Primary Sources

This is a list of primary sources for the Oregon Trail.

Treaty of Fort Laramie
This is the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The kids can look at the document up close and personal as a picture.

Diaries And Journals OF Narcissa Whitman 1836
This is a diary of Narcissa Whitman and her travels on the Oregon Trail. This is a primary source document because it is a journal of someone who traveled on the trail.

PE/Health and Art/Music Websites

PE/Health
KidsHealth
This is a website that links to internal websites. I like it because there are different sites for parents, and teens. The kids link has many different resources and situations for kids.

Health Kids.gov
This is another part of kids.gov. This website is a government website that has website for kids about health. The topics range from air polution to food safety.

PE Central
This website highlights many programs from around the country. It showcases what people are doing in their gyms across the country.

PedagoNet
This website has daily activities and PE games. It has a list of many games that teachers can use in the gym for their class.

Art/Music

Art at Kids.gov
This is the art part of Kids.gov. The activities on this page focus around the history of the United States.

Crayola Creativity Central
This website is the offical website of the Crayola brand. The site has everything from coloring activites to art and crafts. This website is fun for kids because it is a brand name that most of them know and it is appealing for kids.

Dallas Symphany Orcherstra
This is a fun website for kids that is music based. There are plenty of games for kids to play from music math to pictures of instruments to color.

Sing Along Songs
This is a website full on sing along songs for kids. The songs are broken up by category, a-z list, as well as guess that song.

Science and Math

Science

Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill Nye is a trusted scientist who became popular on tv for his wacky show that taught science. The website includes "did you know" facts and home projects that kids can do.

Kidsites.com
This is a website with tons of kids websites. This page is the science page. These links range from "How Things Work" to "funology". These websites also give many ideas for projects for kids.

Science on Kids.gov
A website list with a governmental emphasis. The emphasis includes websites that deal with agriculture and air quaity. Some of the websites have projects that students can also do at home.

Exploratorium
Exporatorium has a list of some wbsites for kids. This website is interesting because it is sponsered by NPR. The websites are good resources for kids and adults alike.

Math
Everyday Math
This website is full of games that link to the Everyday Math curriculum. The website is broken in to grade level, unit number and lesson number. This is so nice because kids an play games that go with the lesson in the curriculum.

SBGMath
This website is put together by a school district. I like this website because it has math games as well as a section to explain who is on each coin and why.

Cyberchase
Cyberchase is a widely known kids website. The website is good because it is visually attractive to kids and has noises to go along with the games.

Cool Math 4 Kids
Cool Math 4 Kids is a very bright and attractive website for kids. The games are fun for kids and help them learn at the same time.

Social Studies and English Websites

Yahooligans
This is a popular wesite with kids and schools alike. It has categories of pictures, sounds and video. It is also broken into subjects. This is an attractive page to students and parents alike.

Awesome Library
This website is great because it is quick and easy to find information by subject. I would only reccomend this website for older students because of the simplistic nature of it and that it links to long papers not geared towards younger kids.

PrimaryGames.com
This is a website with social studies games. These games range from guess that flag, name that state and name that president. These games are good for extra time fillers and free time games that are learning games.

PBS
PBS is always a good place to go for information. The site has a search tool for all grades and all subjects. This particular page is their social studies page. There is any and everything you could think of from teacher resources to kid places.

KidLit
This website is all about childrens literature. The one feature that I like the most about this website is the area that features childrens poems under poetry. This can help enspire kids to write and read poetry.

Hubbard's Cupboard
This website is very kid friendly and has lots of resources. I liked to the resoures page because I thought the best part of the site was childrens author page. This page links to websites about different authors.

International Children's Digital Library
I use this site again because it is a great resource for both digital books and books in general. The library has a great search engine that can be used for any books on and off the site.

Kidsread.com
This website features series, authors, games and trivia. The best thing I saw about this website is the trivia part. With each activity that is attached to a book they actually show the book cover next to the trivia so the students get the link between the web and the book.

Cyper Safety

NetBullies
NetBullies is a webpage for parents to alert themselves to cyberbullying and how they can stop it. It has a place to find out how to report bullying and also a helpful place for schools to find out how they can stop it. There is also a "for kids and teens" section that will help kids to know how to deal with bullying online.

Internet Super Heros
Internet Super Heros is a fun way for kids to learn about safe Internet yse. They have a specific area for cyberbullying. The section on cyberbullying also inclues flaming and cyber stocking.

Safekids.com's Child's Safty on the Information Highway
This website is a part of the larger Safekids.com which gives out many helpful resources for parents and kids alike. The Child's Safty page has useful information including a page called "Kids Rules for Online Safety" that can be printed and used at home or in the classroom/school.

FBI's K-5th grade Safety Page
This is the FBI's website for safety for kids. The page includes games and a safety area. When you click on the safety link the FBI has entered topics such as Internet safety and child abduction prevention tips. This site is really good because it is totally kid based and fun for kids to use.