Lynn Curley's List: Dr. Polly List of Websites Homework June08

This website gives elementary-age children learning opportunities in a "fun and games" environment for a variety of subject areas, including: reading, writing, art, and math. I would use this in learning centers throughout various parts of my instructio

This web site offers practice exercises, study resources, and sample tests for the subject areas addressed by the state-administered tests. This is a good resource to have students use at home on the Internet, and one from which I might also print sample

This site is for older elementary school students (possibly grades 4 and 5) and contains tutorials about how to use software applications commonly used in K-12 classrooms (e.g., Internet Explorer, Inspiration, WebQuest, Excel and many more). I would use

This website offers many different contexts for using manipulatives to understand measurements (e.g., pouring liquid from one container to another, counting money, building patterns). I would use this in a learning center within the classroom for small g

This website offers a set of "quick facts" about North Carolina and also allows the student to perform key-word searches and also to interact with librarians / media specialists to ask specific questions and get specific responses from a live person. I w

This website offers the student several exercises to assist in the development of writing skills in the areas of grammar, punctuation and spelling; it also offers specific exercises for ESL students. I would use this to enhance the abilities of my ESL (E

This website offers the most comprehensive set of practice exercies to develop and reinforce students' skills in language arts, including: sentence construction, verbs, clauses and phrases, punctuation, pronouns, spelling, grammar and vocabulary. I woul

This website covers a wide range of science topics and delivers information in the form of short research articles and reports. I would use this website as a resource for students to use when gathering data to support hypotheses and findings from our cla