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Science Language Math Games/Activities Homework Help Social Studies Art Physical Ed. Music Search Sites Early Education Teacher Sites Misc. Sites Literature/Authors
Science Sites Science Fair Central Great place for help with science fair projects.
Insectclopedia Find out everything you need to know about insects.
How Stuff Works An award winning site that explains the nuts and bolts of everyday things.
Dole 5 A Day A really great site for studying nutrition, especially fruits and vegetables. Lots of activities.
StarchildA wonderful astronomy site for children.
Science Fair Project Resource Guide A Great site for finding help with science projects. Gives ideas, tips and useful links.
Language Sites
Word Central Look up words in the student dictionary! Better still: Build Your Own Dictionary! Stump your friends with today's Daily Buzzword! Appealing graphics and games that help children to love words.Little Explorers A picture dictionary with links from Enchanted Learning. This is a very useful and easy to navigate site.
Literature/Authors
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.Children's Literature Web Guide Gives teaching ideas for children’s books, book reviews, authors and stories on the web, ideas for parents and much more.
ArthurThis is a really great site. There are sections for teachers, parents and students. Really good activities to go along with books written by Marc Brown. You can also listen to stories online.
Robert Munsch Author of Love you Forever, Mud Puddle, Ribbon Rescue and many more. The site has photos, unpublished poems, biography and much more.
Mercer Mayer Official website of Little Critter. Biography, coloring pages, puzzle pages, movie and audio section.
The Berenstain Bears There’s a complete listing of the Berenstain Bear books and you can find activities on the Berenstain Bears or watch a bear video on your pc.
Math Sites
Cool Math 4 Kids Students can play dozens of games relating to various math skills.Plane Math Activities This is a really fun site. It teaches using math in everyday activities by doing activities with airplanes, kites or other things that fly.
PuzzlemakerPuzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print a specialty hand-drawn maze created around holidays and classroom topics.
Primary Games Lots of online games for learning fun. Includes games in language, math, science and social studies.
FunbrainThis is a really fun site for students, parents and teachers. There are lots of learning activities and teachers can create word searches using words they are studying and they can create a quiz for students to take on line .
Funschool
Has lots of activities for students at all levels (K-6) to do.
Coloring .Com Has pictures for children to color electronically.
Scatty.Com This is a fun site. Has clean jokes, games (like battleship, tetris, tic tac toe etc.) and links to other sites.
Julia's Rainbow Corner Fun site with lots of activites for children.
TVO Kids Has lots of games and activities for children of all ages. Big Backyard section has lots of early educational games. (My kindergarten students really enjoy this site)
Information Please Good site for locating information. It has a daily almanac section that will list activities that happened on a given day. Very easy to use site.
Homework Helper This site has lots of links to help your child find information they might need on their homework.
Online DictionariesSearch several different dictionaries from one location.
Flag Scrambler A game where students unscramble the flag.
Flag Concentration A game of Concentration matching flags.
Flag Jigsaw Puzzle game using flags.
Flag Wordsearch Word search game.
50 States and Capitals A great site for studying the 50 states and their capitals. Has lots of information about the states and their capitals.
Country Studies A good site to find out more about other countries.
Art Sites
Kinder Art Lots of art activities for K - 8. A really super site.@rt Junction Really great site for getting art ideas that encourage creative thinking. Easy to navigate.
Physical Education Lesson Plans A listing of lessons for P.E. that are submitted by other P.E. teachers.
The Music Education Madness Site A gathering place for music educators to share ideas
Internet Public Library Youth Division This is a really super site for finding information. Very well organized and easy to use. Good place for students to get help with school work.
The Virtual Schoolhouse Information on using the internet and a listing of school sites.
Kindergarten – Make it fun and Watch Them Learn This site is maintained by a group of kindergarten teachers from Texas. They have some very useful ideas for units and centers. Arranged in a very useful and easy format.
Mrs. Fischer's Kinder~Themes Another teacher created site that has teaching ideas arranged by the month. Some really great ideas. Easy to use.
Preschool Teacher Good resource for teaching ideas and strategies. Divided by months.
The Chalkboard Another teacher created site that offers activities for art, math, reading, science, social studies, etc. Also has a nice collection of teacher poems.
Perpetual Preschool Lots of ideas for learning centers for early education. A really great place to visit.
Mrs. Alphabet Activities and ideas for teaching letters, phonics, and reading.
Rebus Rhymes from Enchanted Learning Site to encourage children who are learning to read. Uses rebus pictures and nursery rhymes.
Alphabet Activies Printable pages to practice the letters of the alphabet.
ESL Teacher Resources Lot of printable activities for language skills.
Starfall A great site for learning letters and beginning to read.
Teacher/PathfinderAn educational internet village. Lots of resources for teachers and parents.
SchoolHouse Technologies Generate your own worksheets easily using free downloadable software. Format page and use problems that you want. Very easy to use.
Rhl School Free worksheets divided into subject areas.
Creative Teaching Press Provides free activities from Creative Teaching Press.
Creative Classroom Based on the magazine and is updated bimonthly. It is packed with ready-to-use ideas, time-saving tips, and practical advice from experts and readers like you. Very easy to navigate.
Teacher’s Outlet An online DISCOUNT Educational Store. A catalog of over 10,000 Products divided into 8 different categories. Also offers some very nice free activity sheets and printable awards.
ProteacherProvides links to many educational resources. Useful for all age levels.
The Teacher's Guide Find links to lesson plans, thematic units, software, and much more that teachers can use. Very helpful site.
Sites for Teachers This site list many helpful web sites for teachers. Easy to use.
Eduhound Everything for Education K-12 Thousands of Education links in a very easy to use format. Visit when you have time to enjoy looking. Really great sites.
EdHelperGreat teacher resource. Create worksheets, find lesson plans in reading, math, science, social studies, and webquest.
Natural Learning Specializes in natural, developmental ways to help children to learn to read. At the Natural Learning web site anyone may print fingerplays or print from an art section.
AlfyA collection of about 3000 thematic units, lesson plans, and internet activities
The Learning Studio Interesting site with educational links.
Surfing the Net with Kids A really good site to find links on different topics that are appropriate for children.
Education World Lots of resource information for teachers. Lesson Plans, curriculum, books, themes, site reviews and much more.
The Teacher's Desk Lesson plans, discussion groups, and links to educational resources.
The Educators Network A one-stop place for teaching tools. Lots of useful links and resources for teachers.
TeAch-nology A good site for teachers learning how to use the computer in their classroom to visit. Has a newsletter you can subscribe to that gives good sites to visit.
Reading Lady An online resource for educators seeking to interact with other educators as they expand their understanding of literacy teaching.
Linda's Learning Links Has lots of teacher ideas and themes. Under the parent section is a great word list for teaching children sight words.
Making Learning Fun Lots of activities, ideas on themes and printables.
Pre-K-8 Free Printable worksheets and activities.
TLS Books Free printable worksheets and activities.
The Virtual Vine Web site with lot of activities and ideas from a fellow teacher.
Also look for other teacher sites on our Teacher Tip page.
Other great sites
Activity Village A really fun easy to use site from the United Kingdom. Has games, activities, printable sheets, great links and a free newsletter.ScholasticLots of information for parents and teachers, also has games and activities for students.
Ask Jeeves for Kids Fun site for children. They can type in a question and receive an answer.
Kid's Hub A noncommercial educational portal that features free online interactive learning games,
puzzles, and quizzes.Check out sites for Parent's on our Parent tip page.
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