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Mrs. Pockoski

Mrs. Greene

Ms. Singh

Ms. Perez and Ms. Sierra

Class Links

ART

Allows user to invite friends to draw.  Gives a choice of drawing tools in a variety of colors.  Drawing can be sent, printed or saved.
Shows the work of Basquiat.  Interactive site explaining his work.  Visitor can create original paintings.
LaughingFun way for students to learn about the Renaissance.  Truly an interactive site.  Includes lesson plans for teachers of Language Arts, Science, Social Studies as well as Art.  Great site!
LaughingAnother super site for kids.  Truly interactive.  The Art Zone leads the user to make collages using the Collage Machine, watch mobiles in action, use Pixel Face to change the pixels of paintings, Cubits, Diamonds, Dollhouse, Paintbox, Wallovers, RiverRun, Swatchbox, Flow and Jungle.  This is a site to experience!
Guidance and Health
LaughingInteractive.  See, hear and interact with alcohol's effect on the body.  Videos showing the dangers of alcohol.  Ways to say "NO".  Games and activities.
Facts about alcohol.  How to deal with peer pressure.
Topics deal with friends, family, school, body, emotions and money.  Parents and teachers.  Some pages in Spanish.
Cool and Uncool Stuff, Safe Surfing, Art Contest.  Sections for parents and grown-ups.
Spanish and English.  Dealing with feelings, staying healthy, growing up and The Game Closet.
Diseases, food and nutrition, physical activity, safety, ad-decoder, BAM Guide to Getting Along, The Bully Roundup, Choices and Consequences, Feeling Frazzled, Got Butterflies, Grind Your Mind, Stress-o-Meter, Tough Choices
LaughingAnswers the question "Why do kids bully?", signs of bullying, effects of bullying.  Gives advice about what to do.  12 cartoon webisodes that show bullying in action.
Food and Drug Administration for Kids.  Games, food safety quiz.  Help inspect a warehouse, All About Animals, wordsearch.

Language Arts

LaughingHaiku, limerick, cinquain, free verse.  Great for reluctant poets; in a game format.  Gives the definition of the four types of poetry, then allows student to do a fill in the blank for each form.  The poem can then be printed out.
This site is just as the title suggests --- Free Books on the Web
Simply an analogy game for two players.
Wordsearch, Crossword Puzzles, Hangman, Quiz, Match Game and Jumble

Rhyming Dictionary

Ms. Haddock

Mr. Williams

Several sequencing exercises.  Students order elements and then check to see if they were correct.

Math

LaughingSite includes several links in the following catagories: Number Sense and Operations; Data Analysis, Probability and Discreet Math; Patterns, Algebra and Functions; Geometry and Measurement; Structure and Logic
LaughingMath gameroom, flashcards (both online and printed), math wordfind puzzles on several levels (both online and printed), flashcard creator and worksheet creator.
LaughingMath calculators some included are: compound interest, annuity, loan, scientific, grade point average, age in dog years, calories burned, wind chill factor, etc.) Graphing calculators and how to enter the numbers, Online math dictionary, Algebra, Fractions, Decimals, Polygons, Brain Benders, How to be Successful in Math, Kids Links, Teacher Links.
Very basic math concepts.  Several games that allow students to manipulate objects in order to show math concepts.
Multimedia math glossary which covers grades K-6.  Nice site
This is an animated math dictionary.  Good site!

Mrs. Diaz

Ms. Haddock

Mrs. Tillinghast

Physical Education

Interactive nutrition games.  Ariana's Nutrition Expedition Interactive Game.  A Spanish download is available.  Includes a section for parents
Also available in Spanish.  Topics include Dealing with Feelings; Staying Healthy; Recipes; Everyday Illnesses and Injuries; My Body; Growing Up; Kids' Talk; People, Places and Things that Help Me; Watch Out; The Game Closet; Kids' Health Problems; and a Medical Glossary.
5 a Day facts, setting goals, fruit and vegetable encyclopedia and nutrition chart, kids cookbook and games.
Interactive game.  "Nutrition Sleuth" - uses clues to find the missing nutrient; "Grab a Grape" - similar to Jeopardy; "Have a Bite" - choose well balanced meals.

Ms. Shivick's Class

Science

Interactive and fun activities for students from K-12.  The Mummys Tomb (energy conservation), Dracula's Library (properties of light, waves and particles), Frankenstein's Lightning Laboratory (different forms of electricity and electrical safety), Phantom's Portrait Parlor (principles of atoms and matter), Wolfman's Ghostly Graveyard ( fuel conservation and energy transfer).
LaughingAmerican Museum of Natural History.  Covers Archaelogy, Astronomy, Biodiversity, Earth, Einstein, Genetics, Marine Biology and Paleontology. Fun interactive site.
Under renovation.  Should be up and working March 2007.
Laughing"Amazing Pests" (how pests have adapted in order to live with us); "Threats and Prevention" (dangers to our health and homes and what to do about it); "Learning Games" (interactive mysteries). Teacher Resources includes lesson plans, quizzes, coloring pages and links. 
LaughingReally neat site that kids can relate to.  Covers Gravity; The Planets; One on One With the Sun; Cosmic Connections; Don't Be Lost in Space; The Milky Way; How did the Universe Begin?; Stuff to Do; Meet the Ologists; What do You Know?; and Astro Poll.
Laughing"Meet the Microbes" (includes a link to a Size-o-meter), "Bacteria in the Cafeteria" (game to show both good bacteria and bad bacteria in the cafeteria), "Infection"(game of play Infection where you are the germ), "How Lou Got the Flu"(traces the flu path, tells difference between epidemic and pandemic), "The Amazing Microbe Hunters"(game including Pasteur, Salk to name a few), "The Mixed Up Microbe Mystery"(be an epidemiologist and solve the mystery, "The Prevention Convention" (Ten tips to be germ free).

Mrs. Greene

Social Studies

LaughingPanoramic tours of the rooms in the White House.  Galleries of Presidents and First Ladies, White House Kids offers links to Presidential Biographies, News for Kids, Math Challenge, Quizzes and Games, Photos, Videos, Parents and Teachers.
A National Geographic site.  Features "Journey into the Afterlife" which is narrated.  It shows panoramic views of the actual site; "Royal Wrappings" which shows the progression of the burial boxes and the mummy and "High Tech Forensics".
Interactive tour, quiz, lots of links, and the adult tour.
A link from the official site of the Eiffel Tower.  The children's page offers interactive games including:  The Electricians' Game, Spot the 7 Differences, Color the Picture, a Match Game, Puzzle and Ticket Puncher.  Games are for young children.
LaughingAll about coins.  There's a ten question game about the presidents shown on familiar coins a cartoon that shows the birth of a coin and coins of the world, really fun Time Machine,  a Quarter of the Month (tells a story about each month's particular quarter).  Teachers' pages include a guide, network, webquests and lesson plans. 
LaughingThere's a lot to do on this site.  You can meet the colonists (see and hear them --- actors of course!), go behind the scenes, take a quiz to see if you could have survived then, dress up a colonist, hear video diaries, take a voyage.  There are additional interactives called "'Tis a Very Dirty Manner of Life", "Pilgrim's Progress", "Myth-Conceptions Quiz", and "Cottage Quest Quiz".
LaughingInteractive farming village that is educational and fun to explore.  The village can be explored interactively.  The viewer chooses where to go.  The section for teachers includes New York Standards which often overlap with those of Connecticut.  Four curriculum modules are covered:  Where are we?; Who are we?; How did we get here?; Where are we going?  There are additional resources under Essential Questions, Resources, and Curriculum Connections.
Cartoon.  Printable lesson plans for teachers, classroom ready activities and online games.  Fun site

Ms. Lanza

Mr. Heaphy

Native American Cultural Groups

Technology

Dr. Joseph J. Bellizzi Middle School --- Ms. Ana V. Ortiz, Principal