Curriculum Websites
Newly Alphabetized! Websites below cover a range of curriculum topics and are organized into three categories:
- Informational text - where you can find e-text on a variety of topics
- Activities for students - These sites offer more than text - there are games and activities that kids can do online.
- Teacher tools and lesson plans - These websites help you with the job of teaching and offer tools such as quiz and rubric makers and sites with lesson plans.
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| Informational text |
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| Ask Jeeves For Kids - This search engine provides a location for younger students to do online research. |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica - You can choose to search in the elementary, middle, or high school encyclopedia, or all at once. Subscription required. | x |
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| Infotrac - Student resource center: geography, culture, history, literature, science, health, multimedia. Students can search for basic, intermediate or advanced material. Subscription required. | x |
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| New! National Geographic Pioneer - An online news magazine appropriate for younger kids. Also has a a bank of pictures for download. | x |
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| Nettrekker - An educational search engine that yields results sorted by reading level. A good description of the resource including its rating on a variety of reading indices is included. All findings can be read using the built-in text to speech engine. Subscription required. | x |
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| NewsBank: KidsPage - offers a search engine and texts on a variety of topics sorted by Lexile level. Subscription required. Once you log in, click on "KidsPage." | x |
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| Read Write Think and Marco Polo - This link takes you to the advanced search page which allows you to search for material based on keyword and grade level. You can choose to omit lesson plans in your search, making it more likely for you to find websites that you can take material from or use directly with students. | x |
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| Scholastic News - An online news magazine appropriate for kids. | x |
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| SIRS Discoverer - Current events, U.S. Govt. resources, arts, humanities. Subscription required. | x |
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| SIRS Knowledge Source - Current events, U.S. Govt. resources, arts, humanities for an older audience. You can search by lexile level. Subscription required. | x |
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| World Book Online Reference Center - Subscription required. | x |
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| Yahooligans - This search engine is similar to Ask Jeeves but uses different data bases for the results. | x |
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| Activities for students |
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| Brain Pop - Videos, and information on a wide variety of science, history, math, health, technology, English topics. Appeals to all grade levels. Subscription required. MCPS does not hold a subscription, but some MCPS schools do. | x |
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| Kids Click - You can find sites to supplement teaching on many topics. Use the Advanced Search to limit results by reading level or number of pictures. | x |
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| Scholastic's Online Activities - Choose a grade level and a topic area and then select from a list of interactive online activities for kids. The search function will search the entire Scholastic website including lesson plans and teacher strategies, and not just the online activities. | x |
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| School Time Games - online interactive games related to the curriculum, including science and social studies. | x |
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| Teacher tools and lesson plans |
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| 4Teachers - "the online space for teachers integrating technology into the curriculum" has many tools to support universal design for learning including PursuadeStar, RubiStar, TrackStar, QuizStar, and more... | x |
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| 4Teachers: PursuadeStar - This free online application is designed to help students in grades 5-12 write an online persuasive essay. One of the free tools from 4Teachers. | x |
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| 4Teachers: Quizstar - Create your own quizzes online. Students can take the quiz online and you can review the results all in one place. Free until the end of the 06-07 school year from 4Teachers. Subscription required after the end of the school year. | x |
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| 4Teachers: Rubistar - This will save you hours of time - not just in creating your own rubrics, but in thinking of appropriate areas of measurement for tasks so that you can really know if your students are learning. One of the free tools from 4Teachers. | x |
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| 4Teachers: Trackstar - Use keywords to search for teacher designed lists of weblinks on a wide variety of educational topics. You can also make your own list, called a “track” to focus your students' online reasearch. One of the free tools from 4Teachers. | x |
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| New! eThemes Resources - an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate Internet resources organized around specific academic themes. Scroll down for the link to the search page. | x |
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| Houghton Mifflin Education Place - Search teaching ideas or find online supports to Houghton Mifflin text books. This site is most useful as a support to text books you are already using in class. | x |
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| Read Write Think and Marco Polo - This link takes you to the advanced search page which allows you to search for material based on keyword and grade level. You can choose to omit lesson plans in your search, making it more likely for you to find websites that you can take material from or use directly with students. | x |
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| New! Thinkport - All teachers should be familiar with the resources offered on this site sponsored by PBS. It includes easily accessible digital media, interactive resources, lesson plans, online professional development, technology how-tos, resources for families, and more. | x |
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Subscription Sites: Some of the websites listed require a paid subscription. These are noted with Subscription required. MCPS holds a subscription for all sites listed on this page, except where noted. If you are an MCPS teacher, you can obtain login and password information from your school media specialist. In some cases, you will not need to log in at all if you are using an MCPS computer. See other websites to which MCPS holds a subscription.
Share your input. If you have used links on this page, or have other links that you find particularly useful for implementing the concepts of universal design for learning in the area of reading, then please email the webmaster with your comments.
Disclaimer: This web page may contain links to one or more pages outside the MCPS Web. MCPS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.
Updated November 13, 2007 | Maintained by by Linda Wilson
