Helpful Links
Books Online
- Classic Books Read the classics online with one simple click. Make your choice and go!
- Epic.com This website has tons of books to read online. You do have to make an account first or sign up under a teacher's account.
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Book Shelving
- Mrs. Lodge's Library This site gives you a basic skills practice of fiction and Dewey shelves. This site has practice for fiction and nonfiction (with 3 levels of difficulty for each) but does not record your success.
- Order in the Library This site gives practice at multiple levels on sorting, shelving, and reading shelves. It does document a record of success. You do not have to log-in but you do have to give it a name and choose an animal as an avatar.
- Carnegie Mellon Libraries "I Will Get It!" game is for illustrating how difficult it can be to find the right resources for patrons when they have a specific topic in mind. "Within Range" is a game for more ABC and dewey ordering...if you can win this one, my shelves will be a piece of cake!
- Quia1 Quiz on ordering nonfiction
- Quia2 Quiz ordering nonfiction
- Dewey Challenge Quiz to help learning the Dewey Decimal System by 100s.
Most of the above from Game On!
Create/Produce
- BeFunky.com Upload your own picture to edit and alter your photo with special effects. You don't even have to create an account to be able to save you newer version.
- Destiny Use your personal log in to our school's online catalog to create resource lists of books for your book list page, reading blog, or for other students.
- Quizlet Great of learning vocabulary with games and flashcards. Build your own with your own free account!
- Voki Create an account and design your own avatar for an interesting way to present what you learned in a different multimedia format. Choose you background, avatar, its voice, and its words.
- Weebly Design your own website choosing one of the site's templates or designing your own. Create your own account and share your link or link to an existing site for free!
Research
Social Studies
- History Channel Great site for information on its popular shows, searching ANY historical period or famous people. Lots of video and graphics!
- Library of Congress The world's largest library is online with tons of primary resources and valuable research information.