Transportation

Trains for beginners -- A simple explanation of trains, the how and why they are good for moving people. (1 page) Written in easy-to-read text. With the correct audio plug in installed, it will read the page for you!

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2nd Grade

Fantasy

Tall Tales

• Paul Bunyan
• Paul Bunyan Trail
• Peter Rabbit
  • Official Web Site
  • More Than a Rabbit's Tale
  • Welcome to Mr. McGregor's Garden

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California Missions

• Biography of Father Serra
• California History Resources -- a page from the "History Through Literature," this is a list of literature resouces that teach about California history.
• California Mission Studies Association -- This is a fairly exhaustive hot link list of sites pertaining to California Missions. Many are good for students, all are excellent resources for teacher preparation.
• The California Missions -- a list of all 21 missions with short annotation on many of them.
• California's Missions -- Picture postcards of all 21 missions and other information. One of the best features is the "Visiting the Missions" link which shows a chart of all the missions, when they were founded, and what condition they are in now.
• Pictures of California Missions -- This site features historic photographs of all 21 California Missions, from as early as 1895, as well as an essay about their founding, a map, etc.
• Virtual Tour of the California Missions -- See pictures of each of the missioins as the guides go on their bicycle tour. This was originally done as a "real time" activity with fourth grade classes. It is still a work in progress.

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Oceans

• Treasures at Sea The site is subtitled "Exploring the Ocean Through Literature" but this totally cool site includes much more than suggested readings. There are pages with great things for students to do such as puzzles, art activities, and other web resources. These is also a "Teacher's Place." You will really enjoy checking this one out!
• Oceanlink welcomes you to the OceanInfo Page with links to fascinating subjects such as tides, marine biodiversity, hagfish (slime eel), nudibranchs (sea slugs), as well as the links to Sea Otters and the Food Web shown below.
  • Sea Otters
    Includes information about systematics, morphology, distribution, biology, ecology, and conservation
  • The Food Web
    Learn who eats whom on this page with links to many different plants and animals to explore
   
• Monterey Bay Aquarium -- Visit this Monterey Bay Aquarium to prepare students for their visit. There are many activities for children as well as resources to help you prepare.  
• Seaweb -- A multi media education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it. The web site hase links to projects that can be used for resources as well as for children to explore.
• Coral and Coral Reefs -- This site, a Sea World/Busch Gardens Education Department resource, features detailed info about coral reefs. It has many projects that children can do and some they can observe via the Internet. It also has an excellent bibliography and links to other resources. Permission is granted by Sea World for classroom teachers to make reprographic copies of worksheets provided for noncommercial use.
• International Year of the Ocean --Fact sheets, fun facts and activities designed to celebrate the ocean and teach kids how to protect and champion it. This is a HUGE website that has a special link on the homepage for Teachers There are worksheets that can be printed out. Many are primary level.
• Secrets of the Sea -- Teachers and students are invited to log on to the worldís first online ocean adventure learning game. Easy to set-up in the classroom and quick to download, Secrets @ Sea is deep with educational content! Ace on the Case: Secrets @ Sea is a curriculum-based adventure story for grade 4-7 students on the World Wide Web. This engaging website game complements ocean-theme units of study in the classroom and enhances student's learning experiences using the Internet. Students play the starring role of "Ace", assistant investigator to Paula Pacific, who is assigned to examine unusual behaviours noticed in killer whale populations in the Alanamorris Strait. As Ace progresses through the story, s/he must successfully complete a number of ocean-related learning activities. The knowledge gained from completing these activities leads the student to the solution of the case. This requires that you download (free) the Flash3 plub-in from Macromedia. It's easy to do--just point and click.

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Environments

• Regional Learning Center

Ancient History

• Ancient History Resouces -- a page from"History Through Literature," this is a list of literature books that teach about ancient History.
• The History of Ancient Egypt -- This site will enable you to navigate interactively through the more than 3000 years of Ancient Egypt. Choose the name of a period, a dynasty, or a date, and find out more abou them. You can also choose one of the Pharohs of the first six dynasties, Saqqara--City of the Dead, The Language of Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Egypt from A to Z.

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Medieval Times

• Build a Castle -- Download free software with plans for building a castle, or link to on-line instructions for building your own castle
• Castles on the web -- This site will link you to hundreds of sites about castles--with a special section of "Castles for Kids"
• Knights and Castles -- This is a commercial site, designed to sell model castles. (Don't worry about getting sucked in. They are probably too expensive for any teacher to buy!) It does, however, provide many really excellent pictures of castles and their surroundings.

Westward Expansion

• California State Railroad Museum -- the largest and finest interpretive railroad museum in North America and is the most visited in the world. The Railroad Museum offers a stunning and unusual setting for your event or party and is one of Sacramento's most popular rental sites
• The Fredinand Magellan, Presidential Rail, U.S. Number 1 -- Visit the Presidential Rail car of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only car ever custom built for the President of the United States in the 20th century. You will find links to the reasons for the train, a virtual tour, and its recent history.
• South Carolina Railroad Museum Schoolhouse site --This site will take you to an on-line history of Railroading in American, its economics, its science, as well as a bibliography and literature links.
• The B&O Railroad Museum -- This site has some history of the railroad and many excellent pictures of steam and deisel trains and of the Roundhouse at the museum.

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