State Research

State Capital information/population

50 States.com

State Maps with cities

When did the state become a state?

Summer Olympics Time

London is a little too far for most of us to get to.  So, take a minute to go through the sites below and find out more about the Summer Olympics.

NBC Olympic Moments

Olympics Fun Facts

Activity Village

Livestrong-Summer Olympics Facts for Kids

42 Explore Olympic Games

Go for the Gold Scholastic

Kids Connect-Olympics

Official Olympic Site Venues

Poetry

Instant Poetry Forms

Giggle Poetry

Welcome to another new school year!

I have been busy this summer and have added some goodies to my blog.  I taught a group of local teachers how to create their own virtual field trips and where to find some great ones.  Through this class, we compiled a huge list of teacher chosen virtual field trips for K-12!  Check out this page at the top of my blog that says Cyber Camp Virtual Field Trip list.  They are separated into grade levels and subjects.  Please use this and pass it on.  Let the others in the teaching profession pass on some goodies to you:)

You will also see another page at the top of my blog's homepage that says "Teacher and Student Favorite Websites".  I took a class earlier this summer and found a lot of my old favorites and some GREAT new ones!  I added a list of great sites, that are not necessarily field trips.  They are just great sites to teach with.  I use this site as a jumping off point for my students and invite you to do the same. 

If you ever find a super site for teachers or students and want to add it to my page, just message me or post a comment and I will add it in.

Thanks to all of the followers that have joined my blog and to those of you that are just stopping in:)

Leanne

Go on vacation without leaving home.

There are a lot of cool places that I would like to go to this summer, but I just don't have the time. Instead, I decided to make a list of them here so that I can visit them whenever I want. I hope you enjoy them too! Happy Summer!!
This picture is of my 3 children right after we got done riding the Channel Cat. It is a water taxi that takes you to several places around the Quad Cities while on the Mississippi River.

The Willis Tower(The old Sears Tower) in Chicago. This one may make you a little dizzy.

The St. Louis Arch, this one may make you dizzy too.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is an awesome tour!! It does take a while to load, but it is worth it.

I have been to The Statue of Liberty before, but it is nice to go back again and again!

This is a quick glimpse at The Seawall in Galveston, Texas. Sit back and watch the waves come in!

Virtual Field Trips for NCTE

Here are a list of authors and poet sites that would be great to let students tour...

Edgar Allen Poe

William Shakespeare

More Shakespeare

J.K. Rowling

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

Collection Sites...

Green K-12

Learning Things

Area Vibes

Find a Grave

Scholastic

New York Times

Tech Trekers

Lesson Planet

Weather Wonderful Sites!

Here are a bunch of cool sites that let you be the meteorologist, help you learn the ropes or simply show you pictures of the different weather words.

This site is full of tons of weather information. Look around to see the pictures and descriptions of all the weather terms.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/

KidStorm has all that you would want to know about tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning and more!
http://skydiary.com/kids/

On this site, you get to feel like you are staring up at a tornado! You have to have JAVA in order to view it. Hold on and don't get dizzy!
http://www.jaydax.co.uk/showcase/tunnel/tornado/tornado.html

Change the size and speed of a twister and see the damage it does. When it is over, try to guess what it would rank on the Fujita scale!

http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/3.html

Cloud Clues lets you take a little tour of clouds with descriptions and pictures. When you are done, see how you do on the quiz!
http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~elem/interactivities/clouds/cloudsread.html