August 2008

Visit the Animal Planet at Discovery.com. Learn about pets under the “Pets” tab, wild animals in the “Wild Animals” section, play games on the “Games” page. You can also watch videos, find out how things work and see animals in the news at Animal Planet Online.

Quiz your kid’s math skills by choosing the right settings and sitting down with this adaptable flash card-like quiz at Apples4TheTeacher.

Google Book Search is a vast collection of digitized books, many of them downloadable for free, including many McGuffey readers, books about spelling, arithmetic, and classics such as Alice in Wonderland. You’ll have to search creatively and very specifically, search by “full view” instead of “all books” or “limited preview and full view.” Even then you will have some results that are not downloadable, or not the full text. Still, …