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NeuroScience for Kids is a buried treasure of brain information and activities for kids. There’s Neuroscience in the News, online and hands-on explorations, experiments, contests, and links to sites, books and articles all about brains. It’s worth the time to dig deep into this site!

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FossWeb offers three sites with interactive inquiry-based science activities. The site does not have full auditory support, but downloadable audio versions of the Foss texts are available. Each level offers a different range of features and topics, but all three offer extensive parent and teacher support.

The K-2 site includes background information, an interactive activity, [...]

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The Math Cats web site offers several activities to explore, ideas for and examples of math crafts, and a great section on make-at-home math manipulatives. It has a simple, folksy feel, a welcome contrast to much of the slick stuff you see on the web. Most of the activities include some guided discussion of [...]

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Starfall is one of the best sites for early reading and literacy, with online stories that offer audio support as needed, a fun, enticing interface, and supportive activities and printables. Multiple levels, with numerous stories and activities at each level.
Starfall was created by the family behind Blue Mountain Cards, one of the earliest online [...]

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – Explore operations, algebra, geometry, logic and measurement through online pattern blocks, graphing, a mastermind game and more (requires JAVA). With numerous activities, well organized by grade level and content area, the open-ended environment for explorations is a welcome toolkit in the classroom, and provides solid opportunities for fun, explanations [...]

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