Internet Sites for K-5 –
See more, updated links @
Marilyn Western’s “Stuff
You Gotta Try” http://www.edzone.net/%7Emwestern/stuff.html
Quick Educational Activities Online
5
Minute Activities – Marilyn
Western’s links for cool sites
Online Keyboarding -
K-12 typing practice – Works from any Internet accessible computer.
Typing Activities:
simple words - K-3 typing practice- read and type
simple words
Typing Activities:
alphabet - K-3 typing practice- read and type
the alphabet
Typing
Activities: colors & shapes - K-3
typing practice- read and type basic colors for the shapes
Typing
Activities: Counting K-3 typing
practice- read and type the number of stars
Mousercise Mousing Around - Practice your mousing skills, click the 'Let's start mousercising!'
button
Typing Master
Practice Games Challenge
your typing skills by playing Pacman, Bubbles or
Bricks
Super
Hyper Spider Typer Type
in the letters or words you see on the lizard's backs as soon as they appear on
the screen to clear them away. Some words will be harder than others so type
really fast to win! Each round will end when the spider reaches the top of the
tree.
Story Time for Me
– These are some really great stories – all narrated, animated, and text
highlighted. Great for K-2, lower readers, and even reading buddies
abcya
Games & Apps – Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and
language arts while introducing basic computer skills. All
children's educational computer activities were created or approved by
certified school teachers.
abcya Word Clouds for Kids
– A word cloud is a
graphical representation of word frequency. Type or paste text into the box
below and press the arrow button to view the word cloud generated.
Primary Games
– Hundreds of learning games and activities, with a content description and grade
level suggestion for each educational activity found on the site.
PBS Kids Lions
Games & Activities – Four games:
Dub Cubs; Skywriting; The Messy Attic; and Hop-s-sites
PBS
Curious George’s Busy Day Activities
– Menu page of games: K – 1 Students can practice mouse clicks, back arrow, and
learning math & reading skills at the same time.
Oak Grove First Grade
Links – Hundreds of learning games and
activities- all in easy to follow steps
Oak Grove K-5 Grade Links
– Hundreds of learning games and activities- all displayed in a content grid in
grade level pages
TweenTribune – Online
Student News – News for kids; News by kids –
interactive student news center
Social Studies Alive ! America’s Past Tutorial These
comprehensive tutorials help your students master the subjects in Social
Studies Alive!
TVO Kids Games – More thinking and reading, less
clicking…Includes the Big Escape Games searches for Dr. Know It All.
I Know That Learning and activities and games site
covering hundreds of educational topics. You can create a free account to
eliminate advertising and select favorites.
Teachers Hub -The
K-12 Interactive Learning Center.
Use the Demo materials for free.
Read,
Write, Think – Student Tools (Materials) - The
place to click into online writing activities – make cartoons, create a flip
book, create character trading cards…lots more
Scholastic Kids - Games Learning
and having fun all in one!
Scholastic
Kids - News Current
events and much more!
Spelling
City -The Interactive Spelling Center –
Students can enter spelling words and use in multiple activities!
Brain
Flips -The Interactive Flash Card Center
– Students can enter words and definitions to create virtual flash cards and
use in multiple activities!
Educational
Searching and Reference sites for Kids
Kids Click! --
Excellent search results!! Created by librarians for information and tools for
student research
Michigan electronic Library - Kids – Resources for K-8 students, reviewed by Michigan librarians. You may need to enter your State Driver’s License Id from outside the district.
Fact Monster! --
Fact Monster is an ideal reference site for kids ages 8-14 that provides entertainment and educational resources. It
combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several
almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records.
Kentucky Virtual Library Kids
Research Tutorial! -- Use this
Interactive tutorial with students to focus the search information.
Iditarod Musher Listing 2008
Official Iditarod Web page- musher listing page and musher biographies
Alaska Daily News Iditarod
Musher Listing 2008 Follow musher results with nice pictures and
bios
The Ultimate Iditarod – MAP of the Iditarod with interactive information for kids
The Ultimate Iditarod – Kids & Teachers page -- other
activities and information for kids
United Streaming Video Clip-
Iditarod – Slim Goodbody explains the Iditarod – video clip showing
animations of Iditarod with exercise activities. Click this link and log in to
see the video.
Enchanted Learning - Search for a wide range of information created for this
site so students stay within this site. The search structure starts out for the
basic reader and progresses using links. Online games and quizzes are also
included along with teacher materials and handouts.
Spectrum Biographies and
Activities Pages - Click
on a portrait button to go to that person's biography. Capsule biographies are written at student levels and
include a range of past and present famous people and all the US Presidents.
WIKIpedia
Encyclopedia - Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages
with additional information.
Encyclopedia
of Life – Edited and approved plant and animal encyclopedia multilingual, Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project...great pictures, videos and articles,too.
Facts
for Learning - FactsforLearning brings together content from books,
magazines, activity kits, and other online resources. It is designed to help
students find information to help them in classes and to learn online reference
skills.
Kids
Corner American FactFinder US Census 2000 -Learn about the US Census, get facts about your state,
have fun with quiz questions.
Kids Count 200 Census Data
-- easy-to-use, powerful online database that allows you to generate custom
graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; or, download the entire
data set as delimited text files.
Ask for Kids (formerly Ask Jeeves)
– Ask questions and Click on links to study tools, such as a dictionary,
thesaurus, and text books
Yahooligans
– The Web Guide for kids
Educational Science Stuff for Kids
Plant Hunters: NY Botanical Garden
–Tour the world of plants in “Houses” of the NY Conservatory–Plant challenges
show more about these plants and where they live
Yahooligans - Penguins
– results for Penguins search shows a list of 12 different kinds of penguins
and links to sites on them all
Encyclopedia
of Life - Penguins – more direct a
list of 12 different kinds of penguins and links graphics and information
Dolphin Bubbles - SeaWorld
– The playful creatures at Sea World Orlando create the bubbles with their
blowholes, then chase and swim through them. A unique Animal Behavior.
National Geographics Live Web Cam in Africa
– See live and recorded daily scenes from Pete’s Pond in Botswana, Africa.
Watch the real activities of a wildlife preserve…other
games and activities, too.
PBS Kids in Africa
– PK – 2 grades are introduced to Africa through pictures, music, a mask
activity and folktale.
McGraw-Hill
Science Pages – Click your Science book cover, follow the links in your book chapters for
educational learning games and activities activity linked to each lesson.
Planets & Moons in the Solar System
– Collection of web sources gathered and kid-tested by Mrs. Menhennick and her
fourth grade science class lots of photos, too.
Encyclopedia
of Life – Edited and approved plant and animal encyclopedia multilingual, Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project…great pictures, videos and articles, too.
Arctic Wildlife
Portfolio learn about the animals
of the Arctic! Smithsonian Biologist Doug Siegel-Causey shares his knowledge
and special insights about this icy world and it's inhabitants.
Enchanted Learning -
Birds An article all about
birds: diet, structure, nests & eggs, locomotion and more. Check the page
links for “Extreme Birds” and “Birds as Symbols,” which goes to a list of US
State Birds.
Weather Words An A
to Z Glossary of weather terms from the Weather Wiz Kids web site
How Stuff Works
Hundreds of cool articles
JungleWalk
Tons
of audio, video, web sites for jungle lovers
Virtual Fish Tank Build-Your-Own-Fish
online and release them into the Virtual FishTank(TM)
exhibit at the Museum Of Science, Boston
Build a Fish Build-Your-Own-Fish online.
Choose fish characteristics that would survive in various habitats presented.
Froguts Online dissection without the
smell! Site is currently under revision to add program fee with a free demo
available.
Switcheroo
Zoo Switch the animals' heads,
legs and tails to make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo
ThinkQuest Animal Library Wild Habitat we have gathered information and pictures of bears and felines, and many more
Enchanted
Learning Tundra Animal Library
Tundra habitat
list of pictures and animal facts and region features
Enchanted
Learning Antarctica Animal Library Antarctic
habitat list of pictures and animal facts and region features
ReviseWise Science From the BBC - Living
things, Materials, Physical Processes, Games
NASA Space Place
Come on in and check out games, animations, projects,
and fun facts about Earth, space and technology
NASA Astro-Venture
Design a Planet, view the video Tutorial to get
started and other star videos and link to information and resources to create
habitable planets in space
NASA
Do-It Yourself Podcasting
Now you can create and audio and video podcast with downloadable
digital materials from the NASA web site… complete with instructions and
hardware suggestions
The Weather Underground - Weather information from anywhere in the country-With local
weather from Gwinn
Earth Day Activities - Holiday
Fun Seasonal Games, Celebrate Earth Day - Every Day. Earth Day is celebrated on
April 22. This is obviously a topic for any time. Be good to the Earth.
Planet Pals - Welcome
to Planetpals Greatest Earth Day Pages
Chem for Kids -
Chem4Kids is staying a free site If
you are looking for chemistry basics
Chemistry Games -
These eight online games teach you the chemical
elements, periodic table, and more.
My Pyramid -
MyPyramid offers personalized eating plans, interactive tools to
help you plan and assess your food choices, and advice. Games, Video podcasts
and many student activities and organizers are available on this great website.
Ed Head’s Simple
Machines - Simple Machines
Activities: Learn about
simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!
Yahooligans Simple
Machines – See the list of sites
that explore simple
machines.
MIKIDS Simple Machines – Six Simple Machines are defined with lots of examples and
activities are presented.
Crest Capital list
of Simple Machines – Find web sites, books and many other resources about simple machines
Exploring the Environment The ETE online series, which features an
integrated approach to environmental earth science through modules and
activities, is developed at the NASA Classroom of the Future™; at Wheeling
Jesuit University. Recommended for Grades 5 and above.
Educational
Math Stuff for Kids
Xtra Math
Set up your class to
follow student practice Basic Math Operations by Grade Levels
IXL – Right & Left Brain Math Activities Click to see Math Skills Leveled by Grade Levels
MoneyMathGames -Count coins; Make
Change; Work with Money; Money Drills
Mr. Maffesoli’s
Skills Pages -K- 5 grades math skills search page: find
math skills web sites listed by skill, games, or Math facts. A
One-Stop math page. Teacher section has math links correlated with
GLCEs!!
A+ Math -This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
A+ Math – Money Flashcards
-Test your money recognition skills!!
Kids Numbers -Oswego City School
District, NY, math activities and games to review computation skills.
Oswego Interactive Games -Use Oswego School
District’s free games and math activities to review, skills.
Math
Magician -Use the free math
games and math activities to review, and keep your math
wits sharp, or use one of our math foundations programs to develop the basic
brain skills that are required to succeed with math.
Hooda Math
Operations, Logic, Geometry games; also find Worksheets and Tutorials.
Tessellation Town Click
& drag to create your own tessellations
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
Long
name. Cool site. Interactive virtual manipulatives
based on NCTM standards
Project
Interactive – Lessons and activities included
with online math manipulatives.
Base Ten Blocks
Program – Interactive site where students
can click on the blocks so they can move, rotate, break, and glue the blocks to
do all types of arithmetic (and even extended to algebraic) operations.
Multiplication
Machine
From Ambleweb math tables tester… three levels of
difficulty for multiplication skills
EDWeb Math Sites List EdWeb Elementary Math Web site list
Encyclogram Explore harmonograms,
spirographs, and lissajous
figures
The MegaPenny
Project Visualizing
HUGE numbers
Multiflyer
Online multiplication practice
ReviseWise Maths From the BBC - Numbers, Data Handling,
Shape/Space/Measure, Mental Maths & Games
FunBrain and MathBrain – Lots of games and links for student math
activities.
Education 4 Kids
– Math practice with Flashcards
Math Cats
– More Lessons and activities using online manipulatives
– from place value to number operations to money
To Excel is
Elementary – Hundreds of activities, how to’s and templates for using Excel with 3- 5th
Grades.
Educational Reading and LA Stuff for Kids
Giggle Poetry Hundreds of poems for
and by kids to read and rate!
Seusseville Games and
activities for students. Lesson Plans and projects for teachers.
Mother’s Day Poems links:
http://www.thevirtualvine.com/MothersDay.html
http://www.marvelcreations.com/mothersday.html
http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=162
http://www.mothersdaycelebration.com/mothers-day-poem.html
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/mom/cards.html
Book Adventure – Kids Place Reading games,
Book finder and Quiz-O-Matic
Kids Place – Education Place – Kids games for
Reading and Language Arts from Houghton Mifflin – Social Studies and Math
games, too!
Children’s Storybooks Online - Free
illustrated stories for children with sounded texts for students
Vocabulary Viewing www
pages thru this site will allow you to check dictionary & thesaurus info of
words
Bembo's Zoo
Watch how the letters of the alphabet re-form into animals. How do they do
that??
PBS Kids – Games, Stories, Coloring, Music based on popular
characters.
ReviseWise English From the BBC -
interactive site with Reading, Writing, Spelling & Grammar & games
Starfall Reading Site
– Free Learn-to-read activities with sounded texts for students --Includes
holiday reading activities.
Stranger
in the Woods Explore this web site
and find out more about the award-winning book, movie, CD and DVD!
Spectrum Biographies
– Award winning site with 34 Biographies of famous people from musical
composers, authors and historical women to some notable American presidents.
Educational Social Studies Stuff for Kids
Fact Monster
Atlas, encyclopedia, current events, daily facts and more
National Geographics
My Wonderful World
Kids games and activities, take a Global quiz, Links and resources
National Geographics
Kids
Kids stories, videos, activities, people &
places games and animal info.
Ref Desk A collection
of references: encyclopedias, newspapers, language translators and more
US Geography Quizzes Geography
learning games, a map of the United States, its states, capitals, and
geography.
Kids NewsRoom This week's news written just for
kids.
dMarie Time Capsule Plug in a
date & find out what music, books, famous people were 'happening'
Census 2000 Download
lessons and reference materials that use
Census data as well as teaching kits (K-4, 5-8, 9-12, Adult ESL Literacy) and
maps, FREE of charge.
Bens’ Guide to US
Government for Kids - K-12 US Government
information for Parents, Teachers and Students!!
Congress for Kids
- Although
designed for students in grades fourth through high school, other students,
teachers, parents, and interested citizens will find helpful, engaging
activities, too.
Core
Democratic Values Interactive
programs constructed for early elementary or later elementary students— From
Michigan Epic
MI Kids -- Links
for all kinds of Michigan information
-
Environmental
Kids Corner – From MI DEQ – games and
activities about environmental issues
Picture Stuff
US Fisheries & Wild Life Photo Gallery
– Large
collection of Nature photos – royalty free!
A Lifetime of Color
– Art
activities (both online and desktop) for elementary grades. Lesson Plans and
Art History content, too.
Photo Album Add On
Creates a ppt slideshow from your pictures in
minutes! For PPT 2000
JigZone.com Free online jigsaw
puzzles. Become a member (FREE) and use
your own photos
EarthCam for
Kids
Cameras let you view activities around the world
Mondrimat
Create virtual works of art. Based on the art of Piet
Mondrian.
Design Gallery Live
Searchable clipart collection
Web Picture Creator Free
software for resizing images, making thumbnails, copying images and creating
Internet photo albums.
SURWEB (The State of
Utah Resources Web) Create multimedia presentations in
minutes using images, sounds & movies provided by SURWEB or other digital
sources
Irfanview
FREEware
for Windows - photo editing, thumbnails, slideshow, effects & more
Video Stuff
United Streaming - Digital video-on-demand
service brought to you by Discovery Education. The largest and most current
K-12 video/video clip library available today. It is the only standards-based
video-on-demand application shown to increase student achievement with
practical teacher and student learning resources.
Cells Alive –
Access over 25 years of experience
capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for
education and medical research. Free for students and teachers to use.
NASA
- Apollo
11 Video and Image Gallery – Watch the first moonwalk!!
American
Memory – Video and still media archives of American History.
Copyright Stuff
Movie Licensing USA Keep it legal!
Copyright for Kids Easy to navigate
QuickCite Quickly generate an MLA-style citation for a single source (simplified for younger students).