Links to Collections of Student Sites and Activities:
Curriculum Links: These links can used to supplement the classroom curriculum. These pages bring together in one place the best sites on the Internet for kids. For the topics listed, the work of gathering a collection of sites for students related to a topic of interest has already been done for you!
http://connections.smsd.org/curriculumlinks/index.htm
Best of the Web:These sites offer outstanding lessons, online activities and resources for gifted students K-12.
http://connections.smsd.org/nieman/best.htm
Internet4Classrooms:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
National Geographic Xpeditions: This site has an archive of an abundance of topics, lessons, and self-guided activities for kids. Although all the lessons are linked to geography the range of topics will appeal to a vast range of student interests.
Xpeditions activities offer younger and older Xpeditioners the opportunity to use geography to complete a variety of missions. Parents, teachers, and friends can lend a hand. Xpeditioners are encouraged to use the "X-tras"—maps, games, stories, Web sites, and interactive features—to complete the tasks and to visit related annexes in Xpedition Hall once their mission is through.
All activities are based on the U.S. National Geography Standards, and complementary lesson plans are available for educators.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/
A Different Place... a place on the Web to find differentiated activities in all content areas!!
This site offers high level differentiated content curriculum for high-ability and gifted students in the classroom. All of these activities are technology integrated.
http://www.adifferentplace.org
Page specifically dedicated to younger grades (K-2):
http://www.adifferentplace.org/primary_k3.htm
http://connections.smsd.org/curriculumlinks/index.htm
Best of the Web:These sites offer outstanding lessons, online activities and resources for gifted students K-12.
http://connections.smsd.org/nieman/best.htm
Internet4Classrooms:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
National Geographic Xpeditions: This site has an archive of an abundance of topics, lessons, and self-guided activities for kids. Although all the lessons are linked to geography the range of topics will appeal to a vast range of student interests.
Xpeditions activities offer younger and older Xpeditioners the opportunity to use geography to complete a variety of missions. Parents, teachers, and friends can lend a hand. Xpeditioners are encouraged to use the "X-tras"—maps, games, stories, Web sites, and interactive features—to complete the tasks and to visit related annexes in Xpedition Hall once their mission is through.
All activities are based on the U.S. National Geography Standards, and complementary lesson plans are available for educators.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/
A Different Place... a place on the Web to find differentiated activities in all content areas!!
This site offers high level differentiated content curriculum for high-ability and gifted students in the classroom. All of these activities are technology integrated.
http://www.adifferentplace.org
Page specifically dedicated to younger grades (K-2):
http://www.adifferentplace.org/primary_k3.htm