Mrs. Leventis' helpful websites
Math
Click for STMath
Created by MIND Research Institute, ST Math is game-based instructional software for K-12 and is designed to boost math comprehension and proficiency through visual learning. Integrating with classroom instruction and identified by the CEO-led Change the Equation as one of just four STEM programs ready to scale nationally, ST Math incorporates the latest research in learning and the brain and promotes mastery-based learning and mathematical understanding. The ST Math software games use interactive, graphically-rich animations that visually represent mathematical concepts to improve conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills.
Click for Kahn Academy
All Math Skills:
IXL 5th grade
Place Value
Glowla's Estimation Contraption
Estimation Valley Golf
Place Value Pirates - Arrgh! Try your luck with place value with these pirates!
Numbers to Words - Practice changing numbers to words
Half Court Rounding - Play a little basketball and practice your rounding
Order of Operations - solve the equations
Order of Operations - help Tortisaurus finish building his pyramid
Place Value Game
Seashell Rounding
Rounding - Practice your rounding and estimation skills up to the ten millions place
Rounding Off
Roman Numerals - practice converting to and from roman numerals
Roman Numerals Matching
Multiplication
Multiplication Flashcards
Multiplication.com - learn everything you want to know about multiplication!
Times Table Practice - breaks down learning your facts into smaller manageable tasks
Musical Multiplication - songs and strategies to help you learn your facts
Printable Mini Flashcards - print and cut for instant flashcards!
Apple Basket Multiplication - practice your facts and see a visual representation of multiplication
Buzzy's Times Table Challenge - how fast can you complete the multiplication table?
Math Baseball
Power Football
Soccer Shootout
Home Run Derby Math
Play Kids' Games - choose from a variety of interactive games to practice your multiplication
Hidden Picture
Multiplication Memory
Grid Game - practice your knowledge of factors, multiples, square numbers, primes, etc.
Multiplication Bridge - practice your multiplication skills and catch a bank robber!
Multiflyer - command a space ship and practice your facts
Balloon Multiplication Game
CoolMath
MATHO
Division
Division Flashcards
More Division Flashcards
AAA Math
Brain POP
Watch a movie on division! (e-mail me for username and password)
How Dividing Works
Long Division Lesson
Long Division with Remainders
Snork's Long Division Game
A step by step approach to division (excellent)
Fact Families
SUPER!
Division Memory
Math Baseball
Practice your division and play ball!
Division Baseball
Division Tic-Tac-Toe
The Number Monster
Algebra
Algebra Flashcards
Late Delivery - practice your algebra by figuring out the variable in the equation
Equation Match - find the value of x in equations
Evaluate the Expression - time yourself and see how many you can get!
Function Machines - see if you can guess the rule by entering different inputs and evaluating the outputs!
Order of Operations - solve the equations
Order of Operations - help Tortisaurus finish building his pyramid
Solving an Equation - scroll down to the orange section to practice
Evaluate the Expression with Two Variables - scroll to the orange section to practice
Variable Math - see how many times you can solve for the variable x in one minute
Train Race - figure out information about the 4 trains
Absurd Math - practice your algebra problem solving skills
Word Problems
Geometry
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Symmetry
Jill Britton's Symmetry Page - a complete site on symmetry with nearly 100 links to symmetry-related web pages, organizes into 30 categories. These are activity links to her textbook, so each site provides an activity that further investigates one of these topics
Symmetry in Nature and Art
Symmetrical Pictures
Symmetry for All
Tangrams
Enchanted Mind - a brief description of what a tangram is and lets you put together tangram patterns
Creative Imaginations - gives the story of tangrams, a free tangram pattern to print and cut out, and five shapes that can be made with those pieces
Tangram Game - brief definition of a tangram and 16 solutions to one tangram puzzle
Pentominoes
Pentominoes Problem of the Week - a good introduction activity to pentominoes
Tessellations
Math Forum
Tessellation examples
Escher
M.C. Escher
http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/articles/tiling/
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/hyperbol.htm
Fractions
Visual Fractions
No Matter What Shape - learn about fractions using pattern blocks
Pizza Party - practice your fractions
Fresh Baked Fractions - equivalent fractions practice
Saloon Snap - practice matching fractions, decimals, and percents
Decimals
Rounding Decimals
Fractions & Decimals Resources
Percents
Saloon Snap - practice matching fractions, decimals, and percents
Fish Tank - practice probability
Data Picking - collect data, create a frequency table, and create graphs
Train Race - figure out information about the 4 trains
Create a Graph
Create your own Bar Graph
What's the Point - Locate points on a graph
BrainPOP - see a video on mean, median, & mode (e-mail me for username and password)
Helpful Resources
All Kinds of Graph Paper - downloads!
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - awesome site!
More Virtual Manipulatives
Math Playground
Ask Dr. Math
Illuminations
5th Grade Skill Builders - math activities sorted by category
Cool Math 4 Kids
Figure This! - math problems to challenge all students
Hoagies Math Links - an UNBELIEVABLE collection of math links and websites
A Plus Math - flashcards and a variety of games and activities
AAA Math - a great resource with lots of activities
Math Baseball - practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Power Football - practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Soccer Shootout - practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers and fractions
Home Run Derby Math - Choose an operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication) and hit some homers!
Other
Math Olympiads
Symmetry - explanations and games
Bathroom Tiles - practice rotations, reflections, and translations
Create a Graph
Train Race- compare mean, median, and range
Word Problem Solving Strategies
Living Math Book List - a list of books related to math concepts
Web Math - a math-help website that generates answers to specific math questions and problems. It shows you how to get your answer (not just the answer itself!)
IXL - see examples and practice 5th grade math skills (organized by topic)
Greg Tang Math
Study Jams - Free-from Scholastic. Scholastic.com has created a series called Study Jams, a Scholastic website designed to help elementary school students learn and review math and science. There are short videos followed by questions.
Bedtime Math - There is a new math problem posted every day and each scenario has three levels of difficulty for the problem
Science
Periodic Table
General Science
National Geographic for Kids
Discovery Kids
How Stuff Works
Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff
NOAA
Science Made Simple
The Why Files
Science Experiments for Kids
The Laboratory
What in the World Could It Be? - can you figure out what a magnified image is of?
Study Jams - Free-from Scholastic. Scholastic.com has created a series called Study Jams, a Scholastic website designed to help elementary school students learn and review math and science. There are short videos followed by questions.
Nature Works - This website gives you everything you need to start exploring and understanding nature’s fantastic factory — videos, interactive games, and more!
Inventors & Inventions
The Museum of Innovation - interactive online museum
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Inventions & Inventors
Measurement
Customary Measurement
Measurement
Practice Measuring in Inches and Centimeters
Count Us In - Volume
Count Us In - Length
Animal Weigh-In
Balancing Act
Metric Conversions
(only if you get stuck!)
Measurement Game - How many millimeters make a meter? How many feet in a yard? Practice your measurement conversion skills!
Artie Ounces' Soda Parlor - Fulfill customer orders for soda and practice your customary conversions (capacity)
Matthew Metric's Gum Parlor - Fulfill customer orders for gum and practice your metric conversions
Potion Master - become a potion master and learn about customary and metric units
Great Resource - AAA Math
Fact Monster
Weather
Weather Wiz Kids
Web Weather
Intellicast: World & Local Weather - This site provides extensive specialized weather information to help plan all outdoor and weather sensitive activities.
Weather Cam - See the weather around the world! If you have relatives or friends living or visiting an area of the world different from your own, you can see what they are experiencing. You can see more than 700 sites from around the world on this site!
The Weather Channel Home Page - Need the latest weather? This site provides local, national, and international weather information. A cool feature of this site is that it has news on how the weather is affecting events around the world.
Weather Underground - an extensive amount of information about weather
Warm Fronts and Cold Fronts - animated comparison
Weather in Hawaii - explore volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.
Earthquakes
Earthquake Legends
National Earthquake Information Center
Avalanches by NOVA (PBS)
Pacific Tsunami Museum
Science of Earthquakes
Discovery Channel - Tornadoes
Volcano World's Kid's Door
Simple Machines
Edheads: Simple Machines - Interactive games about simple machines
Simple Machine Song - complete with lyrics!*
Simple Machines Games - Check out these interactive games!
Simple Machines Study Guide - a great resource!*
Pulley - A short explanation about the pulley*
Vertebrates & Invertebrates
San Diego Zoo Kids - Watch the animals as they go through their day at the San Diego Zoo. Different cameras are focused on the pandas, elephants, apes and polar bears. Remember the 3 hour time difference - at 8 AM in Needham it's 5 AM in California and DARK *grin*. The site also features previously filmed videos of zoo animals.
Flight/Rocketry
How Rockets Work - A two minute video from National Geographic
Language Arts
Free Rice
Winning Writers - a list of poetry contests and resources
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - a variety of vocabulary games
Wordly Wise - On this site you can have the Word Lists and definitions read aloud to you. You can also play a variety of games, such as concentration, hangman, matching, and word searches. There are also flashcards available to help you study.
Merriam-Webster Online - check out the "Word of the Day" and "Word Games"
Newbery Medal Home Page - includes lists of books that have won various medals
Analogy of the Day
Spelling City - enter your spelling/vocabulary words and play games to help you learn them! (Click on "Play Games" after you enter your words, and then choose a game from the "Free Activities" column)
Writing Style Guide - How many spaces after a period? Which homophone do I use? All these questions and more are answered on this extremely helpful website!
Storyline Online - The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is proud to bring you an online streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud!
Geography & Maps
Stately Knowledge - facts about all 50 states, plus Washington, DC
TerraServer USA - maps of anywhere in the US! Can you find your house or our school?
How Charts and Maps are Made - how are maps and charts made of our round planet?
Maps That Teach - Free U.S. and World Maps and Puzzles
Hoagies Geography Links
World Stats and Facts
Games, Reference, & Miscellaneous
Kidport 5th Grade Home Page - An all around great site to check facts and learn about any subject.
Hoagies Homework Helpers
Kitzkitz.com - Generates customized flashcards to downloadable as printable PDF files
Study Stack - Flashcards for studying any subject. Sign up for free account and create your own "study stack." Students can choose to study words in flash card mode or as a matching game, crossword, word search puzzle, hangman, or word scramble. On the go? Download the Study Stack to parents' SmartPhone/iPad and study while in the car or waiting for appointments. This is a green site, no printables available.
BBC Dance Mat Typing - improve your typing skills
A Game a Day
Brain Boosters - challenge yourself!
Brain Teasers - a daily teaser to challenge your brain!
Hoagies' Brain Teasers & Puzzles - some AWESOME brain teasers!
Funbrain - a collection of kid games and trivia
Funschool.com - educational games
Brain Pop - great videos on various topics
The World Almanac for Kids - a great resource!
U.S. Mint Games
Free Typing Game
Keyboarding Games for Kids
Only Typing Games
Online Stopwatch
EasyBib
BibMe
Khan Academy - online video tutorials on just about anything!
Quizlet - flashcard generator
WPClipart - an ever-growing collection of artwork for kids and others that is free of copyright concerns
WatchKnowLearn - Free educational videos delivered over the Internet. The videos are high quality and cover all major educational topics.
Picture Dots - Just for fun! Turn any picture into a dot puzzle.
Zamzar - Have you ever needed to convert a file from one file format to another? Perhaps you have a document in Pages and you need to use it as a Word file (.doc). Or you have a .pdf that you want to be able to edit in Word. Maybe someone sent you a .docx attachment that you aren't able to open.You can try this website. You upload your document, select the file format that you need, enter your parent's email address, then tell it to convert. In a few minutes you can check the email address you entered for the link to download the converted file.
Explore - Explore is for everyone who enjoys learning new things and understands that education is a lifelong pursuit. To that end, explore provides a variety of educational resources -- from articles to films and photographs to interactive maps -- to encourage everyone to never stop learning.
Kid Search Engines
KidsClick
Awesome Library
Yahoo Kids Encyclopedia
KidRex - KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search™ and use Google SafeSearch™ technology.
Duck Duck Go - Provides a clean, uncluttered interface and a no-tracking privacy policy. No advertisements. Great additional tools for calculations, conversions, important dates, etc. can be found under "goodies"http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
American History Biographies
Biographies for Kids
NBA Players
Top Biography
Who2Biographies
Science Reference for Kids
Image Searching:
Arkive - great for pictures of animals! In the search box in the upper right-hand corner, select "Images"
Children's Illustrators
Math
Click for STMath
Created by MIND Research Institute, ST Math is game-based instructional software for K-12 and is designed to boost math comprehension and proficiency through visual learning. Integrating with classroom instruction and identified by the CEO-led Change the Equation as one of just four STEM programs ready to scale nationally, ST Math incorporates the latest research in learning and the brain and promotes mastery-based learning and mathematical understanding. The ST Math software games use interactive, graphically-rich animations that visually represent mathematical concepts to improve conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills.
Click for Kahn Academy
All Math Skills:
IXL 5th grade
Place Value
Glowla's Estimation Contraption
Estimation Valley Golf
Place Value Pirates - Arrgh! Try your luck with place value with these pirates!
Numbers to Words - Practice changing numbers to words
Half Court Rounding - Play a little basketball and practice your rounding
Order of Operations - solve the equations
Order of Operations - help Tortisaurus finish building his pyramid
Place Value Game
Seashell Rounding
Rounding - Practice your rounding and estimation skills up to the ten millions place
Rounding Off
Roman Numerals - practice converting to and from roman numerals
Roman Numerals Matching
Multiplication
Multiplication Flashcards
Multiplication.com - learn everything you want to know about multiplication!
Times Table Practice - breaks down learning your facts into smaller manageable tasks
Musical Multiplication - songs and strategies to help you learn your facts
Printable Mini Flashcards - print and cut for instant flashcards!
Apple Basket Multiplication - practice your facts and see a visual representation of multiplication
Buzzy's Times Table Challenge - how fast can you complete the multiplication table?
Math Baseball
Power Football
Soccer Shootout
Home Run Derby Math
Play Kids' Games - choose from a variety of interactive games to practice your multiplication
Hidden Picture
Multiplication Memory
Grid Game - practice your knowledge of factors, multiples, square numbers, primes, etc.
Multiplication Bridge - practice your multiplication skills and catch a bank robber!
Multiflyer - command a space ship and practice your facts
Balloon Multiplication Game
CoolMath
MATHO
Division
Division Flashcards
More Division Flashcards
AAA Math
Brain POP
Watch a movie on division! (e-mail me for username and password)
How Dividing Works
Long Division Lesson
Long Division with Remainders
Snork's Long Division Game
A step by step approach to division (excellent)
Fact Families
SUPER!
Division Memory
Math Baseball
Practice your division and play ball!
Division Baseball
Division Tic-Tac-Toe
The Number Monster
Algebra
Algebra Flashcards
Late Delivery - practice your algebra by figuring out the variable in the equation
Equation Match - find the value of x in equations
Evaluate the Expression - time yourself and see how many you can get!
Function Machines - see if you can guess the rule by entering different inputs and evaluating the outputs!
Order of Operations - solve the equations
Order of Operations - help Tortisaurus finish building his pyramid
Solving an Equation - scroll down to the orange section to practice
Evaluate the Expression with Two Variables - scroll to the orange section to practice
Variable Math - see how many times you can solve for the variable x in one minute
Train Race - figure out information about the 4 trains
Absurd Math - practice your algebra problem solving skills
Word Problems
Geometry
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Symmetry
Jill Britton's Symmetry Page - a complete site on symmetry with nearly 100 links to symmetry-related web pages, organizes into 30 categories. These are activity links to her textbook, so each site provides an activity that further investigates one of these topics
Symmetry in Nature and Art
Symmetrical Pictures
Symmetry for All
Tangrams
Enchanted Mind - a brief description of what a tangram is and lets you put together tangram patterns
Creative Imaginations - gives the story of tangrams, a free tangram pattern to print and cut out, and five shapes that can be made with those pieces
Tangram Game - brief definition of a tangram and 16 solutions to one tangram puzzle
Pentominoes
Pentominoes Problem of the Week - a good introduction activity to pentominoes
Tessellations
Math Forum
Tessellation examples
Escher
M.C. Escher
http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/articles/tiling/
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/hyperbol.htm
Fractions
Visual Fractions
No Matter What Shape - learn about fractions using pattern blocks
Pizza Party - practice your fractions
Fresh Baked Fractions - equivalent fractions practice
Saloon Snap - practice matching fractions, decimals, and percents
Decimals
Rounding Decimals
Fractions & Decimals Resources
Percents
Saloon Snap - practice matching fractions, decimals, and percents
Fish Tank - practice probability
Data Picking - collect data, create a frequency table, and create graphs
Train Race - figure out information about the 4 trains
Create a Graph
Create your own Bar Graph
What's the Point - Locate points on a graph
BrainPOP - see a video on mean, median, & mode (e-mail me for username and password)
Helpful Resources
All Kinds of Graph Paper - downloads!
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - awesome site!
More Virtual Manipulatives
Math Playground
Ask Dr. Math
Illuminations
5th Grade Skill Builders - math activities sorted by category
Cool Math 4 Kids
Figure This! - math problems to challenge all students
Hoagies Math Links - an UNBELIEVABLE collection of math links and websites
A Plus Math - flashcards and a variety of games and activities
AAA Math - a great resource with lots of activities
Math Baseball - practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Power Football - practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Soccer Shootout - practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers and fractions
Home Run Derby Math - Choose an operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication) and hit some homers!
Other
Math Olympiads
Symmetry - explanations and games
Bathroom Tiles - practice rotations, reflections, and translations
Create a Graph
Train Race- compare mean, median, and range
Word Problem Solving Strategies
Living Math Book List - a list of books related to math concepts
Web Math - a math-help website that generates answers to specific math questions and problems. It shows you how to get your answer (not just the answer itself!)
IXL - see examples and practice 5th grade math skills (organized by topic)
Greg Tang Math
Study Jams - Free-from Scholastic. Scholastic.com has created a series called Study Jams, a Scholastic website designed to help elementary school students learn and review math and science. There are short videos followed by questions.
Bedtime Math - There is a new math problem posted every day and each scenario has three levels of difficulty for the problem
Science
Periodic Table
General Science
National Geographic for Kids
Discovery Kids
How Stuff Works
Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff
NOAA
Science Made Simple
The Why Files
Science Experiments for Kids
The Laboratory
What in the World Could It Be? - can you figure out what a magnified image is of?
Study Jams - Free-from Scholastic. Scholastic.com has created a series called Study Jams, a Scholastic website designed to help elementary school students learn and review math and science. There are short videos followed by questions.
Nature Works - This website gives you everything you need to start exploring and understanding nature’s fantastic factory — videos, interactive games, and more!
Inventors & Inventions
The Museum of Innovation - interactive online museum
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Inventions & Inventors
Measurement
Customary Measurement
Measurement
Practice Measuring in Inches and Centimeters
Count Us In - Volume
Count Us In - Length
Animal Weigh-In
Balancing Act
Metric Conversions
(only if you get stuck!)
Measurement Game - How many millimeters make a meter? How many feet in a yard? Practice your measurement conversion skills!
Artie Ounces' Soda Parlor - Fulfill customer orders for soda and practice your customary conversions (capacity)
Matthew Metric's Gum Parlor - Fulfill customer orders for gum and practice your metric conversions
Potion Master - become a potion master and learn about customary and metric units
Great Resource - AAA Math
Fact Monster
Weather
Weather Wiz Kids
Web Weather
Intellicast: World & Local Weather - This site provides extensive specialized weather information to help plan all outdoor and weather sensitive activities.
Weather Cam - See the weather around the world! If you have relatives or friends living or visiting an area of the world different from your own, you can see what they are experiencing. You can see more than 700 sites from around the world on this site!
The Weather Channel Home Page - Need the latest weather? This site provides local, national, and international weather information. A cool feature of this site is that it has news on how the weather is affecting events around the world.
Weather Underground - an extensive amount of information about weather
Warm Fronts and Cold Fronts - animated comparison
Weather in Hawaii - explore volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.
Earthquakes
Earthquake Legends
National Earthquake Information Center
Avalanches by NOVA (PBS)
Pacific Tsunami Museum
Science of Earthquakes
Discovery Channel - Tornadoes
Volcano World's Kid's Door
Simple Machines
Edheads: Simple Machines - Interactive games about simple machines
Simple Machine Song - complete with lyrics!*
Simple Machines Games - Check out these interactive games!
Simple Machines Study Guide - a great resource!*
Pulley - A short explanation about the pulley*
Vertebrates & Invertebrates
San Diego Zoo Kids - Watch the animals as they go through their day at the San Diego Zoo. Different cameras are focused on the pandas, elephants, apes and polar bears. Remember the 3 hour time difference - at 8 AM in Needham it's 5 AM in California and DARK *grin*. The site also features previously filmed videos of zoo animals.
Flight/Rocketry
How Rockets Work - A two minute video from National Geographic
Language Arts
Free Rice
Winning Writers - a list of poetry contests and resources
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - a variety of vocabulary games
Wordly Wise - On this site you can have the Word Lists and definitions read aloud to you. You can also play a variety of games, such as concentration, hangman, matching, and word searches. There are also flashcards available to help you study.
Merriam-Webster Online - check out the "Word of the Day" and "Word Games"
Newbery Medal Home Page - includes lists of books that have won various medals
Analogy of the Day
Spelling City - enter your spelling/vocabulary words and play games to help you learn them! (Click on "Play Games" after you enter your words, and then choose a game from the "Free Activities" column)
Writing Style Guide - How many spaces after a period? Which homophone do I use? All these questions and more are answered on this extremely helpful website!
Storyline Online - The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is proud to bring you an online streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud!
Geography & Maps
Stately Knowledge - facts about all 50 states, plus Washington, DC
TerraServer USA - maps of anywhere in the US! Can you find your house or our school?
How Charts and Maps are Made - how are maps and charts made of our round planet?
Maps That Teach - Free U.S. and World Maps and Puzzles
Hoagies Geography Links
World Stats and Facts
Games, Reference, & Miscellaneous
Kidport 5th Grade Home Page - An all around great site to check facts and learn about any subject.
Hoagies Homework Helpers
Kitzkitz.com - Generates customized flashcards to downloadable as printable PDF files
Study Stack - Flashcards for studying any subject. Sign up for free account and create your own "study stack." Students can choose to study words in flash card mode or as a matching game, crossword, word search puzzle, hangman, or word scramble. On the go? Download the Study Stack to parents' SmartPhone/iPad and study while in the car or waiting for appointments. This is a green site, no printables available.
BBC Dance Mat Typing - improve your typing skills
A Game a Day
Brain Boosters - challenge yourself!
Brain Teasers - a daily teaser to challenge your brain!
Hoagies' Brain Teasers & Puzzles - some AWESOME brain teasers!
Funbrain - a collection of kid games and trivia
Funschool.com - educational games
Brain Pop - great videos on various topics
The World Almanac for Kids - a great resource!
U.S. Mint Games
Free Typing Game
Keyboarding Games for Kids
Only Typing Games
Online Stopwatch
EasyBib
BibMe
Khan Academy - online video tutorials on just about anything!
Quizlet - flashcard generator
WPClipart - an ever-growing collection of artwork for kids and others that is free of copyright concerns
WatchKnowLearn - Free educational videos delivered over the Internet. The videos are high quality and cover all major educational topics.
Picture Dots - Just for fun! Turn any picture into a dot puzzle.
Zamzar - Have you ever needed to convert a file from one file format to another? Perhaps you have a document in Pages and you need to use it as a Word file (.doc). Or you have a .pdf that you want to be able to edit in Word. Maybe someone sent you a .docx attachment that you aren't able to open.You can try this website. You upload your document, select the file format that you need, enter your parent's email address, then tell it to convert. In a few minutes you can check the email address you entered for the link to download the converted file.
Explore - Explore is for everyone who enjoys learning new things and understands that education is a lifelong pursuit. To that end, explore provides a variety of educational resources -- from articles to films and photographs to interactive maps -- to encourage everyone to never stop learning.
Kid Search Engines
KidsClick
Awesome Library
Yahoo Kids Encyclopedia
KidRex - KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search™ and use Google SafeSearch™ technology.
Duck Duck Go - Provides a clean, uncluttered interface and a no-tracking privacy policy. No advertisements. Great additional tools for calculations, conversions, important dates, etc. can be found under "goodies"http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
American History Biographies
Biographies for Kids
NBA Players
Top Biography
Who2Biographies
Science Reference for Kids
Image Searching:
Arkive - great for pictures of animals! In the search box in the upper right-hand corner, select "Images"
Children's Illustrators