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 * Interactive: **

[] Mathplayground.com is an interactive website for children that are in elementary school, mainly second through fifth grade. It offers many different mathematical activitys for children to partake in. It has math games, word problems, logic puzzles and math videos. It is a great place for students to go to practice their math skills.

[] Funbrain.com is an interactive website for children in elementary school. It offers many different games, from math to reading and even some that are just for fun. Alongside its interactive games, it also has online books for students to read, such as __Diary of a Wimpy Kid__. This would be a great website to use for a student to sharpen up their math and reading skills while also having a lot of fun.


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[] This website offers many different lesson plans and classroom ideas made by teachers for other teachers. You can choose to search through lesson plans from preschool through higher education as well as in different subjects. I chose to look through some 2nd grade lesson plans and found something for every subject. This is a great website for a teacher to go to when they need some new ideas and lesson plans to use in their classroom.

[] This website offers lesson plans and other helpful tools for teachers from kindergarten though 6th grade. I chose to look at the 2nd grade lesson plans. They have lesson plans in math, reading comprehension, langauge arts, science, music, health, and social studies. This website has basically every subject you could ever need. It is a really helpful place to go because it not only offers lesson plans, but has many other resources for teachers to use in their classroom.


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[] Factmonster.com is an informative website for children. I would say that it is geared more towards children in elementary school. It is somewhat of a seach engine where they can look for anything they need to. It also has different categories to look through so that they can find exactly what they are looking for. This website offers a homework center, so if the students are stuggling with a certin topic, they can find some help on this site.

[] According to their website, kids.gov is “a safe place where kids can create, share and learn.” It has different categories for K-5, 6-8 and educators. In the K-5 drop down menu, if has different subjects such as math, money, science and social studies. When clicking on a certain subject, it takes you to a list of many websites that can help you on the topic. It is a great place to go when you are looking for a good website on one of these specific subjects.

[] Kidsknowit.com is an instructional website that is best suited for children in elementary school. It offers many science and math based websites where students can go to learn more. Some of the topics include animals, biology, astronomy, and geography. It includes historical quotes and facts as well as a featured animal and dinosaur of the day. It is a very informative website for children interested in learning more about sciences.

[] Brainpop.com is an informative website for kids in elementary school. It calls itself an animated education website for kids. Its subjects include science, social studies, english, math and arts. This is a great place to go to get more knowledge on a certain subject if you are stuggling for something. For example, in the english category, you can click on the grammer tab and it will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about grammer

[] This website from NASA called NASA Kids Club, is an information website for children in elementary school. Along with games, it offers many informational videos and articles for the children to read to learn more about space and the space program. This is a great website to go to to learn about space in general and also to learn about specific space missions and the history of NASA.

[] Americaslibrary.gov is presented by the Library of Congress. The site is designed for young people but can be used by anyone to learn. Its main objective is to teach the student about the stories of America’s past. It tells about famous people in America’s history, lets us explore the states and jump back in time. This is a great website to use to teach about the history of the United States of America because it presents the information in an exciting and somewhat interactive way.