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Spanish...Japanese...German...Portugese...Urdu... Want to Learn another Language? 
Go to Mango Languages for a sample lesson! Or try BBC Languages or LiveMocha World Book Online Login ID: Americas / Password: eagle
Black History
Black Inventors
Capstone Interactive Library
Study Island is a leading provider of web-based state assessment preparation programs and standards based learning programs. Starfall prepares children for school, and continues to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational and reading alternative to other entertainment choices for children. At AR bookfinder students can search for book titles based on authors, topics, or titles of books. Just type what you want to search for in the blank field above and click Go. You will then be able to sort your search results, select book titles to add to your AR BookBag, print a list of your search results, or start a new search. This Web page is designed to assist the student in the development of a research project, an essay, or a symposium paper in the areas of science, mathematics, or technology.
Young Chicago Authors encourages self-expression and literacy through creative writing, performance and publication. YCA provides student-centered, artist-led workshops free to youth ages 13-19 in schools and communities. Our process emphasizes artistic development, mentorship, and creating safe spaces where a young person's life matters. We believe that through their words, young people can promote tolerance and remove barriers to transform their lives and society.
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
Cuffe has an active license to Safari Montage system. You can access Safari via cpsondemandk8.cps.k12.il.us, then choose Cuffe Math & Science and use your CPS username and password to login. Safari Montage can only be accessed at school while on the CPS network. For more information or assistance, please ask Ms. Hicks, your friendly school librarian.
For Tonight's Homework See a tornado, photos of the American West, stories of former slaves—hundreds of resources for tonight's homework. GO >
Students' Classroom Create a graph, solve a math teaser, play a probability game, or take an online quiz in math or science. GO >
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| LITERACY & READING GrammarBlast Have a blast with Grammar Blast! Answer 10 questions and earn up to 100 game points.
www.freerice.com
Test your vocabulary & end world hunger
www.seuessville.com
Hang with The Cat in the Hat!
World Book Online Reference Center
ID & PW: galvisd
Miriam-Webster Online
Visual Dictionary
M-W Spell It!
Welcome to Spell It!, the Scripps National Spelling Bee study site created in cooperation with Merriam-Webster. Spell It! focuses on about 700 words, divided into sections by language of origin.
Word Central
Online dictionary for children and students.
The Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies.
Accelerated Reader
MATHEMATICS
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
- learner.org
- Aunty Math-Dupage Children's Museum
- Cynthia Lanius-Rice University
- Funbrain-Math Arcade
- Math Forum @ Drexel
Everyday Math
Cosmeo
allmath.com
Multiplication games designed to help students learn the times tables. The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. The Math League specializes in math contests, books, and computer software designed to stimulate interest and confidence in mathematics for students from the 4th grade through high school. MathMastery
Offers engaging educational resources for 3rd-8th grade students, teachers and parents, including animated interactive lessons, daily thematic word problems, beat-the-clock math facts games and family activities.
Web Address: http://www.mathmastery.com
Math for Kids: A Medieval Adventure in Problem-Solving
For upper elementary kids to learn how to solve math word problems. All problems have a medieval theme. Kids can even submit their own problems.
Web Address: http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4471
Math.com
This site provides help in a number of mathematics-related subjects, including basic grade-school math, calculus, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics. Practice exercises are automatically graded, plus this free site also features a glossary, calculators, homework tips, math games, and lesson plans for teachers. Games created to help you review your math facts and just have a ton of fun! Purplemath's algebra lessons are written with the student in mind. These lessons emphasize the practicalities rather than the technicalities, demonstrating dependable techniques, warning of likely "trick" questions, and pointing out common mistakes.
Web Address: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/index.htm SCIENCE ID: magnolia2 / PW: rattler
A new Web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14 Kidscomet
Travel through galaxies of online games, space and ufo stuff, earth and animal information, kids news events, and more, all in one stop!
Web Address: http://www.Kidscomet.com/ spaceKids.com
News and entertainment site for kids featuring space and science news stories, interactive games, weekly polls, kids' submissions, images, contests, and more.
Web Address: http://www.spaceKids.com
HowStuffWorks
Ever wanted to know why earthquakes happen? How CD burners work? What the sun is made of? These questions, and a large amount of others related to computers/electronics, automobiles, science, entertainment, and people, are all answered at this award-winning Web site. Simply type a query into the search window or peruse the topics by category. Extras include free newsletters, surveys, and printable versions of all answers. Science Made Simple
Science classes—including the ubiquitous science project—aren't as easy for some to grasp as for others. At Science Made Simple, kids of all ages can get detailed answers to many of science's questions, read current news articles related to science, get ideas on school projects, and take advantage of unit conversion tables. Users can also find out if their school's textbooks pass the test.
Web Address: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/ Amazing Space Consists of web-based educational presentations for young children about space, which were developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Teachers teamed up with scientists and engineers from the institute and staff members from the Office of Public Outreach to develop interactive lessons. All lessons include spectacular photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and many high quality graphics, videos, and animation designed to enhance student understanding and interest. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Ask An Astronomer Provides answers and photos for 200 common questions about astronomy and objects in space. Topics include planets, stars, the solar system, comets, asteroids, galaxies, and the night sky. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration
| | FUN & EDUCATIONAL Kneebouncers is a whole lot of fun. Games and activities to stimulate your baby or toddler. Colorful animated graphics combined with great sound effects, excite and entertain the ittiest of the bittiest. Kneebouncers is also educational.
Sillybooks.net
This site includes wonderfully illustrated stories that include animation, voice reading along with visually highlighted text, puzzles, games, music and more.
Your guide to the best websites for kids
Welcome to 2-Minute Brain Quest. Brain Quest is the smart game where everybody wins. No matter what grade, age, or subject, Brain Quest challenges kids on the stuff they need to know. Lists population, government, military, and economic information for nations recognized by the United States. Web Address: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Funschool offers free online educational elementary games for kids as well as printable activities, coloring and crafts that will help kids learn.
Free Online Flash Games, Videos, Cartoons, Comics, Screen Savers, Wallpaper, Buddy Icons and more!
FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. (math, grammar, science, spell, history)
Growing Free
Links to dozens of educational websites for fun & learning
Fundango
Publishes a weekly ezine for kids full of fun and learning opportunities. Also develops multimedia marketing packages for education companies.
Web Address: http://www.fundango.com
Edu4Kids
An Internet educational resource sponsored by CANITech.
Web Address: http://www.edu4kids.com/
Fact Monster
Fact Monster combines essential reference materials, fun facts and features, and free, individualized homework help.
Web Address: http://www.factmonster.com
Amazing Kids
A nonprofit educational organization dedicated to inspiring and recognizing excellence in children.
Web Address: http://www.amazing-kids.org/
CBC4Kids Educational and fun site for children
CBC4Kids is a powerhouse of fun and learning for kids of all ages. Hundreds of features, frequent updates to entertain and challenge!
Web Address: http://www.cbc4kids.ca/
www.mamamedia.com
Safe place for young kids to create games, write stories and more!
Discovery Kids
Enabling kids to develop ideas for adventures away from the computer,then share stories about their expeditions with other kids on the Web site.
Web Address: http://www.discoverykids.com
TheCase.com for Kids
Features a new mystery every week.
Web Address: http://www.TheCase.com/kids/
KidWorld
An internet site "by kids and for kids" from all over the world --- since 1995
Web Address: http://www.bconnex.net/~kidworld/
Kids on the Web
A collection of all resources found on the Net that are either applicable or of interest to children.
Web Address: http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids.html
Club Penguin
Club Penguin is a safe virtual world for kids to play, interact with friends and have fun letting their imaginations soar.
School.Net
Links to resources, schools & information for parents, teachers & kids.
Web Address: http://k12.school.net/
PBS Kids
Find over 50 games or send us a joke in Fun & Games, create an interactive story or write us a letter in Babble On, or uncover facts and backstage secrets in Did You Know?
Web Address: http://www.pbs.org/kids
www.aslpro.com
Learn American Sign Language with video demos
www.artsonia.com
Online art museum for kids
Above the Influence The Above the Influence ads you see on TV and in magazines are created for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.
HOMEWORK HELP A list of government websites for kids and teens. Topics include art and music, health and science, math, language arts, history and social studies, and researching the government.
Facts and figures about the city MSN Encarta
The free MSN Encarta site features more than 4,500 articles pooled from Microsoft Encarta, the award-winning electronic reference library, and comes with dictionaries, maps, fast facts, interactive quizzes, handy homework tools, and more. Web Address: http://encarta.msn.com/
Refdesk
Since 1995, Refdesk.com, which stands for "reference desk," has served as a one-click springboard to many of the Web's top dictionaries, encyclopedias, calculators, atlases, news headlines, and search engines. The site also includes a handy "homework helper" section that provides help in all subjects to students in every grade. Web Address: http://www.refdesk.com/
FreeTranslation
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Perfect for language studies, this handy Web site automatically converts text from one language into another, such as English to Simplified Chinese or French to English.
Web Address: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Shakespeare Online
This Web site can be filed in the "where was this when I was a kid?" category. On the aptly named Shakespeare Online site, visitors can read every play or poem from the world's most celebrated writer and, more importantly, make some sense of his works with free analysis, Old English language translations, and famous quotes. Web Address: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
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