Technology

Educational Websites


General Interest

Interactive Learning Sites for Education - All best education sites at one location

www.roomrecess.com - dedicated to providing children with free educational games, these games reinforce important skills that are vital to elementary students and their learning process. 

Funbrain.com – this site has grade level specific activities. It provides a wide variety across all subject matters.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ - a great typing site, very entertaining.

Sheppard Software - BrainGames - wide variety of games, Preschool and up.

Cool Math Games - the coolest math games and more!

www.mrnussbaum.com - MrNussbaum.com offers dozens of interactive games specifically designed to pinpoint one or several essential concepts taught in elementary years

www.alfatyping.com - Typing Games online

Clark Art Kids Page

Typing Web - free online typing tutor that tracks progress

ABCya - Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. http://www.abcya.com/

Code - Launched in 2013, Code.org® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science by making it available in more schools

Mouse Games - Practice your mouse skills with these fun, simple games.

ELA

Lexia Core 5 - Lexia Reading program - requires a userid and password.

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers.

www.readwritethink.org/materials/shape/ - this site allows students to create shape poems. It has an easy format to follow and a great printable poem at the end.

www.starfall.com - Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.

Letter Generator - here you can learn parts of a letter and how to write your own.

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/i/settingp.cfm

Scholastic Story Starters - Story Starters inspire students to write by serving up hundreds of writing prompts in creative combinations.

Math

That's A Fact -Math Flash Cards

Fun 4 the Brain - lots of speed games for different math facts. Just pick the operation you need to practice and there will be a list of games

www.aplusmath.com – good site for practicing math facts.

aaamath.com – math site arranged by grade level or topic. This site is good for practicing a wide variety of facts.

www.blackdog.net/games/math/flash/ - this site has online mad minute test, see how many problems you can solve in 60 seconds.

Coordinate Grid - http://www.counton.org/games/virtualmathfest/dinosaur.html

Equivalent Fractions - Visually explore equivalent fractions

mathplayground.com – this site contains a section on math word problems.

Math Playground - Fractions to Percent - good practice changing fractions to decimals to percents

multiplication.com - This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers! the games are great for building speed on all those math facts.

Number Nut - wide variety of math activities.

Order of Operations - Tutorial

PearsonSucessNet - Electronic edition of classroom text books, teacher assigned quizes and review. Your Personalized Path to Classroom Success.

www.prongo.com/math/ - math baseball, practice addition or multiplication facts.

Reading a Ruler -

www.learningplanet.com/sam/sm/ - SPACEYMATH - you've got to be fast with your math facts to win at this game.

Unit Cost - practice calculating the unit cost for an item

Visualfractions.com – great site for practicing all types of fractions.

Word Problems - Check out this site for practicing word problems or all kinds.

Social Studies

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places- explore countries

Australian Animal Sites:

bensguide.gpo.gov – this site contains general information about the United States Government

www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/ - we use this site to look at artifacts from the revolutionary and civil war.

www.harcourtschool.com/activity/typesofland/typesofland.html - explore landforms.

Mesopotamia - Welcome to the British Museum's web site on Mesopotamia covering Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria

www.nationalgeographic.com/west/ - travel with Lewis and Clark on the first journey across the nation to the pacific ocean.

teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/  - Scholastic's underground railroad activity

www.nativetech.org - web site focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, games sections allows kids to build virtual wampum belts and experiment with other Native American games.

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/ongoing/native-peoples-new-york - take a virtual tour of the Iroquois exhibit at the State Museum.

sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm - learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500 important facts about our 50 states.

 

3rd Grade Countries:

    Japan

   Greece

    France

Winter Holidays - Learn about Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa from the scholastic interactive activities. Below are links to short movies from the History channel

 

Science

amazing-space.stsci.edu – space games

http://www.usborne-quicklinks.com/usa/usa_entity_pages/usa_all_links.asp?lvl=1&menu=s110&id=2328 - Discover Antarctica and play games

www.nationalgeographic.com/marchofthepenguins - critter cams explore the antarctic

Enchantedlearning.com/biomes/ - this site contains information on different habitats and the animals that live within each system.

Blue Planet Biomes - more info on biomes and the animals and planets that live in them

hubblesite.org – this site contains great information on space and the fun section has some cool games, great graphics.

Just for Kids - science games from the University of Illinois Extension

Nutrition Blast Off -  Students can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. “Fuel” tanks for each food group help students keep track of how their choices fit into MyPyramid

Rocks - Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!

starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov – more space games

www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe – a fun mystery game that helps students learn about the amazing world of plants.

Water Cycle Demonstration - A flash animated activity that lets you control the water cycle as you learn.

Water Cycle Books


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