Ordering the Days of the Week

Ordering the Months of the Year

Tux4Kids

Math, Typing and Painting

Study Island

KS1 Bitesize

Literacy, Math and Science

Starfall

The National Constitution Center

From the National Constitution Center of Philadelphia- great constitutional resources.

iCivics

Great interactive site for teaching middle school civics.

USA.gov

Resources for teaching about the US Government

The Dickerson Congressional Center

Contains lesson plans and interactive material designed to cover all areas of Congress.

My Wonderful World

Also a National Geographic website full of interactive activities and information.

National Geographic News

Similar to CNN Student News but concentrates on National Geographic content.

National Geographic Expeditions

This is a great website offering virtual fieldtrips, lesson plans, and all kinds of activities.

National Geographic Education

National Geographic for students; also, a lot of teaching resources.

UN's Cyber School Bus

This is a great website that can be used in a lot of areas of government, research, and current events.  It can also be used a student resource for their research.

C-SPAN Classroom

This is a great website to get students involved in topics for class discussion.  There are teacher resources, a video library, “constitution clips” etc.

The New York Times Education

New York Times for Students

CNN Student News

Education/Student appropriate news website direct from CNN.

The Cagle Post

This is a fun website full of political cartoons.

Outreach World

This website can be used to download instructional material and has an easy to use select menu to access the database and be very specific for what you need.

Smithsonian Education

This is also a great website with a number of projects that have already been put together for you.  An example would be an entire lesson called “Black Wings” that could be used for Black History Month.  There is a lot of information available, and the website can be entered as an educator or a student.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

This website is a bank of resources and information on a wide range of topics.  I links to the Library of Congress, NPR and other credible sources and is pretty easy to navigate through.  It offers lesson plans, resources for students, photos, information and links to specific topics, lesson plans, videos, etc. It’s just loaded with information and material.

Holt Online Learning

This is an interactive website from the textbook company; however, it is still a great open-source site even if this is not the text book you use as it has a load of content information broken down into sections, interactive tools such as an interactive atlas, online quizzes/homework exercises, resources for research, links to other open source sites, etc.