Sites for Parents and Students
Project 180, Too - Internet Resources
The links in the list below provide you with access to a variety of websites that will be useful and sometimes entertaining to both parents and students. There is a description provided for each site.
Purplemath
Need help with algebra? You've found the right place!
Google Earth
Google Earth is a download offered by the Google search engine that is a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore.
How Stuff Works
HowStuffWorks is an online source for clear, unbiased, reliable explanations of how everything actually works. This is a great site for children and adults who always ask why!
Math Manipulatives
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).
Michigan eLibrary
MeL is the Michigan eLibrary, an anywhere, any time library for Michigan residents.
What Is.com
What is offers definitions of technology related words and phrases.
AnyWho
Anywho is an online directory that helps you find people places and businesses.
Internet 4 Classrooms
This site offers links to software tutorials, Assessment Assistance, and helpful K12 Links.
One-Look Dictionary
This web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, it will quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word.
Discovery School:
Top 100 Interactive Games
This site offers interactive educational and fun games annotated for appropriate grade level.
Open Office
Open Office is open source software that you can use use to interact with Microsoft Office and its programs. Open source means that you can download and use the programs at no cost.
Firefox
Firefox is a web browser from Mozilla that is safer and more spam free than Internet Explorer.
Story Place: The Children's Digital Library
A digital library, Story Place has stories and activities for preschool and elementary students.
KidsClick!
KidsClick! is a search engine for children created by librarians to ensure that students are going to age and content appropriate sites on the internet.
Enchanted Learning
This sites offers activites, printable stories, maps, and a wealth of other materials to be enjoyed by elementary students.
Ref Desk
This site provide a whole reference library on your computer.