http://www.starfall.com Learn to Read: Comprehensive site offers interactive activities to take children from learning the alphabet to reading books using phonics. Books and activities are available for free download. Reading program videos, big books and materials for home or classroom available.
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/phonics/ Teach-nology : An excellent phonics teaching site has worksheets with a variety of options to fit different learners
http://www.beginningreading.com/Free%20Workshe.htm Huge source of free materials for beginning reading and numbers.
http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com/VeryEmergentReaders.html Very Emergent Readers: Here are some wonderful emergent readers for your students.
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml
The Educator's Reference Desk: Provides teachers with lesson ideas and allows them to share their own teaching ideas with others.
http://infoplease.com Infoplease.com: Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Information Please places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips.
http://www.instructables.com/ How to make anything
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/ Columbia Education Center:
Offers hundreds of lessons and teaching ideas organized into
grade levels and subjects for homeschoolers and teachers.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html Discovery School: Lesson plan resources for all grade levels.
http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/index.html a free, internet based, adventure learning program for 3rd to 8th grade students and teachers. Bring the sights, sounds, and experiences of the worlds wildest places into the classroom in a whole new way.
http://www.education-world.com/ Education World: Lesson plans and curriculum ideas.
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/edles.html Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators: A vast collection of links for educators and homeschoolers organized and maintained by a former school librarian. Resources, lessons, and teaching ideas are listed here.
http://www.lessonplanz.com/ LessonPlanz.com:Offers more than 3,500 resources for teachers, educators and homeschoolers.
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/worksheets.htm Free worksheets K-Gr. 3: Language Arts, Writing, Reading Activities, Book Report Forms, Reading Strategies, Grammar, Phonics, Monthly Journals, Editing, Writing Rubric, Math Forms, Addition & Subtraction, Time, Money, Word Problems, Multiplication, Graphs, Place Value, Discipline Letters, Letters to Parents, Class Handbook, Monthly Behavior Charts, Forms that you can customize, Seasonal and Holiday Theme related poems and songs, File folder games.
http://quizhub.com Quiz Hub: Geared to elementary and middle school students as a fun learning center that features free online interactive lessons, educational games, puzzles and quizzes. Includes parent and teacher resources.
http://www.kidsource.com
In-depth and timely education and healthcare information for parents, teachers, educators, and homeschoolers.
http://www.pbs.org PBS site: filled with information from a variety of shows broadcast on Public Television including history, science, and art.
http://www.songsforteaching.com Songs for Teaching: Use music to teach content across the curriculum to students of all ages. Lyrics, sound clips, and teaching suggestions by subject.
http://www.coudal.com/moom.php
The Museum of Online Art Museums: Links to art museum and gallery sites. It will also introduce you to countless other online collections useful in teaching the arts and other lessons.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com lessonplanspage.com: Lessons in language arts, physical education, computer, math, science, writing, geography, social studies, music, art, reading, multicultural, thematic units, special education, early childhood, kindergarten, elementary, seasonal and holiday theme related poems and songs, and file folder games
http://www.inventivekids.com/ InventiveKids: An interactive and informative site inspiring kids to invent. This site also contains resources, ideas and tips for teachers and homeschoolers.
http://pdictionary.com/ A picture dictionary
SCIENCE AND MATH SITES
http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse Ask Dr. Universe! A colorful, fun resource for kids to ask science questions or just explore!
http://www.billnye.com Bill Nye the Science Guy: An extension of the TV science marvel for kids, featuring online questions, facts and experiment demos.
http://pr.tennessee.edu/ut2kids/default.htm Science Bytes: University of Tennessee pilot science projects and experiments provided to educate and encourage classroom feedback and questions.
http://web.mit.edu/outreach/ The MIT Council on Primary and Secondary Education (CPSE) develops and oversees programs that link MIT's resources in science, technology and mathematics to American K-12 students and educators.
http://www.estme.org/index.html Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (ESTEME) Week: This is the National Science Foundation's official site for "Excellence in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education Week," which is celebrated March 15-20th.
http://www.usfirst.org/ For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) A non-profit organization to excite and educate young people about science and engineering.
http://www.girltech.com/
Girl Tech: Fun, enthusiastic site aimed to inspire girls to be more involved in invention and science.
LITERATURE LINKS http://www.berenstainbears.com Berenstain Bears: The official Berenstain Bears site, includes activities and lists of books.
http://www.littlehousebooks.com/ Come Home to Little House
http://www.guysread.com Guys Read: Author Jon S s suggestions for a literacy program that connects boys with books they will want to read.
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp Harry Potter: Scholastic has created a fun-filled site for Harry Potter fans of all ages.
http://www.inklesstales.com Inkless Tales: A ining and educational sampling of stories, crafts, games, an poetry for young children.
http://kidsreads.com/ Kidsreads.com: This site offers a place for parents and children to explore books and book reviews.
http://www.lemonysnicket.com Lemony Snicket: Lemony Snicket says, this site is filled with "dreadful images, wretched information,and unnerving games."
http://scholastic .com/MagicSchoolBus/home.htmMagic School Bus Page.
http://www.narnia.com Narnia website
http://www.seussville.com/seussville/ Seussville. The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville,
http://pbskids.org/arthur/The Arthur Page for fans of the TV show based on the Marc Brown Arthur series.
http://place.scholastic.com/Goosebumps/index.htm Goosebumps, Enter if you dare!
http://www.peterrabbit.com The Peter Rabbit Web Site: The official and definitive site on the world of Beatrix Potter.
http://www.bookpals.net/storyline Storyline:
Enjoy a selection of stories read online by members of t he screen Actors Guild. Files are available for Windows Medi layer or Quicktime formats.
http://www.SimonSaysKids.com/Alice The Alice Fan Club: The characters in Phyllis Reynolds Naylorís Alice series endure all these dilemmas and more.
http://www.americangirl.com/fun.html/ American Girls Collection is a series of books by Valerie Tripp, Janet Beele Shaw, Connie Porter, Susan S. Adler, and Maxine. Stories are told through the eyes of girls living in different periods in history. This site expands on the stories and has a club for fans of American Girls.
HISTORY & CULTURE
http://www.americanjourneys.org/ American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Brings history to life.
http://infoplease.com Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Information Please places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips.
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids Cool site for kids with interactive activities that teach about nutrition
SITES FOR KIDS http://www.ecokids.ca Eco Kids Online: Discover cool things about science and nature, wildlife, environmental issues and more through games and activities. http://www.pbskids.org
PBS kid's site with games, activities, and printables from Public Television's children's programming.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids Kids' games and activities for math, reading, language arts, social studies, and more!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids Kids area of National Geographic website with kids news, games, activities and experiments, GeoBee Challenge, homework help, maps, and education guide.
