West Field... Where
Everyone
Succeeds
Together
Mrs. Angela Coffman,
National Board Certified Teacher
Library Media Specialist
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Sites for Parents
Reference Help:
Refdesk is a free and
family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current
web-based resources. This site has it all: online dictionaries,
encyclopedias, almanacs, weather, maps, newspapers, crosswords, thesauruses,
quotations, and more. If you need to look something up, check here.
Sites for Students
SEARCH ENGINES:
The Internet Public Library (IPL) was built and is maintained by the library students at the University of Michigan School of Information. The KidSpace features: POTUS (Presidents of the United States), Science Fair Project Guides, Stately Knowledge, Orca Search, Poison Prevention, Culture Quest, Story Hour, and Learning HTML. There are also many wonderful links divide by subject area. The Internet Public also has a special TeenSpace with links for your older children.
This site is created and maintained by Gail Shea Grainger, a school librarian in New Hampshire. Arranged by Dewey Decimal System, this has wonderful, comprehensive links. And you don’t have to know the Dewey Decimal System to navigate the site.
Created by a group of librarians and maintained by library students, KidsClick! Provides a manageable list of reviewed and annotated links to websites for kids. Subjects are arranged by Dewey Decimal, but they can be viewed alphabetically also.
HOMEWORK HELPS:
“HowStuffWorks explains the world form the inside out!” This site contains short easy to understand explanations of a wide variety of topics. Great for those who have to know how things work.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/index.html
This site was developed and is maintained by teenager B. J. Pinchbeck and his father with links to over 700 helpful homework sites.
This reference tool is great for all children to find information about the world, U.S., sports, people, life and science. You can also find the latest news facts and what happened in history today. Great citation tool at the bottom of each page which shows students how to document the source where they found the information.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Researching a state? This site has it all: state songs, flower, tree, birds, maps (including outline maps), mottos and nicknames, geography, population, state representatives, and more.
Divided by grade level, this is an excellent overview of the U.S. government, its branches, its people, its historical documents, and how it all works.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Studying a country? This site has entries for over 250 countries with information such as: geography, people, government, economy, transportation, communications, defense, maps and much more.
SCIENCE:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
Pictures and information about thousands of animals with shortcuts to mammals, birds, arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, sharks, and bony fishes among others. Originally created by students at the University of Michigan for a biology course.
Sponsored by the Nemours Foundation, an organization that operates several children’s health facilities in the U. S., this site has excellent health information for kids, teens, and parents/caregivers.
This site gives an overview of the science, history, and mythology of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. A glossary is provided to explain many astronomical terms and proper names.
READING:
http://www.hbook.com/pdf/childrensclassics.pdf
The Horn Book, a literary review journal, annotates by category classic literature that all children should read. If you want a great classic book for your child to read, check out this list.
http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/catalist.html
NEA, National Education Association, lists teachers top 100 picks for children’s’ literature. Also available on this page is kids top 100 picks. These are good lists for great literature.
http://www.oklibs.org/sequoyah/
This is the official website of the Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award. Master lists are available here.
