Extra! Extra!
- A question for the Singers of United Lands? Ask here!
- Your U.S. Congress : Representative \ Senator
Brain Games
Click on the puzzle to go to Brain Games
Earth Day Information
- Earth Day Network
- National Arbor Day Foundation
- Compact fluorescent bulbs and More to consider about them
- Renewable energy and Green Power
- Carbon offsets
Earth Day - Activities
- Measure your Ecological Footprint
- The population of Metro Louisville
- Uncramble the Earth Day words
- Take the Energy IQ quiz
"Global Warming: What We Can Do" Tips
- About.com
- Inconvenient Truth
- Stop Global Warming
- Nature Conservancy
- Seventh Generation
- Weather Channel
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
Student Work
- Fourth Grade Earth Week Tips for Kids Powerpoint presentation
- Fifth Grade Global Warming Tips brochure--Publisher file
Internet Tools
- Yahooligans
- KidsClick!
- Clip art for school projects:
Kids Domain
Classroom ClipArt - Use your Louisville Free Public Library card for many resources
- Fact Monster atlas, almanac, dictionary, or encyclopedia
- The electronic Courier Journal (log-in necessary)
- You've explored Google Earth. Now try Google Moon or Google Mars.
- The CyberGuide Ratings checklist
Judaica and Hebrew
- Begin research with the Jewish Virtual Library
- For Jewish news, information, and activities, explore one of these:
Babganewz
Jewish Funland
Jewish Pathway
Jewish Education and Entertainment
Practice your Hebrew language skills
- with the Middle School students' puzzles
- with Moshe and Leah as you listen and Speak Hebrew
- with Ulpan Alef Interactive, you can work on Hebrew vocabulary
Koko's Kid's Pages
Gorilla Quest
Kindergarten
Add to 10:
1st Grade
United States
- Jigsaw puzzle map -- choose "borders" to make it easier
- Where's Everyone Going? Match game
- Vocabulary Pinball
- Magic Cup Game
2nd - 5th Grade
- NetSmartz
- Kids' Rules for Online Safety
- Online Safety Quiz from SafeKids.com
2nd - 3rd Grade
3rd Grade
US Weather
- Compare City Forecasts
4th Grade
Keyboarding
5th Grade
World Geography
- Lonely Planet -- Destination Guide
- InfoPlease -- - search a country
< 6 - 8 Resources >
Eliahu Earth Week
- The Earth Week Poster with the schedule of week-long activities
- The links with Earth Day information and online activities
Holocaust Remembrance
- The Holocaust: Crimes, heroes, and villains
- Holocaust History Project
- Holocaust Survivors
- Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center
- Holocaust Pictures and Stories - Non-Jewish Holocaust Victims
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Judaic Resources
- The Embassy of Israel
- Jewish Virtual Library of the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise claims to be most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world.
- American Jewish Committee Archives are a treasure of radio and television programs and cartoons
- HaReshima is an award-winning list of Jewish and Israeli sites
- My Jewish Learning is a transdenominational website of Jewish information and education geared toward learners of all ages and Aish describes its site as an exploration of Jewish ideas that have changed the world.
- The Jewish Pathway website has a timeline of Jewish history and some fun activities (click on Kids World, then Activities).
- Find Hebrew verbs
Other Reference Sources on the Internet
- Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
- InfoPlease Almanac has statistical information as well as brief biographies and entries from the Columbia Encyclopedia
- For more basic reference tools and some very useful extras, visit the Internet Public Library Reference page.
Miscellaneous Links
- The electronic Courier-Journal (log-in needed)
- If you have a library card, a world of knowledge is at your fingertips
- through the Louisville Free Public Library. Use LFPL as your gateway to the Kentucky Virtual Library.
- Clip art for school projects can be found at Pics4Learning . . . and find clip art, fonts, and more at CoolArchive
Web Site Evaluation
- CyberGuide Ratings Checklist will help
- Is Wikipedia a reliable source? Here is one man's experience with it.
- Courier-Journal article
- CNN article
< Teacher Resources >
New . . .
- The Virtual Cinema at The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- Teacher resources at E-Chinuch
- Technology Resources for teachers with links to many sites
- Rubistar for rubrics
- Marco Polo search page with links at bottom for partner sites
- ENC Digital Dozen
Holidays
- Jewish Holidays and Festivals on the Net
- Jewish Holidays with aish.com
- Virtual Jerusalem's Jewish Year holidays for educators or kids
Judaica Education sites with ideas, links, and lesson plans
- Jewish Education and Entertainment
Games and activities, inlcuding a Hebrew sign maker. - Celebrate 350
Jewish life in America, 1654-2004 as a timeline and Internet resources for exploring Jewish Am - The Jewish Agency for Israel, Department for Jewish Zionist Education
Explore for resource materials to counter anti-Israel propaganda, educational resources and databases, links to more educational resources, searchable resources for materials on Israel. - Virtual Jerusalem's
Site index is the place to start for information on everything from "Accuweather" for Israeli cities to "Yom Yerushalayim" and a virtual tour of the city. - Shamash-- The Jewish Internet Consoritum
Probably one of the "oldest" Jewish links page on the internet. Search on the homepage or choose "Jewish Resources on the Internet" to browse Judaic topics. - Noah's Multimedia Communications Network
Offers a Guide to Selected Jewish Online Resources that includes lesson plans and activities from all over the Internet 
UAHC Department of Education
Curriculum Resources has curriculum ideas, lesson plans, and other resources- United Jewish Communities Israel Education Resource Center
Offers Curriculum, materials to order, articles and speeches, Israel reading lists, and web resources - The Jewish Virtual Library of the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Claims to be most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world. - The Pedagogic Center of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Has activities and background information on a wide range of topics
More General Education sites: Lesson plans, Resources, Activities
- Science sites and lessons from the National Institutes of Health. Free resources from the Office of Science Education National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for interactive mathematics
- Science and math lesson plans and activities from the Great Lakes Collaborative and University of Kansas UNITE group.
- Proteacher has lesson plans, activities, ideas
- Kindergarten Month to Month has sites just for those students
- Internet for Classrooms has lots of links for curriculum
CAREFUL! You could lose track of time with these...
- Awesome stories - Something here for everyone!
- Read Write Think with great classroom activities
- Edutopia - Education news
< Brain Games >
Exercise your brain and stretch your mind with these games.
Games for all:
- MIKids games
- Hebrew tongue twisters
- Vanity Plate Guessing Game NEW!!
- Where's Everyone Going? NEW!!
- The Asteroid Game from Kids Astronomy
- World's greatest artists game
- Unscramble quotes by famous people
- Guess the planet
- Catch33 game
- Musical Turtle Game
- Magic Cup game
- Multiplication Games -- and lots of them!
- NASA Kids Club Games: choose a level, then a game
- Science of music from the Exploratorium
- Sing along
- Animal jigsaw puzzles from the National Zoo
- Explore Primary Games from the United Kingdom
- Boxcar Blockade seems easy at first . . .
- Netsmartz for Kids has Activities and Games
- Nonsense from Dav Pilkey
- From the Library of Congress, You're the Animator
- Vocabulary Fun has match games, hangman, jumbles, crosswords, and word searches
- Explore all the games and puzzles on this Jewish education and entertainment site
- Work a jigsaw puzzle at Jig Zone
- Explore Orisinal
- The Art Zone from the National Gallery of Art
- BabagaNewz games
Math
- Decimal squares NEW!!
- A Math has math bingo, concentration, and hidden pictures
- Cyberchase games
- Fraction Flags: Design a flag, using fractions
- Use the balance to find the mystery numbers
- A match game that just doesn't quit
- Math Manipulatives has color patterns, geoboard, tangrams, other activities
Patterns
- Make your own pattern with Pattern Blocks
- Complete the pattern
- People patterns
Games especially for . . . Kindergarten--Grade-2
- ABC game NEW!!
- ABC order - choose ABC Order Practice #1 NEW!!
- Vocabulary Pinball NEW!!
- Count Us In -- math and mouse skills
- Find a partner and play the tic-tac-toe shapes game
- Count to 100
- Audio Concentration
- Snakes and Ladders
Games especially for . . . Grades 3-5
- Vocabulary Pinball NEW!!
- Rounding Concentration
- Science News for Kids games
Typing Games