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PBS

Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train: Station Race

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How fast can you lay the tracks to pick up all the dinosaurs? Help Mr. Conductor stay on schedule by building track from station to station for the Dinosaur Train and the Rocket Train! Pick up passengers along the way and learn about all...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Arithmetic Four

For Students K - 1st Standards
You can challenge a friend to play this game to practice your arithmetic skills. Be ready because any kind of problem can pop up. You can adjust the problems to make them harder and also to give you less time.
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Nolan Bushnell

For Students 9th - 10th
A Utah inventor brought the world new kinds of fun: computer games and family-friendly restaurants with game facilities. His work on electronic entertainment led to a multibillion-dollar industry.
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Multiplication Facts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An extensive collection of teacher resources on the multiplication facts. There are many kinds of worksheets, paper and pencil games, games, and PowerPoint presentations to aide in the teaching of multiplication facts.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Sculpture in the Round Making a Portrait in Clay

For Students 9th - 10th
Artlex discusses two kinds of portraiture, caricatures and realistic portraits, as part of a lesson plan with step-by-step instructions on how to make a bust out of clay. An interesting game, "Who the Heck Is That?," asks the participant...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Design Squad: Power Up!

For Students 2nd - 8th
Engineers work on many different kinds of projects and some even design video games! The coolest part about being an engineer is that they look at normal everyday objects in new and creative ways.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The Peg + Cat on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce early math concepts. In each 11-minute on-air episode of this animated, math-based series for 3-8 year olds, Peg and Cat...
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A&E Television

History.com: Why This Pioneering Hopi Soldier Has a Mountain Named After Her

For Students 9th - 10th
Lori Ann Piestewa was the first woman to die on the front lines in Iraq and the first American Indian woman to die serving the U.S. Armed Forces. Piestewa has became synonymous with patriotic Native American sacrifice. In 2008, a...
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Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Animal Riddles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Who-am-I riddles that have young learners using clues to figure out what kind of animal is being described. "I have wings but I'm not a bird." "I can breathe through a hole in the top of my head." Simple language and colorful...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Wild Park: Subtraction

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Go on safari with Jamal and Jana. Help them with subtracting numbers of all kinds of animals to see in the Wild Park!
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Dirt Detective

For Students 1st - 5th
Archaeologists study artifacts and soil and they use post holes to determine just how old the layers of soil is. Based on the location of post holes, archaeologists can determine if they are finding a house, or a wall or even a fort....
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NASA

Nasa: Space P Lace: Play Migration Concentration!

For Students 3rd - 8th
View a short clip of migrating geese and discover interesting facts about why geese migrate and animated pictures of the different kinds of geese n the USA. Coupled with this great information is an interactive game of concentration that...
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Other

Klasse Wasser

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This very basic site is about water -- all kinds of water: rainwater, drinking water, even toilet water. Includes water-themed games. In German.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Adjective Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This article discusses spicing up your lesson plans for teaching adjectives with adjective worksheets, games, and adjective lists all of which can be located online. It suggests the use of Art and Music in your classroom to provide...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: First to Five

For Students K - 1st
First to Five is a fun dice game for children to practice their addition math facts! Swipe the screen, add the sum of the two dice, and click on the correct sum on the chalkboard as you compete against Snake Eyes the dice tossing robot...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Milk It Dairy Match

For Students K - 1st
Milk It - Dairy Match is a fun matching game for kids. Click on the windows of the barn to reveal the friendly cows and match two of the same kind. Watch out for the strawberry ice cream though! It will move the windows around on you. Do...
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British Council

British Council: Learn English Words for Different Jobs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Play Job Mixer. Learn the English words for different kinds of jobs while helping each man or woman dress in the clothes needed for each job.
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Other

Brooklyn Children's Museum: Pattern Wizardry!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive exhibition answers all kinds of questions about patterns, symmetry, and tessellations. With games that reinforce concepts and loads of great illustrations. [Requires Shockwave.]
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Rock Cycle

For Students 4th - 8th
This tutorial explains the rock cycle--from beginning to end! It is full of activities, assessments, games, slideshows and all kinds of interactive material. Learn what rocks are made of and how they change from one form to another....
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San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It: Visual Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Vision or sight is one of the most important senses that animals can have. Learn about the anatomy of the different kinds of eyes .. simple, single-lens, and compound. Puzzles and games are included.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Lesson: Representing Ourselves Online

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and consider the ways in...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lights, Camera, Action Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Let's take it from the top! This week's adventure, Operation: Lights, Camera, Action!, takes children to a movie set where they work behind-the-scenes and explore different kinds of jobs such as production assistant (keeps track of the...
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Other

University of Kansas: Quarked!: Baryon Blaster

For Students 5th - 8th
Try to fill each SUV with the right kinds of quarks as it travels across the screen, in order to make different types of baryon particles. The game becomes more challenging as you progress through the levels.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Now and Then

For Students K - 1st Standards
Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. What will the results be in 2012? This slightly more challenging activity encourages children to examine data and consider...

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