Internet4classroom 2nd grade skills Links on every topic of curriculum just for 2nd grade http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/FOSS/FOSS.HotLinks.html Links to the Foss Units website http://www.madsci.org/ The mad science network. Ask a real scientist a question, or search the archives http://www.madsci.org/libs/index.html Library of mad science network http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/askanerd.html Ask an earth scientist a question http://www.chias.org/ipsd/2001/index.html Many lesson plans for a project teaching about the water cycle How Far is It? Measure from here to anywhere, and get the latitude and longitude of both places http://www.kidsgames.org/home.phtml?v=29450822&w=255&y=&z=30487088 Tons of fun Mrs. P's Famous Americans Famous Americans, pictures and links to the biographical websites http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal209/wrights.htm The Wright Brothers exhibition Life Skills Great explanations of various life skills, and posters created by children that exemplify these skills (such as responsibility, perseverance, caring, common sense, integrity, etc.) Scholastic's Community Club Scholastic's Community Club has some jobs and the children can read it easily (very easy reader level - 1st grade level) and/or hear it read to them, and there is a short EASY cloze comprehension test afterwards and they can print out a badge showing that they learned about that job. http://www.weatherwizkids.com/becoming.htm Becoming a meteorologist, with great pictures http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm Different careers and jobs and descriptions http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_tch.htm More jobs and descriptions http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/neighborhood/index.html Ben's guide to neighborhood jobs in our community, simplified, or http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/neighborhood/index.html Ben's guide to the same neighborhood jobs with a little more information http://www.hud.gov/kids/people.html What's my job? http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/kidsk5th.htm Would you like to work for the FBI? Doctor Over Time PBS has designed this site to tell how doctor's jobs and skills have changed over time. It is only for your outstanding readers. http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/sciencetech/jobs/index.htm Good site for girls to see what jobs as scientists they can hold! http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/archive/career/index.html NASA careers, needs to be teacher facilitated, but good pictures Smart Quotes Click on the link Smart Quotes to practice putting quotation marks in the right place. http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/howto.htm Written by a teacher, ideas for teaching children all kinds of poetry Magnetic Poetry Online magnetic poetry, and scrambled online magnetic sentences.... http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/scramble2.htm Funny Poems This is a site where you can do magnetic poetry, but you can also hold down the shift key, click and type in your OWN words to make into magnets for your magnetic poetry. Pretty COOL! Game Goo Games in the advanced area teach synonyms, antonyms, alliteration, and rhyming. For synonyms, choose the tooth taker tally, for antonyms, choose tooth taker opposites. For poetry types, choose wizards and pigs poetry pickle. Holidays Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Chanukah, Chinese New Year, Martin Luther King and Black History, Valentine's Day, President's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day Columbus Day Columbus Day information for kids from "Sunnie Bunniezz" Teaching Heart Columbus Day Poem http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/hlinks.html More on Thanksgiving, pilgrims, and native Americans http://www.plimoth.org/ Links from "Plimoth on the Web" http://www.everythingesl.com/downloads/Thanksgiving_story.pdf Thanksgiving story http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/pilgrims.htm Lots of straightforward information about Thanksgiving http://www.usathanksgiving.com/thanksgiving.html Here you will see a very cool movie about the housing of the pilgrims http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/plimoth/index.htm Scholastic's Plimoth site, where students can explore what it was like to be a pilgim or as a Wampanoag.
http://www.new-life.net/thanks01.htm More information on the first Thanksgiving http://www.abcteach.com/Reading/comps/FIRST%20THANKSGIVING.pdf A quiz - how much do you know about Thanksgiving?
http://www.myschoolonline.com/ Thanksgiving information from Mrs. Elliott's second grade, and from Mrs. Pugh's second grade, there is http://www.myschoolonline.com this link http://rats2u.com/thanksgiving/thanksgiving_kids.htm Kid friendly Thanksgiving links and games http://legendsprings.dvusd.org/thanksgiving_resources.htm Links to much information about Thanksgiving Thanksgiving-for-Kids.html Better Homes and Gardens Thanksgiving for Kids http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Thanksgiving/ Links and activities for Thanksgiving Thanksgivingstoriesandpoems.htm Thanksgiving stories and poems http://www.jeannepasero.com/thankskids.html More crafts and activities for kids- Thanksgiving based http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2001/11/111901_thanksgiving.jhtml Thanksgiving background http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/turkey.htm All about turkeys for kids.
http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/mayflower_pattern.pdf Simple pattern of the Mayflower for students to print and construct, and http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/sail_pattern.pdf the sail for the boat. For the interior of a Pilgrim's house, click http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/pilgrimhouse_interior.pdf , thatched roof for the house at http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/thatched_roof.pdf , a chimney and door pattern at http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/door_chimney.pdf and a plain square for the outside of the house at http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/house_pattern2.pdf http://www.janbrett.com/hedgie_as_a_pilgrim.htm Jan Brett pilgrim hedgehog coloring page http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems9.html Thanksgiving songs from CanTeach. Thanksgiving Day Songs and Poems Thanksgiving Day poems by CanTeach http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/puzzles/index.htm Online Thanksgiving Puzzles http://www.kidzone.ws/plants/collection.htm Autumn leaf collection project http://northpole.net/world.htm Short, fun and very easy to read website that lists the important customs for celebrating Christmas around the world. http://www.rcas.org/mb/christmasTrad.html This website has several links to Christmas celebrations and traditions around the world. http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/index.htm Christmas around the world http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm Christmas around the world http://www.californiamall.com/holidaytraditions/ Christmas around the world http://www.aish.com/chanukahbasics/chanukahbasicsdefault/What_is_Chanukah$.asp Chanukah basics http://www.christmas.com/worldview/ Worldwide Christmas traditions http://www.umkc.edu/imc/kwanzaa.htm Kwanzaa traditions http://www.homeschoolzone.com/pp/christmas.htm Christmas crafts Chinese New Year Information Chinese New Year learning activities for kids China for Second Graders Exploring China- a website designed for second graders about China
Martin Luther King Day/Black
History Month: http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/pages/buckman/timeline/kingframe.html This site features a time line designed by young children. It is fairly easy to read, and the pictures created by the children are great http://users.rcn.com/tstrong.massed/Martin.htm Scavenger hunt on Dr. Martin Luther King. Pretty advanced, best for the teacher to click through and interpret for the children to see the pictures and hear the sound files. http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/1.htm Dr. Martin Luther King's life explained in KidPix report form- created by children, easy enough for children to read Mrs. P's Famous Americans- Martin Luther King Mostly pictorial and extremely simple http://www.creativeprocess.net/gp/king.html Three nicely written, informative, short paragraphs about Dr. Martin Luther King, and a picture of him. Beware that it has an order form for items for sale on it, not flashing or pop up, but there all the same. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ This website has sound byte that plays for the children right away, nice to let the students hear his voice http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/mlkfr.htm Sound files of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech in Washington Mrs. Nash's Second Grade MLK Day Activity Page Links to age appropriate Martin Luther King day activities Mrs. P's Famous Americans- Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson's biography, very simple Mrs. P's Famous Americans - African Americans Famous African Americans http://www.edhelper.com/BlackHistory.htm Links to many famous African American biographies Famous Blacks Biographies of Famous African Americans http://www.edhelper.com/BlackHistory.htm Links to biographies of many famous African Americans African American History Kids' links to biographies and information about famous African Americans http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/bio.htm Biography of Faith Ringold http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~rstewart/k2001/Themes/valentine/valentine.htm Friendship Cinquain Here is a PDF file that you can use to teach children to write friendship cinquain poems for Valentine's Day for their classmates! Abraham Lincoln and George Washington: http://www.divy.net/Lincoln.html Easy to read page about Abraham Lincoln http://www.berwickacademy.org/lincoln/timeline.htm Lincoln Timeline: Click on the pictures drawn by kids to get facts about Abraham Lincoln http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/ Abraham Lincoln in celebration of President's Day http://www.bonus.com/bonus/list/PT_hist.html Click on the link for President Lincoln http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html Name that President Play a game to Name That President! http://www.nps.gov/liho/home/home.htm The National Park Service's virtual tour of the Lincoln Home.
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/lesson/k5/k5slide1.html George Washington slide show Mount Vernon.org See Mount Vernon, home of George Washington http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/march/stpat.htm Lots of 2nd grade St. Patrick's Day activities, including a reader's theatre, Irish blessing, riddles, and more! Includes downloadable sorting and graphing activities too. Enchanted Learning's St. Patrick's Day Page St. Patrick's Day activities for children St. Patrick's Day Fun Wacona Elementary School's Wee bit o' Fun Page Billy Bear's Pot o' Gold Pot o' Gold Money math game Alphabet Soup St. Patrick's Day Page The explanation of St. Patrick's day, easy enough for 2nd graders to read http://www.sdmf.k12.wi.us/bf/resources/stpatrick.htm St. Patrick's Day resources- includes a web quest for 2nd graders
History of Memorial Day How Memorial Day became a holiday and what it means http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/worksheets/TCM/pdfs/020524pt.pdf Make a mini-book to learn more about Memorial Day, and a windsock to celebrate. http://www.iditarod.com/index.shtml Pick a musher to begin, and then hit back and read his or her biography. Then read general information, and lastly, watch the video clips. Keep checking the race updates. Try every area of this website but the merchandise area. Take a look too at Jr. Iditarod. 2004 Iditarod Updates Click here for race updates! When you get on the page, click top ten and/or detailed statistics to see where your musher is right now! On this page you can also check the race archives and see how your musher fared in prior years. You may see a picture of your musher at a checkpoint, and information on what he or she is doing. When you find your musher, click on the link by clicking on his/her name. This will bring you to a brief biography and will show you where your musher is on the map. Dogsled.com More coverage of the Iditarod. This is where you can see web cams of the Iditarod as well. Remember, if it is night, you won't see much!
Rainey Pass Photos Photos taken by a bush pilot of the terrain being crossed by mushers in the Iditarod Iditarod Air Force See the pilots that ship the dropped dogs to Nome to wait for their owners to catch up. See what it looks like from the air! The Smith's Interactive Iditarod Unit This website has student activities Dude the Dog and Flat Stanley Dude the Dog pulls Flat Stanley out of the Yenta River, and learn about the weather with Dude at this link: http://www.alaska.net/%7Esleddog/Clouds.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/sleddogs/index.html Learn about Balto and the first race to save lives here. http://members.valley.net/~aarin/checktrail.html Iditarod trail and mileage Weather at each checkpoint CHECK the weather on the Iditarod on this link Scholastic's Iditarod Activities Scholastic's base for the Iditarod activity Ultimate Iditarod This is a website with many easy to understand information about the Iditarod for kids, and "Iditarod for Dummies." Good day by day coverage. Iditarod.com's Teacher and students Great activities and links, follow the trail and see trail notes. Don't forget to click on Zuma's Paw Prints to see the weather and temperature in Alaska, and read Zuma's behind the scene look at what is going on in the race. http://www.iditarod.com/teacher_on_the_trail.html Teacher on the Trail activities http://www.iditarod.com/2002_jr_iditarod.html Check out the Junior Iditarod- a shorter race by kids not much older than you.
http://www.dswriter.com/webcam/webcam.html Web cam of Juneau, Alaska. Wildly beautiful! Musher Interview Read an interview that second graders conducted with a real musher, Danny Seavey, Jr. http://www.aacps.org/aacps/CWES/iditarod.html Things second graders can do to show learning about the Iditarod
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/index.html Ben's Guide to US Government for kids (Great for all aspects, easy) http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/SocialStudies/Landmarks/Landmarks.htm Several great pictures and information about landmarks in our nation (Lincoln Memorial, The Capital Building, The Smithsonian, Washington Monument, War Memorials, and the White House http://travel.discovery.com/convergence/americanicon/ladyliberty/ladyliberty.html Tribute to the Statue of Liberty, many other US landmarks http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/solgallery/solgallery.htm Gallery of Statue of Liberty views http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts.htm Statue of Liberty facts http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/ Liberty Bell http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873872.html Links to some of the US Historic Monuments http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/tour/ The White House tour http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rushmore/ Mount Rushmore and how it was made Connecticut State Monuments: http://www.chs.org/ransom/default.htm Civil War Monuments of Connecticut Foss Science Units: Balance and Motion, Simple Machines; Weather; Plants http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/index.html for most units, and http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/index.html for magnetism and levers and pulleys Balance and Motion, Simple Machines Math Cats Balance Exploration Balance many things virtually with Math Cats Math Cats Virtual Mobile Make a Calder-like mobile online http://www.cedu.niu.edu/scied/student/lessonplans/team_3/rodriguez/rodriguez.htm http://www.sciencecompanion.com/unitorganizer/2003-2004/generic.asp?RequestedLesson=589 http://www.sciencecompanion.com/UnitOrganizer/2002-2003/UnitIntroduction.asp?RequestedLesson=605 http://www.sciencecompanion.com/curriculum/sample_materials.asp http://www.cedu.niu.edu/scied/student/lessonplans/team_3/gonzalez/gonzalez.htm http://instech.tusd.k12.az.us/%7EDesert/Foss/first/science1-balance.html http://www.tapestries.ut-bgsu.utoledo.edu/kit_stuff/Balmot/balmotfirstpage.html Aspire-Simple and Complex Machines Try out some simple machines online http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/ Ed Heads Simple Machines (includes a teacher's guide)
Simple Machines
Made Simpler Online demonstrations of Simple machines and a short quiz Weather General weather links, clouds, weather maps and tools, winter weather, severe weather Alfy's Weather Thematic Unit Page Alfy's page with weather links and water cycle links http://www.scholastic.com/kids/weather/ Scholastic's Interactive Weather Maker. Here kids can change temperature and humidity to create weather. http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/weather_mov.html NASA's cute animated movie about how weather is measured for kids http://www.weatherwizkids.com/index.htm Weather Whiz Kids. Lots of activities regarding weather for the kids. http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/index.html Weather Eye for Cadets (grades 2-8) http://www.weatherandkids.com/thunderstorms.htm Weather and Kids! Tells mostly about safety in various types of weather. Very cute site!
http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/curriculum/weather.html Weather webquest, supposed to be designed for K-2, but it is more advanced, I would judge that 2nd graders can do it. http://www.weatherandkids.com/sky_watching.htm Simple weather information http://nasaexplores.nasa.gov/show_k4_student_sh.php?id=040120153354 Great student printouts of weather instruments.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml Weather modules from the University of Illinois http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/home.rxml Lessons and student projects in weather http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/utahlink/weather/weather_quiz.hts Cool weather quiz Thinkquest Jr. Weather Website Thinkquest Jr. website with weather links and recipes for cooking up some weather!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter/index.htm Winter storms from Scholastic http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/ This page will show snowflakes under the microscope and tells the different types
http://www.snowflakebentley.com/index.htm Click here to see pictures and a
brief biography on Snowflake Bentley, and the actual snowflake images can be
seen on:
www.snowflakebentley.com/snowflakes.htm
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/iwdspg1.html Interactive weather map of the USA, shows all warnings too http://www.sciencegems.com/earth.html Great earth science gems, including real-time maps of wind patterns http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/BaseReflectivity/ NEXRAD radar imagery of USA, interactive. Pretty cool http://www.onesky.umich.edu/site/links/links.html Lots of links to weather sites Wild Weather.com Dan's Wild Weather page for kids
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml Hurricane site that lets you fly through a hurricane! Hurricane Hunters Hurricane hunters website. Fly inside a hurricane Weather World Kids Stuff Lots of weather facts, such as tornado safety and explanation of tornadoes Harcourt School Extreme Weather activities Extreme places and weather records - hottest, coldest, rainiest, etc. www.stormvideo.com A website where you can see videos of storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ Plant mysteries http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/ Plants and our environment How Plants Grow How plants grow from Kidport Plants and Seeds A wonderful compilation of websites about plants and seeds from Westport schools http://pan.tcnj.edu/plant.htm All about plants The Great Plant Escape Try to solve a mystery of the Great Plant Escape, and have fun while learning Life Science Safari Go on a Life Science Safari to learn about plants Kidport's How Plants Grow How plants grow- talks about pollination methods, great pictures Photosynthesis Alien Explorer's explanation of photosynthesis Yahooligans Ask Earl How are plants helpful to our ecosystem? http://www.quia.com/custom/99main.html Plant games (requires flash) EEK! Vegetation Fascination Environmental Education for Kids Vegetation Fascination site, plant facts and fun, wetland plants The Secret Garden Flowers taken with radiography. This is a cool site to get a different view of flowers, seeing through the petals and seeing the veins in the petals and leaves. http://www.cnps.org/kidstuff/pollin.htm Why do plants have flowers, fun activities with plants, good diagram of a flower and its parts BBC Plants Site BBC Nature site- Plants Living Things Franklin Institute's Living Things Unit, plants, life cycles, and more Plant Glossary Enchanted Learning's Plant Glossary http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/index.html Plant classification (advanced) http://www.sd22.bc.ca/hillview/treeid1.html Tree ID, perfect for 4th grade Core Novels: Frog and Toad are Friends, Rain on Kapiti Plains, Keep the Lights Burning, Abby; The Little House http://elephant.discovery.com/conservation/elephants.html Nice website on elephants http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Wildlife_GIFS/menu_Wildlife.html Pictures of all the animals of Africa. Pictures ONLY http://www.wildlifeafrica.co.za/animalbehavior.html African animal information http://wcs.org/7617 Several animal links with brief facts, not all these are from Africa... but... a good site http://wildnetafrica.com/wildlife/inc/library/naomisanimalfacts.html Links to many of the animals of Africa, sounds too! African Wildlife Federation Animal index with MANY Animals of Africa http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/africa/index.html The Kratt brothers tell you about African Animals http://www.cheetahspot.com/ Lots of information about the cheetah. Quite a bit of back and forth to get the information http://www.wildlifeafrica.co.za/scenic.html Scenes of animals on plains of Africa http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-africa/AngGla/index.html Lesson plan all about the savannahs of Africa http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/africa/monhan/ Lesson plan on Kapiti Plain story directly http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-literature/Wright%20homepage/Wright.html Great ideas on cross-curricular ties for Kapiti Plain http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/socst/SECurtis.html More lesson plans http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/storiesfromafrica/index.html Lesson plan on Africa to link to the Kapiti Plain story http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-africa/monhan/index.html Choral reading and lesson plan on Kapiti Plains http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/africa/tamtue/africamap.jpg Print out map of Africa, blackline http://allaboutfrogs.org/froglnd.shtml Frogs for kids Toad and Frog Comparison Great side by side comparison and simple description of the differences between frogs and toads by Longhouse School and Encarta Longhouse School Amphibians and Reptiles Page Amphibians. Good photos of frogs and toads Frogs of New England Thinkquest site that has great pictures and information about frogs we have here in CT and New England http://www.kidskonnect.com/Frogs/Frogs.html Many froggy and soundy links! http://cgee.hamline.edu/frogs/ Educational website about frogs. Need facilitation. http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/index.html All about Frogs! Frog CyberHunt for Kids A scavenger hunt research quiz for your geniuses Frog and Human Skeleton How are our skeleton's the same? Simple comparison of the skeletons of frogs and humans Scholastic's Red Eyed Tree Frog Interactive site with facts about the Red Eyed Tree Frog Frog Egg Hunt National Wildlife Federation's Frog egg hunt- tells you how to find frog's egg Build a Frog Pond Build your own frog pond in your back yard with these plans (an extension) Frog Watch USA Frog watch USA in Connecticut. See a line graph about the frogs in our area. ENature Field guide Field guide to frogs and toads. Great pictures Frog Songs Froggy Songs and Poems from CanTeach
http://www.ais.org/~lsa/ctintro.html Connecticut Lighthouses http://www.lighthouse.cc/newlondonledge/ New London Ledge Light, New London, CT Block Island North Light Block Island North Light website Lighthouse Get Away This site has GREAT pictures of lighthouse, searchable by regions Maine Lights A list of Maine lighthouse links Lighthouses Drawings of lighthouses for students to use as models The following links are about Boston Light, which is the first lighthouse built in America. The first one is from the IPL, and is simple and fairly easy for kids to read by themselves.
http://www.lighthouse.cc/boston/index.html
Lots of information and history of Boston Light,
the first lighthouse in America, and the National Park Service website on Boston
Light (needs to be facilitated by teacher)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/nhl/boston.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/light/
This lists lighthouses alphabetically and
geographically, for ease in locating lighthouses by these two methods
FAQ on New England Lighthouses
A FAQ list of information on New England
Lighthouses. This has great elementary information on why lighthouses were
built, and other questions that the children ask. This site and the next
two are great to use with the students. The next one answers most of the
things the kids want to know about lighthouses, and the one after that show the
very first lighthouse, the pharos!
http://www.didyouknow.cd/lighthouses.htm
and for pharos-
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/pharos.html
Lighthouse Science Make a model of a lighthouse and light it using these plans from Groton Public Schools House Light Lighthouses Online Great Lakes Lighthouses Lighthouses of Lake Erie Point Sur California Lighthouse Point Sur State Historic Park and Lighthouse http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/light/ Internet Public Library Photographic Journey of Lighthouses http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/6178/ Many lighthouse links. Site covers endangered lighthouses. Legendary Lighthouses PBS's site of Legendary Lighthouses in the USA Outback Lighthouses Unbelievable photos of many different types of lighthouses http://www.usalights.com/ Lighthouse Links and locator map for lighthouses in the USA http://users.aol.com/stiffcrust/pharos/ A brief history of Canadian Lighthouses http://www.harbour.com/parkscan/frh/ Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse, Canada http://www.lsgb.co.uk/ Lighthouses of Great Britain http://www.fma.fi/lighthouses/english.html Finnish Lighthouses http://worldlights.com/world/left.shtml World Lighthouses
http://www.libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/librarian.workshop/trans.html Transportation: Journeys into Children's Literature. A very well designed, extensive unit created by a collaborative effort between a second grade teacher and the media specialist
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/18/gk2/changingtown.html
National Geographic and Marco Polo's "Xpeditions" -
your changing town http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/spidhome.htm Spiders of North West Europe. Excellent close-ups of spiders and their spinnerets, the types of webs various spiders spin, and on the page bottom are some links to great close-up shots of the silken web fibers, the spinnerets under electron microscope, and close- ups of the FANGS! http://www.kidskonnect.com/Spiders/SpidersHome.html Home page for countless links to spiders and arthropod websites! SPOOKY but cool. http://members.aol.com/bats4kids/index.htm Primary information on bats http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/bats/index.htm Great site for Pre-school through grade 2 http://www.yahooligans.com/content/animals/mammals/ More bat links for kids http://www.batcon.org/ Bat conservation International website, with great photos of bats http://www.thewildones.org/avocado.html A bat unit from Avocado Elementary http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/elementary/batrpt.htm A bat unit developed by third graders http://www.batsnorthwest.org/ Facts about bats, photos, and more http://arthur.k12.il.us/arthurgs/a2lilelo.htm Links to bat trivia, facts, and more Enchanted Learning's Bird Unit A great deal of information about birds from Enchanted Learning ALFY'S Bird Thematic Unit Many activities and lessons about birds Raptors in the City Wonderful website with information on peregrine falcons nesting on a skyscraper ledge in Ohio, complete with web cams to catch the laying of the eggs, hatching, banding, etc., directly linked to http://www.falconcam.apk.net/ Beaks and Bills Birds have different beaks because they eat different things. Check it out here! http://dep.state.ct.us/burnatr/wildlife/learn.htm Links to birds that are common to or endangered in Connecticut, and fun pages on http://dep.state.ct.us/burnatr/wildlife/learn/kids.htm ENature Guide to birds according to type Longhouse School Bird Species List Longhouse School has a list of birds according to type and sound files. Nicely organized ABC Teach Owl Unit Owl activities Gander Academy's Owl Theme Page Great owl website for students featured by Classroom Connect http://owling.com/Owling.htm North American Owls, pictures and sound files for most of them Sea World's Emperor Penguins See a penguin chick yawn, and watch a movie of penguins ABC Teach Antarctica Thematic Unit Many penguin activities http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/pi/First/kerber/Penguins/PenguinWebquest.htm Fun, easy Penguin webquest Scholastic's Max's Math Adventures Index of Max's Math Adventures with a list of difficulty and subject levels Aunty Math Math Challenges Aunty Math's Math Challenge- new ones all the time Cool Math 4 Kids Math games, various math topics http://www.mathcats.com/explore.html Awesome math java application games. Explore all kinds of topics Count Us In Basic number concepts from Australia http://www.aaamath.com/B/grade2.htm Grade 2 math from aaamath.com http://www.timetoteach.co.uk/ PowerPoint lessons for teaching doubles, near doubles, and adding strategies Kid Klok Interactive website for telling time, and 2 worksheets you can print out to fill out at home and bring with you to the lab to do the activity here: worksheet and worksheet 2 http://www.funbrain.com/ Funbrain! Fun mathematics http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/patterns/buttons/ Math Patterns Funbrain Subtraction Subtraction less than 10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/snapdragon/yesflash/time-1.htm Telling time website for kids http://www.trevor.org/clocks/ Clock Quiz
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