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标题：Hot Websites
作者：Lindroth, Linda
期刊名称：Teaching Pre K-8
印刷版ISSN：0891-4508
出版年度：1999
卷号：May 1999
出版社：Early Years, Inc.

Hot Websites

Lindroth, Linda

Make sure you bookmark or add these websites to your list of favorites! These are sure to be websites you will want to return to again and again.

New York Times

Learning Network

www.nytimes.com/learning/

Incorporating current events activities into your curriculum has never been easier. This comprehensive free website for teachers, parents and students brings the daily news into the classroom in an engaging new format.

provides a daily lesson plan with activities that correlate to The New York Times. Lessons are archived by topic to make it easy to use the resources throughout the school year. Be sure to check out the NIE teacher resources.

features news summaries with vocabulary and geography links to build learning. My students love the daily news quiz, which can be graded online or printed for class use. Each questionlinks to a Times article to facilitate research. You can even print a monthly themed crossword puzzle!

publishes student writing on essay topics. Each month, three essays are chosen from Highwired.Net, a free, online school newspaper site. To get your own free, online school newspaper, register at www.highwired.net

Blue Mountain Arts

www.bluemountain.com/

This is an excellent holiday resource site, perfect for browsing over the summer months. Students will have great fun selecting and sending electronic greeting cards to key pals and classrooms around the world. Many of the cards have animations and music to complement the greeting! Most web browsers can send these animated greetings.

The free greeting cards are categorized by holiday or occasion. Monthly events are listed to help remind teachers and students of holidays and special occasions. Each card can be personalized with an optional personal message. Cards can be printed and used for story starters or bulletin board displays.

The website also features an search tool. This comprehensive database can be searched by keyword or explored by subject. Results are quick and concise, with a short abstract of each website. Each site in the results list gives a date for the last update to the site. Each of the sites in the database is reviewed to block inappropriate material. Students or teachers can submit a site to a category for possible inclusion on the LookSmart website as part of the keyword search and the category to which it is submitted.

CIA Kids

www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/

The federal government provides this kids' page of the Central Intelligence Agency. Investigate the of the CIA and famous people in espionage.

is an interactive trivia quiz where you can test your knowledge of the world and then check the map for the answers.

Research any country using the to get information on geography, people, government, economy and transportation.

Don't miss the page, which provides a link to other government agency kids' pages. You'll find kid pages for the FBI, the US Treasury, the White House, the Department of State and NASA.

Linda Lindroth is an Area Technology Teacher K12 with Kanawha Schools in Charleston, WV. She is also a Teaching Editor for Teaching K-8.