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Internet Resources  

Summer Resources A variety of educational resources for parents and students to access throughout the year.

Pioneer Web Activities This site provides a link to a variety of pioneer sites, listed by topics - anything from Westward Expansion to Pioneer Living.

The Official Roald Dahl Website Roald Dahl has MANY humorous and fun books for children. This site offers many fun and educational activities for students.

Intel Thinking Tools This site is a wonderful online resource for educators to use in designing activities involving technology and higher level thinking.

Citation Wizard Another wonderful resource produced by the 21st Century Information Fluency Project! This allows students to create citations in several different formats.

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Top Educational Sites Peggy Steffens has created a page for use by teachers and students. She has links to useful resources, search engins, and much more.

Time For Kids Time for Kids provides a wonderful site with student friendly news articles, games, and polls.

Lexile Framework for Reading This file explains how to use the lexile website (www.lexile.com). Thank you Mrs. Eldridge for creating this useful guide!

Evaluating Internet Resources The 21st Century Information Fluency Project has designed a resource for use with evaluating Internet sites. There are ten steps to guide students through evaluating the resources used for research.

Eduscapes Evaluating Internet Sites This site provides teachers with ideas for teaching students how to evaluate Internet sites. It also links to several real, silly and fake sites.

Search Tool This is my favorite of the 21st Century Information Fluency Project resources. This site helps students narrow their online searches for information.

Scholatic Pioneers This site provides fun activities about pioneers.

Web Evaluation for Primary This is a short and simple form to use when evaluating sites.