Click on a link to be directed to a website with academic resources.

Summer Reading:

• Waukegan Public Library Reading Club

Web Sites for Students:

• Flocabulary - Raps and grooves about academic concepts
• Internet4Classrooms.com (Select Grade Level Help)
  • 6th Grade
  • 7th Grade
  • 8th Grade
• Figurative Language Activities
  • Idioms:
    • Idioms Matching Quiz
    • Eye on Idioms
    • English Zone: Definition and Activities
    • Change Idioms to Plain English
    • ESL Idiom Page: Lists, Definitions and Examples
  • Onomatopoeias:
    • Onomatopeoias (definition and practice)
  • Alliteration:
    • Alliteration Definition
• Grammar
  • Grammar Gorillas
  • Parts of Speech Practice
  • Parts of Speech Quiz
  • Quia: Sentence or Fragment Game
  • Predicate and Direct Objects
  • Wacky Web Tales (like "Mad Libs")
  • Grammar Blast
  • Rats! (nouns, verbs and adjectives)
  • Chomp, Chomp! Grammar Bytes
  • The Plural Girls
  • To Bee or Not to Bee
  • Spell Check
  • The Translator Alligator
  • Scramble Saurus
  • Rooting Out Words
• Games
  • Comprehension Games
    • Readquarium Comprehension Games
    • Reading Comprehension Stories
    • Reading Comprehension Connection
  • Word Search and other Games and Puzzles (Weekly Reader)
  • GameQuarium.com
  • Spooky Learning Games
  • Math Games
  • Poetry Games
  • Quia.com
  • World Almanac For Kids Games and Puzzles! (logic, vocabulary, matching, and more)
  • PUZZLES and Map Games (click on Educational or Puzzle)
  • Funbrain.com
• African American History
  • FactMonster: Notable African Americans
  • Biography.com: Black History
  • InfoPlease: Notable African-Americans
  • Encyclopedia of Prominent African-Americans
  • InfoPlease: Black History Month
• Math
  • Algebra 1 Tutoring (1st time) Returning Student
  • KidsKonnect.com Math
  • MrNussbaum.com: Math Games
  • Connected Math Web Site
  • Math.com
  • MrNussbaum.com
• Careers
  • RocketCareer.com
• Science
  • Chemistry: Periodic Table
  • ScienceSpot.net
  • Cells
    • Cells Alive: Cell Models
    • How Cells Divide
    • Cells Are Us
  • NASA.gov
  • National Space Society
  • Prentice Hall: ScienceExplorer
• Earth Day
• Science Fair
  • All Science Fair Projects
  • Science Fair Projects World
• Search Engines For Kids
• • Ivy's Search Engine Resources
• Research Resources
  • Encyclopedias and Newspapers and More
    • Yahoo Kids Dictionary and Encyclopedia
    • Library Spot
    • Library Spot: Newspapers
    • Headline Spot: Newspapers
• Typing
  • Gamequarium Keyboarding
  • Type2Learn
  • Spooky Keyboarding
• PathFinders:
  • Women's History
    • Distinguished Women of Past and Present
    • About.com: Biographies of Notable Women
  • Migrant Workers
• Puzzles
  • ABC Arcade Puzzle Games
  • Natural Disasters
• • National Geographic
  • Disaster Learning Games
• Holidays
  • History of Hanukkah
  • History of Kwanzaa
  • History of Christmas
• My Name
  • Behind the Name
  • Name Lab
• Miscellaneous Resources
  • Child Labor
  • Political Satire: Cartoons
  • Storyline
  • Poetry
  • Day in History - Year in History
  • GREAT Sites For Students