Teacher Links

K-5 Computer Lab Activities
http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/computer_lab.htm

K-6 Standards Based Activitieshttp://www.elcerritowire.com/learn/index.htm>
K-8 Skill Builders - Interactive Lesson Ideashttp://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm
2nd Grade Skill Buildershttp://www.pwcs.edu/Marshall/2nd%20Grade%20Resources.htm
Language Arts:
Apples4theteacher.com

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/langarts.html
Dositey.com

http://www.dositey.com/langk2.htm
Beginning Reading Skills

4th Grade - 9/15/09 - Tour the USA

Check out this panoramic view of Yosemite National Park.
http://maps.panedia.com/?pano=100275&mt=s

Zoom out, and look for another destination!

9/8/09 - 7th Grade - Heat Transfer

Here are a couple of interactive websites on heat transfer:

See if you can make the heat in the beakers equal in 5 minutes, using one of the materials (glass, aluminum, copper, or steel). Which one works the fastest? What does this mean?

http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspView&ResourceID=388

Try this experiment, to heat up the water, using different metals:
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder/flashfiles/thermochem/heat_metal.swf

What is more important? - Is it the mass of the metal, or the material you chose?


If you have come up with some questions, after these activities, do a little research on heat energy:

http://www.physics4kids.com/files/thermo_intro.html

6th Grade Summer School - Tour of Japan

Let's take a virtual tour of Japan. Choose one of these sites, and explore:

Panoramic Tours: http://blog.panedia.com/tag/japan-virtual-tour/

Tokyo: http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/

Travel Guide (try learning some japanese phrases):http://milvetstravel.net/tokyo.html

Photo Tour: http://www.artisandevelopers.com/web/tokyo/

360 Cities: http://www.360cities.net/area/japan

Or use google earth.

Report back with what you find.

7th Grade Summer School - Fractions

Let's watch this tutorial on fractions, then you can try it yourself:
http://www.nutshellmath.com/textbooks_glossary_demos/demos_content/prealg_operations_with_fractions.html

If you ever want to watch another tutorial like this one, you can find them here:
http://www.algebra.com/tutors/lessons-by-tutor.mpl?tutor=nutshellmath


Next, please try one of these websites with a partner. Take turns and see who does better.

http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/ff/index.asp

http://www.quia.com/cm/102047.html?AP_rand=91316619

7th Grade Summerschool - Area & Perimeter

In this webquest, you and a partner will be working with a landscaping company to restore a house. You will be painting the outside, putting down new grass, putting up a fence, and filling the pool with water.
http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/geggie/delmain/webquests/purplecomicsans/intro.html

When you are finished, try this game:
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/AreaExplorer/?version=1.6.0_11&browser=Mozilla&vendor=Sun_Microsystems_Inc.

7/7/09 - Junior High Summer School Math - Division

Let's get warmed up with a division game:

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/long-division.php


Ok, now you're ready for a multiplication and division game that you can play with a partner:

http://www.quia.com/cb/147595.html

Now, let's get back to order of operations. This website will help explain PEMDAS, and give us some practice using it: http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/order_operations.html


Then, try to uncover the hidden picture using the order of operations to solve problems:
http://www.dositey.com/2008/addsub/Mystery11.htm#s

And blast the answers to these exponent questions:
http://www.mathdork.com/games/asteroidsexp3/asteroidsexp3.html

Or keep the aliens from landing by clicking on the correct answer:
http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Exponents.html