Resources

Current Events:

http://eduplace.com/ss/current/

Time for Kids

This fun, interactive news site from TIME magazine categorizes current events articles and activities by grade level and includes games, trivia, and a homework helper.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

Weekly Reader Feature Zone

This site asks “What's New in the World?” every week and has materials and activities for students, parents, teachers, and families.

http://www.weeklyreader.com/featurezone/latest.asp

National Geographic Kids News

Kids News highlights news, features, and science articles on subjects of interest to kids. Sites for teachers and parents include lesson plans and teaching materials.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

Kids Search Engines:

Little Explorer- picture dictionary format

www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html

KidInfo-Student index, homework help,References, search engines, links.

www.kidinfo.com

Ask Jeeves For Kids-Kids type in questions

www.ajkids.com

Fact Monster-Search engine plus

www.factmonster.com

Google

www.google.com

Northern Light-combination search and directory

www.northernlight.com

Picture Searches

Pics4Learning-browse by topic or keyword

www.pics4learning.com

Amazing Picture Machine

www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

Google Image search

www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

Reference

Ref Desk-Everything you can think of- ESL

www.refdesk.com