Study Break

• Maze Craze
  • Maze Craze is a small collection of makes that children can print and complete.
• Dot to Dot Printables
  • These are printable dot to dot sheets.
• GameGoo
  • GameGoo is home for fun, stick with you games that help students develop early reading skills and language skills.
• Funology
  • Funology.com delivers just what the name implies -- FUN! The site offers a large selection of activities for kids and promises to be the "one place where you'll never be bored!"
• Wacky Web Tales
  • Create wierd and wacky tales by filling in the blank of these stories. You can also create your own tales and submit for other poeple to fill out.
• Spelling Match
  • Choose your grade level and enjoy a spelling game.

Art/Music

• Impressionism
  • Impressionism: Paintings collected by European Museums explores the major themes of the painting technique and offers lesson plans and classroom resources for the 1-8 teacher.
• Art-Related Links
  • Collection of online resources divided by subject for easy surfing. You can find resources for medieval art or modern art. Asian Art or Egyptian Art and much much more.
• Exploratorium
  • The Exploratorium is an online extension of the real museum of art, science and human perception located in San Francisco. It includes over 12,000 Web pages, including video and audio files on a wide variety of topics.
• Chinese Tangrams
  • Create your own tangrams using drag and drop shapes. You may view a gallery of samples or just create on your own!
• Fine Art Online
  • Hartcourt School Publishers art unit on the Fine Arts. Topics in this unit include Fiber Art, Sculpture, Graphics Arts, Painting and Art Puzzles.
• Play our ArtEdventures
  • Our ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
• Classical Archives
  • Classical Archives is a comprehensive collection of classical music that features more than 18,800 digital files and represents more than 1,300 composers. There is a subscription area, but the site is mostly free.
• Jazz
  • Explore the history of Jazz, visit with a few of the keys Jazz figures or Learn how to be a Jazz master in the Jazz Lounge. Don't forget to visit Jazz Kids which is pretty cool.
• Blues
  • On our website we have information about the Blues Genere, Blues artists, and Blues instruments. We also have fun things like a Blue's quiz, Blues word-find, and recent Blues charts. We are trying to get people that don't know a lot about the Blues to find out things and still have fun. We are also trying to teach people how important the Blues are to our heritage.
• Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of the Music
  • Learn about Chords, Notes, Intervals, Instruments, Musical Notation, scales and more.
• Music Notes: An Interactive Musical Experience
  • This interactive, online musical experience puts the world of music at your fingertips. Theory, History, Styles, Professions, and Instruments are explained fully. Learn about note reading and chords, and explore historical information spanning from Medieval times to the present. The section on Music Styles is very in-depth and gives the definition and background on all types of music ranging from Caribbean to Rock.
• Music - The Unspoken Word
  • "Music - The Unspoken Word" is an interactive educational web site devoted to sharing the wealth and joys of music, with users around the world, in an easy and friendly manner. The site contains revolutionary adaptive technologies to aid in navigation and customization. Intent upon making the exploration of music an interesting and enjoyable experience, the designers have incorporated into the site an unusual interactive section, wherein one can listen to representative music, see interviews with famous musical personalities and respond to quizzes based on material contained in the web site.

Computers & Internet

• Welcome to the Web
  • "Welcome to the Web" is an interactive set of web pages which can be used to teach children about the Internet. The resources are in split into six sections: The Internet, Guestbooks, Web Browsers, Searching the Internet, Researching on the Net, The Welcome to the Web Challenge.
• CyberNetiquette Comix
  • Welcome to CyberNetiquette Comix, an entertaining, interactive way for families to learn valuable lessons about online safety. Join classic Disney characters for adventure, fun, and online awareness tips. We encourage parents and children to enjoy and discuss these interactive fables together.
• Don't Let the Web Catch You
  • This page was created to help childern, (adults as well), learn how to be safe on the Internet. We have searched the web and found many helpful tips on how to be safe on the Internet, harmful viruses, and a whole new "technological" language for you to learn about, including the words link, chatroom, modem, & many more.
• Computer Lessons for Kids and Small Adults
  • Learn the basics about how computers work and how you can use them, in six simple lessons.
• Triumph of the Nerds
  • PBS Online is proud to present the companion Web site for the PBS television special "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". On television and the Internet, you can learn in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self-proclaimed "nerds" accidentally changed the world.
• Soda Play
  • Sodaplay offers visitors the opportunity to practice their creativity as well as learn a little physics by building animated models online. Young and old alike are sure to be interactively engaged for hours as they experiment with the "sodaconstructor", "an online construction kit for building animated models". Visitors to the site can choose to build their own model from scratch or build upon one that was created by someone else. The models can be manipulated by adjusting the gravity, friction and spring tension.
• Copyright Tips and Issues
  • Before creating a school webpage, you should understand some basic copyright issues. What is fair use, the necessity of getting student permission to publish their work, and crediting other people's work can be found here.
• Create Your Own Web Page
  • Creating pages for the World Wide Web takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, it's a lot of fun. Whatever you want to put in your Web page, the directions in this step-by-step guide will show you how to do it.