Vanessa+Furuto

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 * __[|A to Z Teacher Stuff]__**

This website would be considered a teacher resource site appropriate for preschool through 12th grade educators. It contains thousands of resources, including l esson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials, eBooks, printable worksheets, and emergent reader books. It also contains links to hundreds of other resource websites for educators. I personally found it to be incredibly easy to use and informative and definitely plan to use it when I become an educator.

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 * __ [|Teacher Planet] __**

This website would be considered a teacher resource site appropriate for preschool through 12th grade educators. It contains over 10,000 theme-based resources including lesson plans, templates, rubrics, worksheets, and theme units. It also contains links to grant resources and continuing education for current teachers. I found this website to be very user-friendly and informative. It was especially useful to me as it contained an entire section dedicated specifically to ESL resources. Overall, it was a very informative site.

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 * __ [|Scholastic] __**

This website would be considered an interactive site appropriate for preschool through 12th grade students. It contains hundreds of interactive student activities in Language Arts (reading response, grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, writing, and publishing), Social Studies (American History, geography, mapping, and world history), Science, Math, Technology and ELL. The activities were very comprehensive, user-friendly and informative. I found the site to be well designed and aesthetically pleasing for educators, students and parents. Overall, it was an exceptional site.

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 * __ [|National Geographic Kids] __**

This website would be considered an interactive site appropriate for preschool through 8th grade students. It contains games, activities, videos, and crafts primarily related to the study of science, geography and social studies. The website is very colorful, beautifully designed and user-friendly. The activities are incredibly engaging and age-appropriate. I personally found this website to be one of the best I came across during my research. I absolutely plan on using it when I become an educator.

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 * __[|Ask Jeeves for Kids]__**

This website would be considered an informational/student-use site appropriate for kindergarten through 8th grade students. It is a user-friendly, interactive interface that allows the student to search for answers to questions in Language Arts, Science, Geography, Math and current events. The student selects a topic area and then types his or her question into the search box. The system generates an answer appropriate to the question asked. I found the site to be very easy to use and informative. For example, I was able to type vocabulary words into the search engine and obtain age-appropriate definitions. The site also filters out inappropriate and harmful content. Overall, I was very impressed with the website.

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 * __[|Fact Monster]__**

This website would be considered an informational/student-use site appropriate for kindergarten through 8th grade students. It is a kid-friendly search engine that contains information on history, math, science and geography. It also contains a searchable almanac, dictionary, timeline, atlas and encyclopedia. I found this site to be incredibly easy to use and informative. The information provided was comprehensive and appropriate for elementary and middle school students. I would absolutely recommend this site to students when writing a research paper or constructing a presentation. Overall, this was an exceptionally informative site.

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 * __[|Kids Click]__**

This website would be considered an informational/student-use site appropriate for kindergarten through 12th grade students. It is a kid-friendly search engine developed by a group of librarians. It contains an online dictionary and encyclopedia as well as searchable information on religion, mythology, society, government, grammar, writing, science, math, computers, art, entertainment, sports, geography and history. The site contains a plethora of information on a variety of different topics. I found it to be incredibly informative and easy to use. The design was simple but very effective. Overall, this was an amazingly educational site.

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 * __[|Merriam Webster Atlas]__**

This website would be considered an informational/student-use site appropriate for elementary, middle and high school students. It contains a pull-down menu for both country and state maps. When a country or state is selected, the program not only displays a map and flag, but also gives ethnic composition, form of government, head of state, population, land use and gross national product. It is very easy to use and informative for students studying geography. I would absolutely recommend this site to my students.

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 * __[|The Biography Channel]__**

This website would be considered an informational/student-use site appropriate for elementary, middle and high school students. As the site name infers, it is a biography search engine that contains over 25,000 biographies. Depending on the age of the students, the site may provide too much or too specific information. I found the search engine to be very useful and would definitely recommend it to my students studying history or current events. It is a perfect resource for research papers and biographies.

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 * __[|Kid Rex (by Google)]__**

This website would be considered an informational/student-use site appropriate for elementary and middle school students. It is a Google Custom Search engine that emphasizes kid-appropriate content. It uses the same technology as Google to maintain a database of inappropriate words and websites. The user-interface is very colorful and friendly for young children. I would absolutely recommend it to my students as it is a perfect resource for obtaining information on a variety of topics.Type in the content of your page here.

I really enjoyed factmonster.com. Thank you for showing me the biography channel whebsite. What age group would you recommend that this website would be appropriate for? I would hope use it for my fourth grade kids. Tosha Skilling

Hi Vanessa, I also chose the Scholastic website; I think it is a wonderful interactive site for all grades. Seeing the National Geographic website brought back wonderful memories of student teaching. We used the regular National Geographic website to help students find information on a lesson on biomes, but I love this site because it is more kid friendly and the younger students are able to use the site as well, I forgot about how useful it was. I really liked all your sites. Yolonda