Educational Links

www.yahooligans.com
At school this is our home page.  This search engine is not only safe but very easy for children to use.  Usually the younger children find what they are looking for here but, the older children often need to go to more complex search engines to find the information they are looking for.

www.scholastic.com
This is a place to find a wealth of information for students and teachers.  It's a neat place to set up a live chat with a children's author.  At one time we paid a yearly fee for this site.  Presently  the owner of Scholastic feels that it is  valuable  for all school districts to have access to this resource and is offering it free.

www.scied.bnl.gov/sciweb/index1.html
This is our MSTe (Math, Science and Technology for Elementary School) site.  We are one of the lead schools out of twenty schools given a grant from the National Science Foundation to implement MSTe.  The lead teachers in our district are Lynne Marshall and Kathy Haack.

www.quest.arc.nasa.gov
This is a great place to learn about all the programs developed by NASA.  In addition, it's a great place to have a live chat with someone involved with the space program.

www.jasonproject.org
April Pokorny, our science teacher is the coordinator  and advisor of the Jason Club in our school.  Students use this site to communicate with other schools, organizations and scientists to develop science projects.

www.odyssey.org
Jamie Thom,  is our coordinator and advisor of the Odyssey of the Mind  kids in our school.  They work on many problem solving activities and compete within their county, the state and nationally.

www.whitehouse.gov
Take a virtual tour of the White House.   Our first graders  use this site as part of their Social Studies curriculum.

www.clpgh.org/cmnh/discovery
This wonderful site offers students the opportunity to explore dinosaurs in a very interactive way.  This is one of the  sites our second graders use to learn how to take notes .  The site is located at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

www.askjeeves.com
This site gives students the opportunity to search for information on any topic.  They can ask questions on almost any topic and receive answers from a character named  Jeeves.  This is a protected site that weeds out negative responses.

www.puzzlemaker.com
This is a great place to have some fun with math teasers and puzzles.  It also enables you to create your own word search and crossword puzzles.

www.ex.ac.uk/Mirrors/nineplanets
Bill Arnett is the developer of this site.  He has a love for astronomy, which makes this site very complete and interesting.

Civil War
This resource will be used extensively by the fifth grade as they study American History. Anyone looking for information about the Civil War will find this site very informative.