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Our new Titanic section is open! It's part of Social Studies > History.

War of 1812 200th anniversary page Our new and very special section about the War of 1812! (The US Congress declared war on Great Britain on 17 June 2012.) Learn about this "forgotten war" that helped form two nations in North America, and sealed the fate of a third. Click here to start the adventure! It's part of Social Studies > History.

Mathematics is getting a major redo to make it easier to use! Should be up soon. Check back later!

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What's This is our ever changing list of recently added sites, plus the occasional oldie. These are not in alphabetical order. Generally, sites get added on the top and eventually get taken off the bottom.

Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave This French cave was only discovered in 1994. It's famous for its paintings of dangerous animals such as cave bears, lions, hyenas, and mammoths, to name a few. Also famous for human footprints, animal bones, and a cave bear skull mounted on a rock. The web page is not as sophisticated as the Lascaux Cave's page but the value of this cave is the same. Going in Ancient History and Archaeology.

ABCYa! (see their logo up top) has three really cool games for K-1 children.* Alphabet Bingo, Sight Word Bingo (Dolch words for K-3), and Number Bingo all have the same thrust - object recognition - same music, same easy talking format, same good result. Fine examples of early learning apps. *They have good games for all ages, just sayin'.

Lily the Wild Cat from ABCYa! (see their logo up top) A new read aloud story for littler kids. Lily wants to be a wild cat, but the adventure is too wild for this kitten and she goes home to mama! Cute and short, with easy words. Use it on a smartboard or a projector for whole class reading.

Rhetological Fallacies from Information is Beautiful. "Errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking" This site breaks down the logical fallacies into six major* and myriad minor categories, to help you learn the exact ways you could be manipulated by a speechmaker or a debater. 100% graphics and nice to look at. The graphic organization of all this data is a sight to behold. (*They are: Appeal to the Mind, Appeal to Emotions, Faulty Deduction, Garbled Cause and Effect, Manipulating Content, and On the Attack. All the ones we know, such as Straw Man and Slippery Slope, are under one or more of these main headings.) Going in Literacy > Speech and Speaking.

From DNA to You - Understanding Genetics This interactive Flash lesson simply explains Mendel's discovery of dominant and recessive traits, using Mendel's peas. For middle grades and up. This was featured in Curriki. Going in Science & Nature > Living Things.

SoftSchools.com Another excellent big site full of online games and printable worksheets for all grades and all subjects, with plenty of lesson plans! If you register you can create your own quizzes, word searches, matching games, and worksheets. This seems to be the coming thing with these sorts of sites. "SoftSchools.com provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated." Going in HomeSchool and in Teachers & Parents.

FSI - Fraud Scene Investigation presents Suitable Investments. Interactive mystery for upper elementary and on up. Get Grandma's life savings back from the scammers of Suitable Investments! "Fighting crime can teach you a lot. No matter how convincing a scam’s sales pitch may sound, there is always something that just doesn’t feel right. Join our hero Kim as she digs out the truth about a million dollar investment scam. Along the way you’ll discover more about companies, stock reports, investments and white collar crime." Going in Math > Money and in Life Skills.

Metric Conversion & Metric System Easy and concise, this site does interactive metric to US conversions for: length, weight (mass), temperature, area, volume/capacity, mileage, energy, force, and power! There are also tables giving equivalent volume, area, mass, and length values. There are explanations of weight vs. mass, and how to do temperature conversions. Excellent reference and help site! Going in Mathematics and in Technology.

MathsZone Interactive Maths Games and Activities. Pretty much covers everything, from addition to pre-algebra. Numbers, shapes, probability, measurement, and investigations. Includes an excellent Telling the Time section with lots of links. A sincere thanks to Mandy Barrow, who maintains and runs this site and others. Going in Mathematics. The Telling the Time section is going in Time.

6 Great Websites With Money Games for Kids <Actually there are 4 games here - Escape from Knab and Bad Credit Hotel have bad links.> Collected and evaluated by the good people over at Educational Freeware (Check them out!) Lots of sites teach counting money and making change - these teach managing money! "A combination of both private and public organizations have created a high quality collection of websites that are fun for kids but also teach important lessons about finances and managing money." You should know by now that if EF likes them they are GOOD. Go have a look! Going in Mathematics > Money.

Tumblebook Library The best overall read-aloud site, with animation, funny voices, and sound effects. Hundreds of stories, puzzles, games, and quizzes, more added constantly. These are actual books found in most school libraries. A subscription site, but it has a 30 day free trial. Well worth the money. Special rates for annual school site subscriptions. This is definitely worth a fundraiser. Great for Elmos or Prometheans!

EdHeads! THE primo kid technology site! Interactive online activities teach about simple machines, stem cells, virtual surgery, weather, CSI, designing cell phone, and tons more recently added. Lesson plans, too!

SillyBooks Here's a site with several animated talking stories, one that has to be read, and two pages of online jigsaw puzzles. Should be useful for anyone looking for more stories and the puzzles are simple. Going in Literacy > Read Alouds and in Early Learning.

Dollar-a-Glass Game from BizKids. A new lemonade stand game that is colorful, fast-paced and gives lots of choices for players. Lets you practice running a small business. Going in Mathematics > Money Math.

Smart Kit School-Safe Puzzle Games "stimulate thinking, logic, and problem solving." Here are oodles of thinking games in several categories. All have music and live action, and no violence. Make sure you understand what you are supposed to do before playing, instructions are at the bottom of each games's start page. Useful to teachers. Have fun! Thanks to Ryan at Smart-Kit for the email. Going in Mathematics.

Students' Homepage and Student Resources Online from School District 91 - Nechako Lakes, British Columbia, Canada. This is without a doubt the largest and greatest collection of educational links on the web. It is amazing what's on here! Like a fractal it goes on and out and out, but you will never get lost. We LOVE this site layout! There are things here for every elementary school subject: ABCs, technology, lit circles, anything we looked for, it's here, both well-known good sites and new discoveries! Go there and see what we mean! We want to praise Mrs. Jill French, who created this wonder and keeps it organized (and thanks for your kind permission to list it here.). Going in Homeschool, Portals, Parents & Teachers, and School Sites. Later, many of the sites listed will be put in our ed categories.

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