Check out the list on the library catalog here!

• Nancy Drew
• Mary Poppins
• Esperanza Rising
• Strider
• The One and Only Ivan
• The Wind in the Willows
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Matilda
• The BFG
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
• Magic Treehouse
• The Little Prince
• The Lightning Thief
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Fairy-Tale Princess
• The Graveyard Book
• The Secret Garden
• Redwall
• Narnia
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Number the Stars
• The Giver
• Harriet the Spy
• The Hobbit
• A Wrinkle in Time
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Babymouse
• The Wizard of Oz
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Merci Suarez Changes Gears
• Melissa’s Story
• Charlotte’s Web
• Anne of Green Gables
• Front Desk
• Aru Shah and the End of Time

Check out the list on the library catalog here!

• Baby Monkey, Private Eye
• A Big Mooncake for Little Star
• The Day You Begin
• Dreamers
• Hello Lighthouse
• Islandborn
• Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
• Those Darn Squirrels!
• Sandy’s Circus: A Story about Alexander Calder
• A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
• Duck! Rabbit!
• The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimpanzees
• I Want My Hat Back
• Giant Steps to Change the World
• My Father’s Arms are a Boat
• Creepy Carrots!
• When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky
• What Do You Do with an Idea?
• A Splash of Red
• Nelson Mandela
• Parrots Over Puerto Rico
• Journey
• How the Meteorite Got to the Museum
• Henri’s Scissors
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!
• The Boy Who Loved Math
• The Art of Clean Up
• You are (Not) Small
• A Boy and a Jaguar
• Aviary Wonders
• Last Stop on Market Street
• Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead
• Enormous Smallness: A Story of e.e. cummings
• Emanuel’s Dream
• Giant Squid
• Cry, Heart, But Never Break
• The Stuff of Stars
• The Rough Patch
• The Rabbit Listened
• Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop
• Julian is a Mermaid
• I am Enough
• Hidden Figures
• Don’t Touch My Hair!
• The Day You Begin
• Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse
• The Undefeated
• Lubna and Pebble
• The Little Green Girl
• How to Read a Book
• Because
• Stranger Planet
• My Rainbow
• Ohana Means Family
• Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots
• Wishes
• What Will You Be?
• What I Am
• What Do You Know?
• We are One: How the World Adds Up
• Something Good
• Born on the Water

• Accountable (nonfiction, YA)
• Across So Many Seas (historical fiction, sad)
• Alebrijes (sci-fi)
• And Then…Boom! (realistic, sad)
• Buzzing (graphic novel, neurodiverse, realistic)
• Check & Mate (romance, YA)
• Cursed Moon, The (horror, fantasy)
• Dear Mothman (realistic, LGBTQ+, sad)
• Delicious in Dungeon (manga, fantasy)
• Didn’t See That Coming (romance, YA)
• Eagle Drums (adventure)
• Ellie Engle Saves Herself (realistic, fantasy, funny)
• Forever is Now (realistic, neurodiverse, LGBTQ+)
• Gabe in the After (sci-fi, sad)
• Getaway List, The (romance, happy, YA)
• Ghost Book (graphic novel, fantasy)
• Gone Wolf (sci-fi, sad, YA)
• Good Different (realistic, neurodiverse)
• Grace of Wild Things, The (fantasy)
• Gwen and Art Are Not in Love (romance, LGBTQ+, YA, happy)
• Haben (nonfiction, biography)
• It Found Us (horror)
• Labors of Hercules Beal, The (realistic, sad)
• Lake House, The (horror, YA)
• Last Bloodcarver, The (fantasy, YA)
• Lunar New Year Love Story (graphic novel, romance, YA)
• Max in the House of Spies (historical)
• Medusa (fantasy)
• Mexikid (graphic novel, funny, memoir)
• Misfits, The (realistic, funny)
• Mona Lisa Vanishes, The (nonfiction)
• Northranger (graphic novel, LGBTQ+, romance, YA)
• Olivetti (mystery)
• Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich, The (romance, LGBTQ+, graphic novel, happy)
• Reappearance of Rachel Price, The (mystery, YA)
• Rez Ball (realistic, sad, sports)
• Slugfest (sports, funny)
• Snowglobe (sci-fi, YA)
• Something Like Home (realistic, poetry, sad)
• Spirit Glass, The (fantasy)
• Star Splitter (sci-fi)
• Swifts, The (mystery)
• Their Vicious Games (mystery, YA)
• Thieves’ Gambit (adventure, YA)
• Thin Air (mystery, YA)
• This Time It’s Real (romance, happy, YA)
• Two Truths and a Lie (mystery, YA)
• Unstuck (realistic)
• World Made of Glass (historical, sad)
• Year My Life Went Down the Toilet, The (realistic)

Check out the list about books that take place in the past or future in the library catalog here!

• Alebrijes
• Anatomy : a love story
• As long as the lemon trees grow
• At the end of everything
• Bea and the new deal horse
• Brother’s keeper
• Different : a story of the Spanish Civil War
• Freewater
• Ground zero
• Heroes
• How to find what you’re not looking for
• I must betray you
• Iceberg
• My own lightning
• Naked ’76
• Rust in the root
• Skyhunter
• Soul lanterns
• Star splitter
• The bluest sky
• The electric kingdom
• The Enigma game
• The last cuentista
• The lion of Mars
• The prisoner and the writer
• We were the fire : Birmingham 1963
• Winterkill

Check out the supernatural list in the library catalog here!

• All the lovely bad ones : a ghost story graphi
• Amari and the night brothers
• Archimancy
• Aru Shah and the end of time : the graphic novel
• Black Sand Beach. 1, Are you afraid of the light?
• Dark waters
• Delicious monsters
• Doña Quixote. Rise of the knight
• Fly by night
• Ghost girl
• Ghost Squad
• Hellaween
• Ichiro
• Life of Melody
• Lobizona
• Misfit mansion
• Omega Morales and the legend of La Lechuza
• Paola Santiago and the river of tears
• Paranorthern and the chaos bunny a-hop-calypse
• Ravenfall
• Root magic
• Rowley Jefferson’s awesome friendly spooky stories
• Rules for vampires
• Serwa Boateng’s guide to vampire hunting
• Temple alley summer
• The artifact hunters
• The Narrow
• The okay witch
• The price guide to the occult
• Thirteens
• Unfamiliar. 1
• When the angels left the old country
• When the sky fell on Splendor

Check out the BIPOC Fantasy and Sci-Fi list on the library catalog here!

• A comb of wishes
• A magic steeped in poison
• A river of royal blood
• A snake falls to Earth
• Alebrijes
• Amari and the night brothers
• Bitter
• Black sun
• Brooms
• ChupaCarter
• Cinderella is dead
• City of the plague god
• Codex Black. 1, A fire among clouds
• Daughter of the moon goddess : a novel
• Daughters of Oduma
• Doña Quixote. Rise of the knight
• Dragon Pearl
• Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation
• Healer of the water monster
• Infinity son
• Jade fire gold
• Last gate of the Emperor
• Lotería
• Mapmaker
• Meesh the bad demon. 1
• Mihi ever after
• Nayra and the djinn
• Pahua and the soul stealer
• Riot baby
• Rust in the root
• Saving Chupie
• Shinji Takahashi and the mark of the coatl
• Six crimson cranes
• Skin of the sea
• Spice Road
• Survive the Dome
• Temple alley summer
• The Belles
• The Black God’s Drums
• The dragon’s promise
• The Infinity courts
• The last fallen star
• The lords of night : a shadow bruja novel
• The Manifestor prophecy
• The ones we’re meant to find
• The pearl hunter
• This poison heart
• Valentina Salazar is not a monster hunter
• Wildseed witch
• Winston Chu vs. the whimsies
• Witchlings

Check out the list of fairytales, myths, and legends retold in the library catalog!

• A tale dark & Grimm
• Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans
• Antigoddess
• Ash
• Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast
• Blood red Snow White
• Children of Ragnarok
• City of the plague god
• Daughter of smoke & bone
• Elatsoe
• Endlessly ever after : pick your path to countless fairy tale endings! 
• Fairy tale comics
• Guardian of the dead
• His Royal Whiskers : a furry-tailed fairy tale
• Inu-Yasha : a feudal fairy tale. Vol. 2
• Jack : the true story of Jack & the beanstalk
• Lei and the fire goddess
• Loki’s wolves
• Malice
• Mighty Jack and the Goblin King
• Mihi ever after
• Mythology of the world
• Olympians. 3, Hera, the goddess and her glory
• Omega Morales and the legend of La Lechuza
• Other Ever Afters
• Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty
• Rags & bones : new twists on timeless tales
• Rump : the true story of Rumpelstiltskin
• The epic crush of Genie Lo
• The fairy-tale detectives
• The fairy-tale princess : seven classic stories
• The flame of Olympus
• The Hazel Wood : a novel
• The labors of Hercules Beal
• The lords of night : a shadow bruja novel
• The wishing spell
• Treasury of Egyptian mythology : classic stories of gods, goddesses, monsters & mortals
• Valkyrie
• What-the-Dickens : the story of a rogue tooth fairy

Check out the list of people to read about and admire in the library catalog here!

• A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
• A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee’s incredible story of love, loss, and survival
• A mind like mine : 21 famous people and their mental health
• Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
• Americanized : rebel without a green card
• Becoming : adapted for young readers
• Bee fearless : dream like a kid
• Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
• Binge
• Chasing space
• Dust Bowl girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
• Frida Kahlo : a biography
• From here : a memoir
• Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
• Higher, steeper, faster : the daredevils who conquered the skies
• I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
• I have something to tell you : a memoir : for young adults
• I’m glad my mom died
• Inaugural ballers : the true story of the first US women’s Olympic basketball team
• Infinite hope : a black artist’s journey from World War II to peace
• It’s Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood : adapted for young readers
• Just don’t fall : a hilariously true story of childhood cancer and Olympic greatness
• Kid artists : true tales of childhood from creative legends
• My corner of the ring : a memoir from a champ
• My family divided : one girl’s journey of home, loss, and hope
• Nice Jewish girls
• Notes from a young Black chef
• Positive : surviving my bullies, finding hope, and living to change the world
• Rising above : inspiring women in sports
• Sally Ride : life on a mission
• Shoe dog : a memoir by the creator of Nike
• Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball’s color line
• Taking flight : from war orphan to star ballerina
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream
• The beautiful struggle : a memoir
• The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope
• The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our gentic code
• The greatest : Muhammad Ali
• The impossible first : an explorer’s race across Antarctica
• The reason I jump : the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism
• The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh
• Things that make white people uncomfortable : adapted for young adults
• This kid can fly : it’s about ability (not disability)
• This star won’t go out : the life and words of Esther Grace Earl
• Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team
• Under a red sky : memoirs of a childhood in Communist Romania
• Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world
• Yes please
• You can’t touch my hair and other things I still have to explain

Try these books if you liked Diary of a Wimpy Kid (goofy funny books)

Try these books if you liked Stand Up, Yumi Chung (heartwarming funny books)

DOWK readalikes:

• Awesome Dog 5000
• Awesome Dog 5000 vs. Mayor Bossypants
• Best nerds forever
• Canned
• Charlie Joe Jackson’s guide to not reading
• Cheesie Mack is cool in a duel
• Death by toilet paper
• Doctor Proctor’s fart powder
• Dog Squad
• Dog’s best friend
• Fake mustache, or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and her wonder horse (and some nerdy kid) saved the U.S. Presidential election from a mad genius criminal mastermind
• Field trip fiasco
• Herbert’s wormhole
• How to train your dad
• Locker hero
• My big fat zombie goldfish
• Ratpunzel
• Sanitized for your protection
• Sorry you’re lost
• Stick Dog : a really good story with kind of bad drawings
• The 13-story treehouse
• The adventures of Beanboy
• The book you’re not supposed to have
• The great hamster massacre
• The great rabbit rescue
• The loser list
• The strange case of Origami Yoda
• The Terrible Two go wild

Yumi Chung Readalikes

• 13 gifts
• All you knead is love
• Amina’s song
• Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging : confessions of Georgia Nicolson
• Beauty queens
• Crying laughing
• Dara Palmer’s major drama
• Dead end in Norvelt
• Dream on, Amber
• Geek girl
• Indian shoes
• Merci Suárez can’t dance
• Picture perfect
• Pie in the Sky
• Sputnik’s guide to life on earth
• Sunny Song will never be famous
• The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
• The doughnut fix
• The family Fletcher takes Rock Island
• The fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
• The first rule of punk
• Wink : surviving middle school with one eye open

Check out this list of places you might want to travel around the world or not even in the world from the library catalog!

• A Cuban girl’s guide to tea and tomorrow
• Amazon adventure : how tiny fish are saving the world’s largest rainforest
• Ancient China : beyond the Great Wall
• Ancient Egypt
• Around the world : [three remarkable journeys]
• Ay, Mija! : my bilingual summer in Mexico
• Black Light Express
• Black Panther : the young prince
• Cleopatra in space. Book one, Target practice
• Cool Japan guide : fun in the land of manga, lucky cats, and ramen
• Egypt’s fire
• Escape to Australia
• Furia
• Ikenga
• In a sunburned country
• Jackaby
• Last gate of the Emperor
• Lotería
• Love & other detours
• Mummies, tombs, and treasure : secrets of Ancient Egypt
• My lady Jane
• Naked ’76
• Neither here nor there : travels in Europe
• Off to be the wizard
• Pride and prejudice
• Renegade magic
• Ruby red
• Someday we will fly
• The city & the city
• The dolphins of Shark Bay
• The emperor’s riddle
• The impossible first : an explorer’s race across Antarctica
• The last mapmaker
• The magical reality of Nadia
• The Marvels
• The summer prince
• Time traveling with a hamster
• To Timbuktu : nine countries, two people, one true story
• Travel team
• Twin cities
• Wild girl

Check out this list of short story collections at the library!

• 145th Street : short stories
• 18 best stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• A phoenix first must burn : sixteen stories of black girl magic, resistance, and hope
• Ab(solutely) normal : short stories that smash mental health stereotypes
• All out : the no-longer-secret stories of queer teens throughout the ages
• Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids
• Aphrodite’s blessings : love stories from the Greek myths
• Black boy joy
• Black enough : stories of being young & Black in America
• Come on in : 15 stories about immigration and finding home
• Different : a story of the Spanish Civil War
• Different for boys
• Every body shines : sixteen stories about living fabulously fat
• Explorer : the mystery boxes : seven graphic stories
• Falling short
• Gleanings : stories from the Arc of a Scythe
• Hauntings : and other tales of danger, love, and sometimes loss
• Hide and don’t seek : and other very scary stories
• Look both ways : a tale told in ten blocks
• Love and longing : a collection of classic poetry and prose
• Miss Marple : the complete short stories
• Noisy outlaws, unfriendly blobs, and some other things that aren’t as scary : maybe, depending on how you feel about lost lands, stray cellphones, creatures from the sky, parents who disappear in Peru, a man named Lars Farf, and one other story we couldn’t quite finish, so maybe you could help us out
• Once upon an Eid : stories of hope and joy by 15 Muslim voices
• One more thing : stories and other stories
• Other ever afters : stories
• Out now : queer we go again
• Pick-up game : a full day of full court
• Rags & bones : new twists on timeless tales
• Rookie on love : 45 voices on romance, friendship, and self-care
• Rural voices : 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America
• Spies and traitors : stories of masters of deception
• Steampunk! : an anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories
• Stories for young people. Edgar Allan Poe
• Take the mic : fictional stories of everyday resistance
• Tales from outer suburbia
• Tales from the Hinterland
• Tales to keep you up at night
• The chronicles of Harris Burdick : 14 amazing authors tell the tales
• The cursed carnival and other calamities : new stories about mythic heroes
• The ice cream machine
• This family is driving me crazy : ten stories about surviving your family
• This is our rainbow : 16 stories of her, him, them, and us
• Trickster : Native American tales : a graphic collection
• True stories of the Second World War
• Unbroken : 13 stories starring disabled teens
• Us, in progress : short stories about young Latinos
• Vampires never get old : tales with fresh bite
• Vampires never get old : tales with fresh bite
• Whodunits : the armchair detective book of whodunits

Want to cook or bake? The Eckstein library has cookbooks! Prefer to read about others making food, we got that too!

What makes you? Read one of these books to explore different identities!

Check out informative books in the library on a wide variety of topics with this link!

Lots of books have been turned into movies and shows. Try reading the book!

Did you know the Eckstein Library has a MakerSpace where you can work with crafts of all sorts? There is a also a section of the library called Make It with how to resources. Check out some of the recommended How To books here!

Adults can learn a lot from kids and teen books! Check out these award winning books that adults should read!

Try one of these books that has a great title!

The Odyssey Award is given for audiobooks and you can also find bestsellers on Libro.fm or Audible! Check out a list of books that are award-winners or bestsellers here! They make good readalouds as well with your family or friends! Note: some of these titles are young adult titles which can sometimes have more mature themes or language. A good rule of thumb: if the character’s age is in middle school (or younger), they are usually considered middle grade and might work well to start with as a readaloud.

Did you know that all students have access to Libby audiobooks through the Seattle Public Library as part of the Library Link program with Seattle Public Schools? Their digital library card number is 990000 followed by their student ID and their pin is their birthdate in MMDD format. Contact Ms. Sterling at emsterling@seattleschools.org or a public librarian for more information on the Library Link program!

Need resources for learning at home or online? Check these out!

Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Favorite Resources – there are a bunch of videos of authors with cool lessons from learning how to draw a Chinese dragon from Grace Lin to a maker activity with a class pet theme from Megan Frazer Blakemore to a mini writing exercise from writer Paula Chase and lots more! 

37 Free Online Resources – there are lots of online resources that normally cost money to schools/teachers that are offering their services for free. Below are a few I’ve highlighted!

• Book Creator App – lets students create free eBooks. You have to create an account, start the collaboration trial, and fill out a short form.
• Elementari– write and code interactive stories! Request access to Elementari.
• Voces Digital – continue learning a language with lots of different types of exercises! You have to fill out a form to get all the resources.
• Seterra – map quizzes for geography learning! 
• Tynker– coding platform with activities for all ages!

Seattle Public Library Online Resources – these are ALWAYS available and all students have a digital library card: 990000 followed by your 7-digit student ID # and your pin is 4-digit MMDD (ex: 0102 would be January 2nd birthday). The physical library may be closed so check out these online resources! 

Try these sites to get reading suggestions:

• What Should I Read?
• Good Reads

Looking for databases? (CultureGrams, WorldBook, Novelist, etc.)

Online Student Resources

Note: You need a username and PW to access these from home. On the Schoology library page, find the username and password or talk to Ms. Sterling!

Looking for Schoology?

Note: Schoology is the new tool that will allow students to save files, post discussions, contact teachers, upload links for classes and is accessible anywhere there’s internet! The Eckstein Library’s Schoology page has book trailers, podcasts/videos, and interesting links.

Looking for eBooks?

sign-in with your username and password.

Seattle Public Library Online Resources

Seattle Public Library Online Resources

*Note: To use your school library card to access these resources, your library card is 990000 followed by your student ID#. Your pin is your birthdate in MMDD format. For example, Jan 2 = 0102.

Alternative Sources to Google

• Internet Public Library
• Ref Seek
• Seattle Public Schools Online Resources

Ancient World

• Ancient India – British Museum
• Ancient India – Gupta Empires
• Ancient India – Indus Valley
• Ancient India – Timeline

Art

• Art History Resources
• How to Make a Mask (Paper & Foil)
• How to Make a Paper Mache Pig
• How to Make a Venetian Mask

Artist Portfolios

• Barbara Hepworth
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude
• Chuck Close
• Dale Chihuly
• eLibrary

Use for artists:

• Alexander Calder
• Auguste Renoir
• Berthe Morisot
• Brunelleschi
• Claude Monet
• David Hockney (adv.)
• Diego Velasquez
• Edgar Degas
• Eduard Manet
• Edward Hopper
• Eugene Delacroix
• Frank Gehry
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Frida Kahlo
• Henri Matisse
• Henry Moore
• Horace Pippin
• Jackson Pollock
• Jean Michel Basquiat
• Joan Miro
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Marc Chagall
• Mark Rothko
• Mary Cassatt
• Michelangelo
• Mies Van De Rohe
• Pablo Picasso
• Paul Cezanne
• Piet Mondrian
• Raphael
• Rober Rauschenberg
• Rodin
• Salvador Dali
• Vincent Van Gogh
• William Turner
• Emily Carr
• Faith Ringgold
• George Rodrigue
• Ingres
• Jacob Lawrence
• Jose Clemente Orozco
• Magritte
• Preston Singletary
• Romare Bearden
• Wassily Kandinsky

Civics

• iCivics – fun games about government

Civil Rights

• ACLU Key Issues
• Army Desegregation – 1948
• Army Desegregation – Gays in the Military
• Army Desegregation – Women in Military
• Army Desegregation – Women Military Timeline until 2008
• Civil Rights Digital Library
• Civil Rights Timeline in America – History Learning
• Education Issues – Special Education
• Latinos – Civil Rights Timeline
• Latinos – Food for Thought Prison Industrial Complex
• Latinos – Food for Thought School to Prison Pipeline
• Marriage Equality – History and Timeline
• Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History
• Voting Rights History

Computer Science

• CodeAcademy – teach yourself to code!
• Dog Island
• Dogs and More Dogs
• Gidget – Computer programming website (Use in Chrome or Firefox)
• Ripley’s Believe it Or Not!
• Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Copyright Free

• Flickr Creative Commons
• Free Digital Photos
• Free Range Stock
• Free Music Archive Inc: ompetech

• Internet Archive copyright free music
• Musopen Copyright Free Music
• Sound Bible Free Music
• Sound Gator Free Sound Effects
• Stock Vault
• SXC Copyright Free Images

Digital Storytelling

• FlipSnack – create online flip books
• InkleWriter – Write interactive stories

Geology

• Geology Resources
• Volcano Terminology

GLBT Resources

• Epic Reads Gay Protagonists
• GLBTQ Encyclopedia
• It Gets Better Project

Great Book Websites

• Based on the Book
• BiblioNasium – Virtual bookshelves
• Disability in Kid Lit
• Gay YA book recommendations
• GoodReads
• International Children’s Digital Library
• Juvenile Series
• Mystery Book Awards
• Novelist

Needs login, talk to Ms. Sterling

• Read Kiddo Read 
• Good Reads
• What Should I Read Next?
• YALSA Book Awards
• YALSA Hub – Your connection to teen reads

Grit videos

• Can Skateboarding Save Schools?
• Flu Game (short)
• Michael Jordon Flu Game
• Polar bear

History

• JFK Library
• Oregon Trail 
• Russian Revolution Timeline
• Soviet History
• Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State
• U.S. Presidents
• Washington History

Use in Chrome or Firefox!

• CodeAvengers – create Javascript game
• CodeCombat – wizard coding game!
• CodeHS – Give commands to Karel the dog!
• Code.org

Use in Chrome or Firefox!

• Code.org – sign-up here with code below

Use code DPBJRK and create an account!

Use in Chrome or Firefox

• MIT App Inventor – Make mobile Android apps
• Scratch
• Tynker – play games and learn to code!

Infographics – create your own!

• Easel.ly
• Piktochart

Interesting

• 50 State Facts
• Digital Public Library of America
• Do the Dewey
• Free Rice
• How Stuff Works
• iCivics
• Story of Stuff
• Young Readers Center

Managing and Organizing Information

• BlendSpace – gather, annotate, share information
• Padlet – Post things on internet easily
• WorkFlowy – giant to-do list

Math

• Dividing Decimals

Media Sharing

• Pinterest
• Smore – Design online flyers

Mesopotamia

• Babylonia
• History of Plumbing – Babylonia
• Mesopotamia
• Mesopotamia Google Site
• EasyBib
• Easy Guide to Plagiarism
• Internet Public Library
• Plagiarism Tutorial
• Primary Source Nexus
• Rudiments of Wisdom
• Purdue Online Writing Lab – information about the writing process and citations
• Choose a Topic – steps to writing a good research paper
• Are you plagiarizing? – Watch this to find out what plagiarism is
• Essential Oils Found Antibiotic Against Tonsillitis Bacteria
• Facing the Future
• Garbology – fun website on where waste goes
• Life Has a History
• Live Science – Great articles

Science Fair

• Symbaloo – Geology Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Human Body Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Environment Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Chemistry Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Force & Motion Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Light & Sound Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Magnetism & Energy Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Technology and Math Science Fair
• Symbaloo – Engineering Science Fair
• Google Science Fair
• Astronomy: Science Experiments
• Earth Science Classroom Activities
• Easy Science Experiment Projects
• Exploratorium Activities
• Exploratorium: Snacks
• Hundreds of Science Fair Projects
• Science Explorer
• Science Fair Project Guide
• Science Buddies Project Ideas
• Science Project Corp
• Supported Projects for Grades 7 and 8

Science Fair – Diseases

• 7th Grade Diseases and Disorders Compiled
• 7th Grade Science Note-Taking Template
• Arthritis 
• Asthma
• Breast Cancer – KidsHealth
• Cataracts – KidsHealth
• Diabetes
• Diseases and Conditions – TeenHealth
• Diseases – IPL 
• Diseases – Live Science
• Heart Disease – KidsHealth
• Lou Gehrig’s Disease – KidsHealth
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