Reading Lists
ATN Book List  - includes Read Alikes (If you like...); Genres; etc.
Guy's Picks

Series and Sequels

What Should I Read Next?
Enter a book you like and the site will analyze the database of real readers' favorite books  to suggest what you could read next.

Cool Sites!

Dr. LeBeau's HomePage

Read Write Think!
Famous Inventions A-Z
Cells Alive
Cell Quiz
Interactive Cell
Packetville
Guinness World Records
Energy Hog
The Fun Works - for careers you never knew existed!
African Life Through Art
American Rhetoric
Truth or Fiction
Fun Paper Airplanes
Puzzlemaker

Back To School Survival Tips

(ask for passwords if needed)

Research Template

Research Topics

Founding Facebook Template

Founding Father Websites

Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary

Research 101
An interactive online tutorial for students wanting an introduction to research skills. The tutorial covers the basics, including how to select a topic and develop research questions, as well as how to select, search for, find, and evaluate information sources.

Next Vista For Learning Free educational videos

Learn360 - ask Mrs. Meyer for the user name and password.

WatchKnow - videos for kids to learn from

Wikimedia Commons, - a database of images, music, and videos that’s available for educational purposes, as long as you attribute their source.

Pics4Learning

Geek Philosopher Photos

Teen Space - Internet Public Library for Teens
Information to help you with life, school, friends, and work. You'll find articles written especially to help you solve problems, links to web sites you can use for homework, and a place to ask questions. There's lots more, too. Explore!

Teenreads.Com: The Book Bag  
Offers reviews and a place where teens can sound off about the books and issues of interest to them.
 

The Diary Project - http://www.diaryproject.com/ The Diary Project is an archive of anonymous journal entries in 24 categories including relationships, body image, and self-esteem. The site’s goal is to encourage communication amongst teens of all cultures and backgrounds, provide peer-to-peer support, stimulate discussion, and generate feedback that can help ease some of the concerns encountered along the way. dMarie Time Capsule - http://dmarie.com/timecap/ Create your own online time capsule.  Enter a date, pick from the top headlines and famous people born, top hits, top TV shows, hot new toys released, and top books released.  When you are finished, print out the page.  It includes extra info like who was president and the prices for bread, gas, stamps, and the minimum wage. Guinness Book of World Records- http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ Web version of the popular record book. Includes a place to submit your own records and record attempts. The Merchants of Cool - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/ The website of the Frontline program on the relationship between marketing professionals -- the creators and sellers of popular culture -- and the teenage market, the hottest demographic in America. The program poses the question of which comes first - the attitude or the desire for the attitude?  Teens drive the economy, but are teens really driving their own interests? Microsoft Terra Server - http://terraserver-usa.com/ Look through cameras placed all over the globe.  Now, find your place on the map!  Zoom in down to your house from a satellite’s point of view. Occupational Outlook Handbook - http://www.bls.gov/oco/ Learn about all the different types of careers and how to get involved in them with this tool from the US Bureau of Labor Services. Snopes.com - http://www.snopes.com The site that examines not only the truth or reality behind urban legends, "but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items." The Straight Dope - http://www.straightdope.com Archive of over 2,000 questions answered in Cecil Adam's Chicago Reader Column. Example: Why do we call it the "bathroom," even when it has no tub? Teen Consumer Scrapbook - http://www.atg.wa.gov/teenconsumer Sponsored by the Washington State Attorney General's Office and written by teens, this consumer guide addresses topics especially of interest to teens -- modeling scams, CD clubs, piercing, sports drinks, tanning, driving laws, scholarship scams, and a host of other relevant concerns and issues. Youth at Work: Real World, Real Rights! - http://www.youth.eeoc.gov/cases.html Read about recent court cases involving teen workers and their rights (sexual harassment, discrimination, etc.).  From the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Youth Noise - http://www.youthnoise.com/ Nonprofit affiliated with Save the Children Federation, provides teens with a forum to express themselves and take action. Includes message boards and more.

Cite Your Source - handout for research projects

Works Cited Made Easy!!!!

NoodleTools

Citation Machine
 

Stories Read Aloud - An AOL service for kids

Story Line Online

Scholastic Online Activities

Starfall

Book Adventure - Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.

Between the Lions

Primary Activities for Interactive Whiteboards

Beantime Stories

The Amazing Adventure Series

Story Plant
Grow your own story from the story plant.

Children's Storybooks Online

Picture Match Interactive

Language Arts Adventures

Online Classroom

Seusseville

My Story Maker

Color Factory - Mixing Colors

I Know That

Sound Match

Learning Games

Spelling Color Words

Brain Exercises

Virtual Keyboard (Music)

Flashcards (Math)

Willy the Watch Dog (Time)

Rainforest Math

Place the State

Learning Planet

Fun School

4Kids.org

Apples4theteacher

U.S. Mint

Sheppard Software

Kids Know It

The Game Closet - Here's where you'll find games and activities to help you explore your health and the human body.

National Geographic Games

Interactive Websites

Internet 4 Classrooms
 

Jeopardy Games

Teaching Gems - Teaching Gems is a site dedicated to providing only the best interactive resources for teaching grades 4 through 9 with an LCD or in the computer lab. These gems are the best simulations, interactives, games, and tutorials on the Internet categorized into subtopics on each page for easy searching.

I Spy

More Scholastic Games

Free Rice

Cyberchase - CYBERCHASE teaches kids that math is everywhere, everyone can be good at it, and it's fun!

Dositey - Math and English games, all ages.

Fun Brain

Gamequarium

Geonet

Nobel Prize Games

Get in the Game

Kid Info

Penn Museum Fun & Games

The Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation

Ed heads

Mr. Nussbaum

Play Game Shows Online

Kid Sites

Brainy Kids

http://www.browsewithme.com/topsites/toddler

An express tour of the solar system
http://www.nineplanets.org/express.html

Some neat photo galleries of planets:
http://www.space.com/planets

Constellations, with a slide show and pictures of sky as is and with lines drawn to ID the constellations
http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/const.html

Constellations, with drawings to look like what it was named fro (also moon, meteor showers, more)
http://stardate.org/nightsky/constellations

Astronomy games
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/games.shtml
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listastronomaf.html

NASA kids club with games
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

The Space Place, also from NASA
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids

About Space Station games including printable book with coloring
http://space.about.com/library/weekly/blgames.htm

Humor, activities to plan w/the kids, space them quotes
http://space.about.com/od/fungamesandhumor/Fun_Games_and_Humor_With_an_Astronomy_and_Space_Twist.htm

Arty the Astronaut site: Games, info
http://www.3pounds.com/artyastro

Yahoo kids, with videos to watch & activities
http://kids.yahoo.com/science

Draw your own constellations (just push the button and it draws a line)
http://www.abc.net.au/children/space/games/skypictures/leo.htm

StarChild, a site with easy and slightly more difficult levels of activities
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
 

An Introduction to Electronic Field Trips - for teachers new to the concept

Electronic Field Trips

Virtual Field Trips

More Virtual Field Trips

Bonsai Virtual Tour

Virtual Cave

The White House

Amazing Amazon

Smithsonian National Zoo

Fermilab Virtual Tour

Discovering Geology Virtual Classroom

The Particle Adventure - the fundamentals of matter and force

Cave of Lascaux

The Sun

Virtual Field Trip of the Slumgullion Earthflow, Hinsdale Country, Colorado

American Treasures of the Library of Congress

Passport to Knowledge

Odyssey in Egypt

Volcano World

More Virtual Field Trips - more links!

Tramline Field Trips -
 

Science Field Trips Aquifer (Gr. 1-4) This trip will open in a 2nd window. Aquifer (Gr. 5-8) This trip will open in a 2nd window. Baking Bread (Gr. 4-6) This field trip offers a convenient way to introduce scientific research to your students. Columbia River (8-12) Deserts (Gr. 5-12) Dinosaurs (Gr. 2-5) Endangered Species Fierce Creatures (Gr. 3-7) Hurricanes (Gr.7-12)   Natural Wonders (all ages)   Oceans Salt Marshes Sharks   Temperate Forest Biome Volcanoes (Gr.2-5) Wildfires (Gr. 6-9) Other Field Trips American Presidency (Gr. 9-12) Author, Author (Gr. 2-6) Big Apple, New York City (tour only) Business Information (tour only) Christmas (3-6) Dark Ages (Gr. 5-8) (tour only) Filmmaking (tour only, Gr. 10+) Iditarod Leonardo da Vinci (tour only) My America (Gr. 4-7) Online Investing (tour only) Poet's Pantry Photography (Gr. 2-5) Pi (Gr. 9-12) Shakespeare (Gr. 9-12) Wonders of the World (7-12) Teacher's Resource Field Trips Forms & Templates Shakespeare for Teachers Teacher's Science Resources Tour

Estuaries

Odyssey, The
Join these trekkers as they travel the globe, reporting on the history and culture of the countries they visit. Includes lessons and activities for teachers.

United States Trek
Taking youth and educators through the history and culture of the United States via the Internet.

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