• Bible Gateway: A tool for reading and researching scripture online in the language or translation of your choice. Provides advanced searching capabilities based on keywords or scripture references, and various tools to enhance your study of the Bible.
• BiblePlaces.com features photographs and descriptions of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece with an emphasis on biblical archaeology, geography, and history.
• Kids Corner: Site for kids from “The Back to God Hour” Bible stories, devotions, memory verses, quizzes, and more.

• Biographical Dictionary: Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to present day.
• Biographies: Multnomah County Library Homework Center offers a variety of homework resources and info.
• Biographies: 42Expore2Site for kids from “The Back to God Hour” with Bible stories, devotions, memory verses, quizzes, and more.
• Biography.com
• Celebrate Black History Month: Learn about famous African Americans from the History Channel site.
• Explorers A-Z
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards. Includes section on U.S. Presidents.
• Presidents & First Ladies
• Revolutionary War Biographies
• Who 2 Biographies: Find famous people fast.

Sites with suggested reading lists and information about books:

• McBookwords: Lists state and regional award winning books for children and young adults.
• Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Website: Links to booktalks, lists of recommended reading, book reviews by children, and more information about children’s literature.

• ABC Ya!: Educational computer games and activities for elementary students.
• Book Adventure: Free reading motivation program in which students earn points by reading books and taking online quizzes. Registration is required.
• Brain Pop: Educational games, video clips, and quizzes for students. Full use of site requires membership. Rose Park has a membership: User name: ilikediane; Password: popbrain
• Chateau Meddybemps: Activities to help young children strengthen learning skills in unique and playful ways.
• Enchanted Learning: Games, information, and activity pages.
• FunBrain: Kids games with parent and teacher resources.
• Kids Corner: Site for kids from “The Back to God Hour.”
• ON-LION for Kids: Links to recommended books, magazines, authors and illustrator sites from the New York Public Library.
• Quiz-tree.com: Math, reading, language, and geography games.

• KidsHealth: A searchable health site for parents, kids, and teens.

• Authors and Illustrators: A Scholastic web page with information about authors and links to their own pages when available.
• Books & Bytes: Authors
• Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Page: Authors
• Michigan Authors: Links to Michigan authors.
• Teachers @ Random: Random House Publishers’ links to authors and illustrators.

• Compound Words quiz
• Contractions quiz
• English Zone
• Spelling City: Over 35,000 spelling words and eight games. Thousands of free spelling lists for students and teachers can save their own.
• StarFall: Where children have fun learning to read!

• ALA (American Library Association)
• Awesome Library for Kids: Searchable site that links to all subjects, games, projects, authors, adventures, and more.
• Herrick District Library
• Internet Library for Librarians
• Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Web Page: Links to booktalks, lists of recommended reading, book reviews by children or other information about children’s literature.
• Resources for School Librarians
• Picturing Books

• American Girl: Some activities available without subscribing to the magazine.
• National Geographic for Kids
• Owlkids Online: Includes CHIRP, CHICKADEE, and OWL. Some activities available without subscribing to the magazines.
• Sesame Street: Early learning concepts are featured via stories, poems, and activities with Bert, Ernie, and other Sesame Street Characters. The website connects to Sesame Workshop pages for parents and kids.
• Spigot: Online science magazine for kids and classrooms.
• Sports Illustrated for Kids: Complete site access requires registration. The Web version mirrors the print edition while capitalizing on the magazine’s interactive appeal.
• Time for Kids

• A+Math.com: Practice math on this interactive site.
• Illuminations: Math activities, games, and lessons designed by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Search by grade level, operations, standards.
• IXL Math: Games and exercises for math practice at all levels.
• Math Magician: Practice math facts; set your own level and kind of problems.
• Mr. Maffesoli’s Math: Math links for students, guidance for parents, and standards based resources for teachers.
• Mr. Nussbaum’s Math: Dozens of math games! Have fun, practice math skills.
• Multiplication.com: Play games to build multiplication speed. Choose by fact families and level of difficulty.

• Time for Kids

• Music Theory: Begin your journey into the realm of music.
• New York Philharmonic Kidzone: Fun, kid-friendly site. Learn about instruments, composers, conductors, and more. Compose your own music, invent your own instrument. Play games.

• Children’s Book Reviews: Good books for kids. Carol Hurst’s site searchable by grade level, title or author.
• Notable Children’s Digital Media: Real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age and younger that enables and encourages active engagement and social interaction while informing, educating, and entertaining in exemplary ways.  From American Library Association.
• SafeKids.com: Your family’s guide to making technology fun, safe and productive.
• Trelease-on-Reading.com: Jim Trelease’s site is aimed at anyone who is interested in reading aloud to children of all ages.

• Children’s Book Reviews: Good books for kids. Carol Hurst’s site searchable by grade level, title or author.
• Notable Children’s Digital Media: Real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age and younger that enables and encourages active engagement and social interaction while informing, educating, and entertaining in exemplary ways. From American Library Association.
• SafeKids.com: A guide to making technology fun, safe, and productive.
• Trelease-on-Reading.com: Jim Trelease’s site is aimed at anyone who is interested in reading aloud to children of all ages.

• Almanac: An Information Please site. A vast compendium of statistics with up-to-date facts and figures.
• Atlas: Information Please site. Features maps and detailed profiles of countries and states.
• Atlas: National Geographic’s atlas.
• Britannica School
• Dictionary
• Encyclopedia: Information Please site. Current and comprehensive covering all the major branches of knowledge.
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Fact Monster: Online almanac, atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia.
• Information Please: Homepage to the Information Please Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Almanac.
• MEL Michigan Electric Library: Michigan eLibrary: Login from home using a Michigan driver’s license or library card
• Picture Dictionary: Little Explorers English Picture Dictionary. Additional links to 7 other languages.
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Thesaurus
• Wiki Media: Search here for images to import into your documents.
• World Book Online: We have a year’s subscription to this great resource to access at school or at home.

• Answers.com: Searches for accurate, high quality, credible answers to your search questions.
• Discovery Education: Find videos, images, clip art, songs, encyclopedia articles and more at this site. Search by subject, grade level, or media type. User name and password are required. See your media specialist or tech teacher.
• Enchanted Learning
• Fact Monster: Online almanac, atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia.
• Herrick Public Library
• InfoTrac Web Library of Michigan: Must be on HC network.
• KnightCite: Use this citation maker for your works cited page.

• Dinosaurs: Zoom Dinosaurs: Enchanted Learning online interactive hypertext book about dinosaurs designed for students of all ages.
• Endangered Animals: Animal InfoInformation about endangered mammals from Science NetLinks.
• Endangered Animals: Animal Diversity
• Endangered Animals: Birds: A site from Cornell University.
• National Geographic Kids
• Nine Planets: The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
• Oceans and Seas: From Enchanted Learning.
• Ocean Animal Printouts: Provides easy-to-read information & printouts.
• San Diego Zoo
• Sites for Zoos and Animals
• World Wildlife: World Wildlife Fund’s Endangered Species site. Read about selected endangered species and view photographs.

• America’s Story from America’s Library: Discover the stories of America’s past; meet amazing Americans; jump back in time; explore the states.
• CIA World Fact Book: Information about countries of the world.

• Enchanted Learning Spanish Dictionary: English to Spanish AND Spanish to English Dictionary.
• Translator Alligator: FunBrain Spanish (as spoken in Spain)–4 different levels.

• ABC teach
• DLTK’S Printable Crafts for Kids
• Education World: The Educators best friend.
• Educator’s Lesson Plans: Through The Educator’s Reference Desk you can access AskERIC’s 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
• Enchanted Learning: Access additional resources by entering our user name and password.
• Internet4classrooms: Helping teachers teach internet use effectively.
• A Kid’s Heart: Crafts, clip art, ideas for teaching young children with a Christian perspective.
• PBS Teacher Source: One-stop shop for PBS educational resources for K-12 classrooms.
• Puzzlemaker.com: A puzzle generation tool from Discovery for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
• Scholastic for Teachers: Free tools and resources for classrooms.
• Shaped: Houghton Mifflin’s page with free teaching resources, including fun classroom activities, lessons, downloadables, and videos for K–12 students.

• HCS Moodle
• Holland Christian Tech Helpdesk