Weekly Schedule

TEC Time Rules:
1. You may continue to work on class assignments. This is a good idea if you are behind on your work.
2. You may use / explore any program loaded onto your computer - Word, Paint, Power Point, etc.
3. You may go to any of the sites listed below. If any of these sites link to a game site, you MAY NOT go to those game sites.
4. Game sites are not allowed during TEC time.
5. As always - you are not allowed to check your email, go into chat rooms or forums, download anything from the Internet, or listen to or view music or music videos or other MS Live or You Tube type videos.

Frequently Used Sites: Blackboard Atomic Learning BRAIN POP

Typing Sites: Keyboarding Practice http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cjh/appliedtech/Business/Keyboarding/Index.html Aunt Lee Typing Practice http://www.auntlee.com/kids/hardertyping.htm Nimble fingers http://www.nimblefingers.com/index_1.html PowerTyping http://www.powertyping.com/ Touch Typing http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml
Computer Learning Sites: Atomic Learning http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/home What Is? http://whatis.techtarget.com/ Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx Flaming Text http://flamingtext.com/ History of Apple Computers http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Apple_Computers.htm
HTML Web Design Sites: W3C Web tutorials http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp HTML Code help http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
Search Sites: Kids Click Web Searching http://www.kidsclick.org/
Helpful Internet Websites for Science Fair Project Ideas Use a search engines such as dogpile.com or ask.com and type in the key words “science fair project ideas” 1. Intel International Science and Engineering Fair- http://www.sciserv.org/isef/ 2. Science Fair Central http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/ 3. The Experiment Files - How to design an experiment http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/xfiles/ 4. Great Links on Science Project Ideas and Steps http://www.ri.net/schools/East_Greenwich/Cole/sciencefair.html 5. Lots of ideas on science projects http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/sciencefairs/ 6. Info on science fair, check out the link on ideas http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/scifun/projects.htm 7. The Ultimate Science Fair Resource http://www.scifair.org/ 8. Awesome Science Fair Project Ideas – www.science-ideas.com 9. Science Fair Project Ideas- http://www.lasciencefair.org/ideas.htm 10. Science News for Kids- ScienceFairZone: Topics - http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/sciencefairzone/topics.asp 11. Science Buddies- www.sciencebuddies.com 12. Science Fair Projects and Ideas- http://www.juliantrubin.com/branchesofsciencefair.html
Math Sites: Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/index.html Brain Teasers http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/ Beat the Calculator http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.html Mystery Nets http://kids.mysterynet.com//solveit/ Cool Math http://www.coolmath.com/ That Quiz http://www.thatquiz.org/
General Learning Sites: Free Rice Vocabulary www.freerice.com Ed Heads http://www.edheads.org/ Place the State http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html Discovery School http://school.discoveryeducation.com/ PBS http://www.pbs.org/ eMints http://www.emints.org/ BrainPOP! videos http://www.brainpop.com/ Glencoe Textbooks http://www.glencoe.com/ How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Science Sites: Steve Spangler Science Videos http://www.stevespangler.com/
The Art Zone – The National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm	a.gov/kids/kids.htm
Nutrition – Recipes, information, games, exercise http://www.zip4tweens.org/ http://www.kidnetic.com/
National Public Radio – Listen to podcasts and watch videos http://www.npr.org/
Book Pals Story Online – watch and listen to someone famous read a book! http://www.storylineonline.net/

Do you like to read? Check out this site: http://www.kidsreads.com/
Aesop’s Fables http://www.umass.edu/aesop/index.php
Dr. Seuss http://www.seussville.com/lb/home.html
Make your own Flipbook! http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/flipbook/
Starship English – Grow you own story http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/storyplant.shtml
Play some Jeopardy Games http://www.centennial.k12.mn.us/gle/Jeopardy/Games.htm
Astronomy picture of the day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Go here and click on Image Gallery for cool microscopic images http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/
Current Events: Time For Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/index.html CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/ FoxNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/
Instant Poetry Forms http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm
Bill Nye the Science Guy http://www.billnye.com/
Discovery Channel http://dsc.discovery.com/
History Channel http://www.history.com/
Secrets @ Sea http://www.secretsatsea.org/
Kitchen Chemistry http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/kitchenchemistry/
Compare your math and science knowledge http://www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm
Are you in the Biology Class? http://www.biology.arizona.edu/ Cool Science http://www.exploratorium.edu/ http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
National Geographic for Kids http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/
Human Anatomy Online http://www.innerbody.com/
I know that games http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_Science
Thomas Edison http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html
US House of Representatives http://clerkkids.house.gov/
US Census Bureau http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/kids.html
Virtual Tourist http://www.virtualtourist.com/
TimeCapsule http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
The Seven Wonders of the World http://www.cleveleys.co.uk/wonders/sevenwondersoftheworld.htm
Place the State http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
I Know That Social Studies http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies
Punctuation Quiz http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/quiz/mquiz.asp?filename=kderittepun
Mr. Picasso Head Art http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
Art Site http://www.haringkids.com/ http://www.mowa.org/kids/kids_enter.html
Etch a Sketch http://www.ohioart.com/etch/
Online Simulation – Make a Catapult http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/
Peep and the Big Wide World http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/
The Nano World http://www.molecularium.com/kidsite.html
The Great Plant Escape http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/
The Science ToyMaker http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/
Mystery of the Poison Dart Frog http://www.ncmoa.org/costarica/
ProtoZone http://www.protozone.net/AJinteractives.html
Ways of Knowing Trail http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/wok/index_f4.html
Burarra Gathering http://burarra.questacon.edu.au/home.html
Children’s Museum http://www.childrensmuseum.org/
Switcheroo Zoo – Make Crazy Animals http://switchzoo.com/
Kids Garden Tour http://4hgarden.msu.edu/kidstour/tour.html
Thinking Fountain http://www.thinkingfountain.org/
Learn About Mexico http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_esp.html
My First Garden http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/firstgarden/index.html
Ant Safari http://www.moma.org/momalearning/artsafari/index.html
Secret Messages – Cryptology http://www.thunk.com/
Make a Hamster Scope http://www.hamstertours.com/hamsterscope.html
Rainbow Makers World http://www.zianet.com/rainbow/home.htm
Bubbles! http://bubbles.org/
Online-Stopwatch http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ Learn Spanish http://learnspanish.com/ PetFinder http://petfinder.com/ Kids Against Bullying http://kidsagainstbullying.org/ Engineer Girl http://www.engineergirl.org/ Science Friday http://www.sciencefriday.com/ Explore a Russian Palace http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/ Teen Read Week http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2008/index.cfm Picturing America http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/ SeaWorld http://www.seaworld.com/ Media Education Lab http://www.mediaeducationlab.com/ The Learning Box Interactive pages http://www.learningbox.com/i_index.htm Play Music http://www.playmusic.org/