Activities cont.

Activity / Title Website Address Description
Family Math Fun Pack
(Ohio Literacy Resource Center; Midwest LINCS)
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/MathFunPack.pdf Math activities that families can do with their children. Each involves counting, sorting, measuring and money. Combines math activities with children’s literature.
Figure This! Math Challenges for Families
(National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
www.figurethis.org/ A collection of “challenges” aimed at middle-school students getting help at home with math.
FunBrain www.funbrain.com A learning network for children, parents and teachers that includes interactive educational games for children, as well as tips and tools for teachers and parents.
Hillendale Elementary School http://hes.ucf.k12.pa.us/fun/powermem/welcome.html A timed memory game – find pairs of matching pictures.
HomeworkSpot www.homeworkspot.com This site is a free homework information portal that features the very best K-12 homework-related sites together with engaging editorial in one high-utility, educational spot. With the help of students, parents and teachers our team of educators, librarians and journalists has scoured the Web to bring you the best resources for English, math, science, history, art, music, technology, foreign language, college prep, health, life skills, extracurricular activities and much more. The site has organized these resources into grade-appropriate categories for elementary, middle and high school.
Internet Public Library (The) www.ipl.org/div/teen
www.ipl.org/div/kidspace
A site in which you can locate books on nearly any topic.
Kids on the Web (The) http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids-homework.html Homework tools including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus, etc.