Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
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Links to search engines, research tools and other educational sources.




* Sisters Middle School Wikispaces

Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together.  Sisters Middle School Staff will be using wikis to link to websites and share files. Wikispaces is a tool that will facilitate their teaching, organization, and classroom participation.

Art Cyclopedia

Here, you can search or browse among over 6,000 artists, and find links directly within museum web sites.

Ask Kids

Ask Kids (formerly known as Ask Jeeves for Kids) is a fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. Designed to be a fun destination site focused on learning and "edu-tainment," Ask for Kids uses natural-language technology that allows kids to ask questions and perform web searches, such as "When did Hawaii become a state?" or "What's it like to live in space?"or even "Convert 122 inches into feet" in the same way they would ask a parent, friend or teacher.

BrainPOP

Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. All are supported by BrainPOP Educators, our teacher community now more than 110,000 members strong and featuring free lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic organizers, best practices, and much more.

Colonial Williamsburg

Includes colonial history resources, guide to visiting Williamsburg, children's activities, Foundation's mission, giving opportunities.

Cybrarian

The main purpose of this site is to supply child-friendly sites for kids in grades three through eight on a variety of curriculum oriented subjects.

Deschutes Public Library

Provides book and reference services through branches in Bend, La Pine, Redmond, Sisters and Sunriver. Includes services, programs, online searches, etc.

Dictionary.com

Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles and word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.

Discovery Education: Brain Boosters

Brain Boosters offers online activities for your kids including educational games and brain teasers.

Discovery Education: Learning Adventures

Discovey School for Science A to Z.

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central

Science Fair Central offers ideas for science fair projects and experiments for kids.

Free Rice

Free Rice challenges you with word quizzes and pledges to donate 20 grains of rice to the U.N. World Food Programme for each definition you get right. (The words get harder the longer you play.) Click on the rice bowl below to play the game and earn rice for the hungry people of the world.

Health & Fitness

Welcome to Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Health Online. Discover our comprehensive health education Web site and textbook programs for students in grades 6-12.

Houghton Mifflin: Outline Maps

Maps of all the countries of the world that can be printed out and copied for the classroom.

ipL2 for Kids

Features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines, etc.

KidsClick

Annotated searchable directory of websites created for kids by librarians. Searchable by subject, reading level and degree of picture content.

MiddleSchool.net

The only site educators, parents and students will want to use. Quality, free curriculum and professional resources for the entire curriculum available.

OdysseyWare: Web Academy

The Web Academy offers computer curriculum through OdysseyWare® that is interactive, entertaining, challenging, and is designed to fit the state standards.

Oracle ThinkQuest Library

Over 7,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)

Portland, Oregon museum includes online science resources for teachers, students, and everyone interested in science.

Oregon School Library Information System

A website designed for K-12 students and educators integrating information literacy with access to licensed databases.

PBS Teachers

We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

Primary Games

Fun site for preschool and elementary kids that features educational games, printable coloring pages, holiday activities, free musical postcards, crafts, etc.

ProQuest K-12 E-Library

The K-12 Digital Teaching & Learning Resources ProQuest website offers smart, easy, safe solutions for your students.

Sadlier-Oxford Educational Publishing

William H. Sadlier, Inc. has been a family-owned and managed publisher of school materials since 1832. Its Sadlier-Oxford division is committed to serving the needs of today's PreK-12 public, private, and Catholic schools with high-quality, research-based programs in mathematics, reading, and language arts.

Schoolhouse Technologies

Our mission is to provide practical software solutions for the extraordinary teaching challenges faced by educators. Schoolhouse Technologies is focused on helping manage the classrooms with windows based software tools that can quickly create classroom sets of instructional worksheets, activities, and tests for a wide range of student levels and abilities.

SIRS Discoverer

Take one look at SIRS Discoverer®, and you'll understand-we designed it with young researchers in mind. The colorful interface is intuitive and easy-to-use for even the youngest students who are hard at work developing their research, writing, language, and computer skills.

Sweet Search: A Search Engine for Students

SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students.

It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on Finding Dulcinea: Library of the Internet. We constantly evaluate our search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.  

SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. We exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines.

U.S. Geological Survey & Science Education

The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and university-level inquiry and research.

Web Math

This site is composed of many math "fill-in-forms" into which you can type the math problem you're working on. Linked to these forms is a powerful set of math-solvers, that can instantly analyze your problem, and when possible, provide you with a step-by-step solution, instantly!

Website Awards

The websites listed in these pages have won a Superb! Website Diamond Award, which is extremely difficult to achieve. They have been widely recognized by a large number of World's Top Awards Programs for their excellence in design and content, or both. These are outstanding sites, among the best on the Web, and they help to make the Internet a better place for everyone.

Wikipedia

A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software.

Wordsmyth

Integrated English dictionary and thesaurus.

Yahoo! Kids

Yahoo Kids! is the ultimate web guide for kids! Features fun and educational resources for kids with games, animals, music, jokes, movies, news, astrology, etc.