2nd+Grade+Finds


 * Social Studies--Past & Present Heroes**
 * **My Hero Site:** @http://www.myhero.com/go/home.asp (the teacher lesson plans and ideas might be a good place to start)
 * **The North Star,** is an activity page around North Star thinkers who followed their own path to success and inspired others: [] You may want to look at the whole site to see how all of this fits if you are not familiar with the book (it is available free on-line at the site).
 * **Crayola Site on Heroes with Lesson Plans:** []
 * **Targeted at grades 3-5 this might be useable at 2nd grade**—you’ll have to look and possibly adapt some of the content: []
 * **Again, targeted for 6th and up**—this site may have some useable video, etc. that you could use but most of the content materials and lessons will be at too high a level for your students: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/
 * **2nd Grade Social Studies**--Internet4teachers site with social studies standards and aligned web sites for the 2nd grade curriculum
 * Science--natural resources, water, rocks, soils, plants, fossils**
 * **Internet 4 Classrooms--2nd Grade Science:** Web sites with resources aligned to the national science standards--(this link is for 2nd grade)
 * **What is it Like Where You Live--** http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html At this web site, students can explore different biomes and learn about the plants and animals that live there.
 * **Ecosystem Games at Quia**: @http://www.quia.com/jg/649443.html
 * **Rock Hounds:** http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html  Explore how rocks are formed, take a quiz on the different kinds of rocks, build a rock formation and more. This site would be a good one for students to explore and learn about rocks before starting your unit.
 * Hands On Activities for Forming Rocks: instructions for "making" your own rock formations.
 * Rock Cycle Song (sang to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat--involve your music teacher:)
 * **BitSize Science--Physical Processes**: @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/ This site contains interactive ideas related to the physical processes in science--the ones you will be interested in are sounds, forces, magnets & springs
 * **BitSize Science-Materials:** @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials/ This site contains interactive activities related to changing states, gas, liquids, solids, etc.
 * **BitSize Science--Living Things:** http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/ This link on the BitSize Science site has links to interactive activities on food chains, life cycles, plants & animals, etc.
 * **Learn and Check Knowledge on Magnets:** http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/33.asp

**Math--telling time, clocks & money**
 * **Telling Time Sites**
 * **Traditional Face Clock and Digital Clock**--learning to tell time: @http://www.time-for-time.com/interactive.htm
 * **Beat The Clock--**Time Telling Game: http://www.time-for-time.com/game1.htm#
 * **Just in Time Game**--for 2 players--Player rolls the dice and moves forward to land on a clock. The player must read the time. If the time is incorrectly read, the move is canceled. Play continues until all players have reached the end http://www.time-for-time.com/game2.htm#
 * **Cryptic Clocks**--tell the time to solve a puzzle (this would be for the more advanced students--it can be confusing to some): @http://www.time-for-time.com/game3.htm
 * **Teaching Time**--A whole web site of resources for teaching time: @http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/
 * **Lessons Plans, print materials and interactive resources for telling time:** @http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/contents.html
 * **Math--Telling Time Resources:** @http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math-time.html
 * 23 Sites for 2nd Graders on Telling Time: a collection of 23 interactive sites to help students tell time
 * **Money Sites:**
 * **Making Change Game:** @http://justkidsgames.com/play.php?MakingChange Students earn points by making the correct change for sale from a cash register.
 * **2nd Grade Interactive Math Practice with Money:** a listing of 26 interactive web sites to learn and practice money counting and subtracting skills.
 * **Fraction Practice for 2nd grade students:** @http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/fractions_math_second_2nd_grade.htm
 * **Practice with 2nd Grade Word Problems:** 10 web sites targeted at the second grade level to help students learn the process of solving word problems and also links to individual word problems.
 * **2nd Grade Math Skill Builders Site:** @http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-2nd-mathbuilders.htm Choose the skill from a mathematical process, numbers and operations, algebra, measurement, data analysis and a collection of web sites that teach the topic at the 2nd grade level will be listed.
 * **2nd Grade Math Skill Builders Site:** @http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-2nd-mathbuilders.htm Choose the skill from a mathematical process, numbers and operations, algebra, measurement, data analysis and a collection of web sites that teach the topic at the 2nd grade level will be listed.

**Language Arts**
 * **2nd Grade Language Arts Skill Builders Sites:** @http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-2nd-langbuilders.htm You may want to look at these sites and pick the one or two that you think work best for your classroom and put that link on your classroom web page or in your bookmarks. Skill Builders for grammar, phonics, and reading are linked to the skill on this page.
 * **2nd Grade Language Arts Skills and Aligned Sites:** http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_2nd_lang_new.htm Teachers will want to "drill down" to specific skills on this site to get to the "good stuff" that is available, but having one site to find multiple web site that "speak" to the different language arts skills is a great find. Spend some time at this site to find what your students need in the classroom and then link them up to your classroom web page or bookmark them on your classroom computer.