7-12+Educational+Websites

Listed below are some fun, informative and useful websites for education, enjoy!

PDFmyURL This website allows you to create a PDF from any URL and it's very easy to use!! WebTools4U2Use This website hosts a variety of other websites dealing with Web 2.0 topics.

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ReadWriteThink This website provides a wealth of reading information for all grade levels. It includes professional development, lesson plans and activities to enhance reading skills!!======

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National Science Digital Library This is the mother-load!! It's a digital database providing standards-based instructional resources, K-12 lesson plans, digital downloads, streaming video, and 2.0 collaboration tools for math and science, and best of all, it's FREE!====== Howjsay This website is pronunciations strictly in English!! Earthportal For many things scientific and environmental-- check out this website !! Forvo This website will pronounce any word in any language by a native speaker of the language!! French, German, Spanish, English, Hindi (well I don't know someone might need to know something in Hindi?!) Works4Me This website has tips from teachers for teachers. So, when your brain has run dry for something new to do with kids check this out! Google Lit Trips Take your students on a journey through lands far and near found in great works of literature! TeacherTube.com Find educationally appropriate videos for classroom use. It's fun and entertaining; a sure winner with students! Prezi.com Create some jaw-dropping presentations with text, images and video. The basic membership is FREE! Check it out & awe your students! Polleverywhere.com This website allows your students to participate in live educational polls on various topics via their cell phones! Kids LOVE this! [|100 Best Websites.org] This site disseminates the best of the best. [|All Recipes] Ever needed that one special recipe and couldn't find it? Well, not anymore! Find over 40,000 recipes on the site. [|Billboard.com] //Billboard Magazine// has chronicled the world of popular music since 1894. Most of the information is free to users. [|Music Theory. com] Started by a native of Taylorville, IL this site teachers the very beginner to the advanced how to read and play music! [|Calendars]: a guide to locating events for each day of the year. [|Clusty] This meta search engine from Vivisimo uses subcategories to "cluster" results so users can target what they are searching for on the web. [|David Rumsey Map Collection] Over 14,900 maps from eighteenth and nineteenth century North and South America. [|Kathy Schrock's guide for Educators] Find everything and then some on this amazing website (including Puzzlemaker- make your own Cross Words) [|Encyclopedia Mythica] This site has myths, folklore and religion, and includes images! [|eSkeletons Project] View the bones of humans and non-human primates from gorillas to mice! [|Ethnologue] Find all of the world's known, living languages! [|Interstellar Trip Planner] Shoot for the moon! and find out how long it'll take to get there and what you'll see along the way! [|Instrument Encyclopedia] Find common and not-so-common instruments on this site. [|International Children's Boiling Point Project] "The purpose of the project isto discover which factor in the experiment has the greatest influence on the boiling point of water." Your students perform experiments, analyze data, and report it to the site. [|NASA] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has a VERY comprehensive website! [|NGA] The National Galler of Art includes online tours and educational programs. Be sure to check out the Kids link- and create your own art online! [|Xpeditions: National Geographic] This site supports the US National Geography Standards and provides interactive links for kids to explore. [|National Baseball Hall of Fame] Everything you wanted to know about baseball and more! [|Thinkfinity] This site offers a combination of Verizon Literacy Network and MarcoPolo, this is a super website for lesson plans and teaching ideas! [|Math Manipulatives] From Pre-K to grade 12, this website covers numbers & operation, to algebra, geometry, data analysis and probability. [|NYPL] Check out the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery. More than 300,000 digital images! [|Thomas: the Legislative Network] From the Library of Congress, find immediate access to legislative information- even track a bill through Congress! [|Project Gutenberg] Find over 20,000 free books from this website. [|IPL] The Internet Public Library this site includes POTUS (Pres. of the U.S.)information, newspapers from across the world, Literary Criticisms, children's and young adult pages with good, solid resources. [|Journey North] Engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 study, track and share their observations with other students in North America! [|Graphic Organizer] It's time to get organized and this site has an organizer for any task! [|New York Times: Learning Network] This site is a great place for lesson plans, it's updated daily and will even archive for you. [|Virtual Jamestown] Experience Jamestown (the colony founded over 400 years ago) through this digital project. [|Name that Candybar] Need a great way to kick off a lesson about cross-sections? This yummy site is just the one! [|The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project] Explore the many experiments conducted at Rice University using that delicious cream and cake treat- the Twinkie!