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 snlowflake . . . 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.

The Getty Education Lesson Plans - Search by grade level and school subject. Lesson plans download in attractive documents and offer hyperlinks to art images on the Getty site.

Pathfinder links for citation sites - our page of links to citation styles in writing.

2008 Presidential Election - links to sites about electing our president.

2008 Summer Olympics - links to offical Olympics sites, lesson plans, clip art and more.

EnvisionMath and SuccessNet by Pearson - the online version of VUSD math textbooks for grades K-8, the site also features tutorials, interactive math tools, teacher-assigned activities and work pages. Students need an access code to log on, provided by his or her teacher.

Welcome to PestWorld for Kids educational children's website dedicated to pests. The web site explores pest ecology as the intersection between human-created habitats and animal needs for food and shelter. The site designed for elementary teachers and students and offers information resources, interactive learning games, and lesson plans that support National Science Standards.

Tiger Adventure Games - interactive games appropriate for kids age 10 and higher. 1) TIGER ON THE LOOSE - help the police track and identify a tiger which has escaped from the airport customs office; 2) ZOO TIGER - design and build a zoo exhibit to house a tiger; 3) SAVE THE TIGER! - Take the Jambi challenge to see if you know the genetics of breeding tigers; 4) TRACKING THE TIGER TRADE - capture tiger poachers, then follow the tiger parts to their destination; 5) SURVIVE! - You are a Bengal tiger. Can you survive in the wild?

American Immigration Overview - an overview of U.S. immigration using pictures, timelines, and voice-over narration. Special events such as the Irish Potato Famine, Asian Immigration, Immigration in Cities and Town, as well as a discussion of the "melting pot." Personal Histories provide an opportunity at the end to stop and review what has been read and heard in form of short quizzes.

Tracking the Buffalo - An interactive site from The Smithsonian that explores the role of the buffalo in the lives of the American Indians of the northern plains. The site if has a variety of activities for students and resources for teachers.

Make Beliefs Comix - have fun making a comic strip online and improve language, reading, and creative skills in the process. Easy interface and great fun to print.

Yellow Jackie is a first-person, click-through science mystery that takes place on a sail across half the Pacific. It's designed for upper elementary and secondary students, and should take about an hour to solve. See the Teacher page for tips on using in the classroom.

TumbleBooks Books online made available through the Solano County Library web site. Most have audio, so turn up the speakers. Requires Flash player.

Pathfinder links for WWII sites - our page of Internet links to accompany research World War II.