ELA Websites
You and/or your students can ind out about new books, create a book shelf, and track reading.
NaNoWriMo
Create your class and challenge your students to write a novel in 30 days.
Reading Bear
Phonics practice from short vowel to combinations.
Reading Rockets
Tons of reading help, advice for you to help students. Meet the people that contribute here.
Read Theory*
Students can take quizzes on short passages. Free version available which tells approximate Lexile level and how many quizzes passed. Students take a short pretest. Explains when incorrect answer is given.
Read Works
Tons of reading articles for various grade levels. Can be used online.
Read Write Think
From the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English). Find tons of lesson plans and use student interactives to enhance lessons.
Storyline Online
Actors read popular books online.
Starfall*
Tons of phonics practice and short books.
Text Project
"Strategies, tools, and texts to bring beginning and struggling readers to proficient levels of literacty." Tips for parents included.
Science
An old favorite. Experiments and episode guides.
A NASA site about climate and climate change.
A few simple games that teach STEM. The simple machines one is excellent.
From the Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., their science website.
All about wildlife. Lessons, photographs, videos, and more.
Experiments and more experiments.
Everything Science
SciShow
An active channel since 2011, there are many science videos. For younger students check out SciShow Kids.
Animals games, teachers resources, and more.
Math Websites
Math games, virtual manipulatives, and more
Interactives, lesson plans from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Games, manipulatives, detailed lesson plans.
Free site that offers lessons, games, puzzles and more.
Math Manipulatives
Online math manipulatives to help you teach from Didex.
Multiplication.com*
Fun games that help kids learn those pesky multiplication facts. Division, addition, and subtraction games, along with worksheets and quizzes.
Multidiscipline Websites
Educational games that cover many subject areas.
Easy books covering different subjects, holidays, and coloring activities. Appropriate for Prek or early Kindergarten.
A variety of professional resources for today's teachers
Free and lowcost textbooks and resources
TONS of good stuff from the Smithsonian all in one place
Free for teachers with over 8,000 learning games
Lots of videos that support elementary education
Lots of interactives that spans all content areas
Clever Crazies
A small but powerful site. It reads and explains everything. Games and skills practice. Vocabulary is HUGE! There are prizes to be won.
Twisty Noodle
Lots of Fun sheets from coloring and crafty to reading and math.
Tech and Tools Websites
Bamboozle*
Make and play your own games
A place to develop games for free, puzzles, and diagrams
A free AI tool to help you develop interactive lessons.
Students are encouraged to create, build, and share.
Lots of timers, clocks, counters, and more.
Tell stories through comics
Google's tool it uses to help train it's AI interface.
Listen to radio stations from all over the world.
Free PowerPoint and Google slide templates.
More free Powerpoint and Google Slides templates.
Even more free Powerpoint and Google Slides templates.
Free and simple voice recorder.
An interactive whiteboard with tons of features.
Other
Good science videos for 5th grade (for now).
TONS of free math sheets.
Lots of free math sheets.
Short videos that provide 5 clues that lead to a place, people, animals, etc.
Free worksheets covering a variety of content areas.
Fun way to learn a different language.
A few student games and educator info.
Art, Music, and PE
A place for students and teachers to publish their art.
A museum created by artist and illustrator Eric Carle.
Free lessons for grades prek-8.
Plenty of arts and crafts activities to keep your kids busy.
Kid friendly information from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Resources to help parents and teachers.
Fun and relaxing sand art.
Fun interactive music tools
Helps kids learn and appreciate classical music
Fun beatbox and harmonizing site. Some parts only available as an app
Lot of info and musical games
See different orchestras playing from different points of view.
Lots of musical games
Lots of free music lessons (more toward theory and not playing)
Fun musical games for younger children
Resources for teachers
Learn about the different instruments of the symphony
Paint like the artist
Social Studies
Learn about the government
Spies, missions, etc
More information about congress for kids
Learn about the US Constitution, see the museum, and more
See how families around the world live on a monthly income
Resources for teaching economic literacy
Connecting with others around the world.
Answer questions and earn money to be donated to charity
Get dropped into a place somewhere in the world and try to figure out where you are
*Sites that are free but also have an option for a paid part of the site.