READING WEBSITES
Andersen Fairy Tales Have your headset on. Read along to "The Leaping Match" and then try the activity at the end. You'll need to pay attention to number words throughout the story. Links to other stories at the bottom of the page including "The Real Princess", "Animated Tall Tales - Paul Bunyan", Grimm Fairy Tales Have your headset on. Read along to "The Brementown Musicians". Links to other stories at the bottom of the page.
All About Farm Animals Read about farm animals and try some activities.
Fun with Spot Click the flag to enter. Click the bookshelf to get to the stories. Read "Spots Windy Day" and try other activities.
Bobinogs Interactive Stories Listen and click through the online story. Follow directions and make wise choices. Stories include "The Right Clothes" and "Wet, Soap, Rinse, & Dry". (Some stories do not allow you to read along, only listen.)
Sight Words Move your mouse over words to hear them read.
Inkless Tales Stories and poems to read or have read to you.
Pam's Pad from Child U
Instructor Web Register prior to lab time for free basic access (fee based subscription also offered). In the Basic Skills - Reading section find printable and interactive lessons. Sight words practice and others.
Story Bear "The Wishing Tree" and others. Read along as you listen. Be ready to click when it asks. Read Only-No Sound option available.
Starfall Learn and read interactive stories and games. Click each word in a story to hear it read to you.
Gus & Inky by Get Ready To Read Gus& Inky's Underwater Adventure and Gus & Inky's Rhyme Time. Listen and read. Be ready to click. An Early Literacy Screening Tool offered.
Looney Library Online stories change periodically. Drag and drop a word or picture into the blank to complete the sentence. It will then read the sentence to you. Try other words if you want. Click the Next button to advance when ready.
Matching Pets & Matching Fruit by Class Brain Select Matching Cards to read words and find their matching picture. Try to better your score each round. English plus other languages offered.
Double o "oo" Song & When 2 Vowels Go Walking Others including "Sometimes Y" and "Without an S".
Word Builder by iKnow That and Word Match Several categories including individual long and short vowels, blends, silent letters, etc. Click the Maybe Later button to bypass registration.
Berenstain Bears Click Barn Theater for video stories read online. Click Activities to read a story and try other activities.
Robert Munsch Virtual Story Room Listen to the author read the stories.
Word Play Click a word to hear it and watch as it is animated according to its meaning. Printable list of words
top MATH WEBSITES
Math Forum This online community includes teachers, students, researchers, parents and educators who have an interest in math and math education. The site includes Ask Dr. Math, Problems of the Week, discussion groups and much more.
AAA Math Customized by grade level and topic, AAA Math features explanations of various mathematical topics, practice problems and fun, challenging games.
Cool Math This fully interactive site and allows the user to sharpen basic math skills, play games and explore new math concepts.
Figure This Created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this site helps families enjoy mathematics outside school through a series of fun and engaging challenges.
Math Cats Math Cats provides playful explorations of important math concepts through games, crafts and interactive projects. Includes a magic chalkboard and an art gallery.
Easy Maths This South African Community website for teachers, parents and students is complete with lessons, tests, exams, worksheets, study skills and much more.
Math League The Math League, designed for students in fourth grade through high school, specializes in math contests, books and computer software. The “Help Facility” is handy reference guide for math topics complete with examples, definitions and explanations.
Fleet Kids FleetKids games teach elementary children several different aspect of money management. Games include Windfall, where a child can run an imaginary business and BuyLo/SellHi, where children can play the stock market. Students can sign up as an individual or as part of an elementary school team.
Fun Brain This site includes 17 original games based on soccer, car racing and much more Other games include Math Baseball, where a child can score runs with correct answers and Operation Order, where students can build pyramids with their knowledge of algebra.
top SCIENCE WEBSITES
Beakman and Jax's Place This site contains interactive demos, news about the Beakman's World TV show, and several Hubble Telescope pictures. It has a nice section on planets on the first page for early elementary students. Shockwave plug-in required for interactive demonstrations.
Electronic Zoo This "Electronic Zoo" has a vast amount of resources and various links to the study of the animal kingdom as well the environments in which some they live. For example, the link to whales has lesson plans developed by both educators and students to be interactive and interdisciplinary.
Earth and Mars Education Modules Interactive student activities geared towards planet exploration. Though some activities for grades 2 & 3, best suited to upper elementary. Can serve as a link for teacher to other science activities. Activities linked to national benchmarks and standards teacher/student 2-3.
UC Museum of Paleontology Great site for information on dinosaurs. Has a very good rubric (fossil record section) tying the National Science Standards to the study of dinosaurs at all grade levels.
Chem4Kids This site speaks directly to the young scientist. It's an excellent tutorial for children learning scientific concepts and how math is integrated into science. There are no hands-on activities and the student has to have genuine interest in topic because its encyclopedic in its approach.
Discovery Channel School This site offers multimedia, interactive video options to the classroom. The content is current and linked to the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel programming, offering opportunities for teachers to tape the programming and use it interactively with TLC Elementary School lesson plans. Also provided for teachers and students on this site are previews of upcoming programs and "Bulletin Board" Discussion opportunities regarding lessons/program. For full audio effects, the plug-in RealAudio needs to be downloaded.
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet Learn all about cockroaches, worms, and your gross and cool body! This web site has a great humorous slant to it that makes learning fun! Great graphics and sounds! An excellent resource to use in the classroom to learn about entomology and bodily functions.
VolcanoWorld VolcanoWorld is an outstanding resource for kids interested in learning about volcanoes. This website contains real-time volcano information including an interactive clickable map of active volcanoes world-wide and remote sensing satellite images. Topics covered at VolcanoWorld include how volcanoes work, submarine volcanoes, planetary volcanoes, career information on becoming a volcanologist, volcanic parks and monuments and volcano, exploration on the moon, Mars and Venus.
Carolina Coastal Science This web site contains a Carolina Coastal Photojournal with QuickTime movies. Students can use this Web site to explore similarities and differences in the amount of sand, visible waves, and plant cover between the ocean side and marsh side of the same barrier island, and identify similarities and differences among the three regions of the Carolina Coast .
For Kids Only- Earth Science Enterprise This site has many interesting activities for young students to learn about various earth science concepts. An
National Geographic Kids The web site for kids to explore the fascinating world of National Geographic. Interactive games and explorations make this Web site very engaging for young students.
Nine Planets Tour of the Solar System Take a virtual tour of our solar system.
Cool Science for Curious Kids The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology at this Web site. Activities include dust exploration, classifying critters, microscopy, plant parts, and more.
Sci4Kids The science behind agriculture is presented as a series of interactive stories based on research projects featured in Agricultural Research. Web site also contains photos, graphics, trivia, and classroom connections.
top SOCIAL STUDIES WEBSITES
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