ELEMENTARY MEDIA CENTER

• Authors and Books
  • Scholastic web page. Information about authors and links to their own pages when available.
• Authors and Illustrators on the Web
• Books & Bytes: Authors
• Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Page: Authors
• Children’s & Young Adult Authors and Illustrators
  • An alphabetical listing of author pages can be accessed by clicking on “Children’s & YA Literature Resources”, then “Authors & Illustrators”, “On the Web.” Some are official, others tributes or interviews.
• Learning About Authors and Illustrators
• Michigan Authors
  • Links to 18 Michigan authors.
• Teachers @ Random
  • Random House Publishers’ links to authors and illustrators.

• Bible Gateway
  • A tool for reading and researching scripture online in the language or translation of your choice. Provides advanced searching capabilities based on keywords or scripture references, and various tools to enhance your study of the Bible.
• Bible Places Newsletter
  • BiblePlaces.com features photographs and descriptions of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece with an emphasis on biblical archaeology, geography, and history.
• Kids Corner
  • Site for kids from “The Back to God Hour” Bible stories, devotions, memory verses, quizzes, and more.

• Biographical Dictionary
  • This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
• Biographies – Multnomah County Library
• Biographies – 42Expore2
  • Site for kids from “The Back to God Hour” Bible stories, devotions, memory verses, quizzes, and more.
• Biography.com
• Celebrate Black History Month
  • Learn about famous African Americans from the History Channel site.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
  • This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are living today. Searchable by subject and name.
• Explorers A-Z
• First Ladie’s Gallery
  • Listed in chronological order. Also links to Presidents and “Kid Bios” which are written for students.
• From Revolution to Reconstruction
  • From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards. Includes section on U.S. Presidents.
• Presidents and First Ladies
• Revolutionary War Biographies
• Who 2
  • Find famous people fast.

Sites with suggested reading lists and information about books.

• McBookwords
  • Lists state and regional award winning books for children and young adults.
• Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Website
  • Links to booktalks, lists of recommended reading, book reviews by children, and more information about children’s literature.

• ABC Ya!
  • Educational computer games and activities for elementary students.
• Book Adventure
  • Free reading motivation program in which students earn points by reading books and taking online quizzes. Registration is required.
• Book Hive
  • Guide to children’s literature and books.
• Brain Pop
  • Educational games, video clips, and quizzes for students. Full use of site requires membership. Rose Park has a membership: User name: ilikediane Password: popbrain
• Chateau Meddybemps
  • Activities to help young children strengthen learning skills in unique and playful ways.
• Enchanted Learning
  • Games, information, and activity pages.
• FunBrain
  • Kids games with parent and teacher resources.
• Kids Corner
  • Site for kids from “The Back to God Hour.”
• Kidsreads.com
  • Links to authors, series, book reviews, games, and special features.
• ON-LION for Kids
  • Links to recommended books, magazines, authors and illustrator sites from the New York Public Library.
• Quiz-tree.com
  • Math, reading, language, and geography games.
• Safe Internet Web Searching
  • Links to kid-safe search engines, games, and activities.

• KidsHealth
  • Clicking on “home” links to a health site for parents and a health site for teens. Searchable sites.

• Aaron Sheperd’s Home Page
  • Stories and scripts for reader’s theater and more!
• Compound Words
• Contractions
• English Zone
• Giggle Poetry
  • Read and rate humorous poems written by other students and by published authors.
• Spelling City
  • The site has over 35,000 spelling words and eight games. Thousands of free spelling lists for students and teachers can save their own.
• StarFAll
  • Where children have fun learning to read!
• Writing With Writers
  • Students work with authors, editors and illustrators in exclusive workshops designed to guide them in developing their writing skills. Featured activities included for writing poetry, book reviews, folktales, and speeches. Grades 1-8.

• ALA (American Library Association)
• Awesome Library for Kids
  • Includes links to all subjects, games, projects, authors, adventures, and more. Searchable site.
• Book Reviews
  • Book reviews written to assist librarians in selection, written by a Middle School Media Specialist.
• Books in a Series
  • Find out what title comes next in your favorite series. This site, maintained by the Monroe County Public Library, Indiana, lists the titles of many children’s series in order.
• Herrick District Library
• Internet Library for Librarians
• Librarian’s Index to the Internet
  • A team of librarians contribute to this site that will point you to excellent resources on a huge variety of topics.
• Library Spot
• M.A.M.E. Michigan Association for Media in Education.
• Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Web Page
  • Links to booktalks, lists of recommended reading, book reviews by children or other information about children’s literature.
• Nancy Polette’s Children’s Literature Website
  • Provides help in developing reading, writing, reasoning, and research skills K-8.
• Resources for School Librarians
• Picturing Books
• Vandergrift’s Children’s Literature Page
  • Discusses literature in the lives of children. Offers topical book lists.

• American Girl
  • Some activities available without subscribing to the magazine.
• National Geographic for Kids
• Owlkids Online
  • Includes CHIRP, CHICKADEE, and OWL. Some activities available without subscribing to the magazines.
• Ranger Rick’s Go Wild
  • The online version of the magazine includes web sites for homework help, monthly activities, games, sections for parents and teachers and a sneak preview of the current issue.
• Scholastic News Online
  • Classroom magazines online.
• Sesame Street
  • Early learning concepts are featured via stories, poems, and activities with Bert, Ernie, and other Sesame Street Characters. The website connects to Sesame Workshop pages for parents and kids.
• Spigot
  • Online science magazine for kids and classrooms.
• Sports Illustrated for Kids
  • Complete site access requires registration. The Web version mirrors the print edition while capitalizing on the magazine’s interactive appeal.
• Time for Kids

• A+Math.com
  • Students learn math on this interactive site.
• Illuminations
  • Math activities, games, and lessons designed by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Search by grade level, operations, standards.
• IXL Math
  • Games and exercises for math practice at all levels.
• Math Magician
  • Practice your math facts here. Set your own level and kind of problems.
• Mr. Maffesoli’s Math
  • Designed to provide math links for students, guidance for parents, and standards based resources for teachers.
• Mr. Nussbaum’s Math
  • Dozens of math games! Have fun, practice your skills.
• Multiplication.com
  • Play games to build your speed at multiplication. Choose by fact families and level of difficulty.
• RTI Math

• Time for Kids
• FOX News
• MSNBC

• DSO Kids
  • Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Kids! Play games, listen to music, make your own musical instruments, and more.
• Music Theory
  • Begin your journey into the realm of music.
• New York Philharmonic Kidzone
  • Fun, kid-friendly site. Learn about instruments, composers, conductors, and more. Compose your own music, invent your own instrument. Play games.
• San Fransisco Symphony Kids
  • Compose a tune! Learn about instruments! Play games!

• Children’s Book Reviews
  • Good books for kids. Carol Hurst’s site searchable by grade level, title or author.
• Education Place: Parents’ Place
  • Activities and resouces for parents, caregivers, and home schoolers who want to help their children excell in school.
• Great Websites for Kids
  • Great sites: amazing, spectacular, mysterious, wonderful web sites for kids and the adults who care about them. From American Library Association.
• SafeKids.com
  • Your family’s guide to making technology fun, safe and productive.
• Trelease-on-Reading.com
  • Jim Trelease’s site is aimed at anyone who is interested in reading aloud to children of all ages.

• Children’s Book Reviews
  • Good books for kids. Carol Hurst’s site searchable by grade level, title or author.
• Education Place: Parents’ Place
  • Activities and resouces for parents, caregivers, and home schoolers who want to help their children excell in school.
• Great Websites for Kids
  • Great sites: amazing, spectacular, mysterious, wonderful web sites for kids and the adults who care about them. From American Library Association.
• SafeKids.com
  • Your family’s guide to making technology fun, safe, and productive.
• Trelease-on-Reading.com
  • Jim Trelease’s site is aimed at anyone who is interested in reading aloud to children of all ages.

• Almanac
  • Information Please site. A vast compendium of statistics with up-to-date facts and figures.
• Atlas
  • Information Please site. Features maps and detailed profiles of countries and states.
• Atlas
  • National Geographic’s Xpeditions atlas.
• Dictionary
• EdSelect
  • Links to reference sites.
• Encyclopedia
  • Information Please site. Current and comprehensive covering all the major branches of knowledge.
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Electric Library (Elementary)
  • Must be used on HC network
• Fact Monster
  • Online almanac, atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia.
• Information Please
  • Homepage to the Information Please Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Almanac.
• Internet Public Library
• MEL Michigan Electric Library
  • Michigan eLibrary: Login from home using a Michigan driver’s license or library card
• Picture Dictionary
  • Little Explorers English Picture Dictionary. Additional links to 7 other languages.
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Thesaurus
• Wiki Media
  • Search here for images to import into your documents.
• World Book Online
  • We have a year’s subscription to this great resource to access at school or at home. Username and password is available for Pine Ridge students and parents.

• Answers.com
  • Searches for accurate, high quality, credible answers to your search questions.
• Discovery Education
  • Find videos, images, clip art, songs, encyclopedia articles and more at this site. Search by subject, grade level, or media type. User name and password are required. See your media specialist or tech teacher.
• Enchanted Learning
• Fact Monster
  • Online almanac, atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia.
• Herrick Public Library
• InfoTrac Web Library of Michigan
  • Must be on HC network.
• KnightCite
  • Use this citation maker for your works cited page.
• SIRS Discoverer on the web

• Answers.com
  • Searches for instant and accurate facts.
• Awesome Library for Kids
  • Includes links to subjects, games, authors, adventure, and more.
• Dewey Browse
  • Websites organized by the Dewey Decimal system for grades K-12.
• DogPile
  • All the best search engines piled into one.
• Google
• Safe Internet Web Searching
• Yahoo

• Animals: National Geographic
• Astronomy for Kids
  • Learn about space travel and the solar system.
• Dinosaurs: KidsDinos
• DinoDictionary.com
  • A resource for hunting dinosaurs. With profiles of over 300 known dinosaurs, immerse yourself in a wealth of knowledge about the giants that roamed the earth so long ago!
• Dinosaurs: Zoom Dinosaurs
  • Enchanted Learning online interactive hypertext book about dinosaurs designed for students of all ages.
• Endangered Animals: Animal Info
  • Information about endangered mammals from Science NetLinks.
• Endangered Animals: Animal Diversity
• Endangered Animals: Birds
  • A site from Cornell University.
• Endangered Animals: Field Guides
  • From eNature.
  • Endangered Animals: Humane Society
    • A closer look at wildlife.
  • Endangered Animals: Kids Planet
    • This web site provides students with information about specific endangered animals, activities, a link to a wolf site and a story about the web of life. This site is both educational and fun.
  • Endangered Animals: National Geographic Kids
  • Endangered Animals: San Diego Zoo
  • Endangered Species: World Wildlife
    • World Wildlife Fund’s Endangered Species site. Read about selected endangered species and view photographs.
  • Nine (8) Planets
    • The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
  • Oceans and Seas
    • From Enchanted Learning.
  • Ocean Animal Printouts
    • Provides easy-to-read Information and Printouts.
  • Sites for Zoos and Animals

• America’s Story from America’s Library
  • Discover the stories of America’s past: Meet Amazing Americans; Jump Back in Time; Explore the States; Join America at Play; See, Hear, and Sing.
• CIA Fact Book
  • Information about countries of the world.

• Enchanted Learning Spanish Dictionary
  • English to Spanish AND Spanish to English Dictionary.
• My Spanish Dictionary
• Translator Alligator
  • FunBrain Spanish (as spoken in Spain)–4 different levels.

• ABC teach
• Cyberguides
  • Teacher guides and student activities. CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.
• Discovery Education
  • Digital resources–videos, clip art, sounds, writing prompts and much more.
• DLTK’S Printable Crafts for Kids
• EdSelect
  • Canadian based site with links for educators.
• Education Place
  • Houghton Mifflin’s page with links to reading, language arts, science, social studies and math.
• Education World
  • The Educators best friend.
• Educator’s Lesson Plans
  • Through The Educator’s Reference Desk you can access AskERIC’s 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
• Enchanted Learning
  • Access additional resouces by entering our user name and password.
• Internet4classrooms
  • Helping teachers use the internet effectively.
  • A Kid’s Heart
    • Crafts, clip art, ideas for teaching young children. A Christian perspective.
  • Lamb’s Cool Starting Points
    • Use the index for links and search tools to nearly 100 cool K-12 class topics. Start with an exploration of these search tools and starting points for students and teachers. Before reinventing the wheel, see if anyone has created something that might fit your needs.
  • Learn360
    • Video clips, streaming video, audio, and images. See media specialist for login information.
  • Media Net
    • OAISD’s booking system for AV resources. Learn360 is linked here also.
  • MyT4L
    • MyT4L is your best resource for supporting project work with students. MyT4L includes software tutorials and reference guides, online tools, and a step-by-step process for implementing project-building with students. Use tools for creating rubrics, graphic organizers and citation lists for projects.
  • PBS TeacherSource
    • PBS TeacherSource is your one-stop shop for PBS educational resources for K-12 classrooms.
  • Puzzlemaker.com
    • Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
  • REMC7 / Media Net
    • Find and reserve AV resources. Link to Learn360 AV resources from this site also.
  • Scholastic for Teachers
    • Free tools and resources for your classroom.
  • Teachers @ Work
    • Over 1,000 best internet sites for teachers.
  • Thinkfinity
    • FREE lesson plans and educational resources. Over 50,000 resources for teachers. Literacy, Education, and Technology.

• HCS Moodle
• 4Teachers.org
  • This site works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars.
• Clip Art and Backgrounds
• Holland Christian Tech Helpdesk
• Learn360
  • Video clips, streaming video, audio, and images. See media specialist for login information.
• MyT4L
  • MyT4L is your best resource for supporting project work with students. MyT4L includes software tutorials and reference guides, online tools, and a step-by-step process for implementing project-building with students. Use tools for creating rubrics, graphic organizers and citation lists for projects.
• Media Net
  • OAISD’s booking system for AV resources. Learn360 is linked here also.
• PowerPoint Graphics
• REMC7 / Media Net
  • Find and reserve AV resources here. Link to Learn360 from this site also.