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Ms. Hayes

 

Brought to you by
Ms. Hayes
and the
Techno Kids

 

Pennekamp's Technology Center is a great place for students to learn about technology and to find out about the world and themselves.
We have Internet-accessible pc computers with many peripherals that the students use and integrate into their work.

Students visit the Technology Center with their class once a week. Kindergarten's through Second Grade's visits are thirty minutes long, Third through Fifth Grades come for forty-five minutes. Each Fourth and Fifth Grade class comes in 3 times a week (rotating every three weeks) to study math, science, or social science.

A special thanks goes to our PTA for their continued support of
technology at Pennekamp!

 

 

Some fun sights worth investigating

Some of these sites are interactive, some are printable resources.
All sites listed are for kids, although adults may enjoy also them.
Sites marked with * are educational resource sites for teachers.


Mrs. Graf’s Class

Mini-Beasts Website

NOTE: Please use Mrs. Graf’s name to log in.

http://www.hedds.co.uk/mini_beasts/

 

The American Revolution–Fun Games!

Word Puzzle: Brandywine Battlefield
http://www.ushistory.org/brandywine/kids/wordfind.htm

George Washington: True or False
http://www.mountvernon.org/education/biography/truefalse.asp

A test on the American Revolution! Can you take it?
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/game/index.html

Here’s a timed test on the American Revolution. Make sure to put your headphones on for this one! Try tests 1-6 only, at least for now.
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/revolutionary_war/american_revolution.htm

Art

Getty Museum Site
http://www.getty.edu/

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/index.asp

Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/

Ancient Egypt Discovery Case
 http://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/case/


*Theater Lesson Plan Exchange
http://www.geocities.com/Shalyndria13/

 

Astronomy

Astronomy magazine

http://www.astronomy.com

Sky and Telescope Magazine

http://www.skypub.com

NASA (planets homepage)

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm

SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)

http://www.seti-inst.edu

Hubble Space Telescope images

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/

Table of Planets

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/planets_table.html

Temperature Conversion

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/units_en.html

 

Ballona Wetlands Websites

Ballona Wetlands Digital Library
http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/Ballona_Wetlands/ballona_home.html

Ballona Wetlands Foundation
http://www.ballona-wetlands.org/

Ballona Wetlands History
http://www.saveballona.com/history.html

Ballona Wetlands Preservation League
http://www.allonawetlands.org/

Ballona Wetlands Land Trust
http://www.ballona.org/

The Ballona Wetlands, A Unique Habitat Area
http://bio.lmu.edu/ballona/ballona.htm

 

Birds

Enchanted Learning: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
(You need to know the family that your bird is a part of.)
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/framlst.html

Bird Photos!: http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/birdphotos/birdindex.html#b

Bird Songs!!! (Go to the bottom of the page for bird names.)
http://www.naturesongs.com/birds.html

Cornell University: http://birds.cornell.edu/

 

Browsers for Kids

Great Internet search engine for kids!–www.yahooligans.com

KidsClick! Put together by librarians–http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/

Ask Jeeves for Kids–www.ajkids.com

 

 

 

California

Cities of California: http://officialcitysites.org/state.php3?st=CA

Or http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/California/Cities/

Walk Through California: http://www.californiaweekly.com/

 

Clip Art

Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery: http://school.discovery.com/clipart/

Kids Domain Clip Art Index: http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/

English/Language Arts

The Encyclopedia Mythica: http://pantheon.org/mythica/

Magnetic Poetry: www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/5165/tiles.html

 

Gold Rush

Articles from the Sacramento Bee about the Gold Rush
http://www.calgoldrush.com/

Collection of articles and pictures of the time on Yahooligans
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Yahooligans/goldrush

PBS Site
http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/

Way Back Gold Rush!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/goldrush/

Virtual Tour!
http://library.thinkquest.org/50048/

 

Groundhog Day

Day of the Shadow!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Shadow/groundhog.htm

 

Inventions

Invention Dimension
http://web.mit.edu/invent/index.html

Museum of Ancient Invention
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/home.htm

Rube Goldberg
http://www.rubegoldberg.com/

United States Patent and Trademark Office, for kids
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/kidgames.html

Smithsonian Institute, Inventors and Innovation
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent search by number
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

 

 

 

Legends of the Navaho and the Hopi

At the Rainbow’s End
http://www.indians.org/welker/rainbows.htm

How Corn Came to the Earth
http://www.indians.org/welker/motherco.htm

How the Great Chiefs Made the Moon and the Sun
http://www.indians.org/welker/howthegr.htm

How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World
http://www.indians.org/welker/howtheho.htm

Origin of the Clans
http://www.indians.org/welker/theclans.htm

Spider Rock
http://www.indians.org/welker/spiderro.htm

 

Manhattan Beach Internet Websites

Official City Website
http://www.ci.manhattan-beach.ca.us/home/index3.htm

Manhattan Beach Historical Society

http://www.geocities.com/history90266/

Roundhouse Lab and Aquarium
http://www.commpages.com/roundhouse/index.html

Walking in Downtown Manhattan Beach
http://www.caprica.com/~pacsoft/mbhtml/P054.html

 

Math Sites

Ask Dr. Math: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

*Math Archives: http://archives.math.utk.edu

*Math Goodies: www.mathgoodies.com/puzzles

 

Music Sites

Love the band 'Nsync? –
www.nsync.com or www.byebyebye.com or www.nsyncstudio.com

 

Reference Tool Websites for Students

Ask Jeeves: www.ajkids.com

Britannica: www.britannica.com

Electric Library: www.encyclopedia.com

Encarta: http://encarta.msn.com/reference/

Merriam-Webster Online: www.m-w.com www.m-w.com

Mira Costa High's Reference Page: http://www.mclibrary.homestead.com/REFERENCE.html

Virtual Reference Desktop: www.refdesk.com/ www.refdesk.com

 

Science

Yuckiest Site on the Internet: www.yucky.com

NASA for Kids: http://www.nasa.gov/kids.html

Simple Machines

http://sin.fi.edu/qu97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

http://www.cosi.org/onlineExhibits/simpMach/sm1.html

http://www.professorbeaker.com/simple.html

Introduction to Simple Machines

Http://www.smartown.com/sp2000/machines2000/main.htm

Simple Machine Tool Box

http://personal.rockbridge.net/higs/sm/toolbox.htm

What is a Lever?

http://www.professorbeaker.com/plane_fact.html#inclinedplane

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/physics/machines/Levers.shtml

Gadget Anatomy

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/GadgetAnatomy.html

 

 

Social Studies/History/Current Events

  1. Pintura, Art Detective: http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/

Internet Guide for Kids: http://www.mamamedia.com/

Kid’s Zone by Afro America: http://www.afroam.org/children/

Let’s Go Around the World: http://www.ccph.com/

Time for Kids: http://www.pathfinder.com/TFK/

*The National Council for the Social Studies Web site: www.ncss.org

 

Special Education Resources

KidsZone: http://www.ldonline.org/kidzone/kidzone.html

*Center for Applied Special Technology: http://www.cast.org

*Learning Disabilities Online: www.ldonline.org

*National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education through Technology, Media, and Materials: http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/

 

Teaching Tools/Resource Websites

*Education World: www.education-world.com/index.shtml

*Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide

 

 

All About Ms. Hayes

I was born in Hawthorne, CA, and went to Kit Carson Elementary School.
I moved to Virginia for a while, but came back
and went to Rolling Hills High School.
I have one daughter who is married and is a professional dancer.
She teaches dance—hip hop and ballet—and dances with the Philadelphia Opera.

My background
Graduated, B.A., University of California at Berkeley.
GO BEARS!

Experience

My first job was a key-punch operator and I have been working with computers ever since. I have taught children and adults about computers for seven years. What a fun job. I have more toys than anyone, do I win?

Hobbies/Interests
Reading, walking in the forest and putting my feet in a cold stream, looking at clouds, painting, sewing, cooking, researching my newest interest at some really big library and cutting stuff with my table saw. I'm also studying electronic circuitry and Sanskrit at home. In the summer I teach a robotics course for Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.

 

Here is a list of supplies we could use in the Technology Center:
Tapes for the VCR and video cameras
More LEGO parts
Kleenex
And any cool thing you think the kids would like!

 

 

Write to me at:

ghayes@manhattan.k12.ca.us

 

Voice mail: 310-318-7345 x5870

(If you call, I actually pick up the phone.)

 

 

 

 

This page was last updated March 15, 2005.