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Visual Fractions Astronomy - Starry Night   English Companion The Citation Machine

Little Animals Activity Center Webster Dictionary with sound-file pronunciations.

Visual Fractions

http://www.visualfractions.com

Visual Fractions is a website maintained by Richard E. Rand. It gives visual representations of fractions and mixed numbers, giving a visual component for comparing, combining, reducing, and performing operations on fractions. There are exercises, units, plans, even games!! 

Astronomy - Starry Night

http://www.starrynight.com/

Starry Night is planetarium-emulation software, hence this recommendation is a little out of place. However, the site has a free downloadable demo so you can evaluate it. The cost is less than $30 each at educational pricing. Here's a worksheet (Word2000 - courtesy of Denise Minor, Bryan Station High) you can use in conjunction with the software.

English Companion

Although intended as a teacher website for California K-12 teacher and HeinemannU faculty member Jim Burke, this non-commercial site has lots of teaching resources for English instruction, including lesson plans, scoring rubrics, reading ideas, and links to other sites.

The Citation Machine

http://landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm_web.php3

Students often have trouble getting the correct and approved format for citing Web resources in papers. This simple site asks you to enter each piece of data associated with a website one at a time, then it automatically generates the correct format for both APA and MLA-style citations. You can then simply copy and paste either into your work! 

Little Animals Activity Center

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/laac/story/sbi.html

The BBC hosts this site with reading and other activities for young students. The site is animated (using Flash) and interactive, with reading exercises and games.

Merriam-Webster On-line Dictionary

http://www.m-w.com/

Although this site is certainly not new, Webster has added sound files with word pronunciations - greatly improving the site's usefulness.