Teacher Recommended Websites

Intervention Central  

Visit this site to check out academic and behavioral intervention strategies, download publications on effective teaching practices, and use tools that streamline classroom assessment and intervention.

 

Puzzle Maker

With this site you can quickly create customized word searches or crossword puzzles, as well as cryptograms, mazes, jumbles, hidden message puzzles and more.

 

Ed Helper

Great resources for themes and for nearly all content areas.  Great ideas to use as well as activities to easily create.

 

A+ Math

On this site are links to all kids of activities for nearly every math unit.  Included are easy to create flash cards, easily generated worksheets for extra review and games to play.

 

Sheppard Software

Included on this site are free games for social studies, science and other topics.  Particularly useful are the geography games for students to locate continents, oceans, states, countries and more.

 

Academic Skill Builders

A site for students to use to improve their computation skills.

 

P.E. Central

An excellent website to implement P.E. into any setting. Includes lesson plans.

Hubbard's Cupboard

A website for early childhood educators and parents.

 

History.com

This site is the companion site to the History Channel which includes This Day in History, History Behind the Headlines, videos, games and more.

Spelling City

Spelling City uses your spelling list to introduce the words with pronunciations and/or in sentence context.  The speech is clear and easy to understand.  It is very easy to enter your own spelling words.  Spelling games and tests may be created with your lists.  Games can be played online or in many cases printed.

PBSKids

Games that go along with Arthur books, reading and math skills.The site also contains a fact-based trivia game and links to many other education-related sites.

Teaching Heart

Great teacher resource. Tons of links for all kids of ideas.  Lots of themed holiday and seasonal units including a great apple unit.

Starfall

Reading games

Superkids

Math drill sheets

Carl's Corner

A great resource for many reading/phonics/literacy resources.

Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.

a4esl.org

Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers.

ABC Teach

This is a great place to get printable coloring pages, themed units, worksheets, and monthly calendars with cute pictures on them.  You can even make custom practice sheets for handwriting, math, etc.

ABCya!

This site has free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web.  All games and activities were created or approved by certified teachers. All games are free and modeled from primary grade lessons. Games and activities incorporate content areas such as math and reading while introducting basic computer skills and are available in grade level sections.

How Stuff Works

This site contains information to fascinate an 8-10 year old. Students may need assistance. The best features are the list of top 10 questions and the top 10 articles.

Brain Quest

Students can send e-postcards, play games, answer questions, and discover recipes such as the Brain Shake - a yogurt/fresh fruit smoothie.

Kids' Space

This site was created to foster literacy, artistic expression, and cross-cultural understanding among the world's children.

Art Safari

Art Safari adults and children to explore the painting and sculpture collection of The Museum of Modern Art. This site encourages learning about art by looking and sharing interpretations.
 

Brain Binders 

The Brain Binders site contains tons of print and fold brain teaser puzzles.  Choose your preferred level of difficulty ( two fold, three fold), print out the puzzle and have students test their problem-solving skills.

Trusty's Kids Corner

This site is sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  Students can view photos of an old building and submit paragraphs or sketches of how they would save it.There are other opportunities for students to identify and write about old buildings in their own towns.

Enchanted Forest

The K-12 Integrated Internet Projects site features "Poetry Pals-the K-12 Student Poetry Publishing Project." It is targeted at students internationally, so students can read poetry written by children in other languages, but always translated into English.

World Surfari

This site features in-depth explorations of 19 countries around the world.  Information is included for each country under the following categories:  People, History, Culture, and What's New?

American Symphone Orchestra League

This is the American Symphony Orchestr League's extremely kid friendly "get acquainted with the orchestra" site.  This site includes games and lots of great classical music sound bytes.