MiddleSchool

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 * 1) [|Internet 4 Classrooms]- Grade level specific activities arranged by subject area and aligned to state standards
 * 2) [|Thousands of free powerpoints]
 * 3) [|Have Fun Teaching -] in development, this site contains places for online educational videos, songs, activities, worksheets, and more.
 * 4) [|Inspiring Middle School Literacy -] These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5–8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic. Each activity addresses a range of specific literacy strategies. All 15 activities promote monitoring comprehension, synthesizing, asking questions, developing vocabulary, connecting prior knowledge to new learning, and developing a topic in writing.
 * 5) [|Lost Lunch Box] - The Lost Lunchbox is the one of internet’s first educational role-playing games (RPG) designed specifically for children in grades 3 –8.
 * 6) [|7-12 Student Interactives]- Science, Health, Technology, Art, Language Arts, Brain Games, Mathematics, Social Studies
 * 7) Art
 * 8) [|Directory of online art resources, links, lesson plans, powerpoints, and more]
 * 9) Business
 * 10) [|Access, Analyze, Act] - PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting created this free online curriculum for finance and economics education, complete with lesson plans, case studies, online video clips, and more
 * 11) Computers
 * 12) [|CyberSmart!] - Free to educators, the CyberSmart! Student Curriculum empowers students to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively. The website has lessons geared toward different grade levels and on a variety of topics related to technology use. There are student worksheets, home discussion pages, activities, and more...all FREE
 * 13) Typing
 * 14) [|Aunt Lee Easy Typing Games]
 * 15) [|Aunt Lee Hard Typing Games]
 * 16) [|Typing Test]
 * 17) [|Typing Bubbles]
 * 18) [|Typing Goalie (demo)]
 * 19) [|Free typing games]
 * 20) [|Typer Shark]
 * 21) English/Language Arts
 * 22) [|Lit to Go] - Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, and even print out the stories and poems to make your own book.
 * 23) [|The Story Starter] - Starter provides 345,935,040 creative ideas for writers of all ages. All of the story starters are randomly generated. The story starters can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun. Now, your students have no reason to say that they can't think of something to write about!
 * 24) [|American Rhetoric] - online bank of famous speeches from politicians, celebrities, etc. Some have just the transcript, but some have recorded audio, like [|these]
 * 25) [|Doc Cop] - Accurate, Fast, Free, Simple Plagiarism Detection
 * 26) Foreign Language
 * 27) [|A directory of hundreds of links, some specific to Spanish, but others that are flexible]
 * 28) [|Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning]- from Michigan State. Lots of cool tools to make use of the internet.
 * 29) History/Social Studies
 * 30) [|A directory of online social studies sites (Geography, History, Economics, US History)]
 * 31) [|American Rhetoric] - online bank of famous speeches from politicians, celebrities, etc. Some have just the transcript, but some have recorded audio, like [|these]
 * 32) [|Free Current Events Lessons] - updated daily
 * 33) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Traveler IQ Challenge] - great way to test knowledge of locations on a map, from world capitals, to state capitals, to famous locations, and more
 * 34) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|CNN Student News] - a 10-minute daily news video targeted for grades K-12, complete with questions, lesson plans and quizzes that correspond with today's news
 * 35) [|Tutorial for creating a timeline in Excel] - Do you or your students find yourself spending hours making timelines to help you study a subject, review for tests, or present student projects? Using a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet to create a timeline can save hours on student and teacher projects and also lets you easily and clearly organize a lot of information.
 * 36) [|World History for Us All] - a powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools.
 * 37) [|Kids in the House] - The Kids in the House Web site is a public service provided by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Our mission is to provide educational and entertaining information about the legislative branch of the United States government to students of all age levels. Topics covered include the role of the U.S. House of Representatives, the legislative process, and House history.
 * 38) Library Skills
 * 39) [|Online games that review library skills]
 * 40) Music
 * 41) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Blank Music Sheets] - customizable time signature, key signature, tablatures, and more.
 * 42) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Good Ear]- Online ear training, including perfect pitch, intervals, chords, and more!
 * 43) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Online Directory of various music websites]
 * 44) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|JamStudio.com] - JamStudio lets everyone be a musician, even if the only thing you can play is your iPod. Be sure to check out the section called "In the Classroom" for some specific information.
 * 45) Math
 * 46) [|Virtual Manipulatives and projector backgrounds] - graph "paper" to project, game backgrounds, virtual manipulatives - all organized by grade level or object type
 * 47) [|Video Tutorials]- on YouTube but categorized by subject within math
 * 48) [|TeacherZone] where teachers can access thousands of 3-5 minute instructional math videos mapped to state standards for grades 3 – 10 (Algebra 1 & Geometry). It's a free resource, and teachers can use the video lessons in their classes, embed as homework help, and share with other teachers, parents, and students.
 * 49) [|AAA Math] - AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.
 * 50) [|Math Way]- put in an equation or problem and it solves it and shows the steps to get there. Kids are going to be using this soon (once one of them finds it and passes it on), so you may as well be aware of it. It has specialized sets of commands and symbols for a variety of courses from Algebra to Geometry to Calculus
 * 51) [|The Futures Channel]- math & science videos, arranged by subject area, with free learning activities to accompany the video
 * 52) [|Math Blackline Masters] -Check out this large collection of Mathematics Blackline Masters. They're all available in pdf or MS Word format. Just download and print what you need.
 * 53) [|Resource Room at Math Central]- Math Central is an Internet service for mathematics students and teachers. The site is maintained by faculty and students in Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics Education at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It became an internet site in September, 1995 and has since earned several awards.
 * 54) [|Math Mayhem]play separate games for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
 * 55) [|Multiflyer]a space video game using math. Probably a little complex for lower elementary.
 * 56) []- includes lesson plans/ideas, printables, and interactive games – all dealing with math (not all multiplication, but mostly)
 * 57) [|Mathflash!]- choose addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, choose the level and the time and play a quick game of online math flashcards
 * 58) [|Kapili math and science sites] - <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">this site has several free educational sites, such as Chem4Kids, Biology4Kids, Geography4Kids, Cosmos4Kids, Physics4Kids, and NumberNut. It is also divided into topics on this page: []
 * 59) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">PE/Health
 * 60) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Lots of sites, sorted by PE, Health and Nutrition]
 * 61) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Science
 * 62) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Periodic Table Videos] - Each element has its own video
 * 63) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|LearningScience.org] - This site contains several interactive web animations and lessons. It is organizes first by major topic (e.g. Physical Science, Life Science, etc.) then by grade level, then by specific content.
 * 64) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Tour the Brain] interactively
 * 65) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Kapili math and science sites] - <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">this site has several free educational sites, such as Chem4Kids, Biology4Kids, Geography4Kids, Cosmos4Kids, Physics4Kids, and NumberNut. It is also divided into topics on this page: []
 * 66) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|The Futures Channel]- math & science videos, arranged by subject area, with free learning activities to accompany the video
 * 67) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|The JASON project] - this website is free and is for 5th-8th grade science classrooms. It has free teachers' editions, standards alignments (for curricular maps), free lesson plans and student assessments. There are included games and videos as well. It was created by National Geographic and contains the following units: Weather, Ecology, Energy and Geology.