Professional Development
Fun on the Web
Language Arts
Book a Minute
www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute
For when even the condensed version is too long!
Cliché Finder
www.westegg.com/cliche
For when your too tired to be original, check out this site with over 3000 clichés.
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Social Studies
Time Capsule
dmarie.com/timecap
Enter a date between 1900 and 1997 and find out what the top news headlines were, what songs were hits, what famous birthdays fall on that date and more.
Consumer Price Index Calculator
woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/
Find out what a dollar was worth from 1913 - 2000.
Find-A-Grave
www.findagrave.com
Find out where famous dead people are buried. You can look up graves by names or by places so you can check out who's buried in your area. Sometimes there's even a photo of the grave.
Slanguages
www.slanguage.com
Learn to speak like a native!
White House for Kids
www.whitehouse.gov/kids/whlife/index.html
Take a tour of the White House with Flat Stanley, test your White House and American history knowledge with a quiz, find out about life in the White House, read about the Presidents and print out coloring sheets for them, or play some games.
GlobeXplorer
globexplorer.com
Type in an street address in the U.S. and get an aerial image! Note: This is a fee-based print service, so there will be a watermark on the image.
Virtual Guidebooks
www.virtualguidebooks.com
Travel around the western United States and Canada at this incredible site featuring over 2600 virtual reality panoramas of everything form painted rock petroglyphs in Arizona to glaciers in Alaska. You can look in any direction, as well as up and down, and zoom in and out. You can also browse the site thematically or geographically.
Radio Locator
www.radio-locator.com
Listen to radio broadcasts from around the world at this site that has links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
Open Secrets
www.opensecrets.org
Follow the money trail! Find out who is giving money to campaigns. You can search for campaign contributions by individual donor name or by PAC, industry, or soft money. You can also look at a contribution report for individual candidates.
Who Owns What?
www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
Do corporations rule the world? You be the judge. This site from the Columbia Journalism Review tracks what is owned by some of the world's larges corporations.
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The Arts
Kiss this Guy: The Archive of Misheard Lyrics
www.kissthisguy.com
For when you just can't get the words right!
Fun With Music
www.sfskids.org
Get an inside look at the orchestra at this fun site from the San Francisco Symphony. You can learn about the instruments in an orchestra. In the Music Lab you can learn about tempo, rhythm, pitch, and harmony. Once you've mastered the basics, try your hand at the Composerizer and compose your own music or try the Performalator and play your own music! For your listening pleasure, tune in to the radio and listen to some great classical music.
Kididdles Musical Mouseum
www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html
Find the lyrics to over 2000 kids songs! From Found a Peanut to Baby Bumble Bee, you'll find all your favorites and learn some great new tunes! You will even find audio files of some tunes and the hand movements to make while you are singing them.
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Just Plain Weird, But Fun!
Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character
www.smalltime.com/nowhere/dictator
Think of a sitcom character of dictator and this site will, through a series of questions, tell you who you were thinking of.
How to Keep an Idiot Busy
www.pagetutor.com/idiot/idiot.html
What can I say?
Talk Like a Pirate Day
talklikeapirate.com
Learn to talk like a pirate matey! You can also take a pirate personality test.
Breakfast Cereal Character Guide
www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-guide.html
Try this site for a fun look at American culture through cereal characters. The site features images and commentary on over 750 characters that were used to sell use cereal for that last 100 years. When you're done, try the cereal creator and see if you can come up with a new name for the next big cereal! Note: You might want to turn down your volume when you visit the site to mute the music!
The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator
user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/index.html
This site is testing the theory that a bunch of monkeys could eventually produce the works of Shakespeare by randomly hitting the keys of a typewriter.
Ghostcam
www.libraryghost.com/
See if you can catch a ghost in this library in Indiana.
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Math
Mystical Ball
www.mysticalball.com/
See if the mystical ball can read your mind!
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Science
NASA Kids
kids.msfc.nasa.gov
Learn about the Universe, discover what it takes to live in space, keep track of satellites and space craft orbiting the Earth. This site from NASA, designed for teens, provides lots of resources and information about space and space exploration
Nobel Museum
www.nobel.se
Read biographies of and interviews with Nobel Prize Laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. You can also try your hand at a selection of games like Find the Author, Lord of the Flies, Control of the Cell Cycle, and Pavlov's Dogs. The site also includes readings on DNA, semiconductors, and matter.
Insultingly Bad Movie Physics
www.intuitor.com/moviephysics
The next time you go to the movies see if you can spot any of the examples of bad physics commonly found in flicks! From visible laser beams to exploding cars, this site explains how movies scenes should look if the laws of physics were followed. You can also read movie reviews and see what grade they receive from the Movie Physics Rating System.
TerraServer
terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com
Get a satellite-eye view of places around the U.S. at this site. You can search for satellite images by location or you can look for images of famous places like the Space Needle and Mount St. Helens. In addition to satellite images, you can also view topographic maps.
Simple Machines
www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htm
Gears, pulleys, levers, and planes. Check out these online activities designed to introduce students to simple and compound machines.
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Miscellaneous Fun
Daily Trivia Fix
www.coolquiz.com/trivia/
Find a cool fact, quote and word of the day, find out who was born and what happened on your birth date, and browse the trivia directory for all kinds of useful and useless facts and the That Explains It section to find the answer to burning questions like why stop lights are red, yellow, and green.
Scholastic Teacher Center
teacher.scholastic.com/
You'll find online games, activities and more at this site from scholastic.
Discovery Schools Puzzlemaker
puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
Create word search, math, and other puzzles.
Online Crossword Puzzlemaker
www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/
Create custom crossword puzzles.
Eclipse Crossword
www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eclipsecrossword/
Another site that lets you create crossword puzzles.
FunBrain
www.funbrain.com
Online educational games and activities for students. There is a teacher section where you can create online activities for your students.
Fun School
www.funschool.com
This site also has online educational games, but there is some advertising.
Shock Wave Mind Games
www.shockwave.com/sw/mindgames/
You'll find lots of games at this site.
BrainPop
www.brainpop.com/
Learn and have fun at this site that features animated movies about a wide-variety of topics.
A Gadzillion Things to Think About
www.gadzillionthings.net
As if you already didn't have enough things to think about!
Urban Legend Archive
www.urbanlegends.com
Is it true, or is it an urban legend?
Queendom
www.queendom.com
Take one of 105 real psychological tests, or one of over 100 silly tests, like The Revenge Test , The Couch Potato Test , or the The Snob Test .
Emode
www.emode.com/tests
Need more tests, find out Who's Your Inner Rock Star, What's Your Monster Match or Which Movie Parent You Are.
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