Art

Arts Connected An interactive site.

National Gallery of Art A virtual tour of the museum.

Health

Nutrition Pyramid This site explains the nutrition pyramid.

Yucky Kids Explores your gross and cool body parts.

Homework Ideas

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper  This site has over 700 links set up based on “homework” categories.

Carroll County Public Library Homework Helper You will need the barcode from your CCPL card to access (for grades 4 - 12).

ILA - Reading

Guys Read This site is designed for reluctant male readers.

Harcourt This site's activites correlates to our reading series.

Read*Write*Think This is a resource site for lessons and activities.

Reading Lady This site is a resource for lessons.

Teachers.net This is a resource site for lessons and printable activities.

ILA - Writing

Kidspired Tales Collaborative project of stories re-written by kids.

Student Showcases A collection of student written stories.

 

Writing with Writers - Poetry Learn poetry writing from the masters.

Mathematics

AAA Math A math site of great math activities

Carroll County Public School Elementary Mathematics Resource Site A collection of math sites

Music

Essentials of Music This site explores eras, composers, and contains a glossary of terms.

New York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Kidzone.

Resources

Amazing Picture Machine This site also offers intriguing sample lesson plans to provide teachers with ideas about how they might effectively use pictures in their own lessons.

Artful Minds Web site offers a variety of resources and tools for future and practicing teachers.

Education World  This site has annotated links to over 500,000 educational appropriate sites.

Field Trips Take a field trip using your classroom computer.

Free On-Line Tools for Teachers  This is a  simple, straightforward, and fairly comprehensive set of links to a wide variety of really useful online tools for K-12 teachers.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Updated regularly, this site features hundreds of educational links categorically organized.

Puzzle Maker Easily creates interactive puzzles in the seven most popular forms: crossword, anagram, word paint, word scramble, word shape match, word search and secret code.

Teaching Made Easier A site with a variety of subjects to assist teachers

Thinkport Website created and maintained by Maryland Public Television.

WhatIs.com  This sites offers a reliable source that will help you make sense of all the technology terms and “tech jargon” you are bombarded with every day.

Science

Baytrippers Travel the Chesapeake Bay without leaving you classroom.

Bill Nye The Science Guy A site that accompanies the PBS series.

NASA's Earth Observatory Provides a rich assortment of satellite imagery.

Social Studies

Baltimore Map An interactive map of Baltimore.

Eyewitness To History A presentation of first hand accounts of pivotal events in history.

Lonely Planet An interactive clickable world map.

Map Machine National Geographic's on-line atlas.

Maryland Maps Maps providing data for Maryland counties.

National Atlas of the United States Users can build and print custom maps