Alligators/Crocodiles

• ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES AT ENCHANTED LEARNING Rhymes, Crafts, and Informational Coloring Printouts
  
  
• BILLY BEAR: WHITE CROCODILE

Animals

• AMAZING ANIMAL EXTREMES World records for the biggest, weirdest, and most bizarre animals
  
  
• ANIMAL CRAFTS: craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• Animal Park Match the baby animals with their parents.
  
  
• ANIMALS Students access different websites to gather information about animals.
  
  
• BABY ANIMALS QUIZ This is a dictionary "scavenger hunt," a simple activity for children who are starting to be familiar with the alphabet and the sounds the letters make.
  See CCSD's Standards-based lesson using this website!
  
  
• BARNYARD ANIMAL MATCH UP Match the animals to the sounds they make.
  
  
• CARE FOR ANIMALS Care for Animals, presented by the American Veterinary Medical Association, teaches children about the responsibilities associated with caring for their pets in a fun, entertaining way.
  
  
• FARM and FARM ANIMALS at Enchanted Learning Rhymes, crafts,coloring printouts, a calendar, and a quiz. (Membership required to use the enchantedlearning site, you must be a ccsd member)
  
  
• KIDS FARM Great pictures and information about the wildlife found in and around a small farm in Colorado.
  
  
• SIMPLE ANIMAL PRINTOUTS Simple animal printouts for younger children. From Enchanted Learning
  

Apples

• APPLEJUICE.ORG Welcome from AJ and the Jammin' Juicers! This is the place for you to play games, and have fun while learning about apples, apple juice, Johnny Appleseed and other fun information about healthy fruit juice.
  
  
• JOHNNY APPLESEED: Second Graders' Drawings and Reports
  
  
• JOHNNY APPLESEED ZoomSchool.com presents Johnny Appleseed printout, quiz, activity and seasons
  
  
• U.S. APPLE ASSOCIATION KIDS PAGE This section has information written just for children about apples and the apple industry. Includes how apples are grown, the legend of Johnny Appleseed, coloring pages, and homework help.
  
  
• THE STORY OF JOHNNY APPLESEED Americans have loved the story of Johnny Appleseed for decades, telling the tale over and over again. View the Johnny Appleseed Interactive Story.
  

Astronomy

• ALL ABOUT SPACE
  
  
• ASTRONOMY CRAFTS: craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• ASTRONOMY AND SPACE Rhymes, crafts,quizzes, information, books to print, pages to color from Enchanted Learning.
  
  
• EARTH SUN AND MOON: Online science experiment to learn about the earth's orbit. BBC Schools Science Clips
  See CCSD's Standards-based lesson using this website!
  
  
• THE SPACE PLACE Come on in and check out our games, animation, projects, and fun facts aout Earth space and technology.
  
  
• SOLAR SYSTEM Informational articles about our solar system. Created by 2nd graders. Also includes riddles, space quiz and a treasure hunt.
  
  
• SOLAR SYSTEM Student research activity from Little Explorers
  
  
• SOLAR SYSTEM PUZZLE Interactive quiz from Zoom Astronomy
  
  
• THE SOLAR SYSTEM From StarChild
  
  
• STARS at Enchanted Learning. Rebus rhymes, rhyme print-outs, star crafts, and more
  
  
• ZOOM ASTRONOMY a comprehensive on-line site about space and astronomy
  

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Bats

• Bats-A Thematic Unit for students and teachers
  Facts, projects, resources, art, conservation, literature, and more!
  
  
• BATS4KIDS Play bat games, learn about bats, where they live, what they eat, what they really look like, why they aren't birds, how they help humans, and how you can help protect this endangered species.
  
  
• Bats Listen & Read Non-fiction from Scholastic
  
  
• Bat Printouts Learn all about bats, and print out pictures of them. Find out what a vampire bat drinks.
  
  
• Bats Webquest: In Search of Stellaluna's Family Students can use this webquest designed for primary students after reading the story Stellaluna to learn more about bats. All student and teacher resources, including handouts are available from this site.
  
  
• San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Bat Bats are myth-understood!
  

Bees

• BEES AT ENCHANTED LEARNING Rhymes, Crafts, Informational Coloring Printouts, and a Quiz
  

Bears

• BEAR PRINTOUTS If you like bears, you'll enjoy our bear print-outs. Come see the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, the Giant Panda, and more
  
  
• BEAR SCAVENGER HUNT This is a dictionary "scavenger hunt," a simple activity for children who are starting to be familiar with the alphabet and the sounds the letters make.
  
  
• BEAR TIME Stories, songs and fun!
  
  
• THE CUB DEN The Cub Den is a place for young children to learn about real bears. Includes online photographs.
  

Butterflies-

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Calendars

• BLANK CALENDARS These printable calendars allow your students to create their own, within a given template. They will fill out the month and dates, and be able to highlight special occasions and events. Great for classes completing calendar/months of year/etc. learning.
  
  
• BLANK CALENDAR FROM ENCHANTED LEARNING You can print out the pages of this calendar and then draw your own artwork on each page. To print a page, go to that page and then choose the "Print" command from the File menu.
  (Membership required to use the enchantedlearning site, you must be a ccsd member)
  
  
• CRAYOLA.COM CALENDAR This has calendars for each month. When you click on a month, it gives you many National days and special events with links to activities to do throughout the month.
  
  
• CALENDAR ACTIVITIES AT ENCHANTED LEARNING Rhymes, Crafts, and Printouts
  
  
• CREATE A CALENDAR: This site offers calendars with various familiar children's characters--Winnie the Pooh, Sesame Street, Blues Clues, Yu-Gi-Oh, Veggie Tales, etc.--and your choice to download in English, Spanish, French, or German.
  
  
• HOW LONG IS A YEAR? Make an early reader book about the year. For a pdf version of the entire book, click here.
  (Membership required to use the enchantedlearning site, you must be a ccsd member)
  
  
• JAN BRETT PRINTABLE ARTWORK FOR CALENDARS Create your own Jan Brett artwork calendars.
  

Cats

• CATS AT ENCHANTED LEARNING Rhymes, Crafts, and Informational Coloring Printouts
  
  

Caterpillars/Butterflies

• BUTTERFLIES AND BUGS Butterfly Crafts (butterfly mobile, butterfly in my window, butterfly in my garden) Butterfly & Bug Online Games from Billy Bear
  
  
• BUTTERFLIES: Follow the Instructions.  Draw and color butterflies according to simple direcgtions.  From Enchanted Learning
  
  
• CATERPILLAR ANATOMY
  
  
• CATERPILLAR AND BUTTERFLIES CRAFTS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• CATERPILLAR -Information about the larval stage
  
  
• ERIC CARLE WEB SITE
  
  

Constitution

• CONSTITUTION FOR KIDS This is a website that gives primary students some basic information about our country's Constitution.
  See CCSD's Standards-based lesson using this website!
  
  
• U.S. CONSTITUTION Activities and Information from Enchanted Learning
  
  

Cowboys

• DIAMOND RANCH A variety of activities including songs, games, reading and coloring. Cowboy Jack and Dusty Trails teach and entertain as children enjoy a visual ride through the museum and interact with cowboys from the Diamond R Ranch Sponsored the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
  

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Dogs

• DOGS Rhymes, Crafts, and informational Coloring Printouts from Enchanted Learning
  
  
• FIFTY MOST POPULAR DOGS (most with printouts) What are the 50 most popular dog breeds in the U.S.A.? Come find out!

Dinosaurs

• DINOSAUR CRAFTS crafts projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• DINOSAURS Label the dinosaurs, including T. rex, Triceratops, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, Spinosaurus, etc.
  
  
• ZOOM DINOSAURS Learn all about dinos, ask dino questions, vote for your favorite dinosaur, play dinosaur games, plus the best dinosaur jokes ever!

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Eggs

• Eggs Eggs-Rhymes, Crafts, and Coloring Printouts.
  
  

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Fish

• FISH PRINTOUTS Fun facts and pictures from Enchanted Learning
  
  
  

Forces

• See P for Pushes and Pulls

Frogs

• THE FROGGY PAGE Frog sounds, pictures, tales, and more.
  
  
• FROGS and TOADS at Enchanted Learning: Rhymes, Crafts, Quizzes, and Printouts to Color
  

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Gardens/Flowers/Plants

• FLOWER CRAFTS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• FLOWERS at Enchanted Learning Rhymes, Crafts, a Quiz, and a Printout to Color
  
  
• KinderGARDEN An introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and the outdoors.
  
  See also Plants
  

Gingerbread

• G IS FOR GINGERBREAD Great TEACHER resource for a thematic unit on gingerbread.
  
  
• THE GINGERBREAD BABY Gingerbread Baby Animals-You can print these masks and use them for a play.
  
  
• THE GINGERBREAD MAN WITH EVERYTHING Decorate with unlimited goodies.
  
  
• JAN BRETT'S MAKE A GINGERBREAD HOUSE Instructions for building your own gingerbread house.
  
  
• JAN BRETT'S GINGER BREAD BABY COLORING PAGE - A coloring page based on 'Gingerbread Baby' book.

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Holidays

• BILLY BEAR'S ON HOLIDAY Coloring pages,printable and online games, an interactive story, mazes, puzzles, and more. Some games use Java. (Site has banner ads)
  
  
• BLACK DOG LOVES HOLIDAYS!Online and printable activities, games, coloring pages, and decorations for your computer. (Site has banner ads)
  
  
• HOLIDAY FUN! Learn about the holidays
  
  
• HOLIDAY CRAFTS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• KIDS DOMAIN HOLIDAYS wonderful collection of coloring pages, word games and other printable activities, software, clip art, and crafts
   
  

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Insects (Bugs)

• INSECT CRAFTS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• INSECTS AT ENCHANTED LEARNING.COM Rhymes, Crafts, Coloring Printouts, and a Quiz from Enchanted Learning
  
  
• AN INSECT'S PERSPECTIVE A Science and Literacy WebQuest for Grade 2
  Teacher Recommended!
  
  
• THE INSECTS HOME PAGE

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Magnets

• MAGNETS AND SPRINGS Online science experiment to learn how magnets work! BBC Schools Science Clips
  See CCSD's Standards-based lesson using this website!

Masks

• MASK CRAFTS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  

Me (All About)

• ALL ABOUT ME-A Thematic Unit for Second Graders (A CCSD standards-based unit)
  Students will improve their skills in the area of Language Arts by doing one or many of the activities suggested in the topic of "ME".
  
  
• BEHIND THE NAME This site gives the meanings for many, many names.
  
  
• A BOOK ABOUT ME This is a wonderful book that you can make. In this book you can write and draw all about your family, friends, and favorite things.
  (Membership required to use the enchantedlearning site, you must be a ccsd member)
  
  
• THIS DAY IN HISTORY This site is for looking up information about what happened on the day of your birth.

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Native Americans

• NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVITIES DLTK'S Crafts for Kids
  
  
• NATIVE AMERICAN CRAFTS FOR KIDS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• LEARN ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS
  
  
• THE STUDY OF NATIVE AMERICANS At The Orchard School in Indianapolis, Indiana, second grade students study Native Americans.  Project work includes constructing pueblos, hogans, and tools, writing poetry, legends, reports, and designing HyperStudio projects.
  
  

Nursery Rhymes

• MOTHER GOOSE REBUS RHYMES Rebus Rhymes is designed for children who are learning how to read.
  
  
• MAGNETIC RHYMES Using traditional nursery rhymes.
  
  
• NURSERY RHYMES A Thematic Unit for First Graders (A CCSD standards-based unit!)
  
  
  
  

Nutrition

• DOLE 5 A DAY Everything you need to get your students excited about eating fruits and vegetables is presented here.
  
  

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Oceans

• OCEAN ANIMALS BOOK and WORKSHEETS This site has free downloads of many A-Z reading books, including the Ocean Animals book.
  
  
• OCEAN CRAFTS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
• OCEANS AND SEAS Rhymes, Crafts, Quizzes, Information, and Animal Coloring Printouts
  
  
• SEA AND SKY: MONSTERS OF THE DEEP This is a site that has many ocean animals, drawn with detail, but not photos. When you click on the animal it brings you to more statistics and information about that animal.
  
  
• SEA AND SKY: THE SEA There are many activities to use for the sea from this location.
  
  
• UNDER THE SEA Learn about the ocean and the animals who live there. Created by 2nd graders
  
  
• WHALETIMES SEA BED WhaleTimes will take you on an adventure to the ocean. Find out how your favorite animals survive in the sea. What they eat, where they live and much more! This site has an excellent glossary of whale and ocean terms.
  
  See also Whales
  
  

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Patterns

• GUESS MY BUTTON--Patterns in Mathematics Guess My Button is a classification activity. Students have to identify which buttons have which attributes.
  
  
• PATTERN MANIA Look at the pattern and decide what comes next. Click on a picture to complete the pattern. This game has 10 questions.
  
  
• PEOPLE PATTERNS--Patterns in Mathematics Figure out who should come next in a sequence.
  
  
• SIMPLE PATTERN PRINTOUTS From Enchanted Learning.

Penguins

• PENGUIN PENGUIN An early reader story from Starfall
  
  
• PENGUIN PLANET you can play a Penguin WordSearch game, test your knowledge with a Penguin Quiz, download your own Penguin Mask, follow links to other websites related to penguins, and see actual penguins in action. Teacher Recommended!
  
  
• PENGUINS AROUND THE WORLD Find out about the 17 different kinds of penguins around the world. Activities, quizzes, and science activities to do at this winter activity site.
  
  
• PENGUINS AT ENCHANTED LEARNING Information and printouts
  
  
• PENGUIN SCAVENGER HUNT Children search for quiz answers by looking on the pages of Little Explorers. While they're having fun learning, they'll develop Internet research skills.
  
  
• PERFECTLY PUZZLING PENGUINS Read reports about different penguins of the world and play some games, all written by second graders
  
  
• PETE & BARBS PENGUIN PAGES Inside this site you will find everything you want to know about penguins. There are around 150 information pages and over 200 photographs.

Plants/Gardens/Flowers

• ALL ABOUT PLANTS Wonderful site with information, poetry, songs and more.
  
  
• ASK THE ANSWER WORM S.K. Worm answers your questions about soil and stuff!
  See CCSD's Standards-based lesson using this website!
  
  
• HELPING PLANTS GROW WELL Online science experiment to learn how to take care of plants! BBC Schools Science Clips
  See CCSD's Standards-based lesson using this website!
  
  
• PLANTS at Enchanted Learning: Rhymes, Crafts, a Quiz, and Printouts to Color
  
  
• PLANTS Lots of printables - word puzzles, forms, worksheets, and more from abcteach
  
  
• PLANTS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT Learn how plants grow, the different parts of a plant, how seeds travel what bees do to help plants, and about plants and their relationship with animals.
  
  
• PLANTS AND SOIL Students will enhance their Science and Language Arts skills in the Science Unit covering plants and soils. A CCSD Second Grade standards-based unit.
  
  
• SEEDY CHARACTERS This is an on-line quiz for students to take about plants. After completion of the questions, the quiz will be checked and students can retake the part of the quiz they got incorrect.
  
  
• QUIZ ON PLANTS LittleExplorers - Quiz on Plants
  
  See also Garden
  

Presidents

• ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOR PRIMARY CHILDREN Pictures, a quiz, a treasure hunt, and a tour of Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood National Memorial in Indiana.
  
  
• LIFE IN THE WHITEHOUSE The White House is more than 200 years old and its next door neighbor, the West Wing, is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. Learn about the White House and the people who have lived there through these activities and games.
  
  
• THE LINCOLN GALLERY is a pictorial history of Abraham Lincoln published by first graders. Click on any of the students' drawings to learn more about Lincoln's boyhood, his early years in politics, and his presidency.
  
  
• PRESIDENTS DAY Activities, Crafts, Quizzes and Printouts for Presidents Day from Enchanted Learning
  
  
• PRESIDENTS DAY Story from Mighty Books Play Game
  
  
• THE PRESIDENT'S HOME-AN ONLINE GUIDE TO THE WHITEHOUSE Information and Useful links
  
  

Pumpkins

• PICK A PUMPKIN
  
  
• PUMPKIN PATCH Collection of pumpkin poems
  
  
• PUMPKIN, PUMPKIN An online story from Starfall
  
  
• PUMPKINS AND MORE Pumpkin History, Varieties, Recipes, Pumpkin Farms and more
  
  
• PUMPKINS AT ENCHANTED LEARNING Nursery rhymes, crafts and printouts.
  
  
  

Pushes and Pulls

• FORCES AND MOVEMENT: BBC Schools Science Clips
  
  
  
• PUSHES AND PULLS Online science experiment to learn about pushes and pulls! BBC Schools Science Clips
  
  
  
• PUSHES Grade 1: Students use this experiment in a science center to explore how things move.
  (A CCSD First Grade standards-based lesson)
  
  
  
• PUSHES Kindergarten: Students use this experiment in a science center to explore how things move.
  (A CCSD Kindergarten standards-based lesson)
  
  
  
  
  

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Rabbits

• RABBITS AT ENCHANTED LEARNING: Crafts, rabbit quiz print-out, several rabbit and hare print-outs with pictures you can color, and more.
  

Rainbows

• Color the Rainbow Read aloud story and activity
  
  
• I LOVE COLORS Pages on colors
  
  
• ENGLISH/SPANISH COLORS COLORING BOOK A 12-page Spanish/English coloring book about the colors (a printout).
  
  
• RAINBOW CRAFTS craft projects for elementary school children from Enchanted Learning. The crafts use materials found around the house.
  
  
  

Rocks

• ROCKS AND SOILS Online science experiment to learn types of soils! BBC Schools Science Clips
  
  
  
• ROCKS Kindergarten: Students use this experiment in a science center to help students understand the characteristics which distinguish rocks, sand, and soil.
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Seasons

• KIDS DOMAIN Pictures, software with a seasonal theme, games (Java and Shockwave), and links to other fun seasonal sites.for WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, and FALL
  

Spanish

• EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION NETWORK Play and learn in espanol. Includes pronunciation
  
  ENGLISH/SPANISH PICTURE DICTIONARY A picture dictionary with a picture for each English/Spanish entry.
  
  INTERNET PICTURE DICTIONARY The Internet Picture Dictionary is a free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning Spanish language learners of all ages.
  
  
• SPANISH LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES at Enchanted Learning
  

Spiders

• Nature Critter Guide: Spider From PBS
  
  
• Spider Webquest This lesson was developed for first graders. It contains mostly spider facts and pictures. This WebQuest would be useful to supplement arachnid/spider study.
  
  
• Spiders for Kids Salutations from the second grade students at Pocantico Hills School. We have all learned a great deal about spiders. We wanted to share what we have learned.
  
  
• Spiderz Rule! These pages are the ongoing  result of a theme of work on Spiders by Year 5G (10 year old children) at Rochedale State School in Australia. Most of this work has been researched or written by these children.
  
  
• Spiders at Enchanted Learning Spider rhymes, printouts, crafts, and scavenger hunt (Membership required to use portions of the enchantedlearning site, you must be a ccsd member)
  
  

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Teeth

• OPEN WIDE AND TREK INSIDE WEBQUEST Helps students understand major concepts related to oral health
  Teacher Recommended!
  
  TOOTH TALLY PROJECT As first graders participate in the Tooth Tally Project, they practice their counting skills, collect data, learn to make and interpret graphs. Teacher Recommended!
  
  SAVE SYDNEY'S SMILE Sydney is a 6 year old girl who likes to eat candy, sometimes forgets to brush her teeth, and doesn't like to visit the dentist. Your mission is to help Sydney learn to take good care of her teeth Teacher Recommended!
  
  TEETH -A Thematic Unit for First Graders (A CCSD standards-based unit!)
  
  TEETH AND EATING Online science experiment to learn about teeth! BBC Schools Science Clips
  
  
• VISIT THE DENTIST WITH MARTY Virtual field trip to the dentist!. Teacher Recommended!
  

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United States

• U.S.A Learn more about the U.S.A
  
  U.S. PATRIOTIC CRAFTS Patriotic wind sock, Lincoln Penny Pendant, US Flag Printout and others from Enchanted Learning
  
  U.S. STATE FACTS, MAPS AND SYMBOLS For each state, you'll find a map, geography facts, and presidential birthplaces. Discover the origin of the state's name; see the state flag.
  
  
• WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR KIDS A tour of the White House for kids
  

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Whales

• BALEEN WHALES Information from SeaWorld
  
  BELUGA WHALES Information from SeaWorld
  
  WHALES! Whale facts, information, sounds, awesome pictures, and postcards for whales enthusiasts,  Put together for you at Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, whale watching capital of the world!
  
  
• Whales from Enchanted Learning: What is a Whale?, Simple Whale Print-outs, Extreme Whales, Whale Evolution
  
  See also Oceans
  
  

Weather

• EDHEADS Weather Activities Learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves.
  
  
• Gerald's Weather Wheel Dress Gerald for the different seasons! Kids choose clothes, hats and shoes to dress Gerald and get him ready for different kids of weather New!
  
  Weather for Kids Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities, and become hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids!
  
  
• Weather RelatedActivities Rhymes, Crafts, Activities, Quizzes, Groundhog Day, a Calendar, Clouds, the Water Cycle, the Atmosphere, the Seasons, and Printouts
  
  
  
  

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