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*These links are not reviewed by or endorsed by Gateway Elementary, Woodland Park School District or affiliates. They are simply provided as a resource for families looking for additional enrichment. Please notify of any links that may be offensive in any way. Thank you! We hope you find some useful and fun activities and resources!


ANIMALS:
Animl Photos: By Nat Geo


Everything Animals Resource Center, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit humane education organization.  Our live animal presentations and educational materials focus on the importance of respect, kindness, tolerance, compassion and personal responsibility.


DICTIONARY:
Online Visual Dictionary



GEOGRAPHY:
National Geographic Atlas Explorer: Investigate our world. Click on the map to zoom in!



LANGUAGE ARTS:
Grammar Monster
Fun English Games:  Grammar/English games/videos/spelling/quizzes/lesson plans, etc

LOCAL:
Lake George Enrichment: a group of homeschool families who gather on Thursday mornings. Both moms and students teach classes in their skill and interest areas, and everybody benefits. Because of the generosity of our host church, we can offer a full semester of classes for only $10 per student. Moms are free!

Lake George Gem And Mineral Club: Our club is centered geographically on one of the most interesting and exciting mineral collecting regions of the United States right here in Colorado. In addition to outstanding specimens of amazonite, smoky quartz, and topaz the varied rock types of the Lake George region yield many other mineralogically interesting and beautiful earth treasures.  A major benefit of club membership is more access to key collecting sites and to technical knowledge regarding optimal methods to prospect and collect.




MATH:
Academic Skill Builders: research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Play free multi-player and single-player games.

Multiplication.com: This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers!

iKnowThat: Math, science, language arts and more

AAA Math: features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.

Math Fact Cafe: Free math worksheets for elementary school and home use. This includes generators for math drills, flashcards, time, money, and more!

Math Playground: an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!

Cool Math: Bored with math? Confused by math? Hate math? Yeah, Cool Math can fix that. 

A+ Math: developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

Homeschool Math: a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials and quizzes, curriculum guide, and math teaching help articles/lessons. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules.



PRESCHOOL:
Brightly Beaming Resources: Early Childhood Resources for the Home



READING:
Starfall: Learn to read with phonics 

raz kids: Interactive ebooks for children, K-6

SCIENCE:
Science a-z: Books, lessons and labs

Science With Me: an interactive online science community for kids, teachers, parents and home-schoolers.  If you have any question about science, Science With Me! is the first place to look.

Project BudBurst: A national phenology and climate change field campaign for citizen scientists;  Share your observations of phenophases such as first leaf, first flower, and first fruit of trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses.



SPELLING:
Spelling City: SpellingCity.com has:
  • Over 42,000 spelling words and customizable sentences
  • A REAL person who says each word and sentence
  • Free home pages for teachers and parents to save lists
  • Teacher training videos to show teachers and parents how to use SpellingCity.com
  • Customizable sentences for words with multiple meanings (e.g., a scale for weighing, to scale a mountain, the scale on a map)
  • Free printable handwriting worksheets for handwriting practice with your saved lists
  • Free teaching resources with lists and lesson plans for teaching high frequency words, compound words, sound-alike words (their, there, they're), contractions, possessives, and more. There are also lists for learning state capitals.
  • Twelve games to play online or to print: Spelling, Word Meaning, Vocabulary, Alphabetical Order
  • A free forum and newsletters with more vocabulary and spelling resources


STUDY:
Study Stack: Find flashcards to study or create your own flashcards. Study flashcards or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman, scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.



OTHER:
Inspiration: Lesson Plans for core subjects aligning with the Common Core

Ed Helper: Education Teacher Materials, Activities, Worksheets, Printables, and Lesson Plans

Sheppard Software: Hundreds of educational games, activities, quizzes, articles, and more for kids and everyone to use for free.

BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, BrainPOP EspaƱol, and BrainPOP ESL. All are supported by BrainPOP Educators, our teacher community now more than 125,000 members strong and featuring free lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic organizers, best practices, and much more. 

TLS Books:  You'll find a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use. Tlsbooks offers numerous worksheets to supplement your early childhood education program, home day care, elementary school classroom or home-school. Parents love using our free worksheets to help their child gain valuable readiness skills or to reinforce material they may already be learning in school.

National Geographic: Inspiring people to care about the planet

Super Teacher Worksheets - Free, Printable Math and ELA Worksheets for Teachers and Homeschool Families

Fact Monster:

Homeschool Central: Homeschool Resource Center;  find homeschool curriculum, supplies and other needs for the homeschool family.

Home School Legal Defense Association: A nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.

Rethinking Schools Online: A group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision.
They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States.
Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking Schools.

Homeschool News Link: Its purpose is to link together the two disparate worlds of homeschooling – religious and non-religious – for their mutual benefit. There are many resources and ideas that both groups can share freely, without encroachment on their fundamental beliefs or standards.
 
VOCABULARY:
Vocabulary a-z: Increase vocabulary for: K-6 students, remedial readers, English language learners, special education students, and struggling readers

WRITING

Writing a-z: Online writing lessons and materials