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Elementary interactive websites

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I will be posting new websites here as I find them.  I will try to place them into the correct categories.

http://www.eduhound.com/ This is a search list of all different subjects with websites K - 12 in English.

http://www.eduhound.com/espanol/defaultE.cfm The list above in Spanish.

http://www.thinkfinity.org/ This has a wide variety of different resources.  There are interactive websites as well as lesson plans, and many others.

http://budd-e.staysmartonline.gov.au/primary/main.php A new way to teach cyber safety with some copyright and other issues on the side.  This is fun and makes some difficult stuff easier to remember and understand.

 

Elementary Math Links

Elementary Science Links

Elementary Social Studies Links

Elementary Fine Arts Links

 

ALL Round Websites - (a variety of disciplines and subjects on the page as well as a variety of ages - some have high school and middle school sites)

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interact-read.htm  This site has a pelethra of different subjects and grade levels - all the way up to high school.  It is stuffed full of good things. 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/category/video/watch-full-episodes/ This site has a large number of nature videos to watch.  They are the same videos that are on PBS – but some of these are really cool – diving under ice in Antartica, several snake videos, etc.

http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/portfolio.php  A wide variety of explorations from science, social studies, history, and the arts.  Searchable by age and by subject.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/  Latest news and info with fun games and activities.  Subject matter changes weekly.

http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm Number, color, shapes, letters, words, etc in English.  You can click a link and get the same activities in Spanish, German, and French.

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/portal/site/Kids/menuitem.f977d82a49287d81b92c3010ca248a0c/?vgnextoid=9e18edfab621d010VgnVCM1000006640a8c0RCRD The subject matter here covers science and social studies.  It will also change seasonally and monthly.  Lots of interesting material.

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/portal/site/Kids/menuitem.ec0ebcbbc457ad81b92c3010ca248a0c/?vgnextoid=5848edfab621d010VgnVCM1000006640a8c0RCRD A wide variety of different types of games and learning experiences on many different subjects ranging from animals to pirates.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html  There is just so much at this site.  Every subject, all kinds of material.

http://interactives.mped.org/preview_venn.aspx?id=28&title=  Use venn diagrams in math, language arts, and science to compare and contrast different things, stories, etc.  You can create your own here.

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/  Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, and thinking games all to be found here either by subject or grade level.

http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/games.html Lots of different games for younger students.  ABC order, shapes, numbers, time, all types of things to choose from.

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/resources/index.php   This web site has awesome activities for a variety of grade levels and subjects.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st.htm First grade math and language arts interactive skills and practice.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_4th_original.htm All types of skills in Math and Language arts are avaliable.  Other tools are also available.

http://www.gamequarium.com/ Many different games on many different subjects and grade levels.

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A4=1 Again, many different games on many different subjects and grade levels to stretch your brain.

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games Activities of all kinds for younger students.

http://www.thinkport.org/Classroom/trips.tp Virtual Field Trips.  Some are math, some science, some social studies and some JUST FOR FUN!

 

Language Arts

http://reading.ecb.org/ Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities.

Behind the Lesson provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/  This is orally done.  It tells the story of Cinderella and then goes through all the different parts of a story, including conflict, resolution, setting, characters, etc.  It is great for 2 - 5th grade students.

http://www.storylineonline.net/ This site has a good number of stories that are read aloud by different actors.  Loads of fun.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html  This is a page with online stories.  There are stories for young children, older children, and young adults.  Some of the stories have a symbol which means that you can listen to the story.

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/play.htm?f  Again this page has a large variety of stories that can be read.  Some of the stories are available in the read to me format and some are not. 

http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp More stories for kids to enjoy.

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Loads of wacky tales for kids.

http://www.effectiveteachingsolutions.com/interactivechildrensbooks.htm  More books online, some of which are Read to me.  There are lots of sites here that have stories that can be read by all ages.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm  More fun stories to read and listen to.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/index.shtml Lots of fun with sentence writing, full stops, writing questions, using capital letters, writing descriptions, figuring out new words, words that look like they sound, and several other fun things for writing and reading.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/ Games for learning the basic patterns of simple words.  Interactive and lots of fun.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml Read along with any of these three stories.  Have fun and enjoy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dgi.shtml Practice beginning or ending sounds or words that rhyme in this game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/index.shtml Practice your language arts skills on this space journey adventure.

http://www.brainpop.com/english/seeall/  Most of these are for upper grades but some are for elementary.  Take a peek.  One on capitalization.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/stories/ Stories to read or read aloud about Australia and Paris, France.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/5_7entry/1.shtml A story adventure with all different types of interactive bits for K - 1.  Parts 2 and 3 are also located on home page.  Use the back button.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/7_9entry/1.shtml A story adventure for grades 1 - 3 with vocabulary, map skills as well as reading skills.  Find your way out of the haunted house.  Parts 2 and 3 are also located on home page.  Use the back button.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/9_11entry/1.shtml A story adventure for grades 2 - 5 with all types of skills included.  Have fun visiting Greece and solving this mystery.  Parts 2 and 3 are also located on home page.  Use the back button.

http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/language/index.html  All language arts fun game activities to practice and learn from.  Enjoy.  A wide variety is available.  Over 30 activities, so be sure to click on all the pages.

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ Reading games for children.  Enjoy.

http://myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,15491-197426-21-50037,00.html ABC order, word scrambles, and sentence scrambles all await you here.

http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp  All kinds of interesting fun activities to participate in.

http://www.thinkport.org/classroom/onlineclips/languageartsclips.tp Lots of video clips of stories and other LA subject matter.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/  Clifford activities and stories for lower elementary.

http://www.starfall.com/  Wonderful activities and materials to help with reading.  Some seasonally based activities as well

http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html  Grammar games and fun.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/cap_letters_stops/eng/Introduction/default.htm  A game about periods and capital letters.

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/  Fill in the blanks to help create a wacky tale that you can read.  Some instruction about parts of speech.

http://www.funbrain.com/hangman/index.html  Hangman spelling games in all different subject matter.

http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/  Create your own letter.  Enjoy.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/games/levelone/KC_Grab_It.html Beginning sounds with NASA for Kinder students.

http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids/2_Reading/2_Audio_Stories/index.html Stories that are read aloud with the words on the page.  Some interesting subjects such as science, etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/ A plethora of interactive games on a variety of subjects and a variety of ages.  AWESOME!!!!!!!!!  CHECK THIS OUT!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/games/information.shtml Find the correct book to provide the information requested.  A fun, short little matching game.

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/spelling.html Loads of links to different spelling games on the web.

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/pounce.html Basic phonics game.

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/effectivedetective/effectivedetective.html How good are you at describing things?  This game will test your ability.

 

 

Spanish Sites - so far these are not the best yet but we keep looking for better ones.

 

http://www.eduhound.com/espanol/defaultE.cfm A search list of websites in Spanish for a variety of subjects and grade levels.

http://www.curiosikid.com/view/index.asp?pageMS=23040&ms=158 This is an INCREDIBLE spanish site for science.  Other things as well.  Take a look - it is AWESOME.  Elementary.

http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_es.htm Number, color, shapes, letters, words, etc in Spanish.  You can click a link and get the same activities in English, German, and French.

http://concurso.cnice.mec.es/cnice2005/132_English_for_Little_children/# English for young bilingual students.  Functional vocabulary for young children using auditory receptive vocabulary, matching, and following simple one step directions.  Other levels get progressively harder.

http://ares.cnice.mec.es/edufisica/index.html A wide variety of adventures and games.

http://sauce.cnice.mecd.es/~jdiego/index.htm Math games and activities.

http://www.marenostrum.org/ About the sea, weather, and ecology.

http://www.aquariumbcn.com/AQUARIUM/index.php Visit the Barcelona aquarium.

http://www.ocean-photos.com/ Undersea photos with spanish descriptions.

http://www.lonelyplanet.es/Home.aspx Guide to countries around the world - in Spanish.

http://ares.cnice.mec.es/artistica/index.html Art and music activities and games in Spanish.

http://www.pincelyraton.com/ Art activities for children in Spanish.

http://www.bhuhb.org/ The Adventures of Bhuhb.

http://recursos.cnice.mec.es/analisis_sintactico/primaria/repaso1.php?enlace=1&prev=1 Language Arts - sentences types and tenses in Spanish.

http://w3.cnice.mec.es/eos/MaterialesEducativos/primaria/matematicas/longitud/entrada.htm# Measurement, perimeter, and area activities in Spanish that is fun and interactive

http://www.discoveryenlaescuela.com/latam/home.shtml Site by Discovery Channel for activities and videos, etc in the school.

http://nea.educastur.princast.es/index.php There are several wonderful games and videos here.  One on the water cycle. Another is things you find in the market. Also the story of Don Quijote with games.

http://www.mundolatino.org/rinconcito/ The mother load of Spanish educational sites.  Please let me know more about this site so I can edit it here.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/  This has some Clifford based language/reading activities in Spanish.

http://www.solarviews.com/span/homepage.htm Information about planets and space in Spanish.  Yeah!!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/spanish.shtml  More spanish materials.  Enjoy.  Lots of variety.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/es/nav/vlibrary.html This is a wonderful site for all different areas of Math  for K - 6 in Spanish.  This has all kinds of activities with numbers and operations, algerbra (yes even at K level), geometry, measurement, and data analysis and graphing.

http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/visualartsadv.php

http://www.egiptologia.com/ Come explore Egypt.  Includes movies and more to do.

http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/kids/roaches/spanish/index.html Interesting info on roaches and other bugs.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/insects/index.html Excellent teaching site as well as fun for kids.  Check it out!  There are two games at the end as well as a teacher guide and a listing of museums that have insect collections.  You might check them out as some have displays on line.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/ All about worms.  Teacher materials included.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ Wonderful fun site about plants.  Formated as a mystery that needs to be solved.  Learn all about plants and how to make them grow.  Teacher guide included.  Great introduction to a plant unit.  Click for the Spanish.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/firstgarden/basics/index.html Great site for a plant unit.  Talks about exposure, shade, drainage of soil, composting, soil conditioning, watering, and fertilizer.  Also a section on gardening tools, when to plant, reading a seed packet, and other fundementals of gardening.  Teacher guide included.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees3/01.html Fun site on trees with teaching guide. Click for Spanish.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/ A nature walk through the woods.  What a way to spend a bit of time and learn at the same time.  Teacher guide included.  Click for Spanish.

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/capades/arte.html Have fun with art in Spanish.

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/ Do you want to know more about the Dia de los Muertos.  Here is a place for you.

http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_esp.html# All kinds of info about Mexico.  Also, lots of other fun things to do and learn about history, government and sports.

http://muva.elpais.com.uy/# Take a virtual tour through the Museum of Art of Urguay.  Spanish artists are showcased.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/espanol/kids/insects/sp.insectintro.htm pages of insects

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/espanol/kids/insects/story8/sp.piratebugs.htm insects in Spanish. 

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/espanol/kids/insects/story4/sp.bugbrains.htm more insects in Spanish.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/espanol/kids/ science for kids in Spanish.

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/sistema_solar_webquest/sistemasolar.htm About the planets

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/univers_webquest/UniversWQ/index.htm A webquest about space and scientist who taught us much about space.

http://www.estudio24.com/estudio24-imsimg/bibarchivos/bfab_a.html Fables and stories in Spanish.

http://www.estudio24.com/estudio24-imsimg/bibarchivos/bbiogr_a.html biographies in Spanish.

http://www.estudio24.com/estudio24-imss/paginas/plantillas_especiales/frame.asp?web=%20http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/bosque_seco_virtual/index.html A virtual forest in Spanish to explore.

http://www.damisela.com/zoo/ A virtual zoo in Spanish.

http://www.zoowebplus.com/principal/index.html more zoo stuff.  Everything you want to know about different animals.

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/rondalles_webquest/rondalles/index.htm

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/mozart_webquest/mozart/INDEX.HTM A web quest for young children about Mozart

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/verne_webquest/index.htm  about Jules Verne.

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/recital_poesia_webquest/recital/index.html

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/horts_ecologics_webquest/webquesthort/index.html A webquest about plants?

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/medi_ambient_webquest/medi_ambient/index.htm About recycling, I think.

http://weib.caib.es/Recursos/internet_webquest/5wq/index.htm A webquest about what is the internet?

http://www.educa.jcyl.es/ Sites for young students, elementary but this is mainly a practice page.

http://www.educa.jcyl.es/educacyl/cm/zonaalumnos/tkContent?idContent=3525&locale=es_ES&textOnly=false Practice but also word problems with fractions and decimals.  There are a wide variety of different types of games including logic games.

http://www.scienceacademy.com/maestro/ This is a math practice site with addition practice, multiplication practice, and numerous other types.  It is with a basket ball theme.  For grades 3 - 10.  Covers the following concepts: 1 Addition of Whole Numbers, 2 Subtraction of Whole Numbers, 3 Multiplication of Whole Numbers, 4 Division of Whole Numbers, 5 Writing Numbers, 6 Verbal Arithmetic Reasoning, 7 Banking Word Problems, 8 Signed Number Addition, 9 Evaluating Simple Algebraic Expressions, 10 Order of Precedence, 11 Determining Quantities-Purchasing, 12 Rounding Numbers, 13 Numbers in Sequence, 14 Determining Costs-Multiplying Decimals, 15 Determining Inequality, 16 Verbal Subtraction-Purchasing(Decimal), 17 Decimal Multiplication, 18 Reduce to Lowest Terms-Fractions, 19 Fractional Proportion, and 20 Solving Fractional Algebraic Equations

For Spanish Teachers:

http://www.primeraescuela.com/ Mainly Kinder and First

http://www.xtec.es/recursos/webquests/htm/indexepri.htm Loads of Spanish webquests for young children.

http://www.aula21.net/tercera/listado.htm Webquest in Spanish on many subject and grades.

http://www.webquestcat.org/index1.htm Lots of info about Spanish web quests.

http://www.mundolatino.org/rinconcito/

http://www.solarviews.com/span/homepage.htm

http://www.dclatino.com/ninos/

http://ngenespanol.com/       (National Geographic in Spanish)  This is what opened pandoras box.  I was searching

http://primeraescuela.com/  This looks to have lesson plans as well as other things in it.  You may need to look around a bit.

http://www.naesp.org/resources/2/Report_to_Parents/2009/rtp2-09.pdf  This is something we might want to send home with kids for the summer.  The first page is in English and the second in Spanish.

http://www.bilingualbooks.com/ - Okay this is not just science or math anymore.  Would this help anyone????

http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_esp.html  Mexico for kids – games, info, etc.

http://www.chicos.net.ar/   There is a section with science experiments for kids.  Lots more.

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/spanish/index.asp This comes from the United Nations.  There are many different types of info here.

http://www.guanaquin.com/revista/2006/200806/index.shtml  Be sure to look in the archives.  These would make great reading pieces as well.

http://www.familia.cl/   All kinds of links here.

http://libraries.tds.lib.mn.us/smile/Great%20Sites%20for%20Kids%20in%20Spanish%20compiled%20by%20YSADM.htm A large group of Spanish websites for kids.

http://www.natgeoyyo.tv/la/games.html Okay - its a little young but I couldn’t resist.

http://www.educarchile.cl/Portal.Base/Web/VerContenido.aspx?GUID=7c206d3e-7289-4d13-8219-afed4fd3e114&ID=54 Be sure to click on the Student tab and then the video tabs.  I was able to find a video on habitats in Spanish – 5 grade science.

http://www.educarchile.cl/Portal.Base/Web/VerContenido.aspx?GUID=123.456.789.000&ID=136153

http://www.educar.org/ Take a look around.

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/k-12/ I have pulled some from here.  This comes from the university of Texas.

http://www.connectedyouth.org/resources/index.cfm?resource=sitios A variety here.

http://www.fisicarecreativa.com/sitios_vinculos/ciencia/children.htm

 

 

 

Web portals in English and Spanish from different countries - so far these are not the best yet - but we are looking for more and more.

http://www.xtec.es/%7Ecbarba1/portalsWQ.htm

http://www.indicedepaginas.com/juegos_educativos.html Educational games but they must be downloaded. 

 

 

 



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