Cool Links
Click on the links below for
Language Arts, Mathematics and Science Interactive Activities:
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
New Cool Links Animated Talking Books in Spanish and English. Includes
Reading Comprehension quizzes and teacher resources.
Click on the bears to go to
Tumblebooks.com
Book
Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8.
Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take
multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes
for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by
Sylvan Learning.
General Sites
Search Engines
Play
Music
Click on "Take A Seat in the
Orchestra" to play various instruments. The short video requires Quicktime.
Click on "Try to Writing Your Own Music" to play fun musical games.
Turn up the volume for this site!
Knowble
The Knowbles take you on animated
adventures, teach you everything from ballet to rocketry, and let you play some
cool games! This site uses Quicktime.
Yahooligan’s
Weekly Coolest Sites
The list contains the coolest
sites as picked by Yahooligans. This is updated every week, so please CHECK ALL
SITES before you let kids browse them. To look at the archives, click on
"Next."
BBC—Little
Kids
This is geared for younger kids.
Watch animated stories and play games according to your ability level. The
advanced is still fairly easy, especially for fourth-graders.
BrainPop
Here you can learn with fun
animations about everything from Similes and Metaphors to Dinosaurs.
Primary
Games.Com
This
site contains educational games for elementary students. Games will be
added throughout the year, so be sure to bookmark this page and check back
often!
Enchanted
Learning
Enchanted
Learning presents stories, information, worksheets, references, and much more on
subjects ranging from reading to science.
BBC
Education
A
website from the United Kingdom, this site offers activities for all age groups
in many content areas.
Students choose the appropriate age level, the type of content they want
to practice, and they are given a selection of activities to choose from.
There is also a teacher resource page with helpful information and links.
Little
Animals Activity Center
This
website offers numerous activities that students can choose.
Besides reading activities, there are math, music, and other activities.
This website is useful for many subjects.
Fun
Brain
One of the best online sites for kids, this site provides
excellent games for different subject areas.
Teachers can also create quizzes that students can take online.
Mighty
Books
:
several dozen original narrated
books with sing-along audio songs and music videos. Age range (from
two to twelve).
Story
Place Preschool Library:
Your littlest ones will be delighted
with these eleven narrated stories where they can click to animate the
characters and turn the pages.
Kendra's Coloring Book
Kendra's Coloring Book is an
interactive virtual coloring book on the World Wide Web.
This
coloring book lets web users interactively color pictures. Users may select from
a palette of many colors,
and mix any combination of them.
KidsCom Jr.
Games, coloring books, educational lessons
and more.
Pauly's
Playhouse
Scroll down to find coloring and other games
that give young children practice using the mouse and keyboard.
Reading Links
Starfall
The Starfall Method promises
to improve reading acquisition by using the Internet to help make it fun for the
children and easy for the educators. If you are a teacher
you may request the free printed materials that go along with the website
for classroom use.
Chateau
Meddybemps
Fun
and games and "beantime" stories for preschoolers.
Arthur,
The World's Most Famous Aardvark
From PBS, here fun-filled website based on the
characters from the Arthur series
Sports
Illustrated for Kids
Sports Illustrated for Kids has interactive
activities and games as well as stories on today’s latest sports heroes.
Scholastic
Newszone
Scholastic Newszone is the homepage for all the
editions of Scholastic News Online.
The homepage is updated daily with the day’s news, sports, special
events and polls.
The
Internet Public Library: Story Hour
Offered by the Internet Public Library is Story Hour.
Here students can hear and/or read stories by clicking on the picture
icon or the title. Some stories
offer audio narration with the text.
Childrenstory.com
This wonderful website features categories for the
reader’s perusal: Fairytales, Nursery
Rhymes, Interactive Stories, and Holiday Stories.
Each category includes beautifully illustrated stories, and a Real
Audio button lets the reader hear the story as they read it.
Rebus
Rhymes: Mother Goose and Others
A very colorful and simple website for students to use
featuring nursery rhymes in rebus form. The
pictures are plain but colorful. This
website is good for very young beginners.
Writing
Links
The
Case
Features mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks and more for school age
children. (No registration necessary to play the games.)
Kids,
King of the Kitchen
Kids have control of this “kitchen”.
Recipes are submitted by children of all ages.
Some are extremely simple while other recipes are more complicated.
KidAuthors
KidAuthors is a creative place for kids to
share their stories and poems for other people to read.
Stories are posted by genre (mystery, fairy tales, etc.), and writers can
fill out an easy online form.
Kidscribe:
A Bilingual Site for Kid Authors
This wonderful website allows students to publish
their work in either English or Spanish.
Directions on this site are bilingual.
Works are divided into different types of writing, such as poetry,
stories, and jokes
Monster Motel
At this site, students are encouraged to create
monsters to live at this motel.
Language
Arts
Wacky
Web Tales
This is an online version of MAD LIBS.
In Wacky Web Tales, the user is asked to produce words to create a funny
story.
Kids
Crosswords and Other Puzzles
Kids Crosswords allows students to practice
vocabulary skills in this interactive crossword site.
Crossword puzzles range from grammar to holiday themes.
Clifford’s
Interactive Storybooks
From
the Scholastic company comes interactive storybooks featuring Clifford the Big
Red Dog. Besides using the interactive storybooks, children can work with two or
three interactive phonics activities.
Word
and Picture Fun
Games and
activities that will make learning phonics fun.
Math
AAA
Math
The interactive website offers online activities for all
grade levels. This site contains hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills.
Cool
Math 4 Kids
Called an amusement park for math, this website
provides games and activities for the different operations of math.
Cool Math 4 Kids is for children under 13 and is part of the Cool Math
website.
Room 108 Math
Games and activities are provided for the different
operations of mathematics. There
are a variety of online activities to choose from.
A+
Math
This site provides online games, free worksheets, a
Flash Card maker and a homework helper. Offers
a variety of activities for kids.
Science/Social
Studies
Space4Kids
Pick a place to play in this cool
site. “Every place includes fun facts, games, and a special site buddy.” It
not only has games, but also includes information on airports, castles,
rainforests, etc.
Kids
Dig Green
Through a series of games,
puzzles and a virtual site tour, students could learn about archaeology. Learn
how archaeologists word, and recontruct how our ancestors lived in a 19th
century West Virginia farm.
EcoKids
The “cool site that teaches you
all about the planet and its animals. Includes games, news and facts about
animals, special guests, gallery of children's art, and a discussion area.”
Cool
Science for Curious Kids
The goal of this interactive site
is to help kids appreciate science. You can dive into a miniature without a
microscope, explore the plants world, get to know a butterfly’s life circle,
and more. These include instructions for experiments.
Discovery
Kids
The site is full of adventures.
Watch live Web cams, explore various subjects, play games, and visit the world
of insects in “Yucky.”
Alien
Empire Home
This special multimedia Web
companion will take you into the fascinating world of insects. There are amazing
graphics, sound and animation, enhanced video, and activities for kids. Click
on a topic to enter.
Ranger
Rick
Offered by the National Wildlife
Federation, this website has activities dealing with the endangered animals.
National
Geographic for Kids
From the famous National Geographic is a website
with articles, games, and quizzes for kids.
The Great Plant Escape
Children can learn about plant life through this
interactive website from the University of Illinois.
Planet
Pals
A website dedicated to preserving the planet.
Kids can do searches, read articles, or talk about saving the planet
Earth. A wonderful environmental
site.
Star
Child: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
As the title indicates, this site is for those
interested in astronomy and our solar system.
The
Magic School Bus
Based on the science series The Magic School Bus,
Scholastic presents this excellent site filled with activities on various
science topics such as dinosaurs, weather, and much more.
This site is one of the most interactive and engaging sites on the
Internet.
Reference
Encyclopedia.com
This website is composed of 17,000 articles from
the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
Each entry is short but it includes hyperlinked references to other
encyclopedia articles.
Little
Explorers
Little Explorers is a picture dictionary with
definitions, pictures, and links for words.
Students can use the Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese to English
dictionaries available.
Word
Central
Merriam-Webster’s Word Central offers kids a
student dictionary and “Word of the Day”.
Students learn new ways to have fun with words and language.
WWWebster
Dictionary
A very simple website that allows users to check
their spelling or find a definition of a word.
Rhyming
Dictionary
The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary, the full name of
this site, lets the user find a list of words that rhyme with the one they are
searching for.
Holidays
Hispanic
Heritage (October)
From Scholastic, the website provides information
on Hispanics who have made a contribution to American society.
Along with a Teacher’s Guide, there is a page for activities and
resources to celebrate throughout the month.
Absolutely
Halloween
An interactive website who’s theme is Halloween.
Kids can participate in an interactive story, write email, construct a
haunted house, and work on other various activities.
Teachers can also find free clipart.
The
First Thanksgiving
From Scholastic is a website on the First
Thanksgiving. Children can
experience the First Thanksgiving, starting with the Mayflower voyage and onto
life as a Plymouth colonist. A teacher’s guide is provided.
Absolutely
Christmas
An interactive website for kids.
They visit Santa and his elves at his home.
The site is divided into sections with stories, crafts, letters to Santa,
and much more.
Santa
Claus Village
Kids can visit Santa Claus’ Village and choose a
variety of activities related to Christmas.
Kid’s
Domain Holidays
Kids can find interactive, online activities for
every holiday and celebration throughout the year.
Parents
Internet
Safety Tips:
Safe surfing for kids.
KinderStart:
Web’s largest index-directory of
information about parenting, child development, health, education and learning
activities.
SafeChild.net:
Comprehensive site for all child
safety related matters including fire safety, internet safety, product
recalls, etc.
Home
and Play:
Lots of stories, arts and crafts,
fingerplays, interesting facts, wacky rhymes, caption contest, advice column
and lots more.
FamilyCorner:
Parents are always searching for
good solid advice when it comes to their family and home life. This site
has everything from teens, fitness, home decorating and harvesting your
herb garden.
eScore:
eSCORE is a dedicated parent educational
service, focused on helping families understand their children's educational
needs and helping them meet those needs creatively and effectively. eSCORE
provides hundreds and hundreds of custom tailored activities for parents
to do with their children to aid development and skills.
I
Love Freebies:
This Highly Rated Website Specializes
In "Freebies". Updated Daily, You Will Find Hundreds Of The Internet's
Best Free Samples, Coupons And More Here
Teachers
KidInfo:
TEACHER TIDBYTES, offers educators
links to the best educational Web resources for teachers. KID INFO is an
excellent starting point for students, teachers, and parents who want to
spend "quality" time on the web!
MarcoPolo:
Internet Content for the Classroom
About
School:
This site provides help in a wide
range of school subjects - including math, science, reading, writing, and
more.
Teacher
Universe:
Teacher Universe provides teacher
training (as well as help in technology planning) for teachers in grades
K-12 in Integrating technology into the classroom. The site contains links
for educators, information on grants, and career services for teachers.
The
Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web
The Busy Educator's Guide To The
World Wide Web features information about top Internet sites for busy teachers,
librarians and parents.
The
Learning Page:
Learning Page is a huge collection
of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and
print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on the
site.
Teacher
Resources:
This site provides a listing of
links for teachers of primary aged children. The Grade Level Theme Related
Links page provides theme specific links.
Links
for Educators:
This site contains an excellent
collection of links for educators, divided into categories and updated
monthly.
Teacher
Features:
Teacher Features offers a wide
array of information for elementary educators. It is a growing site, with
many thematic units for teachers to use in the classroom.
2Learn:
An extremely comprehensive and
valuable Web site, created "by teachers, with teachers, and for teachers".
The
Lesson Plans Page
The Lesson Plans Page is a collection
of over 450 free lesson plans for teachers to use in their classrooms.
The site is easy to navigate with lesson plans organized by subject and
grade level. Users can even search for lesson plans on specific topics.
Educators are also invited to add their own lesson plans to help the resource
grow!
The
Webquest Page:
A WebQuest is an instructional
activity where students perform project research using Internet resources.
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators:
A site with over 1600 categorized
sites to help educators find the resources to effectively integrate technology
into the curriculum.
KinderKorner:
This is a fantastic site for Preschool
and Kindergarten Teachers. There are lots of wonderful units, sources,
and a great newsletter.I highly recommend this site as a primary source
of educational learning and fun for your PreK and K students.