Edcouch-Elsa Independent School District
P.O. Box 127 Edcouch, Texas 78538  Ph: 956-262-6000 Fax: 956-262-6032

 

Home of the Mighty Yellow Jackets!

Joe's Top Favorite Website:

www.adifferentplace.org

Everyday Activity #1

www.weather.com

www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/RSE/RSRred/weather.html

www.wxdude.com/activity.html

www.brainpop.com

www.k12science.org/curriculum/weatherproj/

www.earthweek.com

Sample newsletter:  www.earthweek.com/earthweek.pdf

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/earthalert

http://historychannel.com

http://infoplease.com/cgi-bin/dayinhistory?promo=n13

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today

www.biography.com

http://earlyamerica.com

www.wordcentral.com

http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

www.factmonster.com/cgi-bin/analogy

http://www.idiomsite.com/


Everyday Activity #5

www.uselessknowledge.com

www.mathsnet.net/dailyfact.html


Everyday Activity #6

www.howstuffworks.com/question-of-the-day.htm


Everyday Activity #7

www.ucomics.com


Everyday Activity #8

www.uselessknowledge.com

www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html

www.aimsedu.org/puzzle/puzzlelist.html


Everyday Activity #9

http://pictureoftheday.kodak.com/cgi-bin/asCgi.pl?app=potd

www.time.com/time/potw

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/photo/dayinphotos


Current Events

www.nytimes.com/learning

http://learning.turner.com/newsroom/index.html

www.timeforkids.com/TFK/index.html

www.msnbc.com/local/pencilnews

http://ddonline.tomsnyder.com

www.cagle.com/teacher

www.cln.org/themes/current.html

www.awesomelibrary.org/Cassroom/Social_Studies/Current_Events/Current_Events.html

www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson072.shtml

 

Using the Internet for Student Research

www.itrc.ucf.edu/iqr

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/searching/sevensteps.html

www.altavista.com

www.hotbot.com

www.google.com

www.infoseek.com

www.dogpile.com

www.metacrawler.com

http://one2seek.com

www.webcrawler.com

www.yahoo.com

 

Squirrel Hunt:

http://netsquirrel.com


Search Engines for teachers

http://edview.apple.com

www.education-world.com

www.educationplanet.com

www.awesomelibrary.org

 

Kid friendly Search Engines

www.yahooligans.com

http://ajkids.com

www.researchpaper.com/directory.html

http://school.aol.com

www.factmonster.com

http://sunsite.berkley.edu/KidsClick!/

www.bigchalk.com

 

Educational Lists

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

http://susnsite.berkley.edu/InternetIndex/

www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/hotlist.html

www.nwrel.org/sky

www.cochran.com/theodore/beritsbest

www.4kids.org

 

Mailing Lists

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/updates.html

http://surfnetkids.com

www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/index.html

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/sos.html


Using Primary Resources in the Classroom

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/pshome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/civilwar/hinesday.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpeduactivity/port/start.html


Science and Technology Treasure Hunt

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/educators/workshop/discover/treas.html

www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

www.microsoft.com/education/?id=datadig

http://sportingnews.com/baseball/statistics

www.k12science.org/curriculum/musicalplates


Email

www.k12usa.com/login


parent permission forms

http://connections.smsd.org/specialeducation/e-mail.htm

http://connections.smsd.org/specialeducation/permissi1.htm

http://connections.smsd.org/specialeducation/photo.htm


Interactive Coloring Books

www.coloring.com

www.jonra.com/village/cbook.htm

www.weblog2000.com/barneyskidspag/coloring/javacolor/index.htm

http://www.cass.net/~rainiew/sarahbear/bigc2/colorbig.htm

www.coloringpage.org

www.garfield.com/fandg/book


Print then Color

www.kinderart.com/kindercolor/index.html

www.freecoloringpages.com

www.sunnycorner.com/kidzcolor.shtml

http://ivyjoy.com/coloring/coloringlinks.html

http://coloringbookfun.com/index.html


Interactive Online Stories

www.theodoretugboat.com/start

http://users.nac.net/ronzalme/Toby

www.secretsatsea.org

http://www.amazingadventure.com/

www.merpy.com

www.primarygames.com/storybooks/bookshelf.hrm

www.storybrooklane.org/index.jsp

http://story.lg.co.kr/english

http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/101/story.html

http://disney.go.com/disneybooks/index.html

http://disney.go.com/DisneyBooks/new/aladdin/story/al 1.html

www.meddybemps.com/5.1.html

www.berenstainbears.com

 
Books and Authors

 

CyberGuides Grades k-3

www.bookadventure.org

www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html

www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cloudy/cloudytg.htm

www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/kapok/kapoktg.htm

 

 

Sites of favorite children’s books and authors

www.randomhouse.com/seussville

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/arthur

www.berenstainbears.com

www.peterrabbit.co.uk/templates/indexstart.cfm

www.roaddahl.org/index2.htm

www.microsoft.com/kids/msb

www.nickjr.com

www.scholastic.com/harrypotter

 

Review Games

http://aplusmath.com/flashcards/index.html

http://edu4kids.com/math

http://aaamath.com/index.html

http://www.inew.com

www.edu4kids.com/money

www.edu4kids.com/clock

www.funbrain.com/cashreg

www.forbesfield.com/bdf.html

www.funbrain.com/math

www.surfnetkids.com/games/tetris.htm

http://childparenting.about.com/parenting/childparenting

 

Reading and Language Arts

www.edu4kids.com/alpha

www.primarygames.com/reading.htm

www.funbrain.com/grammer

www.eduplace.com/tales

www.funbrain.com

www.kidsdomain.com/games/read2.html

 

Science

www.kidscom.com/orakcGames/Animalgame/index.html

www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/fun.html

www.primarygames.com/science.htm

www.brainpop.com

http://animal.discovery.com/games/games.html

http://www.nwf.org

 

Social Studies

www.ash.udel.edu/ash/challenge/map/index/html

www.primarygames.com/states/start.htm