Useful websites

  • BrainPOP
    • This website contains resources for teachers in science, social studies, math, English, health, and technology.
  • All Kinds of Mind
    • All Kinds of Minds is a website that deals with differences in learning styles.  It includes a library of resources, student success programs, a parent’s toolkit, and current articles about learning styles.
  • Free Audio Books
    • This website contains the LibriVox Catalog of audio books available for free download.  A huge number of titles that are appropriate for K-3 students are available such as:
    • A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett
    • Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    • The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
    • “The Hunting of the Snark” by Lewis Carroll (Poem)
  • Teaching Tolerance
    • This website is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.  It contains many wonderful ideas for teaching tolerance in the classroom including activities, kits, and handbooks.
  • ALA Great Websites for Kids
    • This is the American Library Association’s list of the best websites for Children.
  • Walter McKenzie’s Surfaquarium
    • Walter McKenzie is a teacher who has been bookmarking the best websites on education for more than ten years.  He has now gathered and organized these websites in one convenient place.
  • Thematic Pathfinders
    • A pathfinder is a list of available resources on a specific topic along with information about how to best use those resources.  This websites offers pathfinders on a huge variety of themes including: social studies, science, mathematics, English and language arts, health and fitness, fine arts, applied arts, general themes
  • edHelper
    • On this website, teachers will find many topics, including dailty skills reviews, monthly themes, literature, math, science, animals.  Each topic is categorized by grade level.  There are also classroom helepers, such as graphic organizers, book report sheets, bookmarks, reading logs, and rewards.
  • Education World
    • This website contains ideas for lesson plans, professional development, school issues, and technology integration.
  • ReadWriteThink
    • This fabulous website contains lesson plans that are broken down by grade level and subject.  You can also access a monthly calendar that contains many holidays (both major and minor) and the birthdays of famous celebrities, literary figures, scientists, etc.  This website also has a great deal of student resources such as instructions for how to make a comic book and educational games.
  • Internet Content for the Classroom
    • Teachers can go to the calendar, which contains both interesting information about certain days (such as May 6 is Free Comic Book Day) and historical information about certain days (such as on May 9, President Wilson proclaimed the first National Mother’s Day in 1914).  Clicking on the event of the day (and there is one for each day) brings the user to Internet based lesson plans about the theme of the day.  Appropriate grade levels are listed with the lesson plan ideas.
  • Personal Education Press
    • In their own words, this website will allow users to: “create free educational worksheets as flashcards, gameboards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser”.  “Simply choose a word list and an output style”.
  • Library of Congress Learning Page
  • This website has lesson plans that can be organized by theme, topic, discipline, era, or title.  it also has ideas for classroom activities on a wide variety of topics.
  • The Science Spot Kid Zone
    • This website contains information about topics in science including: dinosaurs and fossils, plants and animals, pond water basics, light and sound,  health and human body.
  • Free Author/Illustrator Interviews
    • This website has free interviews with famous authors and illustrators including Eve Bunting, Beverly Cleary, Lois Ehlert, Tomie dePaola, Gail Gibbons, Jane Yolen.
    • Bookflix
      • This website recommends stories for young readers. log in: 27777006186805