Great Sites for Students

General Information

  • Fact Monster
    Includes an encyclopedia, dictionary, and subject oriented activities needed to enhance your child's learning.
  • National Geographic for Kids
    National Geographic for Kids is an interactive learning experience. It is a great place to learn about people and animals from around the world.
  • Ask Kids
    After ten years of dutifully helping kids answer questions for their homework, learn more about their world, or to just be able to help them answer the eternal "Why?" Ask Kids is a perfect search engine for Middle School Kids.
  • Discovery School
    There are tools to help you study, games to challenge your mind, clip art and learning adventures.
  • Yahooligans
    This web site has a wide variety of resources and helpful information.
  • Home Work Spot
    This site is a portal to the best homework related sites.
  • Internet Public Library for Kids
    When you need links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, or other sites, this is the place to go.

Social Studies

Community Links

Surveys

Translation Programs

  • Babel Fish
    A program that translates several languages for you to use.

Charts and Graphs

  • Create A Graph
    Create a Graph is a site that makes pie, bar and line graphs from data that students input.

Music

Pictures/Images

http://www.flickr.com
http://www.picsearch.com
http://www.corbis.com
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.everystockphoto.com/
http://www.freefoto.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.webshots.com/
http://www.smugmug.com/
http://photobucket.com/
http://www.fotosearch.com/
http://www.fotocommunity.com/

Meap Web Sites

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Reading/Literacy/Language Arts

Science

  • West Michigan Science Challenge
    West Michigan Science Challenge is an opportunity for students and student teams to become involved in creative problem solving in the areas of mathematics, science and engineering.
  • Science Fair Ideas Web Sites
    Science Fair research, ideas, questions, and general information located on the web.

Citations

  • Knight Cite
    An interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.
  • Citation Machine
    Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist in modeling the proper use of information property.

Keyboarding/Computer Technology

  • Typing Test
    With the TypingMaster Online Test you can assess your personal typing skills in minutes for free.
  • Netiquette Rules
    A great set of rules to remember when you are on-line.
  • Searching the Web
    This web sites explains the different types of search engines and how to use them.
  • Monster Mash
    Learn how to upload pictures to create a fun interactive video.

Maps

Clip Art