Web Sites for Grades 5-12

Search Tools-- excellent search sites
Student Email Accounts 
Reference and Encyclopedias
Science
Health, Fitness, Diseases, First Aid
People and Places
News
Reading and Writing
By Students, For Students
Careers
Creating Web Pages
Other Interesting Stuff

Reference and Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online--Includes magazines, newspapers, and more
• ProQuest
• Electric Library
• AllRef.com-Terrific information
• WWW Virtual Library:--By Subject
• The Internet Public Library
• Millions of Museums
• RefDesk-Reference info galore!
• Ask An Expert +
• Ask an Expert.com
• Martindale's Reference Desk
• Argus/U of Mich Subject Oriented
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• The Internet Encyclopedia
• Berit's Best Sites
• CyberHaunts For KIDS
• Electronic School
• OneLook -- 20 Dictionaries
• Discovery Home Page

Science

• Science Projects--Ideas and Information
• Metric conversion table and metric explanations   Convert English Measurements to Metric (and vice versa)--Centimeters, Meters, Grams, Kilograms, Milliliters, Liters, Degrees Celsius, etc.
• Science News for Kids
• Aviation and Flight
• Ocean Studies
• El Niño Research Page
• The Franklin Institute Science Museum
• THE MAD SCIENTIST NETWORK
• Discover the Inventor in You
• ScI-Journal--an online journal publishing students' science research
• The Why Files--science, math and technology behind the headline news.
• National Weather Service
• Weather Wiz Kids
• The Weather Unit--features the Educational Rain Game
• Environmental Education for Kids
• Environmental Education Clearninghouse--thousands of links!
• Forests and Tree Science for Kids and Teachers
• Wolf Studies Project
• Museum of the Horse--Lexington, KY
• CELLS Alive!
• An Interactive Frog Dissection
• Endangered and Threatened Species
• EE Link - Endangered Species
• Virtual TeleGarden--Plant, water, and monitor seedlings via the tender movements of a robot arm.
• Chemistry
• MATHMOL--K-12 Math and Molecules
• WebElements--Chemistry
• Astronomy--Very thorough list of links from ZoomSchool
• Astronomy (FrontierNet) - Astronomy for Kids
• Starchild--Learning Center for Young Astronomers
• Astronomy for Kids
• This Week's Sky at a Glance
• Constellation Quiz
• NATIONAL AIR and SPACE MUSEUM HOMEPAGE
• NASA Quest
• Project Galileo
• The U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology--Study fossils, plus a lot more
• Volcano World
• Spiders -- Arachnology -- Spider Page

Health, Fitness, Disease, First Aid

• Health References
• Medscape
• Healthfinder
• National Institutes of Health
• National Library of Medicine
• Mayo Clinic
• Dr. Koop.com--"The best prescription is knowledge."
• Fitness Links
• Fitness Online
• The Common Cold--Find all the uncommon facts about the common cold
• First Aid Online -- you should know this stuff!

People and Places

• The Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy
• History Central--perhaps the biggest history site on the web
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History
• America's Story--from the Library of Congress
• Presidents of the United States --- Words Spoken by Presidents (audio files)
• Election and Voting Information (from Yakima County)
• Calendars--history and types of world calendars
• Explorers of the World
• The 20th Century - 1900-1999
• History - Primary Source Materials
• U.S. Revolutionary War
• U.S. Civil War
• Geography Learning Site
• Genealogy - Discover Your Family History
• KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15
• National Museum of the American Indian
• World of Benjamin Franklin Teacher resource and interesting kid site
• MY HERO
• Map Viewer
• Great Globe Gallery--Collection of different views of Earth on maps and globes.
• Great Circle Calculator--calculate distance "as the crow flies" between any two points on the globe
• Constitutional Law Center--Lots about the Constitution and Supreme Court
• Welcome To The White House
• U.S. Senate - Home Page
• U.S. House Of Representatives - Home Page
• The Constitutional Rights Foundation lessons on Impeachement
• National Women's History Project
• Women Leaders Online
• First Ladies of the White House
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Eleanor Roosevelt--Famous American Woman
• National Park Service
• Funny Quotes by Famous People
• CIA Factbook--Info about other countries
• Chinese New Year -- CNY for Kids<
• Egypt--Land of the Pharaohs
• New Zealand and Australia
• Shakespeare
• Henry Ford and the Ford Museum
• J. S. Bach (his life and music)
• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Northeastern Washington

News

• USA TODAY--The familiar color-coded news, sports, money, life, and weather
• Newscenter--Links to almost every news source known
• Seattle Times
• News Searching Resources
• News Choice Online Newspaper Network--Search 25+ U.S. newspapers
• The Yakima Herald Republic
• US Olympics Online--|--2002 Olympics Reference
• The New York Times on the Web
• CNN Interactive

Reading and Writing

• A-Word-A-Day Home Page
• Encyclopedia of Mythology, Folklore and Legend
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Children's Writing Resource Center

By Students, For Students

• MidLink Magazine--Middle School publication
• Kids Did This!
• The Kids on the Web
• KidsCom

Other Interesting Stuff...

• Sanford's Art Edventures
• SAT Test Prep Online
• "inQuiry Almanack,"
• Krannert Art Museum
• Joseph Wu's Origami Page--FUN
• Louvre--Art from the Masters
• Free On-line Piano Course
• VidKids

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