Library Resource Center


Educational Links: Educational Links

Welcome Hawthorn School of Dual Language students! We are consolidating links your teachers want you to use with the links of the Townline students for the time being since many activities of both schools are similar.

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  • Starters
  • Miscellaneous
  • Library Websites
  • General Reference
  • Teachers Only
  • Links for Copyright Free Educational Graphics/Clip Art/Musi
  • Kindy
  • Grade 1
  • Grade 2
  • Grade 3
  • Grade 4
  • Grade 5


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    Starters

  • Custom Typing
  • Dance Mat Typing
  • My Pyramid Food Planning
  • Ask Jeeves for Kids
  • Google
  • Internet Public Library
  • Kids Click
  • Library of Congress
  • Yahooligans

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    Library Websites

  • School Library Catalog
  • Book Suggestion Wiki
  • Library of Congress
  • Cook Memorial Public Library
  • Caldecott Medal
  • Newbery Medal
  • Starfall
  • Storybooks online
  • ABC YA

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    General Reference

  • Encyclopedia Brittanica for Elementary
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica for Elementary: Spanish Version
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica Learning Zone
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica for Middle School
  • Dictionary.com
  • Thesaurus.com

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    Miscellaneous

  • Ben’s Guide
  • PBS Kids Government and Me
  • ABC YA
  • Clifford’s Interactive Storybooks
  • Starfall
  • Funbrain
  • Storybooks online
  • PBS Kids
  • History of Vernon Hills & District 73
  • The Weather Channel
  • Spanish Months
  • BrainPop Elementary
  • BrainPop Jr.
  • BrainPop Spanish
  • Atomic Learning
  • Countryside Fire Department
  • 1-1 Project Pages
  • Student Blogs

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    Links for Copyright Free Educational Graphics/Clip Art/Music

  • Search Creative Commons- searches Google, Yahoo, and others for free art
  • Wikipedia Commons
  • DK Clip Art
  • Pics4Learning - Tech4Learning
  • Content-Specific
  • Web Graphics-Icons
  • School Education - CoolCLIPS Clip Art
  • Picsearch - Image Search for pictures and images
  • Music clips for student projects

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    Teachers Only

  • Blue Web’n
  • Busy Teachers Website
  • Misunderstood Minds
  • PBS Teacher Source

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    Kindy

  • Starfall
  • PBS Kids
  • ABC YA

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    Grade 1

  • Class Zones
  • Classroom JC
  • Spelling City
  • Starfall
  • Funbrain
  • PBS Kids
  • Clifford’s Interactive Storybooks
  • Storybooks online
  • BrainPop Elementary
  • BrainPop Jr.
  • BrainPop Spanish
  • The Weather Channel

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    Grade 2

  • Scholastic Classroom Magazines

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    Grade 3
        Prairie Research

  • Lake County: Species
  • MBGNET
  • Blue Planet Biomes

    •     Miscellaneous

  • Nat. Geographic Creature Feature
  • Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government

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    Grade 4
        Space

  • SpaceKids- Moon
  • National Geographic
  • National Geographic- Moon Landing
  • Yahoo- Human Space Flight
  • Kidport- Moon Landing

    •     Simple Machines

  • Simple Machines- information on different types of Simple Machines

    •     Biomes

  • BluePlanet Biomes
  • Introduction to Erosion
  • Erosion-Breakdown
  • Rushmore
  • Animal adaptations.
  • Biome Unit Research- NCEAS
  • Biome Unit Research- Kids Geo
  • Biome Research- Cybersleuth
  • Biome Research- University Berkeley
  • Biome Research- University Berkeley
  • Biome Unit Research- NCEAS SPAN
  • Geography for Kids
  • SurfNetKids Biomes
  • JMarcano Bioma
  • University of Oregon

    •     Class Wikis or Blogs

  • Ms. Vazquez’s Room/309 Salon
  • Mrs. Schmidt’s 4th Grade Reading Wiki
  • Mrs. Krueger’s Reading Wiki

    •     Jasper Johns

  • Art Smarts For Kids
  • Met Museum
  • Fine Arts for Kids
  • InfoPlease
  • Jasper Johns
  • ARTchive

    •     Analogies

  • Sadler-Oxford
  • Quia
  • Fact Monster

    •     Misc

  • Aesop’s Fables
  • Read, Write, Think

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    Grade 5
        Class Wikis

  • Mrs. Schmidt’s 5th Grade Reading Wiki

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