With the presidential election just a month away, the campaigns are heating up. In addition to the official candidate sites for Barack Obama and John McCain, here are some online resources for students to learn about the election process...
Games for young children based on a topic scheme
Switcheroo zoo - make new animals from parts of others - the merging is great! Also featured is build an online habitat to make for a given animal - how near is your match?
Each fall, as a chill returns to the evening air, and homework returns to the kitchen table, parents repeat the dictionary mantra: "Look it up!"
Dictionary.com includes biblical names, chemical elements, computer terms, international statistics, and zip codes as well as the correct spelling and definition of English words — all in one search function.
The Free Dictionary is designed to be a customized home page, with optional word-related content that can be dragged, dropped or removed.
From "aardvark" to "zoologist," little Net surfers can click their way through the alphabet.
I don't know why my mouth trips over the word "quintessential." It's one of my favorite words lately.
A wiki is a type of collaborative website with integrated tools for adding and editing content. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org is one popular example, WikiHow.com is another.