Internet Web Sites for Lincoln Elementary Teachers, Students, and Parents
Name of Site	Internet Address	Content
General Sites
700+ Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them	http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/	The largest juried collection of children’s sites in cyberspace reviewed by children’s librarians. Includes art, literature, animals, history, biography, math, computers, sciences, social sciences.
Spelling, Reading, Language and Literature
Goosebumps	http://place.scholastic.com/goosebumps/index.htm
The Arthur Page	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/arthur	PBS offers games, stories and children’s art
Berenstain Bears	www.berenstainbears.com/	Can send an e-mail to the bears and get a reply. Activities, too
Alice in Wonderland	http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/index.htm
Children’s Stories and Fairy Tales	http://www.childrenstory.com/tales/index.html	Listen to fairy tales read aloud.
Magic School Bus	http://place.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/index.htm
Green Eggs and Ham	http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/greeneggs	Play and learn, make and do; read and write; see and hear; meet and greet; sequencing games; parents and teachers
Clifford the Big Red Dog	http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/index.htm
Annie’s Rhyme Time	http://teacher.scholastic.com/annie/index.asp	For Intermediate grades. Good way to use words in calendar. Site gives a riddle, students find answer that rhymes.
Literature Activities	http://www.mce.k12tn.net/story/story_hour.htm	Activities for these stories: Charlie and Choc. Factory; Choc. Touch, Choc. Fever, Because of Winn Dixie, Stone Fox, Incredible Journey, Shiloh, Old Yeller, Call of Wild, Where Red Fern Grows, The Giver, Harry Potter & Sorcerer’s Stone
Online Stories	http://asp.disney.go.com/DisneyBooks/StorySearchResults.asp	Disney stories
Princess Sleepyhead	http://www.princesssleepyhead.com
Children’s Storybooks Online	http://www.magickeys.com/books/
KidPub Children’s Publishing	http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
Stone Soup	http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html
Bedtime Story	http://www.bedtime-story.com/bedtime-story/indexmain.htm
Candlelight Stories	http://www.candlelightstories.com/
Story Hour	http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
BAB Books	http://www.amtexpo.com/babbooks/
Online Literature Library	http://www.literature.org/
Kid’s Corner Beatrix Potter	http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids.htm
The Adventures of the Real Winnie the Pooh	http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/pooh/winnie.html	Fun facts about the Pooh books
Curious George	http://www.georgeworld.com/	On-line mini adventure
Starfall	http://www.starfall.com	Kinder – 2. Free online phonics building—many phonics interactive activities, segmenting words into syllables, child can listen to stories being read
Dictionary	http://pdictionary.com	Picture dictionary in 5 languages.
Literacy and Language	http://www.manythings.org
Literacy and Language	http://a4esl.org	Activities for ESL
Literacy and Language	http://www.bookpals.net	Students can listen to a variety of different stories being read aloud
Consumable Books	http://www.hubbardscupboard.org	Primary level, downloadable consumable books.
Phonics	http://www.starfall.com	Free online phonics building. Many phonics interactive activities. Story is read aloud to child, segments words into syllables. Good for Kinder – Grade 2
Music Spelling	http://gardenofpraise.com/spell1.htm	Teach spelling rules using music
History and Geography
General History
The History Place	http://historyplace.com	American Revolution, World War I, World War II, Civil War, 20^th Century, Viet Nam, Presidents
Timelines	http://homefreeuk.net	Interactive timelines (Kids move pictures to make timelines. ) Includes Vikings, Ancient Egypt
World History
Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time	http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html	Travel back through time and space to examine the Plague, the times of Shakespeare, the Tower of London, and other aspects of the Renaissance.
German Castles	http://germanworld.com/castles.htm	Beautiful pictures
Castles in Wales	http://www.castlewales.com/home.html	Pictures
Castles in Poland	http://hum.amu.pl/~gmazurek/zpd/zpden.htm	Pictures
Castles in Poland	http://www.poland.net/castles
Great Wall of China	http://www.chinavista.com/beijing/tour.html
Japan for Visitors	http://gojapan.about.com/index.htm	Japanese translator – you type in a word, it translates
Japan Fine Arts	http://www.fix.co.jp/kabuki/kabuki.html	See online theater and Kabuki makeup
Japanese Links	http://www.uni.edu/becker/japanese2.html
Origami	http://www.origami.com	Diagrams and directions for folding origami
Egypt	http://guardians.net/egypt	Mummies, pyramids, hieroglyphs
Egypt	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/nova/pyramid	Take a tour
Seven Wonders of the ancient World	http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
Mayan Archaeology	http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/ma/sites.html
Mayan Kids.com	http://www.mayankids.com	Interactive adventure
Mayan Calendar Zone	http://www.calendarzone.com/	Click on cultural – many links for Mayans
Mayan Game of Chance	http://www.halfmoon.org/bul.html
Maya Astronomy	http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html
Maya Ruins	http://mayaruins.com	Photo tour
Write Your Name in Glyphs	http://www.halfmoon.org/names.html
Mexico for Kids	http://explora.presidencia.gob.mx/index_kids.html
Roman Open Air Museum	http://www.dhm.de/museen/stein/stein_e.html	See a Roman villa, living quarters, tools, art and architecture. 1^st – 3^rd century
Rome	http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/index.shtml	3^rd grade
Rome	http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/index.shtml	3^rd grade
Rome	http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_rome.htm
World History	http://www.mce.k12tn.net/history/historypages.htm	Ancient Egypt; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Middle Ages, Renaissance
World History	http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2history.shtml
MTH Thematic Guides	http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/magicth/guides/index.html
Land Bridge	http://whyfiles.org/061polar/anthro.html
Land Bridge	http://bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11history.shtml
Explorers	http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/OakViewES/harris97-98/america/index.html
Explorers	http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/kids/h3-220-e.html	Alphabetical list of explorers
Vikings	http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/vikings/index.shtml
Vikings	http://cdli.ca/CITE/vikings.htm
Vikings	http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/OakiViewES/harris/97-98/america/exploration/vikings.html	3^rd Grade
Greece	http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/index.shtml	2^nd grade