This is an awesome free website where you can either enter your own spelling words or use one of the already prepared lists. You can practice your words and take your spelling test online. Parents, be sure to register as a teacher at Mountain Oaks to have access to all parts of the program. There are also a variety of other Language Arts resources at this site.

Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.

This is a web-based literacy program for boys. Our mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.

Students may submit papers which they have written to this website for free grammar & spelling check, online proofreading, plagiarism detection and writing suggestions.

Suggested books to read for each grade level K-12.

Click on the title for the 2010-2011 Spelling Bee word list for grades 6-9. This list includes words, definitions and each word used in a sentence.

Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city and a cherished destination for millions of residents and visitors to the region for over 100 years.
Website has many pictures of various art collections

Everyone can test their geography knowledge with the exciting GeoBee Challenge, an online geography quiz which poses 10 new questions a day, or by downloading the GeoBee Challenge app for iPhones, iPods, and iPads.

Over 5000 websites aligned to California's History/Social Science Curriculum. You can search resources and lessons by grade level and standard.

A resource for students, educators and all lovers of American History. American History Teachers, homeschoolers, and history buffs now have an online resource full of American History streaming videos, activities, links and resources - because history is fun!

A historical site with many multimedia offerings including videos, slideshows, audio, podcasts and interactive features and online exhibits.

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

The idea behind the site is to offer mathematics as well as some fun bits, and to combine the two wherever possible. The main content of the site is aimed at Kinder to Year 12, however you will find some more complex stuff. Hopefully there should be something for everybody. Quality is important to us. We have Mathematics Teachers, Mathematicians and many others work on the site. Typically each page is reviewed by at least three qualifiied people, plus millions of people view the site and they tell us if they don't agree! The site will continue to grow over time. Keep coming back to find out what has been added.

For grades Pre-K to 8. Aligned to both California Standards and Common Core Standards. Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun! With a paid subscription, IXL allows teachers and parents to monitor the progress of their students and motivate them through interactive games and practice questions. Widely recognized as the Web's most comprehensive math site, IXL offers a dynamic and enjoyable environment for children to practice math. Students who use IXL are succeeding like never before. You can do 20 questions per day for free.

On the website you can browse 1800+ videos by topic in Math, Science, Humanities and Test Prep. The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

With The Math Worksheet Site you can create an endless supply of printable math worksheets. The intuitive interface gives you the ability to easily customize each worksheet to target your student's specific needs. Every worksheet is created when you request it, so they are different every time. Includes Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Measurement, Graphing, Telling Time and One Hundred Chart

Coolmath was designed for the frustrated, the confused, the bored students of the world who hate math.

Coolmath was designed for the students who just need to get through this stuff so they can reach their other academic goals.

Coolmath was designed for the math geeks of the world who love math and want more, more, more!

Seven websites: Coolmath.com, Coolmath4kids.com, Coolmath-Games.com, FinanceFREAK.com, TotallyStressedOut.com, SpikesGameZone.com and ScienceMonster.com Thousands of pages of content Over 750,000 unique visitors a day.
Over 13 million unique visitors per month.

This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Visit the game room and play exciting games like Matho and Hidden Picture. Test your math skills with our Flashcards! Try out the Math Word Find puzzle. Create and print your own set of flashcards online using the Flashcard Creator! See the Worksheets section, where you can print worksheets to practice offline. Try the Homework Helper to check your homework solutions.

Mathmaster is a free resource where you can create an endless supply of printable math worksheets. The intuitive and flexible interface gives you the ability to easily customize each worksheet to target your student's specific needs. Every worksheet is created when you request it, so they are different every time.

This site provides free instructional videos for all Algebra standards.

This is a math tutoring website created by one of our Mountain Oaks teachers. It has lessons directly aligned with textbooks and also free-standing complete pre-algebra and algebra courses taught by an NCLB compliant teacher. There are hundreds of hours of lessons available. This site is free to Mountain Oaks families. Use the same user name as for Ed1Stop and the password is parents (with an s). If you do not have the Ed1Stop user name, ask your mentor teacher.

This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers! It also has a number of free interactive multiplication games. Car Wash seems to be a favorite.

AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level. Immediate feedback prevents practicing and learning incorrect methods, which is a common result of traditional homework and worksheets. Practice can continue as long as desired in a non-threatening format which helps build self-esteem and confidence.

A favorite interactive game to learn your multiplication facts.

Great math printables & worksheets for charts, clocks, fractions, money, math paper, scale, math facts and unit multipliers

Practice problems and solutions for grades 1-8 California Mathematics Standards.

This site has been designed to "assist you in your pursuit of increased mathematical understanding," or whatever sounds good to you. The subjects covered range from Pre-Algebra to Calculus. These are projects by students for students.

Resources for those using the MathUSee program plus a very handy, customizable worksheet generator with many extra practice printable for all grade levels and many topics.

Offers free Math Printable Worksheets and Activities as well as teacher sites, Teacher Resources, Kids Safesurf and Math Games Online.

This is a great website with curriculum units, videos, fun science experiments and more. If you subscribe to the newsletter, you will get a free experiment each week.

Offers many online natural history resources for teachers, students, school and parents.

Provides step-by-step instructions for science fair projects as well as parent resources and science fair ideas, project timelines and a virtual lab.

CELLS alive! provides interactive cell models and represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. The site has been available continuously and updated annually since May of 1994 and now hosts over 4 million visitors a year. The majority of the site is free.

This website give information about the California Science Fair.

Extreme Science is the place online to find the biggest, baddest, and the best in the world of extremes and learn about the science behind what makes each the most extreme example of its kind. You'll also find the most complete collection of science and technology information and resources available on the Internet, including resources for students working on science fair projects and teachers needing content for science lessons.

This site includes interactive nutrition games and information on how to eat healthier.

KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years. This site has information, movies, quizzes and more for parents, kids, teens and teachers.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

GCFLearnFree.org® is supported by the Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc. (GCF®) whose mission is "to create and provide education, employment, and life enrichment opportunities for people who desire to improve the quality of their lives".

The websites is designed to provide "quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve the technology, literacy, and math skills necessary for them to be successful in both work and life."

These lessons are especially geared towards children and parents, and piano teachers who teach children. I explain everything in very simple terms so that if you're a parent, you can learn with your child without any prior knowledge of the piano.

Provided here are resources for integrating technology into the curriculum. They can be utilized as interdisciplinary, and intercultural lessons and guides linking Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, Arts and Humanities. Study guides and activities incorporate video and the technology of the Internet as tools to assist in the learning process. Lessons are aligned to California Content Standards, and culminating task projects provide rubrics for evaluation. Also included are research and writing guides for students as well as workshops and tutorials for Teachers.

Get inspired with your kids by rolling up your sleeves and delving into some great projects!

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

This websites focus is "Helping teachers effectively integrate technology into the curriculum . . .". This site has lesson plans, an art glossary of terms, online interactive learning and much more!

The Top 5 Free Typing Tutors: Exciting Ways to Learn and Practice Keyboarding

BBC languages offers French, Spanish, Italian, German and many other languages. Not all of the links work, but click on Ma France, Mi Vida Loca, Italian Steps or German Steps respectively. There are videos and slideshows with optional subtitles in English and/or the target language. Vocab lists, tests, free pod casts and other fun ideas!

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade activities are equipped with sound to enhance understanding.

Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by our content partners – the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. The easy-to-navigate K-12 resources are grade-specific and are aligned with state standards.

Professor Garfield will guide you, your kids, your students through a myriad of learning experiences from reading to math to science, even art lessons with real cartoonists, this idea is simple: we want to tickle your brain and your funnybone. We have a great group of folks who have joined us in putting together this unparallelled accumulation of good solid educational material that's bright, funny, imaginative, highly interactive and free.

Kids learn best by 'seeing' the world. So, here's the best collection of FREE online educational videos, lessons, quizzes, games and puzzles.

This is a website established in 1999 for primary students and teachers.
It provides:
Easy to understand text for student research, including material for primary school students K-6
Easy to navigate format
Units of work and lesson plans for teachers on a variety of topics in key learning areas
kidcyberQuests: student webquest assignments with links to information sites for research, project ideas, evaluation
Ask a kidcyber Researcher' feature where students can request specific information about a topic
Advice to parents about helping with school homework assignments and projects

Internet 4 Classrooms ("i4c"), a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. The portal is used by teachers, parents and students of all ages on six of the seven continents (there are not many classrooms in Antarctica) and is available to anyone with an Internet connection.

It has worksheets for just about everything - reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, editing, etc. It's great when you want to review something speific or want to use a worksheet as a quiz.

Hundreds of educational websites rated by popularity.

KidsClick is a very good search engine for kids.

This site has teacher (parent) lesson plans/ideas in Math, English, American and Global History, as well as the Environment, Fine Arts, Technology and Current Events. There are student crossword puzzles, a daily news quiz, student opinion topics (age 13 and above), National Poetry Month entries, This Day in History, Word of the Day, 'read the article first' fill-ins and much more.

Information about the Barton Reading & Spelling System for dyslexic students.