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Resources for Elementary Education:
Resources for Elementary Education:
Games
Games
Funbrain, published by Funbrain Holdings LLC, is a free, interactive, educational game site designed for children Pre-K to 8th grade. It is meant to provide a plethora of enjoyable games, books, comics, and videos that aid in the development of reading/literacy, problem-solving, and math skills for young learners. Content can be sorted by grade level and provides an easy-to-navigate, clear and colorful layout enabling younger learners to explore with ease.
Math Playground is ran by Colleen King, who has presented her work at conferences like NCTM and ISTE, and directed towards ages 6-12. Math Playground offers several math related games focusing on things such as fractions, multiplication, addition, and much more. It seems to be very kid friendly and helps make math fun!
National Geographic Kids is a game website that includes activities from science, social studies, geography, and other subjects. Some of the games are strictly educational but some of them are matching or quizzes. This site would be useful as a reward for students or to use if a student finishes their work early. This site would be ideal for elementary grades K-5.
Scholastic’s free game page offers a variety of arcade, quest, and writing games that feature settings and characters from Scholastic storybooks. It also offers puzzles, polls, quizzes, and an option for players to design their own games and stories. It is a highly credible, safe, and easy-to-navigate website that frequently incorporates literacy skill practice with entertaining activities for children ages 8-12.
Language Arts
Language Arts
This website, founded by the ICDL Foundation, was designed as a means for providing young readers free access to a variety of multicultural digital texts. The texts, gathered from several different countries, are provided in 19 different languages (note that each book has a specific language, not 19 languages for each) and can be sorted by age level, topic, length, credibility, date of upload, and even color. They are primarily designed for readers between the ages of three and thirteen and feature both picture and chapter books.
Mr. Nussbaum.com is created by Mr. Nussbuam who teaches in the Advanced Academic Program in the Fairfax County Public Schools. His site is aimed for ages 5-14 and offers and interactive way to teach language. Mr.Nussbaum’s site claims to offer “one of the largest collection of free language arts resources for kids on the internet”.
Math
Math
Cool Math 4 Kids is part of a “cool math network”, this portion is specially aimed for ages 12 and under. It not only offers fun games, but even teaches lessons, has quizzes, manipulative, brainteasers, and printable help! Cool Math 4 Kids is a perfect website to allow students to use in addition to a lesson being taught in the classroom.
Multidisciplinary
Multidisciplinary
ABCYa is a highly credible leader in free online educational resources for kids. The website is also tablet-friendly and has a clear, colorful, and easy-to-navigate layout. Designed for children K-5, it features a vast amount of lessons and games aimed at developing language arts, math, and computer skills. Content can be searched by grade level and subject focus.
This website covers subjects such as art, music, history, math, science, reading, writing, health, government, and many more. There are a number of different links within each subject that will take you to different activities or websites to use in the classroom. This website would be useful as a reward, for students to use during down time, or even for older elementary students to use as a research resource. This site would be ideal for elementary grades K-5.
Wonderopolis, a website designed by The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), is dedicated to igniting excitement and curiosity in learners of all ages (though it may be more appropriate for learners fourth grade and up due to the emphasis on written text). It poses unusual, quirky questions (such as "What are marshmallows made of?") that help motivate learners to engage with informational text and videos. Topics can be searched by entering keywords, browsing various questions, or scrolling through categories such as math, science, social studies, language arts, technology, and arts/culture. This website can be an engaging resource for learners both in and out of the classroom. Multiple classroom resources are available for teachers in the Wonder Ground section.
Science
Science
DKFindout is ran by the world known DK Publishing company and is directed towards children 7-12. DKFindout is an interactive site that offers several different topics to explore such as history, language arts, and math, but it focuses on science. While the site doesn’t offer games, it does have supplementary videos, quizzes, and fun facts-- which would make DKFindout a perfect research aid.
This website from the Product Realization Network at Stanford University offers teachers and students a wide range of videos on how something is made, from jellybeans to crayons to airplanes and more! The only things needed for parents, teachers, or students to access this site are an internet connection and Adobe Flash-player. This site is divided into two distinct product sections with about 20 subcategories, and it also has a processes section. After students watch the educational videos, they have the opportunity to apply their new knowledge by solving real-life problems with their new knowledge.
Calling all aspiring astronomers! This website is a very dynamic tool for teachers from kindergarten all the way to upper elementary school and eighth grade. Teachers can choose their grade level range, and will receive games, interactive simulations and other educational resources catered to their grade range. The K-4 link includes access to multimedia stories, play and learn activities, and a picture dictionary. The 5-8 link includes “In the Spotlight” videos and a career corner. Students can also explore the various NASA missions, learn about the planet of the month, and use a picture dictionary to learn more about unfamiliar space terms.
Not only does does the San Diego Zoo website provide educational information about their various animals, but it also provides students form around the country to witness these creatures from their classrooms! The zoo's website is very easy to navigate for teachers and children. The website offers webcams for their pandas, polar bears, elephants, and ape habitats. Teachers and students can also access a number of other videos and podcasts about the animals and their habitats here!
This website provides students with fun, interactive materials that allows kids to explore a variety of science topics! First, students choose between environments land, space, and sea. Then, through games and guided tours, children and parents are able to explore animals, space, the human body, types of land, and much more! Sponsored by scholastic, this website is easy to use and has excellent content.
Want to take your students on a free field trip to the Smithsonian? Look no further! This website allows teachers to take their students on a virtual exploration through the entire Smithsonian Museum of Natural History from the classroom! The panorama views have hotspots with even more detail available about various animals and ecosystems, technology, and many more science fields!
Social Studies
Social Studies
America's Story from America's Library is a website that was developed by the Library of Congress. From this website you can Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, and finally See, Hear, and Sing. This website would be great to use in class and use the Jump Back in Time feature to see what happened in history on specific days. This site would be ideal for elementary grades 2-5.
Ben’s Guide is all about Benjamin Franklin and his life’s achievements that is directed at different ages ranging from 4-14+. It is ran by the GPO (U.S. Government Printing Office) so it doesn’t just teach about Ben, but it also teaches about branches of the government, how laws are made, the election process and many other social studies related topics.
PBS Kids- You Choose is a website dedicated to the president, past presidents, past first ladies, and the election. This website would be very helpful right around election time because there is a resource that allows students to create their own campaign posters. It also contains tons of facts about the current president and past presidents and first ladies. This site would be ideal for elementary grades 1-5.
Tennessee History for Kids has information, resources, and activities that cover the history, civics, and geography of the state of Tennessee. It would be great to use in the classroom and have students go on some of the virtual tours of places across the state. This would also be helpful for students to use outside of the classroom because it has information about the geography of the state and can show a lot about the town they live in. This site would be ideal for elementary grades 2-5.
Innovations in Education (Teacher Resources):
Innovations in Education (Teacher Resources):
Edutopia is a nonprofit operating foundation designed to assist teachers in finding new ways to engage students in learning using innovative, replicable, and evidence-based approaches for K-12 students. The website offers a multitude of topic discussions in the form of posts and videos that help teachers to remain up to date with effective teaching methods that help teachers to connect with students in a meaningful way through engaging and inspiring techniques.
Ted Talks: Ideas worth spreading is a website consisting of thousands of brief lecture videos by respected speakers on a wide variety of topics. They offer several interesting videos on education that help viewers to understand alternative perspectives and practical applications for teaching in the classroom.
Free-to-use Images Resources:
Free-to-use Images Resources:
"Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is safe and free for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting."
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