Web Links for Middle School
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Universally Designed Website - These websites are designed in tiered levels to support the diversity of reading levels.
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Daily Activities
Easily integrate technology on a daily basis with these websites.
English Language Arts
Read, Write, Think – Student materials and more.
Write Site – An interactive language arts and journalism project for middle schools.
Scholastic Authors and Books Online
ePals – Classroom-to-classroom projects and cross-cultural learning in the world's largest online classroom community.
RapidCite – An online tool to create citations for a bibliography.
Math
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – interactive with standards-based lessons and instructions.
NCTM Illuminations – Excellent resource on standards-based lessons with interactive activities.
Funbrain – Math activities and games.
Global Grocery List (interdisciplinary)
AAA Math – Math Support including basic addition to Geometry, Ratios and Statistics. Hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills with interactive practice on every page with an explanation of the math topic.
WebMath – Looking for ways to help your students understand mathematical processes, this site will fit the bill.
Social Studies
Eyewitness to History – Eyewitness accounts from those who were there; Ancient Times to the 20th Century.
Ben’s Guide to Government for Kids – A universally designed and content-rich website tiered for grade levels.
The Civil War through a Child’s Eyes (Grades 6-8)
Science
Center for Educational Resources
Exploratorium Online Exhibitions
Windows on the Universe – A content-rich site offering three levels of reading for the elementary, middle and high school student; also in English and Spanish.
The Brain from Top to Bottom – Offers a three-tiered level of information: beginner, intermediate and advanced.
Research Links
Kid’s Click – Includes lessons on teaching students how to search on web and multiple ways to search for a topic. Websites are screened by librarians and each site indicates the reading level of the resource.
Internet Public Library – Two levels are located on this site; Kidspace and Teenspace.
American Memory – From the Library of Congress.
Teacher Resources
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
MarcoPolo – A wealth of lesson plans and activities searchable by grade level and content area.
Blue Web’n – Top K-12 websites searchable by grade level, content and subject.
Visual Learning with Kidspiration and Inspiration
Inspiration and Kidspiration Collection of Links – Links to virtually hundreds of templates covering all content areas in K-12.
Global Schoolhouse – Telecollaborative and teleresearch projects.
Virtual Architecture – a site filled with telecollaborative and teleresearch projects.
Copyright-friendly images for Educators – Including sign language alphabet and numbers!
RubiStar – Create rubrics for project-based activities.
PBL Checklist – Project-based checklists to help students take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation.
Freeware
ReadPlease 2003 – A free reader to put on your desktop that can be used as a reader and a proofreader.
WordWeb – A free dictionary and thesaurus for Windows. It includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs and the web. WordWeb works from a small icon in your system tray.
BlockCAD – A freeware program for building virtual models with Lego-like bricks.
Feel free to suggest websites that support diverse learners. Email us at khm@edtech-associates.com or use our contact form.