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Creative Curriculum Tools K-6
Internet Resources

Teacher Street Classroom Software Collections include curriculum Project Cards. To integrate the Internet with these projects using our carefully selected, educational site links, click on the curriculum Project Card that you are using.

Project Card Internet Resources

TimeLiner Project Card:
         How Did You Get Here?
         What Happened to You?

Kidspiration Project Card:
         Story Pieces
         What’s Your Symbol?

Easy Book Deluxe Project Card:
         What’s Your Story?
         Say it Another Way

Stagecast Creator Project Card:
         Step by Step by Step...
         Animated Stories

Word Bingo Project Card:
         Word to Word
         It All Adds Up to Bingo!

 

 

 

TimeLiner® Project Card:
How Did You Get Here?

Related Internet Sites:
Age-appropriate children’s activities that promote cultural awareness.
http://www.nncc.org/Diversity/fc43_activ.rac.aware.html

Materials designed to help teachers introduce children to the world of genealogy. Includes online activities.
http://home.istar.ca/~ljbritt/

Genealogy activities and resources for children and teachers.
http://www.genealogyspot.com/features/kids.htm

Materials to help children get started with genealogy research.
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/5283/genekids.htm

Step-by-step instructions for making a cool Chinese toy.
http://dwij.org/forum/only_hearts/rick_a.htm

A plucky spider takes your students on a cultural exploration of Africa. Includes several children’s art projects. Use the site as a template for exploring other countries and cultures.
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/kids.htm

 

 

 

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TimeLiner™ Project Card:
What Happened to You?

A writer’s guide to fictional character development.
http://www.geocities.com/owlmagick/

A lesson plan on Goldilocks and the Three Bears that involves problem solving from the bears’ perspective and other goals.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAGoldilocks5WsH13.htm

A short version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, coloring book pages you can print, plus several related art projects for various ages.
http://www.dltk-kids.com/rhymes/goldilocks.htm

Excellent character figures from Goldilocks and the Three Bears that students can print, cut out, and paste on sticks. Use characters to perform plays. Also contains a lesson plan and truncated version of the story.
http://www.etanewsletter.com/11a/goldilocks-3-bears.shtml

 

 

 

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Kidspiration™ Project Card:
Story Pieces

A big selection of children’s literature on line and sorted by genre. Break a story down into its component parts using Kidspiration.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html

Submit your students’ stories for publication on the Web! Site also has many stories in Real Audio format; download the player, click a story, and it will be read to your students. There are also “interactive” stories on the site.
http://www.childrenstory.com/

 

 

 

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Kidspiration™ Project Card:
What’s Your Symbol?

For more information about totem poles:
http://users.imag.net/~sry.jkramer/nativetotems/default.html
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/totem_poles.htm
http://users.imag.net/~sry.jkramer/nativetotems/default.html
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/totem_poles.htm

Site with a huge selection of animal sounds in different parts of the world. Find out how a donkey in Cambodia sounds different from one in Mexico.
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html

 

 

 

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Easy Book™ Deluxe Project Card:
What’s Your Story?

Students can browse through the following sites created by other elementary school students from Le Grand Elementary (Le Grand, California) to gain inspiration for their autobiography pages.
http://www.legrand.k12.ca.us/

Autobiography writing tips for children.
http://www.edisonacademy.com/writing/lesson_one6.htm

A lesson for writing a 26-page autobiography in the form of an alphabet book.
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1266.html

 

 

 

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Easy Book™ Deluxe Project Card:
Say it Another Way

Students can use these sites to practice using a thesaurus to find synonyms:

WWWebster Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm

Roget’s Internet Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/

A fun lesson using synonyms and antonyms.
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/terminology/synandant.html

 

 

 

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Stagecast™ Creator Project Card:
Step by Step by Step...

Why use Stagecast Creator in your school?
Noted Educator, David Thornburg, describes how students benefit from using Stagecast Creator in the classroom.
http://www.stagecast.com/

See samples of programs, or sims, created with Stagecast Creator.
http://www.stagecast.com/

Ideas for introducing computer programming to young children.
http://sjbaker.org/steve/software/hiccup.html

Very simple online games. Can students figure out the instruction set and make similar games with Creator?
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/sitemap/0,5939,,00.html

A story that generates a different ending each time. Use it as an example of programming (if user chooses x, they go to y ending) or use Creator to program Buzz Rod, the story’s hero, zooming along the road.
http://hillside.coled.umn.edu/class1/Buzz/Story.html

 

 

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Stagecast™ Creator Project Card:
Animated Stories

Why use Stagecast Creator in your school?
Noted Educator, David Thornburg, describes how students benefit from using Stagecast Creator in the classroom.
http://www.stagecast.com/

Animated stories for kids. Set the vocabulary level, background music, and more.
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108b.html

Animated stories and print activities.
http://www.merpy.com/

Submit your students’ stories for publication on the Web! Site also has many stories in Real Audio format; download the player, click a story, and it will be read to your students. There are also “interactive” stories on the site, which may inspire projects in Creator.
http://www.childrenstory.com/

See samples of programs, or sims, created with Stagecast Creator.
http://www.stagecast.com/

Information on introducing computer programming to young children.
http://sjbaker.org/steve/software/hiccup.html

 

 

 

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Word Bingo Project Card:
Word to Word

Lookup synonyms with the following online dictionary and thesaurus web sites:

WWWebster Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm

Roget’s Internet Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/

A fun lesson using synonyms and antonyms.
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/terminology/synandant.html

 

 

 

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Word Bingo Project Card:
It All Adds Up to Bingo!

Have students test their addition acumen by playing this 30 second on-line game.
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/addition-fc.htm

Kid-appropriate joke-of-the-day site, many using addition (“what do you get when you cross x and y” type jokes).
http://www.kidskiosk.org/joke/index.html

Broaden the idea of addition by cooking (add 2 tsp. of vanilla, etc.) and doubling or tripling recipe size to make enough for the whole class! This site features fun recipes for kids, including peanut butter play dough!
http://members.tripod.com/~Patricia_F/crafts.html

 

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