Links for students are now listed on the website del.icio.us - what's that?  Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows users to share favorite websites.  The sites are organized by the use of "Tags."  For example, a website that is for second graders, has been tagged "second" and a math website is tagged "math" and so on.  If a site has activities for students of all grades, it has been tagged "all."  If you're looking for an activity, click on the link below.  It will take you to our list of sites.  Then, you can click on the "Tags" on the right side of hte page to narrow your search.  Finding sites on the topics you are looking for is easier than ever.  Don't forget to add our del.icio.us bookmarks page to your list of favorites at home.

           Horace Mann links on delicious.com

BrainPop Jr. - BrainPOP is an educational website with hundreds of short Flash-based movies for students about math, technology, health, science, social studies, arts & music, and English. Our subscription only allows students access at school.

Nettrekker - The West Allis - West Milwaukee Schools are pleased to provide a powerful educational resource like Nettrekker to every educator and student in the District. See your IMC Director about access at home. Its Free! Because of our account at school.

Badgerlink - "BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries and Internet Service Providers.The Department of Public Instruction currently contracts with five vendors (EBSCO, ProQuest, Thomson Gale, NewspaperARCHIVE, and TeachingBooks) to provide access to articles from thousands of newspaper and periodical titles, image files, and other specialized reference materials and websites."

TeachingBooks.Net - "TeachingBooks' mission is to generate enthusiasm for books and reading by bringing authors, illustrators and engaging resources about books for children and teens to every school, library and home. From one easy-to-use website, TeachingBooks makes instantly available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature."

READING SITES

Starfall

Internet 4 Classrooms This site provides grade level specific activities in Language Arts and more.

Language Arts Activities from Scholastic

Spelling City This is a great site for practicing your spelling words.

Reading Websites These sites have been selected or recommended by Horace Mann Teachers

MATH SITES

Skill Building - Math

Think Math

Math Websites These sites have been selected or recommended by Horace Mann Teachers

In general, students should not be using popular search websites like Google and Yahoo for basic web searching.  These sites are geared for adults and will provide the students with too many hits, many of which will not be appropriate for their needs.  Therefore, the search websites listed below provide a much better starting point for students. 

Nettrekker (See above)

Ask for Kids (Formerly Asks Jeeves for Kids)

Searchasaurus - Searches for information in magazines and encyclopedias

Kids Search - by EBSCO

Kids Click - A web search for kids by librarians