Hello David!
Here is your spot on the web! I hope you like it and have fun playing games.
Love You,
Tina
Art and Music
- Art Games - from The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Many activities on this site! [close the pop-up games page to return to this page]
- Art Hotlist - one of the Franklin Institute Educational Hotlists
- Art Resources - numerous links for art
- Art Safari -Museum of Modern Art’s website - investigate and create different animals.
- Imagination Factory - [this link opens on a new page] The Imagination Factory integrates art with science and social studies to teach solid waste management concepts in a fun and entertaining way.
- Leonardo's Perspective - [this link opens on a new page] linear perspective
- Lifetime of Color - [this link opens on a new page] Art Education and ArtEdventures from Sanford features four main areas; Create Art, Study Art, Play Art Games, and Teach Art.
- Lifetime of Color - Technique Demos - [this link opens on a new page] Discover how great artists made their famous works while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
- My Window to Art - [this link opens on a new page] lessons on painting, drawing, mixed media, 3D and more
How to Draw tutorials -- How to Draw a Dog - progressing from circles to the dog drawing
- How to Draw Ears - human ears as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) ears
- How to Draw Eyes - human eyes as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) eyes
- How to Draw Faces - basic methods to draw general anime faces
- How to Draw Hands - human hands as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) hands
- How to Draw a Hamster - progressing from circles to the hamster drawing
- How to Draw a Jumping Man - progressing from circles to the jumping man drawing
- How to Draw a Stretching Woman - progressing from circles to the stretching woman drawing
- How to Draw It - how to make stylized cartoon type drawings of lots of animals [47 on the day we found this page]
MusicDallas Symphony Orchestra - excellent resourceFraction Pie Rhythms - connects your knowledge of fractions to musical notes and rhythms
Social Studies
Google Earth - Ancient Rome in 3D
The American Revolution - from MrNussbaum.com
Awesome Stories - History, Famous Trials, Disasters, Biographies, Religion and more.
- Colonial America 1600-1775
- Colonial America - By clicking on the Hotlinks, you will be taken directly to the exact location where the Topic is located on the page.
- Colonial Times - Discovery, Exploration, Colonies, & Revolution - multiple links on this topic
- Gold Rush Scenes - drawings depicting the life of a gold miner
- Natives and Immigrants - natives and Immigrants view of the Gold Rush
Liberty: The American Revolution - from PBS (great sites)
residential timeline - Interactive timeline of the 20th century presidents. "an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make these resources readily and freely available to students, educators, and adult learners throughout the world."
Declaration of Independence - from the National Archives Experience
Timeline and Chronicles of the American Revolution - Interactive site with primary resources
- Propaganda postcards from the Great War
- Propaganda Posters - First World War
- Propaganda Techniques -
- Revolutionary War - Prelude to Revolution 1763 to 1775
- Revolutionary War - Timeline of the Revolution; PBS
- Revolutionary War - Definitions of the Revolutionary War
- Tennessee History Classroom - three pages of links to Tennessee history resources
- Tennessee History for Kids - Learn about Tennessee; people, virtual field trips, history, cultures, economics and more
One -- Slavery and Tennessee's war
Two -- Volunteer State divided
Three -- Leaving the farm
Four -- Changing the World
Five -- Depression hits home
Six -- Tennessee goes to war again
Seven -- Segregation no more
Two -- The other constitution in your life
Three -- Three branches of government
Three Grand Divisions
Two -- Volunteer State divided
Three -- Leaving the farm
Four -- Changing the World
Five -- Depression hits home
Six -- Tennessee goes to war again
Seven -- Segregation no more
Civics section
One -- What government reallydoesTwo -- The other constitution in your life
Three -- Three branches of government
Geography section
A funny box, four lines and four dotsThree Grand Divisions
Puzzle Maps Geography Game - Kids put together map puzzles in this animated geography game. The game includes 23 topics in areas such as landforms, continents and oceans, the United States , North America , South America , Europe , Asia , Africa , and Australia and Oceania . These interactive geography puzzles also include facts and interesting information about history
Interactive U. S. Geography Activities -
- How well do you know the states of the United States?
- Do you know the names of the state capitals?
- Can you locate these major cities? (this one is very hard)
- Can you find the major rivers and lakes?
- How well do you know the major land features in the United States?
- Where in the USA - students choose from three categories (u.s. capitals, cities, or landmarks) and have two minutes to answer as many as they can
- Zoom into Maps - migration, pictoral, transporation, historical and many more.
- Animated Map of Westward Expansion
- Westward Expansion - 1850-1899 - historical map and info
- Westward Expansion - Gilder Lehrman Institute - primary sources, visual aids, learning tools
- Museum of Westward Expansion - Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; teacher resources, library and archive material
- Video Lessons of Territorial Expansion and Sectional Issues - The Annexation of Texas, The Mexican Amerian War, California Gold, Slave Resistance, Compromise of 1850, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision
- Music - Historical overview
- Twentieth Century Inventions - Timeline of inventions with hyperlinks for exploring inventions.
- Turn of the Century - many links and interactive sites
- Picturing Modern America - Historical Thinking Exercises
Flag sites
- Early US Flags
- Flags of the World - A large flag database
- Flags of the World (Flagspot.net) claims to be the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Read more than 14,500 pages about flags and view more than 25,700 images of flags.
- Flag of the United States - table of contents site
- Flags of the United States - Flags of the US, current state flags, and flags of territories.
- Flag of the US - Facts About the United States Flag
Harcourt Brace Social Studies Resources -Learning resources for social studies programs from Harcourt Brace School Publishers
Kids in the House - Take your students here to learn about our government. Explore the role the Office of the Clerk plays in the U.S. House of Representatives. Learn about the legislative process and its effect on you. Experience the exciting world of government like you never have before