Useful Links
8th Grade Skill Builders- Interactive Sites
A great interactive site for teaching 8th grade skills in the areas of Math, Reading & Language Mechanics.
ADJECTIVES - School House Rock Video
"Unpack Your Adjectives" is a great 3-minute cartoon about a young girl and her turtle friend who go camping in the forest. They use adjectives to describe the people, places and things they encounter. This is a great way to help kids to understand adjectives and how they are used.
ADVERBS - School House Rock Video
Lolly Lolly Lolly get your Adverbs Here! In this School House Rock Video you can follow along as a Father, Son and Lolly enrich your language with Adverbs - Indubitably!
Arcademic Math Skillbuilders
THE Place For Educational Games! Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas.
Awesome Library for Kids (Awesome Library Organizes the Web for Children, Teens, and Parents.)
Brain POP (Great motivational academic games for kids.)
Christopher Columbus (Website #1)
Christopher Columbus (Website #2)
CONJUNCTIONS - School House Rock Video
In "Conjunction Junction," a train conductor compares his job hooking up train cars to the use of conjunctions, which hook up phrases and clauses in sentences. It's a brilliant camparison that taught generations the meaning of a complicated concept. And despite the cartoony distractions of a hot-air balloon, campfire meal, and the charms of a duck and a drake, this conductor sticks to his function like a man on a mission.
Connect 4 (Play Connect 4 On-line)
Play Connect 4 on-line. You can play a friend or you can try to beat the computer!
Donor's Choose
DonorsChoose.org is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund.
Earth's Birthday Project (Educating children about the Earth.)
ED Pubs (Free reading resources.)
Enchanted Learning (Fun website for kids!)
Epic!
Thousands of books. Unlimited potential. Inspire a lifetime of reading & discovery with our award-winning digital library.
European Capitols Quiz and Geography Quiz
Learn the countries of Europe and their capitals with this fun and educational map puzzle. Use the free Europe map puzzle as a quiz to test your knowledge of the countries and capitals. The map puzzle helps in learning the location of the countries in Europe and their relation to other countries.
First Grade Skill Builders - Interactive Sites
(A great interactive website for teaching first-grade skills.)
Gamequarium (Outstanding interactive science, social studies, and language arts games.)
Go Noodle
Get Your Kids Moving & Practicing Mindfulness with GoNoodle®. Start Watching Now & Get Access to Hundreds of Videos! Active Learning. Healthy Kids.
Google Classroom Cheat Sheets
Resource to help teachers with Google Classroom Topics
History for Kids
This is a History homework help site for children from 5th grade to 8th grade. It helps middle-school children and teenagers do research for their reports and understand their homework.
Hooda Math
Hooda Math believes in math learning through play. Mr. Edlavitch credits board and card games for his early enjoyment of mathematics. Hooda Math believes free online math games can do the same for students today.
Illinois Facts & History (Great Site!!!)
Illinois State Board of Education
Internet4Classrooms (Website for K-12 lessons and interactive activities.)
JLab Science Games
As a world-class research facility, Jefferson Lab is a valued partner to the local, regional and national education community. Jefferson Lab's long-term commitment to science education continues to focus on strengthening the motivation and preparation of all students in science, math, engineering and technology careers.
Kids Health - Internet Safety
If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place. KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
Kindergarten Literacy and Math
A website for helping Kindergartners with their Math & Literacy skills.
Learning Games for Kids (Pre-School - 8th Grade)
Multiplication Flash Cards
This website uses flashcards to help students learn their multiplication fact for numbers 0-9. You can use your mouse or you can use your number pad on your keyboard.
NOUNS - School House Rock
"A Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing" is an excellent song with accompanying animation of a girl demonstrating her adventures via the four verses in a perfect combination of sounds and images. Once again, "Schoolhouse Rock" has presented an entertaining way to make education fun for children in between the cartoons ABC presented on Saturday mornings during the '70s. Though perhaps a little dated with mentions of The Beatles, The Monkees, Chubby Checker, and that the drugstore record machine is only ten cents, "A Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing" still entertains overall with it's cheerful way of telling us how important it is to learn what nouns are and their usefulness it is to everyday language.
Place the State (U.S. Geography Quiz Game)
Predicates - School House Rock Video
In this School House Rock video, you can follow the Tale of Mr. Morton. Mr. Morton is a very nice man who helps us to understand Predicates. Predicates can be a little confusing, but this video shows you that "Mr. Morton is the SUBJECT of the sentence and what the PREDICATE says....he does!
Prepositions - School House Rock Video
In this School House Rock video, a group of working ants called "The Busy P's" teach about prepositions while on the job.
Pronouns - School House Rock Video
In this School House Rock video, a group of good friends and their unusual pets are able to identify each other by using pronouns instead of using all of their proper names.
Quiz-Tree.com (Kdg. - 5th Grade)
Educational games and quizzes in Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music, and more.
Second Grade Skill Builders-Interactive Sites
This interactive website teaches 2nd grade skills in Math & Language Arts
Site Words for Grades K-2
This site is good for site word practice for students in grades Kdg through 2nd. Have fun!
Take Charge Internet Safety
The Internet can take us to a virtually unlimited number of educational and entertaining places. But not all Internet content is appropriate for every member of the family. From critical tips for protecting personal info online, to a guide to safer surfing and detailed instructions on setting parental controls, here are numerous resources to help you take charge of the Internet in your home!
Teaching Time (Great site for teaching kids to tell time!)
TextTwist (Jr. High and Up) Play Free Online
Use six jumbled letters to build as many words as you can before time runs out.
Thinking Games for Kids (From MENSA)
Great site for on-line games that are fun and really make you think! This is a great way for parents and kids to spend some quality time together while exercising your mind.
Trivia Knowledge
This website covers general trivia information in many different categories. The categories include: Music, Geography, Science, Literature, Movies and Computers.
US Map Quiz - Online Interactive Maps
Learn the states of the United States and their capitals with this fun and educational puzzle game. How fast can you put all of the states in the right places?
Verbs - School House Rock Video
In this School House Rock classic cartoon video, a young boy learns about the grammatical expression of action or state of being by watching and joining a movie about his favorite superhero, Verb!
Watch & Learn Library
User Name: centralcity
Password: flix
Scholastic’s Watch & Learn Library gives you instant access to more than 200 nonfiction videos with real-world footage. Created by the editors of Scholastic News for grades PreK–3, the Watch and Learn Library gives you instant access to video content on engaging science, social studies, SEL, and ELA subjects that you can use to launch new lessons or meaningful discussions.
Web Wise Kids - Internet Safety
Web Wise Kids is about empowering today's youth to make wise choices online. Through state-of–the-art Internet Safety computer games (based on real-life scenarios) as well as Internet Safety tips for kids, teens and parents, Web Wise Kids creates a safer, friendlier internet experience. These, coupled with involvement of community, youth leaders and parents, provides an environment where your child's Internet Safety becomes their first line of defense while navigating through cyberspace.
World Flag Quiz
Take a Flag Quiz to see how well you know your countries.
World Geography Quizzes
This website provides on-line quizzes for World Capitals and Physical Features such as the World's Tallest Mountains, Largest Rivers and the Biggest Lakes. Test your Geography Knowledge here!!!