New Sites to the VUSD Web Index

Science of Everyday Life - Activities for parents, students and teachers centered around science.

Alphabet Organizer - Create good looking printouts of words grouped alphabetically

Acrostic Poem Creator - helps brainstorm words and create the final acrostic printout

Teachers First Brain Twisters - Elementary and middle school stumpers that change weekly. Can be solved on-screen or printed. Fun!

Art Projects For Kids Ideas and template for completing fairly complex art projects in the classroom.

ThatQuiz.org - An online drill-and practice tool for a wide variety of subjects and grade levels. Teachers can create a free account and then upload a list of student names so that student progress can be checked after taking a quiz.

The Ancient Greeks - BBC website for students about the everyday Ancient Greece (and ancient olympics.)

GLOBAL TREK -- GREECE - an online world tour to learn about the history of Greece and the Olympic Games.

The Story Chick - Original short stories (most are one-page) for grades 2-8 to print in pdf.

ThinkFinity - A web site for free, searchable lesson plans.

VUSD - Eat Well, Be Well - Child Nutrition's new web site for fitness and food.

AFRICA! We Connect - Vacaville Museum upcoming exhibit.

State Map Game - Can you drag all 50 states into the correct places on a blank USA map?

Today's Front Pages - more than 700 newspapers from around the world posted by the Newseum in Washington D.C.

Neanderthals on Trial investigates the long-standing mystery of Neanderthal man.

Discovery Education Classroom Resources This website has everything from lesson plans to how-to videos to puzzlemakers, and more for all grade levels.

Make a Flake Flash website to cut out a virtual paper snowflake . . . without the mess!

Snowflake Bently - all about Wilson Bentley and his study of snowflakes more than 100 years ago

How Crystals Grow

Interactives - Rock Cycle Activities from Learner.org.

Odyssey Online: Greece Flash-based resource allows the user to select from one several topics (Death, Conquest, Gods, Animals, Democracy, Architecture, Geography, Lifestyle, Cities,and Epics).

Online Timer / Stopwatch

SpellingCity.com - More than 35,000 spelling words and 8 spelling games online.

Graves County Schools PowerPoints and Jefferson County Schools PowerPoints. Premade PowerPoint files for elementary classrooms

National Geographic Young Explorer - Classroom magazine for kindergarten and first grade and National Geographic Kids for grade 2-7.

Literactive - Online reading materials and phonic activities for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students. Materials are available for free, but registration is required.

The Getty Art Collection - Browse the collection by artists, subjects, types of art and more.

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