Mr. Featherston's Web Site Picks

Boys and Girls - These web sites have been checked to make sure they are kid-friendly places for you to go. Check the bottom of the page for reminders of a few rules of using the internet at school.

Edheads http://www.kidzone.ws/planets/index.htm http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/ http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/Planetarium/solarsystem/index.html http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769141.html	www.pearsonsuccessnet.com www.agfc.state.ar.us http://www.arkansasdiscoverynetwork.org/kids-quest/
Hampton's Sites Multiflyer Math Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech Another site - Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech	Mrs. Crouch's GT Kids http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/heroes/index.html My Hero.com Shelby Lynn's Cake Shoppe
Washington County Arkansas Website http://www.co.washington.ar.us	http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
Technology Training for LOG-IT (pedometer website)	http://www.rickyspears.com/rulergame/
www.sfsocialstudies.com This site goes along with the lessons in our social studies books.	Unitedstreaming Website for Teachers
www.sbgmath.com This site goes along with the lessons in our new math books.	www.funbrain.com Good math, spelling and reading games.
www.aplusmath.com Flash cards and math games in different formats.	www.starfall.com Stories and games for early readers
www.scholastic.com Games and articles brought to you by Scholastic.	www.edu4kids.com Table of Elements, math drills, upper and lower grade language skills, Presidents and geography.
www.alfy.com Younger and middle elementary-level games	www.eduplace.com/kids/index.html Wacky web tales, Geonet, brain teasers.
www.funschool.com Lots of fun games divided by grade level. Some are skills work, some just for fun!	www.pbskids.org Go here to visit Kratt's Creatures, Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and more.
www.harcourtschool.com This site goes along with the lessons in our science books. Use "lang" for the password.	www.brainpop.com Lots of cool stuff on lots of cool subjects. Please don't watch the movies without permission, because we only get three a day!
www.enchantedlearning.com	www.gdbdp.com/multiflyer Multiplication Practice
* http://www.eduplace.com/kids *	http://www.learning.com/easytech/tic_lessons.htm Spreadsheet Basics - Part of a Spreadsheet
Natural Zoo	Blue Willow by Doris Gates
	Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birth Home (virtual tour)
Martin Luther King Jr. History Channel (speech video)	Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
FunBrain Measurements (Inches)	U. S. Constitution Website

www.nwaonline.net The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas	www.ardemgaz.com Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
www.nwarktimes.com Northwest Arkansas Times	www.abcnews.com
www.cnn.com National headline news from CNN.	www.cbsnews.com
www.usatoday.com
http://www.msnbc.com/news/NIGHTLYTB_Front.asp?a NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
www.weather.com/weather/us/zips/72762.html Local weather with current radar pictures.

www.state.ar.us Home page for the State of Arkansas	www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html Kids page for the Central Intelligence Agency.
www.loc.gov Library of Congress	www.census.gov Check out the Population Clock. Amazing!
www.anythingarkansas.com Sounds like the place for "Anything Arkansas"	www.sosweb.state.ar.us/about_ark.html A great place to look for facts about Arkansas
bensguide.gpo.gov Benjamin Franklin helps kids of all ages find out about our country's government	www.whitehouse.gov/kids Kids' page from the White House

http://marcopolo.worldcom.com	www.nationalgeographic.com
http://www.rockandmineral.dke-guides.com
www.discovery.com A lot of interesting information. Check out live cams and related sites.	www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/index.html The kids page from NASA.
www.illusionworks.com Optical illusions to explore. Explains why they work.	www.seaworld.org This is a good animal research site.
www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm	www.si.edu Smithsonian Institution Home Page
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.html Hundreds of full color photographs taken through a microscope.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/Messier.html Thousands of pictures of the solar system.

Mrs. Caldwell's Classic Critique of Hot New Websites for Educators:
Elementary Pick of the Month: Super Phonics Level 2 http://www.essentialskills.net
http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
http://rubistar.4teachers.org Designs, create, or print rubrics for your class projects or assignments. I give this site a two snap around the word and back review.	http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html Click on the link at the bottom of the screen for "Books to Read". Fantastic pictures and stories for young and older children. Makes me wish I was a kid again. NOT. Some stories are animated and some are not.
http://www.AesopFables.com Students explore international tales.	http://www.math.com/students/practice/arithmeticpractice.htm Students practice basic math facts.
http://www.aaamath.com Math games and basic facts to practice.	http://www.aplusmath.com/ More math games, basic facts, and worksheets.
http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ Extensive list of art museum sites.

Don't give your name or address to anyone or put it on any forms on a web site

If something comes on the screen that you know you should not be looking at, click the "Back" button and tell the teacher immediately

Parents - Students are able to access the internet from their classroom computer as well as in the computer lab under direct supervision by the teacher and computer lab assistant.

Computer Assisted Instruction Policy

www.worldbookonline.com	www.ipl.org
Britannica Encyclopedia	www.encarta.com
TEK-MOM	KID'S SEARCH TOOL
Ivy's Search Engine for Kids
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net (This is a great website)

www.eduweb.com/amazon.html The Amazon Rainforest	mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/index.htm The Evergreen Project
www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html Major Biomes of the World
www.geocities.com/RainForest/3678/gerbang.html Virtual Tours of the Rainforest	www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica Take a Walk in the Rainforest
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http://library.thinkquest.org/11922/habitats/habitats.htm Habitats and Biomes of the World
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