| General Teacher Support Sites
Thinkfinity
Digital learning platform designed to improve educational and literacy achievement; standards-based resources; reviewed by experts; free online and offline resources
ALEX
Locate standards-based and research-based educational resources for teachers and students; Alabama Courses of Study; lessons aligned to COS; web links
Alabama Virtual Library
Find maps; images; journals; magazines; and encyclopedia articles; great site for student research; includes educational games and other online tools
APTPlus
Locate videos, images, writing prompts aligned to standards; create assignments, quizzes, writing prompts, podcasts
Annenberg/CPB Learner.org
Free professional development resources; interactive exhibits for students on topics such as Elements of a Story, Spelling Bee; can view media programs for no charge
DiscoverySchool.com
Topics addressed primarily related to science, natural history, and geography; Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators; Puzzlemaker; Worksheet Generator
Education World: The Educator's Best Friend
For K-12 educators; search engine focuses specifically on education websites; employment listings; message boards; links to free online education newsletters; lesson plans, and more
Educational Web Adventures
Digital learning games and interactives about art, history, science and technology.
TEAMS Educational Resources
Pre-K through 12 Web sites available for teachers, administrators, parents, and students; Electronic Classroom contains student interactive activities and resources, teacher resources; teacher-guided activities; For Students You will find educational games, puzzles, homework help, virtual tours, and more
Dave’s ESL Café
Most useful for older students and teachers; Idea Cookbook contains hundreds of ESL Learning activities; skill building resources; educational links
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Nearly 150 listening activities; listening quizzes; ESL Study Guides; Tips for Teachers
LetterPop
Create a limited number of newsletters for free; publish or email them
ClassTools.net
Create free educational games, activities and diagrams; place them on your own blog, website or intranet
Wordle
Drop your vocabulary words into wordle and create a piece of art
Sites for Kids
Kids Design Network
Students explore different types of engineering challenges. All challenges involve simple machines, communications skills, integration of technology into the curriculum, and collaborative learning. Additional concepts addressed in specific challenges include: drama, art, gravity, friction, and magnetism.
GameGoo
Educational games that help students develop early reading and language skills
PBS Kids
PBS children’s shows such as Arthur, Barney, Berenstain Bears, Reading Rainbow, Clifford, and others; online and offline activities, stories, pages for printing and coloring; focuses on PK-3
Kizclub
Material for PK-6 students; language arts activities for preschool and elementary-age students; printable worksheets; crafts, and more
Chateau Meddybemps
Learning activities for preschool and primary learners; collection of articles and recommended strategies for parents and teachers regarding child learning and development
BBC Learning: Children’s Learning
Online games and activities for elementary students
Zoopz.com
Problem-solving activities; some games require players to use logic to master progressively more difficult levels
Edheads
Interactive activities that fit into elementary curricula such as Weather, Simple Machines
Language Arts
Scholastic Teachers
Teaching resources, student activities, information on books and authors
Literacy Center Education Network
Focus on pre-reading and early reading skills for young children; minimum of printed characters; activites occur in English, Spanish, French, or German
Into the Book
A reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers; interactive materials;10-minute professional development videos; lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads
Monster Exchange
Classes are paired up online; student write descriptions of a monster and corresponding class attempts to redraw the monster from the description
The Moonlit Road
collection of Southern ghost stories and folktales in both written and audio versions; links to sites including more about Southern culture, storytelling, myths, folktales, ghosts, and other paranormal happenings
Starfall
Targets reading skills from pre-reading to emergent readers; offers inexpensively priced materials
Instant Poetry Form
Poetry form templates; each form gives instruction, a place to type and a sample poem
Math
A+ Math
Math drills and practice for elementary and middle school students; interactive, online flashcards; worksheets; games
Coolmath4kids
Games that either illustrate mathematical concepts or principles; k-6;
Count Us In
PK-2; minimum of text; online games
Fun Mathematics Lessons by Cynthia Lanius
Math activities for K-college students; keyed to national standards; lessons and activities
Math Cats
Elementary and middle school students; interactive, math-related activities
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Interactive manipulatives; all grade levels; manipulatives are divided into groups that address Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis & Probability
Interactive Math Resources
Problem-solving exercises for students using manipulatives
Create A Graph
Create five different types of graphs with this online tool from Kids' Zone at National Center for Education Statistics
Science
How Stuff Works
Explains how stuff works; examples include cell phones, locks, car engines, and lots more; online games; feature articles
OLogy
From the American Museum of Natural History; intended for Grades 3-8; online activities; meet OLogists; virtual exhibits
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Has sections on human body, worms, bugs, and students questions and more; games;
NASA Office of Education
For Kids provides games, art, stories, and activities for students 10 and younger; For Students is divided into grade levels and has homework help, Internet resources, multimedia resources; For Educators offers features, news, learning resources, Internet resources, multimedia resources, and more
Exploratorium
Elementary teachers may be most interested in Explore & Educate; over 500 simple experiments; more than 100 recorded Webcasts; has own list of Cool Sites
Social Studies
The Learning Page
Teacher’s guide to American Memory collections of Library of Congress; primary documents; photographs; films; recordings; interactive puzzles; games
National Geographic Kids
Activities and games; stories; videos; information on animals
National Archives and Records Administration
For Educators and Students section contains resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience
The Encyclopedia of Alabama
EOA is a reliable resource covering the state's history, culture, geography, and natural environment.
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