Educational+Sites

All Subjects: Research Sites: [|OCC]- This site has ideas, examples, and all officially MYP documentation. [|Google Scholar Search Site] [|National Geographic] [|NOVA Online] [|UEN's Recommended Sites for Photos, Sounds, and Multimedia] [|UEN's Recommended Best Sites For the Classroom] [|Brain Pop] [|Pioneer Library] [|Hippo Campus] - This site contains virtual text books for almost all subject areas. [|Virtual Smithsonian] [|American Museum of Natural History] [|Life] - This site has pictures from Life Magazine. [|Visuwords] - This site is a "graphical dictionary". [|Fact Monster] [|Infoplease] [|Exploring Careers] [|World Wind] - This is site is similar to Google Earth, but it's created by NASA.

Game Sites:
[|Games for the Brain] [|Sheppard Software Brain Games] [|More Brain Games] [|Free Rice]

[|Primary Games]
[|PBS Games] [|Senses Challenge] [|20 Questions] [|Sound Factory] [|A Break in the Road] [|I Know That] [|Brainteaser and Puzzle Games] [|Physics Games] [|Incredibox] - Your students will love this site, but you will only love it if they have headphones!

Arts: Research Sites: [|Color] [|MuseScore] - Students can write their own musical scores.

Game Sites: [|Color]

CTE: Research Sites: [|How Stuff Works] [|Building Big]

Game Sites: [|Discovery Channel Games] [|Interactive Games] [|Demolition City 2] [|Red Remover] [|Fantastic Contraption] [|XRaye] [|Nodes] [|Circuitry] [|Hot Shot Business]

English/Reading: Research Sites: [|Writing Fun] Writing Help

Game Sites: [|Bitesize] [|English Games] [|Word Builder] [|ESL Games for Beginners]

Foreign Languages/ESL: Research Sites:

Game Sites: [|Language Games] [|English Games] [|English Language Teaching]

Math: Research Sites: [|Khan Academy] [|Visual Math] - It offers audio with text support and illustrations on a variety of math topics. [|Show Me] - It walks students, step-by-step, through easy math concepts. [|Math Glossary] [|Multilingual Math Glossary] [|GeoGebra] - GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. [|Fun School Math] - This has great videos and worksheets for your math class. [|Math Open Forum]

Game Sites:

[|Hoodamath] -
[|Bitesize] [|Villany Mission 1] - This game teaches geometry and algebra concepts. [|Villany Mission 2] [|Virtual Manipulative] [|Cool Math Games] [|Fun School Math Games]

PE/Health Research Sites: [|Health Care]

Game Sites: [|Sheppard Software] [|MouthPower] - This site is a game, buy it's also a really good research site for happens to your mouth when you use tobacco and other products. [|Brain Pop]

Science: Research Sites: [|How Stuff Works] [|Science Museums Science Fair] - This site has ideas for student and teacher lab experiments. [|Science Up Close] [|Celestia] - The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions [|Stellarium] - Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer.

Game Sites: [|Sheppard Software]

[|Science Games]

Social Studies: Research Sites: [|CIA World Factbook] [|Picture Showing Exact Locations From Around the World] [|Great American Speeches] [|Holt Online Learning] [|Finding Our Place in the World] [|Nations Illustrated] - This shows pictures of countries that can be used for educational purposes. [|HotPads] - This site allows you to identify cities and neighborhoods on a map, and then lets you choose key demographic data. [|Learning About Congress] [|Information from the 2000 Census] - I'm sure they will update this site when the 2010 Census is complete. [|Awesome History Stories] [|Special English] - This site contains current and past newspaper articles. [|Explore the States] [|Ben's Guide to U.S. Government] [|BeesWax] - This site has brief news clips from around the world. [|The CCC in Utah]- This is a website dedicated to pictures of the Great Depression in Utah which helps it come alive to ESL students and will also help them make connections to the jobs maybe their parents have. You can create a safe environment where students can look at pictures and comment instead of stressing about reading. [|2002 Olympics]- This is a great interactive website about the 2002 Olympics where students can explore and see everything from SLC winning the bid to the outcome of the competitions. Very useful to understand the importance for someone who wasn’t here when it happened.

Game Sites: [|Traveler IQ Challenge] [|Sheppard Software] [|I Like 2 Learn] [|Geography Challenge]