Middle School Links

Learning Games :

1. Arcademic Skill Builders
2. Fun Brain
3. Fun School
4. Fun 4 the Brain
5. Play Kids Games.com
6. Sheppard Software
7. SpaceTime Arcade

ILA:

1. Wordle
2. Writing an acrostic poem

Math:

1. A+ Math
2. Batter's Up Baseball
3. Fun 4 the Brain
4. Math Playground
5. Multiplication.com games
6. Soduko
7. SpaceTime Arcade
8. Virtual Manipulatives

Science:

1. Arty the Astronaut
2. Build a Circuit Game
3. BrainPop
4. Kids Do Ecology
5. Invention Playhouse
6. Food: NutrionData.com
7. Food: USDA
8. Lemelson Center: for the study of Invention and Innovation
9. NASA.gov
10. Rainforest Links for Kids
11. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Social Studies:

1. Ben's Guide to the US Government
2. Colonial Kids
3. National Geographic for Kids
4. Life in the Pennsylvania Colony
5. Vote Smart
6. White House for Kids
7. Oregon Trail Sites:

• Maps Site
• Maps Site 2
• American West
• The Oregon Trail

Current Events:

1. Dogo News: News for kids, written by kids
2. Junior Scholastic News (grades 6-8)
3. Newseum Frontpage News - all News Papers
4. NY Times Learning
5. Scholastic News
6. Student Connections: The New York Times
7. Time for Kids

Other

Photography/Art:

• Ansel Adams
• Grant Wood: American Gothic
• American Gothic: Transformed Examples
• Mona Lisa: Transformed Examples
• Grounds for Sculpture
• Great site to find photographs: www.boston.com/bigpicture
• More great photographs: National Geographic

Poetry:

• Poets.org
• Charles Erskine Scott Wood
• Max Eastman

Typing:

1. Dance Mat Typing
2. Growing with Technology
3. http://www.keybr.com/
4. Keyboard Playground
5. Nimble Fingers
6. Power Typing
7. Sense-Lang.org Typing Lessons and Games
8. Typing Lessons
9. Peter's On-line Typing Course

FREE Typing program to download: Tux Typing

Global Literacy Project:

1. Global Literacy Project
2. US Dept. of State: South Africa
3. One World Africa
4. World Bank Resources South Africa