Annotated Website List:
Website: Crayola
Category: Student Resource
Audience: Teachers & Students
Grade Level: PreK - 5th
Subject Area: All subjects
Description: This website provides various coloring sheets for children to use for whichever the topic or theme is. Students can also go into the “Kids’ Playzone” and make their own story where they transform themselves into cartoons. They can participate in interactive games. Teachers can also use this as a resource for lesson plans.
Category: Student Resource
Audience: Students & Teachers
Grade Level: 1st - 8th
Subject Area: Math
Description: This is a great site for students to practice their math skills through videos, games and worksheets. All materials are listed by grade level and every activity aligns with the Common Core Standards. Students may also print their practice worksheets. Videos also link to the Kahn Academy explanations of how to do certain math problems.
Website: PBS Kids
Category: Student Resource
Audience: Students & Teachers
Grade Level: Prek - 5th
Subject Area: All Subjects
Description: This is a great website for students to practice many skills across all domains ranging from literacy to math; science to social studies. There are specific games about dinosaurs as well as games in Spanish! There are also very entertaining videos about topics such as simple machines and even colors and shapes. There are endless possibilities with this resource!
Website: Thinkfinity
Category: Teacher resource
Audience: Teachers
Grade Level: All levels
Subject Area: All subjects
Description: Powered by Verizon, this is a great “hub” for all teachers to blog and post various learning tools and lesson plans in a community setting. There is information from teachers on curriculum development, and all resources are Common Core aligned.
Website: ESLpartyland
Category: Teacher resource
Audience: Teachers & students
Grade Level: All levels
Subject Area: All subjects
Subject Area: All subjects
Description: This website is a great resource for teachers teaching English and for students learning English. There are lesson plans, videos, and discussion boards for learning different English phrases for idioms, how to speak in relationships, and quizzes on expressions, vocabulary, and grammar, just to name a few. This is a great forum for all teachers to gather and share useful information.
Website: Teacher Tube
Category: Teacher resource
Audience: Teachers & students
Grade Level: early elementary - college
Subject Area: All subjects
Description: This is a great tool for teachers to be able to share their videos with other teachers. This can also be something that teachers use to show their students instructional videos if they need help on a certain topic. There are numerous videos and opportunities for professional development of teachers as well. Teachers can share not only videos, but audio and photos too. It is a great community setting for teachers to use and share each others’ ideas.
Website: Teach Preschool
Category: Teacher resource
Audience: Teachers
Grade Level: Pre-K
Subject Area: All subjects
Description: This is a fabulous site for preschool teachers to gain ideas for lessons as well as learn fun songs about any topic. The website contains lots of lyrics to songs, categories and themes alphabetically, and links to other great teaching blogs and websites. For example, Deborah posts lots of pictures of what she does in her own classroom, including all the materials and plans she uses. She has written a book about getting ready for Kindergarten and provides many links on her site to lessons on any topic.
Website: Scholastic
Category: Student resource
Audience: Students
Grade Level: All levels
Subject Area: Reading/Writing
Description: This a great website which is still in the “beta” stage. This means it is still in progress to make it “the best it can be.” It is still awesome for students to have an online forum and community to discuss their favorite books with their friends. It is a safe place where not too much information is gathered from the students. There are great games students can play and they can even interact with other readers about authors of the books. There is even a blog for kids to participate in and a place for videos where students can “meet the authors” and watch book trailers.
Website: Discovery Education
Category: Teacher resource
Audience: Teachers and students
Grade Level: All levels
Subject Area: All subjects
Description: This is a fabulous resource for teachers to find lesson plans for each grade level and each subject. There are opportunities for students to receive homework help and there are professional development videos for teachers. Not only does this website provide great resources for teachers, it also gives great research in case studies. Discovery Education also provides links to educational trips for groups of high schoolers. This would be an especially great resource for content area high school teachers!
Website: Fun Brain
Category: Student resource
Audience: Students
Grade Level: K-8
Subject Area: All subjects
Description: This is a great interactive learning site for students. There are everything from books, a math arcade, puzzles, matching games, and word games. This would be great for the lower grade students because the layout and format is very simple to follow. There is also a section called “the playground” where young children (Pre-K) can learn how to navigate the internet and use a mouse. What a great thing to incorporate in an interactive learning site! This is also a trusted site because Pearson runs it.
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