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Foundations of US History
Songs, Ads, and more primary sources!
Primary Sources
Zoom In and Box Activity
Fables
Great for 3rd Grade Greece
Primary Source Activity Example
Another Treasure Chest activity
Proteacher Directory Primary Resource Activity List
Lots of information!
Storyline
Great Stories for all ages!
Story Arts
Storytelling ideas for the classroom, links, plans
American Folkltales
index to search by state, also ghost stories, tall tales, Native American and more!

Clipart favorites

edupic.net
William Vann's Site for free educational clipart
picsearch
Great search engine for clipart
GIF Animations
Cute animations! Use menu on left!
Glitter Words
Sparkle Words
EduPic
Free Photos and Pictures for educators
Discovery Education
Clipart Collection
Teacher Files Clip Art
Lots of links
School Clip Art
Princeton Site
Impressive
Phillip Martin Clip Art
Free
Florida ETC
Pics4Learning
Clip Art Guide
Junglewalk

Songs and Poetry for SS

Songs for Teaching Social Studies
Songs for SS and other content areas!
African Chants
Possibly for 5th grade!
Poets.org
A wealth of information!
Civil War Songs and Lyrics
Lyrics on a Civil War Site
Origins of Songs and Folksongs
Great for studying Middle Ages
The State Song
Animaniacs
Poerty Archive
Great for teachers and students, Has a Children's Archive
Songs and Poetry from Around the World
In English and also language of origin
Teachers Mentor
Usin poetry to teach reading ideas
A to Z Kid's Stuff Geography
Chants, songs, and miscellaneous
Library of Congress
Ideas for teaching with poetry and song!
Reading A-Z- Why you should teach poetry!
List of poetry books and a writing program

4th Grade Social Studies

Talking/Animated Atlas
Movie about the expansion of USA
Early America
Videos, game, & more for Revolutionary War
Kid's Commonwealth State Government Site
Capital Life, Fun in VA
America's Story
Meet Amazing Americans!
Liberty! PBS Site
Revolutionary War Site
Civil War for Kids
Timeline, graphs and links created by kids
Achiving Early America
Primary documents, potraits, songs, movies
VS 10 and MORE!
STUDYSTACK
VS 4a and b
STUDYSTACK
New Review
STUDYSTACK
Documents
VS 5 STUDYSTACK
Abolitionists
Great links to learn about very influenial abolitionists
Follow the Drinking Gourd Lyrics
What do they mean?
Intro Civil War
VS 7a STUDYSTACK
Make your own Freedom Quilt!
Learn about the Underground RR
Civil War VS 7
VS 6 and 7 Review STUDYSTACK
People and 20th Century
STUDYSTACK
Five Regions
SOL Review
Va Studies 2nd Quarter Review
Review
Revolution Studystack
Revolutionary War
Indian Language Groups
VA Studies

3rd Grade Social Studies

Columbus Navigation Homepage
History, Navigation, and Landfall of Columbus' voyages
Mali: Ancient Crossroads of Africa
Mali Lesson Plans
SONGS for 3rd
Continents and Oceans
Knucklebones
Rome Game
COMICS!
Classroom Economy/Newingham
All I can say is WOW...great ideas!
Cyberhunt: Economics
Great classroom station activity
Economic Links
Thorough Collection
Technology Integration and more
3rd/Rockingham
3rd Grade Math/Money links
help with Class Economy
Econ Webquest 2nd and 3rd Grades
Cute Idea! May meed tweeking!
Economics/Resources3.7
Games for SOL 3.7
Natural Resources
SS Study Stack
Economics/Resources
SS Study Stack
Economics/Specialization
SS Study Stack
Economics/Choices
SS Study Stack
Make Beliefs Comix
Another Comic Creator
Greece StudyStack
Rome StudyStack
Famous Americans StudyStack
Review
Inventions
Invent Play

Social Studies Sites for all Levels

Eyewitness to History
History Through the eyes of those who lived it.
You be the Historian!
Great for grades 4 and 5

5th Grade Social Studies

Building a Medevil Castle
Info plus print outs to construct your own castle
Mexico for Kids
History, Government, Explore, and Biodiversity
Mayan People
People, places, games, clipart
Mr Donn Aztec Site
Teacher, Myth and legends, and student sections with links
Time Warp Trio
Based on Jon Scieszka's books, lesson plans, games, and links
JLab
Grade 5

Reader's Theater

Teaching Heart Reader's Theater
Links and a collection
Folllow The Drinking Gourd Script
Free Reader's Theater Scripts
Aarron Shepard's site, ages 8-15
Reader's Theater Basics
Scripts and how to make any selection into a script!
Hootie Owl
Free Scripts

Tech Info

Tech4Learning Social Studies Ideas
Frames, lesson plans and storyboards, rubrics and samples of clay animation
Tom Snyder Info
Timeliner Software Curriculum Ideas
Inspiration
Ideas and lesson plans

Other Portals

Math Portal
Very well organized!
Language Arts
Unreal number of links!
Science Portaportal
Organized by grade level
SS Portaportal

Team 2 Favorites

Text to Speech
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
WOW!
BrainPop!
Some movies are free!
Study Stack
Easy to use! Create SOl review games with your own questions!
Wordle
Just plain cool! Poetry?
Make Games
Tween Tribune
Good for Language Arts, new find!
BBC Skillwise
Great resources for the classroom. Games to use.
Shape Collage
Free Download makes jpegs!
Geocaching.com
If you love finding hidden treasure!
FUNBRAIN!
FUNBRAIN

K

RAINFOREST
Rhyme Time Bingo
Rhyming

5th Grade Math

Ordering Number
Up to 8 numbers to sort
Pirate Place Value
Includes decimals
Ordering Number Bricks
BBC
Place Value with Decimals
Uncover the picture!
Comparing Decimals Videos
Handy Link for teachers
Spinner Game
Build the largest decimal
What Decimal is Illustrated? IXL
Try to score 100 points!
Place Value Decimals IXL
Try to score 100 points!
Rounding Decimals IXL
Matches VA State Standards
Place Value Jumble Digits
Good Review!
Decimal (and more)Jeopardy
Cute...answer with <,>, or a number

Grade 3 Math

Place Value to the Thousands
CUTE!
Basketball Shoot Out
Place Value Game

Grade 4 Math

IXL Everything for Math
Super Complete!
Starrmatica Place Value
Good Review, Game is a wee bit touchy!
Cyberchase Perimeter and Area
Perimeter and area
Learn Alberta Perimeter
Perimeter and Area Activity

Reading

Inferencing Games
Fun Practice!

Moviemaking

Animoto
Educator accounts available
One True Media
Muvee
Stupeflix
Vuvox

Grade 2

Indians
Grade 2 Study Stack