CHAMBERS PRIMARY SCHOOL

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University Place, WA  98467

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Websites for Kids and Families
 

 

 

 

 

 


If you find a listed site that is discontinued, or if you want to suggest a site to be added, please contact us here.  Thanks!

 

Home

 

Super Site... covering many topics and areas... from the American Library Association

 

                             http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsiteskids.htm 

 

 

 

Art

 

http://www.crayola.com/   Free log in to a very creative site

 

http://www.mowa.org/kids/kids_enter.html   Fun, creative site

 

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html   University  of Florida art site for kids

 

http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm   National Gallery of Art

 

http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp   Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earthasart/   Earth as art… views from Landsat satellite

 

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/   Web museum Paris… famous art and artists

 

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html   Great optical illusions

 

 

 

Careers

 

http://www.bls.gov   Great site for careers

 

http://www.gettech.org/category2.asp?cat=5   Technology oriented careers

 

http://www.kids.gov/k_careers.htm   Similar to the BLS site

 

http://www.bls.gov/k12/   Related to the  BLS site but aimed a bit more at kids

 

http://www.careervoyages.gov/students-elementary.cfm#infotech   More career information

 

http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/careers/careers06.htm   Careers in the areas of the arts

 

 

 

 

 

General Research

 

http://www.pics4learning.com/   Lots of pictures for projects.

 

http://www.greatsitesforkids.com/gsfk/index.asp

 

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0113430.html   Information Please Almanac... this page is sports but links you to the main page

 

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html   U.S. government website for all sorts of information for kids.

 

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/index.html   Homework Helper

 

http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/coolsites/homeworkhlp.html   Links to many areas from Los Angeles Public Library

 

http://worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/index.html   Almanac information with kids in mind

 

http://www.howstuffworks.com/   How Stuff Works!

 

http://www.3dflags.com/   3-d flags

 

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/   CIA Factbook… lots of information

 

http://sf.factmonster.com/people.html   famous people

 

http://www.thrall.org/govsites.htm   Connections to a wide variety of government sources

 

 

 

 

 

Health and Fitness

 

http://www.kidsrunning.com/   Runner’s World for kids

 

http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/    Nutrition information and games

 

http://www.sikids.com/   Sports Illustrated for kids

 

http://www.dole5aday.com/Kids/K_Index.jsp    More nutrition and games

 

 

 

 

 

History

 

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html   Historical maps of the U.S.

 

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/   Interesting history of the flag

 

http://www.historyplace.com/   US history

 

http://www.history.org/   Colonial Williamsburg

 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/index.html   White House for Kids

 

http://americanpresidents.org/   All you want to know about presidents

 

 

 

 

 

Just For Fun

 

http://www.peepresearch.org   Scientific research concerning Marshmallow Peeps.

 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates   National Geographic: specifically focused on pirates but links to National Geo. home page

 

http://www.funbrain.com   Fun games and learning activities

 

http://www.timeforkids.com/holidaze   Holiday activities for the whole year

 

http:www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/   More information about the news

 

http://www.howstuffworks.com/   Fascinating site on, well... how things work.

 

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/   “Yuckiest site on the Internet”

 

http://www.zillions.org/   Consumer Reports for kids

 

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/   Wonderful optical illusions

 

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/   More illusions

 

http://www.norfacad.pvt.k12.va.us/puzzles/illusion.htm   hmmm, more illusions and puzzlers

 

 

 

 

 

Language and Literature

 

http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/read/word_index.html

 

http://www.punoftheday.com    Word games and information 

 

http://www.wordcentral.com   More word games and information

 

http://www.msrogers.com/English2/poetry/30_days_of_poetry.htm   Poetry

 

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/word-find.html   Word searches, etc.

 

http://www.quoteland.com/   Find a favorite quote.

 

http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/main/homepage/home.html   Official Harry Potter site

 

http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp   Scholastic’s Harry Potter site

 

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/   Poetry of all kinds for all kids

 

http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/coolsites/bookauthor.html#Authors   Books and authors

 

http://englishplus.com/grammar/   Grammar check up

 

 

 

 

 

Local

 

http://www.upsd.wednet.edu/   University Place School District home page

 

http://psc.upsd.wednet.edu/~cpweb/  Chambers new home page

 

http://www.ci.university-place.wa.us/default.asp    City of University Place

 

http://www.piercefire.org/up/    University Place Fire Department

 

 

 

 

 

Math

 

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/bjmath.html   Homework help and math problems

 

http://www.mathforum.org/funpow/   Math "problem of the week"

 

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/   Create practice work sheets for computation practice

 

http://www.mathleague.com/help/geometry/geometry.htm   Geometry

 

http://kidskonnect.com/Games/MathGames.htm   Lots o’ links to good math sites and problems

 

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/   Math problems and practice

 

 

 

 

 

Science

 

http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm   Pictures from the Hubble telescope

 

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html   Views from the Mars Rover

 

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=11&x=1327&y=13093&z=10&w=1   A view from space of HHTS before the building was built

 

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=4&s=10&x=2654&y=26188&z=10&w=1   ...12 years later.   (find your own house from here!)

 

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/CritterFiles/casefile/casefile.htm   A great source for information about "critters"

 

http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/   All you want to know about time and more...

 

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html   Sun and moon rising and setting from the US Naval Observatory

 

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/News/framework.html   Views of Mt. St. Helens

 

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/   NASA

 

http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/   Mars Pathfinder

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/   Earth and Moon viewer

 

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm   Views of the Solar System

 

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/   Stars and constellations

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/titlepage.shtml   Human Anatomy

 

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html   Neuroscience for kids

 

http://www.science.ca/askascientist/askascientist.php   Science information site... from scientists

 

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html   The nine planets

 

http://zoobooks.com/gatewayPages/gateway1Kids.html   Zoobooks... animal facts

 

http://www.oceanicresearch.org/lesson.html   Wonders of the sea

 

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/   All about volcanoes

 

http://www.ology.amnh.org/   Museum of Natural History

 

http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/Contents.html   WA State University answers all sorts of questions

 

http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm   Periodic Table of the Elements

 

http://whyfiles.org/teach/view.php?id=1   Answers to many perplexing questions

 

 

 

 

 

States

 

http://www.50states.com

 

http://www.infoplease.com/states.html

 

http://www.theus50.com/

 

http://www.classbrain.com/artstate/publish/

 

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/

 

http://www.netstate.com/states/

 

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/

 

http://www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us/connectusa/

 

http://www.50states.com/tools/moreinfo.htm   Phone numbers to call for tourist information.

 

 

 

 

Special thanks to Mr. Terry McClelland, teacher at Harbor Heights Elementary School in Gig Harbor

for doing the research and locating most of these sites.

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