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The following links have been compiled for your convenience. Each link will open a website that is not owned by the Auburn-Washburn school district. USD 437 is not responsible for the content found on these websites. If you find a link that is broken or have concerns about a website please contact the district .

Language Arts Grammar Blast - A variety of activities from Houghton Mifflin.

Quia Parts of Speech - Quiz over nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
CNN stories - Read current news stories and answer questions related to vocabulary in context, comprehension, drawing conclusions. Excellent!
Scholastic Online
Spelling City - Type your own list in (or sign in with your teacher's information), and practice and play games! Turn on your sound!
Suffixes, Prefixes, and Roots - Excellent instruction and practice for these skills.
Subjects and Predicates - Practice finding simple and complete subjects and predicates in this fun "Rags to Riches" game.
Power Proofreading - An interactive site with several stories to practice proofreading skills, broken down by skill area.
Puzzlemaker - Create crosswords, word searches, and more with your own vocabulary or spelling words.
Harcourt Reading Series Online Activities - You must have the password to enter the "Program Users" section, but it is worth it! Parents, you will need to get the password from your child's teacher. LOADS of cool activities.
Instant Poetry Forms - Choose your poetry form from the list of links provided. Then just add words to make the poem your own.
Letter Generator - Use this tool to write a business letter or friendly letter. Prints from the site!
Brainchild.com - Practice questions for online state reading test. There are several passages, go in and out to get a new one.
Wordle - Create a word cloud at the Create page.
Word Frog-  Practice with antonyms and synonyms
Verb Viper - Select correct verb tenses
Word Invasion- Parts of Speech activities
Kyrene District #28 Harcourt Trophies Themes

Learning Today- Synonyms and Antonyms

Learning Today- Cause and Effect

Learning Today- Context Clues

Jan Brett's World
Math Funbrain Measurement - Practice measurement in centimeters or inches.
Math Playground - A huge site with lots of interactive math activities.
AAA Math - Online practice with many different math skills.
Quia Math Journey - Choose the type of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division you need to practice, then start your journey!
A+ Math - More practice with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

A Maths Dictionary For Kids- An animated, interactive dictionary that explains over 600 mathematical concepts
mr. nussbaum draggable division

The Ruler Game
Mr. Nussbaum's Place Value Pirates

Study Jams- Great Introduction to skills
Multiples Game
Pumpkin Multiples
Factor Multiple Jeopardy

Learning Today- Problem Solving

Learning Tools- Ordered Pairs
Funbrain-  What's the Point?
Fun based Learning- Graph Mole
Billy Bug and His Quest For Grub
Simple Coordinates Game
Math Quizzes- Greatest Common Factor
Math Quizzes-  Finding the Least Common Multiple
Math Quizzes- Greatest Common Factor
Polygon Matching Game

Fraction Review

Fraction Quiz

Leon's Math Dojo
Cool Math
Math Playground -Prime Factorization
Science Exploring Nature - Fantastic Database with great illustrations and some videos of animals, plants, etc.! Type in "Auburn" for the username, and 1234 for the password.
Birds of Prey - Great description and pictures for eight different birds of prey from the Peregrine Fund.
Electricity


Engineering Interact - Another site from the UK. Fun, interactive "Silicon Spies" activity. Click here to see the course breakdown.

Blobz Electric Circuits - Fun site to practice symbols and read about explanations of circuits.
Don't miss the last site, Star Light, Star Bright.
Zoobooks Online - Find information for animals featured in the Zoobooks magazines.

Smithsonian National Zoo - Great pictures and information about all types of animals. You have to dig a little for the information.

San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes - Great information about various animals.

Animal Pictures Archive - Search for animal pictures - don't forget to site your source.
Neuroscience For Kids
Respiratory System

How the Body Works - This links to the main Body Works page. There are movies, quizzes, and good articles about each body system.

Pathfinder for Kids - A link from the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library about the respiratory system. Contains a links section with one or two more good sites.
Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals Assignment:
Site #1 Difference Between Rocks and Minerals
Site #2 How Rocks and Minerals are Formed

Geology - Rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle from Windows to the Universe. Great pictures and information.

Rock Identification - Use this guide to find out what kind of rock you have. From ClassZone.

Human Body
Bones- Quiz on Skeletal System
Muscles- Quiz on Muscle System
Muscle Activity- Label the muscles
How The Body Works- Activities on how the body works
Body Systems- The Human Body
Digestive System - Organ system info
Digestive System- labeling
Social Studies George Washington - Rules of Civility
Where Is That? - A Funbrain site for you to practice your state and country locations and capitals of each.

Madder of Facts! - This practice is similar to a Mad Minute, but focuses on states and capitals.

Know Your States - Click and drag the states to the correct place on the map.
American History Maps - Find maps of American History from ClassZone.
US Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Visit this site to learn all about our country's currency. Click on Classroom for stuff for kids.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government - Super site that covers our nation, historical documents, government, how laws are made, election process, citizenship, and symbols. Information and games.
Latitude and Longitude Quiz - After reading the lessons above, try this quiz.

Auburn's Latitude and Longitude - Just for fun, see the latitude and longitude for where you live. Calculated in degrees, minutes, and seconds.
Lemonade Stand - Test your business skills with this simulation game.
Explorers

Enchanted Learning Explorers - This site has brief, easy to read information, and most show a simple map of their voyage.

Discoverers Web - Descriptions of many explorers, as well as other links.

Yahooligans Explorers - Yahooligans search category for Explorers. Links to various pages, depending on the explorer.

Explorer Quiz - Fun Activities and Quizzes about many of the common Explorers. Created by a school.

Adventure to the New World - This is actually designed as an assignment, but the links are very useful.

Vikings from Smithsonian - Tour of the Vikings exhibit, and links to information about Vikings.
Colonies

13 Originals - Thorough information and links provided for each colony.

13 Colonies - Clickable Map - Very basic information about each of the colonies.

American Colonies - Quick overview of the facts of each colony.

Interactive History - Several activities from the PBS Colonial House series.

Passport to Colonial Times - Neat idea for an activity to investigate life in the colonies.

Colonial Williamsburg - Outstanding site about the Colonial Williamsburg site in Virginia.

Map of the Economy of the Colonies - Map from a textbook that has products of the colonies.

A Colonial Family and Community - Online investigation about living like a colonial family.
The Jamestown Adventure - An interactive simulation of colonizing Jamestown.
Lewis and Clark - Try this interactive journey with Lewis and Clark!
Top 10 Founding Fathers - Short biographies of ten founding fathers thought to have had the greatest impact.

Constitutional Convention - Contains biographies of each of the founding fathers who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

Revolutionary War - Take a quiz over the events in the Revolutionary War.

The Road to Revolution - Answer questions as you navigate your way to independence!
Maps101

Docs Teach- Primary source documents
Other INTERNET FOR CLASSROOMS - Internet 4 Classrooms site with links to online activities for every subject! EXCELLENT!

Renwick Schools Hotlist - Another great compilation of links for all subject areas.
Phil Tulga's Music Resources - Very cool, interactive activities that combine music into language arts, math, and science.
Funbrain - Lots of games to practice skills in all subject areas. Click on your age.

ABCya- Many activities

Kerpoof Studio- Make movies, cards and other projects
4kids.org
I Want To Learn- Lots of resources
CRL Reading Assessment-