Student Resource Links
Art, Economics, Explore Locally, General Reference, Geography, History & Culture, Languages, Math, Music, Reading, Science,
| Art | |
| A. Pintura: Art Detective | See if you can find Grandpa's Painting. Art history disguised as a mystery! |
| Art History for Kids | The Art History Teacher on the Net will show you how to look at art through a series of art clues. |
| Museum Kids | Wealth of art information provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| Economics | Top of Page |
| Kids Bank | Sovereign Bank for kids. Learn all about banking and have some fun in this learning website. Explore banking fundamentals and the basics of banking services. |
| Making $cents of Money | The history of Money |
| Explore Locally | Top of Page |
| Duke Primate Center | The primate center promotes research and understanding of prosimians. |
| Exploris | Welcome to Exploris! We're the world's first interactive museum about the world. |
| Morehead Planetarium | Chapel Hill based museum site. |
| Museum of Natural History | Explore North Carolina History. |
| N.C. Museum of Art | Raleigh-based museum site. |
| N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences | Raleigh-based museum site. |
| Triangle Metro Zoo | Wake Forest based zoo. |
| Gen Reference | Top of Page |
| Ask Jeeves for Kids | Ask Jeeves for Kids uses natural-language technology that allows kids to ask questions and find relevant answers on the Web. |
| Enchanted Learning | Many pages with projects for every subject. |
| Fun Brain | Variety of games to learn Art, Geography, History, Languages, Math, Music, Science, Technology |
| Funschool | A variety of games, at every level, on many subjects. |
| Kids Hub | Free online interactive learning center for elementary school students. It features fun educational games, puzzles, and quizzes. |
| PBS Kids | Educational games based on PBS shows |
| Pitara | The idea of Pitara was born out of the recognition that education is not an end in itself. That it has a higher goal - of helping our children become intelligent human beings. |
| The Homework Spot | Free homework information portal featuring K-12 homework-related sites |
| Time for Kids | Weekly classroom news magazine packed with stories about world and national events, scientific discoveries, sports, entertainment, kids in the news and much more. |
| Wake Co Public Libraries | Look for a book, request a book, access your library account and more. |
| Yahooligans | Web Guide for Kids. |
| Geography | Top of Page |
| Abacci Atlas | A collection of maps, flags and national anthems of countries around the world. |
| Atlapedia Online | Contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. |
| World Factbook | Detailed country information from the CIA |
| History & Culture | Top of Page |
| Best of History Web Sites | Award-winning portal for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. |
| Exploring Ancient Cultures | On-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds. It features its own essays and primary texts and covers the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, early Islam, and Medieval Europe. |
| Food Timeline | Foods and recipes on a timeline based on print evidence and historic context. |
| History for Kids | Links and information on the ancient world: history, mythology, art and architecture, olympics, wars, people, and geography |
| Holidays on the Net | A collection of multimedia holiday celebrations including its history and holiday-related activities. |
| National Geographic Kids | National Geographic Kids |
| Languages | Top of Page |
| French Steps | Basics for beginners in 24 steps (French) |
| French Language Guide | Integrated grammar guide featuring extensive vocabulary, interspersed with links to the vocabulary guide and readings. Hover your cursor over a sentence or word to hear it pronounced in French. |
| PinYin Practice | Practice your PinYin (Chinese) |
| Japan-Guide | Japan A-Z. Learn about Japanese economy, entertainment, food, language, politics, sports, religion etc. |
| Kanji alive | A searchable, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level students read and write Japanese kanji. |
| Kanji Game | Kanji Game is a program to facilitate the memorization of Japanese vocabulary words and characters. Learn Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, and compounds. |
| Kids Web Japan | Learn About Japan - From a kids point of view |
| Nihongo Shoho | This website offers you a complete course of elementary Japanese. |
| German 101 | A four-skills language course, in which you will develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in German. |
| Die Binde Kuh | Fun site for kids all in German |
| Germany for Kids | German Embassy sponsored site for kids |
| Mi mundo en palabras | Designed for children 7 - 9 that are beginning to learn Spanish. |
| Math | Top of Page |
| A Plus Math | Games and flashcards |
| AAA Math | Math practice from K-8 |
| Math Cats | Various mathematical games and puzzles. |
| Math Trailblazers | Homework help and lesson modeling to support the Math Trailblazer family (Please note that login and password are identical: NC_WILEY_F ) |
| Music | Top of Page |
| Arts Alive - Music | National Arts Centre - Learn all about orchestral music, the NAC Orchestra, it's musicians and friends, great composers, conductors and much more! |
| Creating Music | Children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. |
| Hop Pop Town | Encourages children to improvise musical sequences, one of the vital factors for young children to enjoy music. Ages 3-10. |
| NY Philharmonic Kidzone | Interactive site to learn about music and instruments. Ages 6 and up. Site includes: Musician's Lounge, Composers' Gallery, Instrument Storage Room, Instrument Laboratory, Conductor/Soloist Dressing Rooms, Newsstand, Composer's Workshop. |
| PlayMusic! | Learn about the different instrument families of the orchestra, meet composers and musicians. |
| SFS Kids | San Francisco Symphony kids site - Fun with Music! |
| Reading | Top of Page |
| FunBrain | Subject/verb agreement, grammar, spelling, etc. |
| Kids Domain | Reading Games for Kids ages six and up |
| Reading n' Phonics | Read amusing stories or do phonics practice for kindergarten |
| Science | Top of Page |
| Animal Diversity Web | Online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan |
| Body and Mind | Instructive kids site from CDC gets kids thinking healthier, inside and out. Meet Disease Detectives who specialize in viruses and asthma. Learn about infection protection. |
| Blue Planet | Study the natural history of the oceans (BBC series narrated by David Attenborough) |
| Cool Science for Curious Kids | Explore biology on screen and off screen.(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) |
| NASA Kids | Sponsored by NASA with info on space and rocketry. |
| USDA for Kids | Explore the food pyramid, agriculture, nutrition, and more |
| Chem 4 Kids | Chemistry basics. Definitions for matter, elements, reactions, etc. |