Kindergarten - Stick to It

Watch a picture story! Poems, stories and crafts reveal the secrets of sun, wind, rain and more.

Grade 1 - Things that Go

Let's Fly Away Games, mazes, kid size explanations. Learn how things fly. See the magnificent early flying machines.

Early Movers The ancients found many ways to get from here to there. Come see.

Simple Machines How do they work? Pulleys, levers, wedges, planes and screws. Additional links.

Images of inventions

Bicycle Evolution

Grade 2 - Courage

Martin Luther King a student created picture timeline.

Yuri Gagarin Courageous cosmonaut

Local Heroes Shorts featuring a child who baked cookies for World Trade center workers, animal protectors, explorers, lifesavers, peacemakers, sports figures . . . even teachers!

Who are you afraid of? A children's project . Draw a picture of what scares you. Then write a sentence describing it.

Grade 3 - Kid Money Makers

	Money and Coin Activites rhymes, projects, printouts, reproducible blackline books.

Money, Money, Money matching coins and dollars with their names - worksheet practice. That's My Piggy Where do you store your pennies? Come see other kids' piggies.

Grade 4 - Communication

Wolf Talk Wolves have lots to say. They use scent, body language, growls and howls. See them in action.

Marine Mammals Dolphin sonar, marine mating calls. . .

What's my dog saying? Picture cues of our favorite barkers delivering their messages.
	Cat Comments Purrs, pats and pictures.

Back Talk Examine their pictures and then fill these animals' thought bubbles.

American Sign Language Make the A, B, Cs with your fingers.

The World of Kids stories and poems by kids around the world. Keypals.

Touching Talk The blind reader uses Braille, a system of raised dots. Send secret messages. Games.

Grade 5 - New Frontiers

Gold Fever Listen to stories of the California Gold Rush. Virtual journey with the 49ers.

Wagons West The crosscountry journey in 1843. Journals of the travelers.

The Oregon Trail was the only viable route to the entire western United States. All about the famous pioneer trail! Sites, sounds and facts.

Oregon Trail Map links to images and explanations of historic sites along the way.

Lewis and Clark Film - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - Pioneers of the Plains

Walk the Line California's History. Start with with aboriginal peoples who crossed the land bridge from what is now Asia and European exploration in the 1600s. Click through the decades to see missions, presidios and pueblos move on to Spanish colonization and Mexican colonization, the Gold Rush and on toward modern day.