Sixth Grade Sites

6th Grader's Hot Internet Sites

Updated August 20, 2008

Knoles AR Quizzes - Search Engine

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Enchanted Learning sites from home!

Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Enchanted Learning

Asset's Recipes and Snacks - Use the Recipes when you want a tutorial to help learn a new computer program or application.

Math Sites

AIMS Review Site

Houghton Mifflin Math Test Prep Practice

Math Baseball http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html

Math Games http://www.gamequarium.com/geometry.html

Math Games2 http://geometrygames.org/

Education 4Kids - Math Flash Cards

Math Facts - You can practice online or print out sheets. You select the numbers.

Basic Facts Practice - Detailed scoring available.

Math Fax Flashcards - MathFax Flashcards help you to realize that the "facts task" is not as difficult as you once might have imagined.

A+ Math Flash Cards - You can even create some flash cards for printing at this site! Ranges from addition and counting money to algebra and geometry.

Quia Math Page - a treasure trove of more than thirty math activities &emdash each of which includes flashcards and a Concentration-style matching game. Topics range from basic addition to rounding to algebra terminology.

Flashcards for Kids - allows you to specify a level of complexity and to set the size of the numbers up to 10,000. Other choices include scoring, a timer, and whether to display the equations vertically or horizontally.

Homework and other Helpful Sites

Grand Canyon Reader's Award - Formerly known as the Arizona Young Reader's Award. This site gives a brief review of the book and also includes links to the author pages and activities for some of the books! Previous award winners can be found by clicking this link: Previous Award Winners

Bibliography Creator

Inventors Museum - Best Inventors Site

Family Movie Reviews - Sites for recommendations on movies

Homework SOS This is a large collection of sites to help you find information for your specific homework assignment. Go to the General Homework Reference Sites, OR choose a topic from the broad subject areas below and then choose a specific site:

Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms, Almanacs

Dictionary & Thesaurus

Kids Hub - Kids Hub is an online interactive learning center. It includes educational games, puzzles, quizzes, spelling activities, and subject guides. The site is free, requires no registration, and contains no advertisements.

BrainPOP - Short animated movies explain how things work

Fact Monster - Useful homework resource. In the summer, this is a boredom-buster for curious kids.

Funology.com - This is one of the few sites that explains how to make Alka-Seltzer rockets as well as nachos along with magic tricks, puzzles, jokes & brain teasers

50 States - Lists all 50 states and gives lots of information for each state

States Information - Good facts and also includes links to other sites

A-Z Geography - From Discovery School

KidsClick! - Developed by librarians, this site has no advertising and results can be organized by grade level.

Infoplease -Kids Almanac

How Stuff Works - This site is fascinating and informative for both children and parents. It's fun to learn how things work and why! Excellent resource for science projects and/or reports

Inventor Resources - Benefiting from over 4400 hours of research, this is the most comprehensive Web-based resource about invention available for children..

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - Branches of Government, How Laws are Made, U.S. Government web sites for Children, and more.