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This page has been created in collaboration with CFY teachers and staff developers at The Media Workshop . Use these exciting Internet resources to increase your students' learning time at home.

If you are teacher and would like to suggest a site for this page, please e-mail us at forms@communitycorner.org

Topic Areas
1 Communications Resources
2 Electronic Field Trips
3 On-line Learning Games
4 Primary Source Materials
5 Web Quests
 
Communications Resources
 
Ways of connecting students and teachers with experts or with other students and teachers around the world.
NASA Scientists
  Meet the people of NASA through real-time chats, e-mail, and other on-line means.
   
The Globe Project
  Collaborate with other classes around the world in collecting data about the environment.
   
  ePals
Safe on-line pen-pals from around the globe.
   
Authorchats
  A place to chat on-line with authors of children's books.
   
International Community Action Projects
  Students and classes from 100 different countries collaborate and communicate with each other about projects to help make the world a better place. All projects are designed by teachers.
   
 
 
Electronic Field Trips
 
Use the Web to take you to interesting places across the country and around the world.
Global School Network
  On-line Expeditions featuring trips to Africa, Antarctica, the Galapagos Islands and more…
 
Experience Colonial Williamsburg
 
How Stuff Works
  This site is not technically an electronic field trip, but it features easy to understand information and great animations about just about everything you'd want to know, and our teachers love it!
 
Virtual Journey with Lewis & Clark
 
Yellowstone National Park
  Electronic Field Trips featuring encounters with wolves, bears, buffalo and other wildlife from the American West.
   
On-line Learning Games
     
Cyberchase Math Games
This site is funtastic! You can play games to help you with logic and numbers and sets and geometry. The site is designed by PBS to go along with its Cyberchase series on TV, so why not tune into both?
Invention at Play
Play games, make your own inventions, and explore the stories of real-life inventors!
A Game a Day
Have fun with riddles, puzzles and more games that help you think better.There is a different game for every day! For kids, parents and educators.
Funbrain.com
This just might be the perfect site. These activities help you learn as you play and when you get something wrong, they teach you how to do it the right way. FunBrain has games about math, language, culture, music.... you name it.
National Geographic Games for Kids
   
Primary Source Materials
Are first-hand scientific data or historical documents. Examples are real-time earthquake or weather data; diaries written by slaves; and drawings of famous inventors.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
  Real data in math and science.
Landmarks for Schools
  "Raw material" for the mind organized by subject area.
   
Census Data
Library of Congress Memory Collection
Library of historical source documents.
   
NOAA
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOOA) Website for scientific data about the atmosphere.
Milestone Documents from the National Archives
Weather Data from Around the Globe
American Stories from the Smithsonian Institution
   
 
Web Quests
   
Web Quests
  A resource for different subject areas and age groups.
   
 
 
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