Cool+Websites

Websites for Extra Learning at Home:

General Topics:

TED Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading.

TED used to stand for Technology, Entertainment, Design, but now the website has over 1000 inspirational talks from different people over almost any topic imaginable. You can search by subject, length or rating. Many videos have subtitles in other languages!

Here is one example of a poetry teacher performing a poem and talking about teaching poetry.

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How Stuff Works

This website is run by the Discovery Channel. They have articles and videos about how different things work, different topics about science and engineering, unsolved mysteries in history and more. Here is one example about the origins of the ninja.

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All subjects:

[] - donate rice to Cambodia for every correct answer- you can change the subject from English vocabulary to math, science, art and more. The questions get harder and harder as you go.

Khan Academy.

There are thousands of videos about almost every school subject imaginable. For example, Grade 5 recently learned about Impressionism- here is a beautiful video about Monet's Water Lillies.

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Merriam Webster Dictionary

This website is much more than just a dictionary- it has vocabulary and visual literacy quizzes, and articles about words (for example the top ten words that come from "mother" for mother's day coming up).

Free online children's books at this website: @http://www.mainlesson.com/displaybooksbytitle.php

Science:

For anyone interested in doing a more complicated experiment at home or interested in DNA: How to extract DNA from kiwi or onions and see it with your eyes! @http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchenscience/exp/how-to-extract-dna-from-a-kiwi-fruit/

@http://www.hunkinsexperiments.com/ -all types of cool experiments to try out presented in the form of cartoons

Math:

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@http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-5 Practice problems for all sorts of topics suitable for Grade 5