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My Bookmarks
  • Hillcrest Elementary School
  • Ogden City School District
  •  Especially for Teachers
  •  General
    • Arcademic
      Arcademic Skill Builders are research-based and standards-aligned educational games that offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills.
    • Art from the Getty
      Online games that exposes students to art that they may not get to see otherwise, in fun game form.
    • BBC Schools
      Reading, math, and other learning resources for students, parents and teachers. This is a British site, so watch out for British spelling and vocabulary.
    • Enchanted Learning
      Information, printables, and dictionaries in several languages.
    • Exploratorium
      Gardening, global warming, faultlines, music, the Hubble Space telescope, and much more can all be explored here.
    • FunBrain Kids Center
      One of the best sites for K-8 learning games on the web. Covers every subject area and almost every crucial concept!
    • FunSchool
      Fun and educational games.
    • Gamequarium
      The site that swims with learning fun!
    • How Stuff Works
      Information, images, and videos explaining how almost everything works.
    • Internet4Classrooms
      A site designed to assist teachers in finding and using the best internet resources.
    • Kids Yahoo
      Games, music, movies, ask Earl, jokes, ecards, sports, and much more in this fun Yahoo site for kids.
    • Learning Planet
      This site offers some interesting interactive educational games for kids from grades K through 6. The games rely on Shockwave Player and are generally well designed.
    • Mr. Nussbaum - 1000 Sites in 1
      Games, math, science, social studies, language arts.
    • Museum Stuff
      This website can help you find museums online, a staggering variety of educational links, scads of interactive virtual exhibits, dozens of interesting museum shops, specialized content for museum professionals, and much more!
    • NetSmartzkids
      Internet safety games and videos.
    • PBS Kids
      Learning activities related to the PBS Kids broadcasts.
    • Pioneer Online Library
      Research and learning resources for students from pre-school to university. From home log in: Login Name: pioneer Password: home
    • Play Kids Games
      Free online games that are both fun and educational. Build skills in math, logic, memory, vocabulary, alphabet, spelling, geography, computer skills, color identification, shape identification and other various problem solving.
    • Primary Games
      Free games for kids, but there are advertisements. Some of the games need to be downloaded to your computer to work.
    • Quizlet
      Study vocabulary or almost anything. Create your own flashcards - sign up free, Share flashcards with your friends.
    • Safe Kids
      Safe Kids has links to Internet Safety tips for children and parents.
    • Scholastic Interactive Games
      Many learning games to choose from. There is Gem-O-Matic, Buggin' Out, Time Travelin', Volcano Lab, Rockin' Rock Grower, Stuck on Junk, Planet Pop-up, and many more.
    • UEN 3-6 Interactives
      Utah Education Network hosts these interactive learning modules for 3rd through 6th grade students.
    • UEN K-2 Interactives
      Utah Education Network hosts these interactive learning module sites for grades K through 2 students.
    • UEN Virtual Field Trips
      Virtual field trips that can take you almost everywhere you want to go!
    • USA Learns
      A free site for adults to learn English, improve basic reading, writing, speaking and life skills.
    • Webspiration
      Use Webspiration to map out ideas, organize with outlines and collaborate online with teams or colleagues. Webspiration unleashes your creativity, strengthens organizational skills, and transforms your ideas and information into knowledge.
    • Wicked Interactives
      A Kiwi site that has interactive activities in math, science, literacy, the South Pacific, and Maori. Watch for British spellings and idioms.
  •  Homework Help
  •  Keyboarding
    • BBC Keyboarding
      A British Broadcasting Corp. site that teaches keyboarding skills to all levels.
    • Computer Lab For Kids
      A Gamequarium site with many fun activities for use in the Computer Lab.
    • Gamequarium Keyboarding
      A fun site with lots of keyboarding games to practice typing skills.
    • Keyboard Lessons
      Lessons to learn keyboarding from start to finish.
    • Keyboarding Games for Kids
      Games for all ages. Build keyboard knowledge, skill, and speed with practice, practice, practice.
    • Keyboarding Practice
      This is a site from Davis School District. Great for learning keyboarding.
    • Nimble Fingers
      Features the "Little Professor" as your private instructor. Introduces the keys one at a time, analyzes errors, offers suggestions, interesting exercises, timed writings and flash cards to develop your ability.
    • Power Typing
  •  Language Arts
    • American Literature - A Chapter a Day!
      Numerous American literary classics are available here to download and read each day, including Moby Dick, O Pioneers!, Emerson's Essays, or The Wizard of Oz, and much more!
    • Animal Planet
      Learn more about dragons at Animal Planet.
    • Awesome Library
      A listing of online books for elementary age children.
    • Basic Skills Practice
      A collection on online Language Arts resources - some will be familiar, but others are the creations of the teachers at this school.
    • Book Activity Pages
      Your will find activity pages, stickers, hidden words, and bookmarks here to accompany your readings. Many titles to choose from.
    • Children's Books Online
      You can read, create, and share children's books at this site.
    • Create-a-Reader
      Create a Reader online literacy learning modules is a comprehensive supplementary literacy program that combines traditional techniques with recent advances in technology.
    • First School Years Compound Word Fun
      Make your teacher walk the plank in this fun compound word game.
    • Giggle Poetry
      Read and rate hundreds of poems with this fun online site, fill-in the blanks and word games, too.
    • Grammar & Reading
      Grammar and reading resources to help students practice necessary skills.
    • Graphic Organizers - Interactive Story Mapping
      Choose from a character map, a conflict map, a setting map, or a resolution map, and then use the guided boxes to proceed with story mapping exercises.
    • Harper Collins for Kids
      This children's book publisher has a finder, games, and contests, author and illustrator information all for children.
    • Inkless
      Online stories, animated alphabet, and online writing tools,
    • Instant Poetry Forms
      Choose your poetry form from the list of links. Then just add words t make the poem all your own.
    • International Children's Digital Library
      Children's books from all over the world to read online.
    • International Children's Digital Library
      Children's books to read online from all over the world.
    • Internet 4 Classrooms
      Grammar and reading resources to help students practice necessary skills.
    • Into the Book
      A reading comprehension resource for K - 4 students and teachers focusing on eight research-based strategies : Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluation, and Synthesizing.
    • Jan Brett
      Author, Jan Brett's, home page.
    • Kids Mysteries
      Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks!
    • Kids On The Net
      Writing site for kids.
    • Kids Scholastic
      Games, videos, book reviews by kids, for kids.
    • Lil-fingers
      Online stories and games.
    • Make a Compound Word
      Pick a word from the left box and the right box to make a compound word.
    • MiKids
      A great site for grades K through 6.
    • New York Public Library - Kids Place
      Activities for reading and learning.
    • Online Writing Assistant
      Get help with every aspect of the writing process.
    • Play Kids Games
      Language Arts, ABC, Vocabulary, Geography, and Math games for all levels.
    • Poet's Corner - The Other Page
      Featuring a user- friendly library that spans thousands of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years.
    • Poetry for Kids
      Welcome to Ken Nesbitt's poetry playground, where you will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children. Games, contests, lessons, discussion forums, and journals, plus a rhyming dictionary, and a funny poetry podcast
    • Poetry Idea Engine
      Try your hands at writing some haiku or free verse.
    • Poetry Writing
      Study the genre of poetry by taking part in step-by-step workshops with favorite authors. Create and print your own poem or listen to Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky read one of his own poems.
    • Poets.org - Great Poems to Teach (and Read)
      Compiled by the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, this list contains 341 poems submitted by teachers who participated in a workshop organized by TWC. Some are available to read online.
    • Reading Is Funddamental
      RIF has all sorts of activities to encourage children to read.
    • Reading Rainbow
      Books, games, contest; loads of reading fun.
    • ReadWrite Think
      Beginning letter sounds, short and long vowel sound practice.
    • ReadWrite Think Calendar
      Monthly calendars packed with author milestones and links to literary resources on the web.
    • Scholastic Reading
      Games, videos, and book reviews by kids, for kids. A help center for parents!
    • Spelling City
      Spelling City is an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun! They have the National Spelling Bee lists on this site.
    • Starfall
      A reading site for pre-K through 3rd grade.
    • Suessville
      Play games, read books, and other activities on this wonderful, fun Dr. Suess site.
    • Teacher's Mouse Pad - Compound Word Games
      Here are some great technology resources to enhance your study of compound words.
    • Visuwords
      Help students recognize relationships between words with this online graphical dictionary.
    • What Should I Read Next?
      This is a fun site if you are growing impatient with waiting for your favorite author to publish their next book.
    • Wired For Books
      Online books featuring Beatrix Potter and other children's authors.
    • Wordle
      Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
    • Writing - ABC's of the Writing Process
      The purpose of this site is to provide a user friendly online resource, for students or teachers, no matter what they are being challenged to write. Some pop-ups here!
    • Writing - Kids Scribe!
      A bilingual site for kid authors!
    • Writing Fun
      From Australian teachers, this site has grade appropriate graphic organizers that students can use online or print out.
  •  Life Skills
    • Service Learning Survey
      Open the pull-down menu labeled "Civic Pre Surveys" under Resources. Click on the appropriate grade level survey.
  •  Math
    • AAA Math
      AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts and the site includes a wide range of lessons, Kindergarten through 8th Grade.
    • Action Fraction
      In this game, learn about fractions and how to add and subtract using different denominators.
    • Addition Attack
      You must add single and double digit numbers together while shooting spaceships trying to invade Earth.
    • Algebra - Solving Equations with Variables
      The postman won't deliver the letters unless students correctly identify the answers to the variables in these equations. Three levels of difficulty are included in this online algebra game.
    • Algebra: Lure of the Labyrinth
      For pre-algebra students, helps them practice skills as they navigate a labyrinth filled with monsters and attempt to set their pets free.
    • Apples 4 the Teacher
      Elementary and Preschool Math Activities Educational and Interactive Online Kids Math Games and Lessons.
    • Basket Math
      Click on the ticket, select any of the operations on the left side bar to play these math games. Perimeter, distance, multiplication, decimal subtraction, exponents, etc. are all covered. Hit 'results' fopr scores.
    • Cool Math 4 Kids
      Fun math games for students of all ages-this site hosts one of our favorite games, Lemonade Stand. There are pop-unders, however!
    • Coordinates and the Coordinate Plane: Stock the Shelves
      Practice with coordinates and the coordinate plane as you place all the various drinks on the grid according to the (x,y) coordinates and within the two minute timer deadline!
    • Create Your Own Games
      Decide what skills you need to practice with this "Create Your Own Games" program.
    • Decimal Switch
      Click on the decimals to switch them around until they are all in ascending order.
    • Dr. Brain's Robot
      This educational game helps kids to learn and practice addition and subtraction skills they are getting at school.
    • Eduplace Kids
      This math site is provided by our Math textbook publishers and has practice and extra help for students (and for parents).
    • Elementary Mathmatics
      A collection of links to online math resources for grades k - 5 from the Baltimore Public Schools Library Information Services.
    • Escape From Knab
      Designed for older students, budgeting is a going concern. You find yourself on planet Knab where you must save points to buy your way to Earth.
    • Fun Brain
      Grade level math activities and more.
    • Function Machine (NLVM)
      Figure out the function by experimenting with number patterns.
    • Function Machine (Shodor)
      This allows users to explore simple linear functions; the function is determined by looking for patterns in the outputs.
    • Geometry: Nets
      Visualization and creative thinking are a good part of geometry and students are asked to see if the nets represent the geometric solids in this interactive online math game.
    • Great Equations
      Simple equations involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication as well as the ideas of greater than or less than.
    • Harcourt Math
      Curriculum that follows the Harcourt Math textbook. Don't forget to check out ELab and That's a Fact for extra online activities.
    • Illuminations Activities
      Illuminations has 103 online math activities available. Select which types of activities you’re looking for, and click Search.
    • IXL Makes Math Practice Fun!
      Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun. With unlimited math questions in more than 1,000 topics, students improve their skills and confidence and always have new challenges to meet. Click a grade below to get started!
    • Krypto on the Internet
      Play Krypto online.
    • Lure of the Labyrinth
      A digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles
    • Martian Math
      Answer questions about square roots and the powers of multiplication as you help some not-very-bright aliens repair their ship in this math game.
    • Matching Time
      Match up the digital time with the analog time clocks. Remember the contents and locations of each square in this online puzzle.
    • Math Cats
      Fun math activities that get you thinking!
    • Math Dictionary for Kids
      This online math dictionary not only defines terms but illustrates them and gives you a chance to practice them.
    • Math Frog
      Fun math activities and resources for 4th, 5th and 6th grade students.
    • Math Games at PlayKidsGames
      Games to practice all levels of math facts and skills
    • Math Is Fun!
      Math games and simple flash videos illustrating concepts like two-digit addition and much more are available here.
    • Math Magician
      Practice your addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills in this fun game.
    • Math Playground
      Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!
    • Math Test
      Test yourself in any of the four operations selecting up to 30 questions to answer. Great practice and review for elementary students.
    • MiKids
      Learn to count money, tell time, as well as other math functions.
    • Moneyville
      Learn success, play these online money games, Get Real and Lemonade Stand.
    • Multiflyer
      Take a trip through the solar system while you practice your multiplication facts.
    • Multiplication.com
      Games, activities, and resources for teaching and practicing multiplication.
    • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
      Online manipulatives from USU to help students learn and practice math concepts, numbers & operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, data analysis, and probability.
    • Percentage Pi
      This math game is a fun exercise for kids to review their percentages.
    • Physics Games
      Online physics-based games.
    • Play Kids Games
      Math games for all levels.
    • Ratios: Working With Ratios
      Enter a virtual kitchen with a working chef to understand how ratios apply to the real world in this online scenario-based math lesson.
    • Roman Numeral Matching Game
      Practice your knowledge of Roman numerals in this drag and match game where you will compete against the clock.
    • Shape Cave
      A fun game that mixes math and reading. Follow instructions to correctly identify simple geometric shapes which then assemble themselves into a picture.
    • Shodor Interactives
      Interactive courseware for exploration in math and science. Numbers & operations, geometry, algebra, probability, statistics, modeling, and more.
    • What Time Is It?
      Kids click and drag clocks showing different times into the correct order.
  •  Research
  •  Science
    • 3rd Grade Sciber Text
      An online science textbook for Utah third grade students
    • 4th Grade Sciber Text
      An online science text for Utah fourth grade students.
    • 5th Grade Science Text
      An online science textbook for Utah fifth grade students.
    • 6th Grade Sciber Text
      An online textbook for Utah sixtth grade students.
    • Animal Habitats
      Match animals to their normal habitats.
    • Animal Planet
      Learn about wild and domesticated animals from the Discovery Channel show Animal Planet.
    • Animals/Habitats
      Facts, information, pictures, and habitats for kids courtesy of National Geographic.
    • Animals: Animal Exploration
      Easy reading information about animals sorted by type-- birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, insects, and amphibians.
    • Animals: Animal Fact Guide
      Learn all sorts of interesting facts about the animals roaming our planet.
    • Animals: Farm Animals
      Pictures of farm animals
    • Astronomy & Light-- Cool Cosmos
      Learn about infrared light through fun games, cool movies, images, and more. Classroom activities and a Spanish-language version of the site are also available.
    • Astronomy & Space-- The Sky
      News, information and interactives about the sky.
    • Astronomy-- Amazing Space
      Use Web-based activities to learn about the solar system, train to be a scientist, follow a star's life cycle, and more.
    • Biology 4 Kids
      Information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics.
    • Biology: The Human Brain
      The Franklin Institute helps you learn how to make the most of your brain.
    • Biomes of the World
      This site covers six major world biomes-- freshwater, marine, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra. Hosted by the University of California Museum of Paleontology, this information is comprehensive and up-to-date.
    • Biomes-- Blue Planet World Biomes
      Another good site-- this one breaks down into more specific environments.
    • Biomes-- Marine
      News, information and activities relating to the sea.
    • Butterflies
      This website describes over 34 years of data collected by Dr. Arthur Shapiro, professor of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis
    • Butterflies of Utah
      Photographs are from the Alan Myrup Collection and the Utah Lepidopterist Society Synoptic Collection.
    • Cells Alive!
      A great website to learn everything about cells.
    • Cool Science for Curious Kids
      Created by Howard Huges Hospital, this site has a variety of science information and activities for children.
    • Cosmeo's Virtual Volcano Explorer
      This interactive lesson allows students to explor how and why volcanoes are formed. Play with two variables, the viscosity of the lava, and the amount of gases produced. "Start Eruption" and watch results!
    • Daylight Savings Time
      Learn about the history of Daylight Savings Time - controversial ever since good old Benjamin Franklin first proposed the concept. Students can also investigate the use of daylight savings around the world in this online exhibit.
    • Design a Habitable Planet
      Learn about geology, the atmosphere, astronomy, and biology as you design a livable environment in this Astro-Venture.
    • Earthquakes for Kids
      Earthquake information from the US Geological Survey
    • EEK-- Environmental Information for Kids
      Information on animals, habitiats, and taking care of the envrionment from the Wisconsin DNR.
    • EnergyQuest
      An award-winning energy education website of the California Energy Commission.
    • Environment: Global Climate Change
      Online chapters on global climate change take students through the concepts of our climate system, climate change causes, modeling, and current changes.
    • Envrionment: Global Climate Change USGS
      The USGS Office of Global Change provides students and teachers with vital news releases on current topics: tree deaths across the west, the heating of the Arctic, etc.
    • Fossils-- Facts and Finds
      This site is all about fossils. From showy pieces like the ammonites pictured here to the common crinoid stem, you'll find it here.
    • Fossils-- Virtual Fossil Museum
      Virtual Fossil Museum is an educational resource providing an ever-growing extensive collection of fossil images.
    • Funderstanding Roller Coaster
      Welcome to the death defying Funderstanding Roller Coaster! This simulator is designed for people who want to design their own thrilling coaster and educators who want to use a cool activity to simulate the application of physics.
    • Genetics Kids Style
      A terrific ThinkQuest site on heredity and genetics.
    • Geography 4 Kids
      If you are looking for physical geography or earth science basics, stay on this site.This site has an introduction to the earth sciences that includes topics on the Earth's structure, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere (for a start).
    • Germs: Immune System Movie
      How your immune system protects your body against germs and diseases.
    • Germs: Infection Detection Protection
      All about germs-- and how to avoid them!
    • Germs: Q & A
      What are germs? What do they do? How do you protect yourself?
    • Germs: Why do I need to wash my hands?
      Washing your hands is the best way to stop germs from spreading.
    • Get Ready to Rock
      Great pictures of different types of rock and some fun links to rocky activities!
    • Habitat-- Build an Online Habitat
      Click on "Habitat? What's That?" to understand exactly what you must build in this interactive game. Do palm trees go with lizards? Wrong choice. Polar bears, manatees, beavers, and lizards all need a home with this online game, and it's up to you.
    • Habitat-- Ocean
      This site explores habitats in the world's oceans. Near shore habitats such as coral reefs and mangrove are covered.
    • Habitats: Animal Adaptations Webquest
      All animals live in habitats which provide food, water, and shelter which animals need to survive, but there is more to survival than just the habitat. Animals also depend on their physical features to help them obtain food, keep safe, build homes, etc.
    • Habitats: Home Sweet Home
      Beginning just beyond the window, and extending past the boundaries of your town or city across the Earth's surface, an amazing variety of habitats awaits—along with the plants and animals that live in them.
    • Habitats: Ocean
      The Los Angeles Times presents this online, multi-media presentation on distressed oceans. Videos, photos, and graphics lead students through a five part series, through changing habitats, toxic bacteria, red tides, debris, and acidic seawater.
    • Hibernation
      A ThinkQuest site about hibernation
    • Hibernation-- Snug in the Snow
      A site from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Nice hibernating bear pictures.
    • Kids Astronomy
      Part of KidsKnowIt, Kids Astronomy is designed to teach kids about the exciting world of outer space.
    • Kids Know It
      The KidsKnowIt Network is your student’s free portal into the many exciting facets that make up our Universe. From the human heart, to the moons of Jupiter you will find it all on the KidsKnowIt Network.
    • Life Cycle Butterfly
      As advanced insects, butterflies and moths have a "complete" life cycle. This means that there are four separate stages, each of which looks completely different and serves a different purpose in the life of the insect.
    • Life Cycle: Animals
      A summary of animal ife cycles with worksheets. Warning: this site includes ads.
    • Life Cycle: Frog
      A description with diagrams and pictures of the life cycle of a frog.
    • Magnet Man
      Information and fun experiments with all kinds of magnets!
    • Magnetism Game
      Learn about magnets while you play this fun multi-level game.
    • Museum Victoria
      Here at Victoria Museum you can explore, sort, or catch bugs for the museum.
    • Natural Disasters
      Hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, electrical storms. This website aims to thoroughly discuss the physics, preparation and prevention related to each natural disaster.
    • Oceans Alive
      Our planet, mostly covered by water, is filled with movement and life. Learn all about our global seas in Oceans ALIVE!
    • Ology
      American Museum of Natural History has loads of resources to help you explore a variety of science topics including genetics, geology, biology, and physics.
    • Periodic Table
      View the periodic table. While not a game this site is great for demonstrating what phase various elements are with different temperatures with links to Wikipedia so you can learn about each element.
    • Physics for Kids-- electricity and magnetism
      Illustrates concepts using animations-- there are pop-unders at this site!
    • Physics Games
      Online physics-based games.
    • Physics-- The Particle Adventure
      Find answers to the eternal, fundamental questions of physics: "What is the world made of?" and "What holds it together?" The information on this site is clearly presented and well organized.
    • Plants-- The Great Plant Escape
      Help Detective Leplant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life. A teacher’s guide is also available. Another great site from the University of Illinois Extension.
    • Rockhounds
      Go digging for some fun and facts at this Franklin Institute educational site.
    • Rocks & Minerals-- Ridgewood Prep
      Great photos of rocks and minerals here!
    • Rocks--This Planet Really Rocks
      Information about different types of rocks and how to identify them.
    • San Diego Zoo
      Animal videos, games, habitats, and more at the San Diego Zoo site.
    • Science Made Simple-- Hibernation
      Excerpts from "How Do Animals Spend the Winter?"
    • Sea and Sky Presents - The Sea
      Explore the splendors of the sea.
    • Simple Machines
      Simple Machines Activities: Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!
    • Smithsonian National Zoo
      Solve jigsaw puzzles and crossword puzzles, take a virtual world tour, send an e-card, learn about animals and their names-there's plenty to do at the Smithsonian's National Zoo site.
    • Snowflake Physics
      Read the Snowflake Primer and learn exactly how snow crystals form in the science of a snowflake. You will also briefly cover the life of a snowflake - then create your own story of a snowflake after reviewing the resources here.
    • Solar System Trading Cards
      Collect cards depicting planets and moons by identifying them correctly.
    • Solar System-- Kids Astronomy
      Learn about the planets and the moons of our solar system.
    • Solar System-- National Geographic
      Explore our solar system with National Geographic.
    • Solar System-- The Nine Planets
      This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system.
    • Star Child
      A learning center for Young Astronomers.
    • The Yuckiest Site On the Internet!
      The best place for "yucky" entertainment!
    • Utah Conservation Data Center
      An online database of pictures and information about Utah plants and animals.
    • Utah For Sale-- Environment Webquest
      Miss Phillips has created this webquest to help her 4th grade students work on their reports about Utah environments, plants, and animals.
    • Utah Plants and Animals
      Information About Utah animals from the Utah Natural Resources Conservation Service.
    • Utah: Habitat-- Desert
      Learn about the different types of deserts and find out which two of them you can find in Utah. Read about the animals and plants that can be found in the Mojave and Great Basin desert as well as how they adapt to wastelands' harsh conditions.
    • Volcanoes Online
      This beautifully designed site offers an encyclopedic look at plate tectonics and volcanoes around the world. After you've explored and learned all about subduction of the earth's plates, pahoehoe lava, and famous volcanoes, try the Save the Village game
    • Water Cycle
      Which process belongs where, is the problem that students will have to address in demonstrating that they fully comprehend the processes behind the water cycle.
    • Weather
      Weather information for students from NOAA.
    • Weather Related Resources
      A list of weather links covering topics from Antartic Ice to Winter Weather Lore
    • Weather Watch
      A Scholastic website that covers everything from the basics to severe weather and disasters.
    • What On Earth
      Learn about plate tectonics, the rock cycle, and the earth's crust on this New Zealand site.
    • Xpeditions - National Geographic
      Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.
  •  Science Fair
    • All Science Fair Projects
      Over 500 free science fair project ideas!
    • Internet Public Library Science Fair Resource Guide
      If you’ve never done a science fair project before, DON’T PANIC! The IPL’s Science Fair Project Resource Guide will help you through the whole project by guiding you to a variety of excellent web resources.
    • Science Fair Central
      Your complete science fair resource courtesy of Scotch (3M) and Discovery Education from testable questions to investigations to presentations.
  •  Social Studies
    • 2010 Census For Kids
      Learn about the United State Census, participate in activities, games, and more.
    • 50 States
      Information on each state in the United States of America.
    • Best of History Web Sites
      A compilation of history websites, many at a fairly high level, includes primary sources.
    • Kids Utah
      Everything you need to complete your report about Utah!
    • Mysteries of the Ancient World
      Explore artifacts, legends and myths, tombs and temples, lost cities and more.
    • Myth Web
      This site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology.
    • National Geographic for Kids
      World cultures, science, geography, history all designed to help kids learn about the world they live in.
    • Net State
      Everything you need to know to complete your State Report!
    • Puzzled States
      Practice learning the 50 states with Puzzled States, a drag-n-drop puzzle from Scholastic. Drag puzzle pieces into the correct locations on the map. When put in the right location, the state pops into place and gives you fun facts about each as you go.
    • Sheppardsoftware USA Games
      US states and capitols, US presidents, US geography, world countries & capitols, world geography, and much, much more.
    • Smithsonian for Students
      Discover fast, fun, cool, scary, patriotic, and beautiful things at the Smithsonian.
    • The History Channel
      Here is another resource when searching history topics, The History Channel.
    • US Government for Kids
      Official US government site for kids with information on history, states, Presidents, how the government works...
    • US History--American Revolution
      A site create and hosted by the Independence Hall in Philadelphia focusing on the American Revolution.
    • US History: History Happens
      Stories from American History on music video.
    • US History: Social Studies for Kids
      Three pages of web links to information about US history.
    • US History: The American Experience
      Online interactive exhibits on American history.
    • Utah Collections a Multimedia Encyclopedia
      UCME is a project designed to give educators, students and the general public ready access to digital collections of Utah-related information and media items, specifically about the history, culture, geography, and landforms of the state.
    • Utah History Encyclopedia
      The first complete history of Utah in encyclopedia form, consisting of 575 articles and over 200 historic photographs. Originally published by the University of Utah Press in 1994.
    • Utah History to Go
      Utah History to Go is your online course for Utah history. Divided into eight chapters of its major themes, from prehistory to Utah today, this site includes articles, exhibits, and historic photographs.
    • Utah History: History for Kids
      This site by the State of Utah has information, games, a timeline, and more.
  •  Technology
    • Pixel This!
      Learn how digital photos are created by turning numbers into pictures, and then try your skills at guessing what the pixels represent in this online learning game from NASA.
    • Scratch
      Scratch is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's web initiative to build computer programming skills for students and teachers, and it's a delight to play with the materials they provide on the web.
    • TICK
      TICK, Technology In Classrooms of Kentucky, is a repository of instructional lesson plans, activities, and resources for teachers in Kentucky
  •  UTips Tests
  •  2010 Census for Kids
School Affiliations
Ogden School District, Ogden District
         
Hillcrest Elementary School, Ogden District
         
Job Title

Computer Lab Manager