BHCSD Bunker Hill High School Meissner Junior High School Wolf Ridge Educational Center
Learning Adventures on the Internet
A Daily Dose of the Web
Check out the weather!!
http://weather.com
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Brain teasers/word of the day/logic problems and more!!
http://internet4classrooms.com/daily_dose.htm
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Today in History----A link from the Library of Congress website
http://memory.loc.gov/
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Get the latest news for the day. Weekly Reader's website is divided into news for kids (K-6) and
news for teens. There is also an interactive news game that can be played.
http://www.weeklyreader.com/
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Another site for a daily news bulletin.
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/db/DailyBulletin.html
Word of the Day Sites – Merriam Webster Or from Dictionary.com
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl or http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/
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Live Web Cams:
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When using with your class:
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Always preview the site before taking your
students to it!
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You may need to preview the site at the same time
of day your class will be viewing to make sure the time of day works.
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Check out what other cams students may wander
into.
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Some web cams temporarily go down.
http://www.leonardsworlds.com/
Lots of Child Safe Cams
http://animal.discovery.com/cams/cams.html
See tigers, pandas, gorillas, sharks, & elephants.
http://www.amphi.com/~psteffen/fieldcam.htm
Virtual Field Trips & Web Cams in the Classroom – contains good starting
points, links to museums, zoos, points of interest, and other misc. cams
http://www.earthcam.com/
Use this site to search for cams all over the world.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour/
Take a photo tour thru the White House.
http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
The Virtual Body – Rebuild the skeleton, tour the heart, digestive track,
learn about the brain parts, and much more!
http://www.nyctourist.com/liberty1.htm
Take a photo tour of the Statue of Liberty – you can even link to other
sights in NYC.
Local Cams:
St. Louis Arch Photo Gallery-
http://stlouisarch.com/main.html - then click on photos.
The City Museum Virtual Tour -
http://www.citymuseum.org/
Online Collaborative Projects
http://www.gsn.org/pr/
Global SchoolHouse Internet Project Registry – over 778 projects to choose
from.
Online Adventures
http://www.goals.com/Index.htm
GOALS: Global Online Adventure Learning Site. Explorers of all ages are
invited to accompany adventurers to the Arctic Circle, across the Sahara, up
mountains and over oceans.
The NASA K-12 Internet Initiative offers several space-related interactive projects that are open to teachers and students.
Online Field Trips
http://www.field-trips.org/vft/index.htm
A free, educational resource that organizes information into online field
trips for K-12 nature and science exploration. Current field trips include
hurricanes, salt marshes, oceans, rainforests and more.
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/
http://www.hersheys.com/index.shtml
take a tour of the Hershey’s factory
Internet Scavenger Hunts
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/hunt/archives/
http://www.cyberbee.com/hunts.html
Online Activities
http://internet4classrooms.com/daily_dose.htm
Daily Dose of the Web – Lots of quick activities.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/index.htm
This is your chance to visit countries around the world. Global Trek allows
you to explore interesting facts about the countries, look at photos, meet
the people, and write a travel journal. Book your trip now!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/
Scholastic’s Online Activities Center has lots to choose from
http://teacher.scholastic.com/mathhunt/index.asp
Travel to cool Web sites and hunt for the answers to math problems. Many
locations to choose from.
E-mail Pen Pals
http://www.epals.com/scholastic/index_sch.html?seesf=1394715
Connect & Collaborate with classes around the world from Scholastic
http://www.askanexpert.com/
Have a question? Here's a list of e-mail addresses of experts in a variety
of fields who are willing to assist educators and students.
This site is designed and maintained by Shawn Farris.
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