St. Colette Catholic School - Timeless Family Values
Celebrating Our 50th Anniversary! Year Of The St. Colette Tigers!
3900 Pheasant Drive, Rolling Meadows IL 60008 ..... Phone: 847-392-4098
HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
Background Notes - The U. S. State Department’s guide to living and visiting in other countries. Good place to find cultural details: food, greetings, gift-giving, dating, dress, etc.
CIA World Factbook - Best source for general country information, statistics, maps. They’re the experts.
Constitution Online - Great for our 8th graders or anyone interested in learning more about the U.S. Constitution. This site is a searchable electronic version of the U.S. Constitution, with history of each amendment.
Historylink 101 - The perfect website for all those "day in the life" classes, with photos, maps, artwork, statistics, biographies and narrative on ancient civilizations, Native American culture and history; the Middle Ages; and World War II.
Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room - The Geography and Map Division (G&M) has custody of the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world. The Reading Room provides in-person, telephone, and written reference assistance to Congress, Federal agencies, state and local governments, the scholarly community, and the general public.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - NGA creates geospatial intelligence to support our national defense. Groups that help with national defense are the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and others in the Federal government. NGA's information is also used by airplane pilots, by ship captains and by many other people who use maps, charts and other geosptial products.
NationalAtlas.gov - Make interactive maps within your web browser! This program allows you to make your own maps. Select, change, and display map layers. Roam across America and zoom in to reveal more detail. Point at map features to learn more about them. Locate and map more than 2,000,000 geographic names in the United States. New map layers are added each month.
RESEARCH SITES
Ask Jeeves for Kids - A plain-English search engine that can provide help on many topics. Just type in your question and Jeeves will send back an answer. More selective than most search engines.
Awesome Library - Awesome Library organizes the Web with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
First Gov for Kids - Guide to federal government sources for children, includes a homework resource section; fun to look at too!
InfoPlease Online Almanac - A little bit of everything. Easy to use, includes an almanac, encyclopedia, calendars, dictionaries, atlas, and biographies. Has a homework center and "Fact Monster", a guide to frequently asked schoolwork questions.
Discovery.com - List of many similar services including some that are subject specific.
Create a Graph - Try your hand at creating some and see if it helps explain what you are trying to show. Try using homework problems, things you have a special interest in, or just make up some numbers of your own!
Encyclopedia Smithsonian - Encyclopedia Smithsonian features answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources on subjects from Art to Zoology.
Energy Kid's Page - Learn along with Energy Ant about different types of energy. This site is from the Energy Information Administration.
ASK AN EXPERT SITES
Ask a Question - Have a homework question? Send your question in to a librarian and get an answer by email.
Ask Dr. Math - Have a math question? This is a great place to ask it!
SCIENCE SITES
How Stuff Works - These authors know what they're talking about! Loads of information written at a kid's level with referrals to other good sites on each topic. Covers science, technology, and culture.
Animal Diversity Web - Concise info from the University of Michigan’s zoology department. Great pictures!
National Science Digital Library - NSDL - NSDL is a digital library of resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels.
NASA for Kids Only - This NASA kids site brings the world into your playroom. Listen to an earthquake's rumble. Look into the eye of a hurricane. Find out why the wind blows. Visit storms up close. Play games. The kids' quizzes here feature sound effects. Flashy graphics and well- written text make complicated science kid-friendly. Guarantee: If a child spends at hour at this site, she'll learn a few things most adults don't know.
NASA SCIFiles - The NASA Science Files is a website that focuses on solving real-world problems by using the scientific method and Problem-based learning.
NASA's Kids Science News Network™ (3rd - 5th Grades) - NASA's KSNN™ is a standards-based program that uses the Web, animation, and video to introduce science, technology, engineering, math, and NASA concepts. This site features children in 60-second (video) newsbreaks answering such questions as why is the sky blue and what makes popcorn pop.
NASA's Kids Science News Network™ (K - 2nd Grades) - NASA's KSNN™ uses animated characters to introduce science, technology, engineering, math, and NASA concepts. This site has 60-second animations, activities, and resource links covering such topics as "magnetism" and "states of matter."
National Marine Sanctuary Program - Here you'll find information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- their history and current management, their scientific and educational programs, and their continuing efforts to conserve our nation's ocean and coastal treasures.
National Weather Service Kids Page - The National Weather Service's kids' page serves up age-appropriate fun for all kids. Download an informative tornado-safety coloring book for your preschooler. While she's coloring, your older children can click on the Severe Storms Lab Weather Room where lightning flashes across the screen while they choose from a mean-weather menu. Tornadoes? Hurricanes? Lightning? Learn how to read a weather map or read about the scientists who chase storms. Kids who want more substance can click into a litany of links.
National Zoo - Visit the online exhibits, or take a tour and learn about the plants, animals and people of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.
Nature Net - Learn about wildlife, plants, geologic resources in our parks, and more.
The WHY Files - The Why Files cover issues of science, health, environment and technology from a unique perspective. Using news and current events as a springboard to explore science and the larger issues it raises, we hope to show science as a human enterprise and a way of looking at the world.
MATH HELP
AAA Math - Basic math skills, interactive practice, explanations of math topics on each page, and Challenge Games.
Web Math - Very helpful problem solver for elementary through high school math.
Math-and-Reading-Help-for- Kids.org - Math and Reading Help for Kids is a directory of original articles, tips, and resources written just for you. There's also plenty of fun games and lots of homework help.
LANGUAGE ARTS & BOOKS
Encyclopedia Mythica - An online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend. The browse section is arranged according to world cultures. Includes a search engine for keyword searching.
Lets find out - Scholastic, the global children’s publishing and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of instilling the love of reading and learning for lifelong pleasure in all children.
MUSIC
American Music Collections - The American Music Collections document this country's diverse popular music and performance traditions. The strength of these collections is the music of the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries including Big Band jazz, Gospel and African American sacred music, and folk music.
Kids' Castle - This Smithsonian site has information to kids’ questions on sports, history, the arts, travel, science and air and space, all with great photos.
HELPFUL LINKS FOR STUDENTS - Suggested Sources for Kids and the Adults Who Care for Them.
