I have a first grader and a fifth grader. Does anyone have any suggestions for good websites for either educational or research for children? We've been getting projects that require to search on Internet but I'm not sure of the good sites to start with....any advice is much appreciated!
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http://school.discovery.com/ is a good place to start. Very helpful, IMO.
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I'm an Elementary Education major. Here are some websites I've used in the past. Some may be outdated. Some may not be completely kid safe -- they may be able to link outside of the site. Okay, you asked for some, here you go:
www.specialed.about.com - Special Education Home Page. This is an excellent site with tons of links that will lead you all over the Internet to all things related to special education.
www.earlychildhood.about.com - Early Childhood Educators Home Page. This is a great site with tons of links that will lead you all over the Internet to all things related to early childhood education.
www.k-6educators.about .com - Elementary Educators Home Page. This is one of the best sites on the Internet that has to do with Elementary Education. The site has thousands of links to all things related to: student teaching, substitute teaching, new teachers, expert teaching, lesson plans, classroom sites etc.... Great site!
www.askeric.org - Ask ERIC Lesson Plans. One of the best sites for lesson plans, in any subject, for any grade.
www.thegateway.org - The Gateway to Educational Materials. One of the best sites on the web for lesson plans! You couldnt possibly visit all of the links because there are so many!
www.educationplanet.com - Education Planet - The Education Web Guide. An excellent site for lesson plans for K-12.
www.alfy.com - ALFY - The Web Portal for Kids. An excellent site for kids and teachers. It was designed and developed by educators to allow children to safely surf the Internet. The site is designed especially for children ages 3 - 9. Great for lesson plans.
www.disney.go.com/educational/classroom.html - Disney Educational Productions - For Your Classroom. Great web site with lots of Disney links.
www.whaletimes.org - Whaletimes SeaBed. A marine animal site about whales, dolphins, sharks, penguins and more.
www.seaworld.org - You can get great information here about all types of animals. They have a link that is great for lesson plans. Although this is owned and operated by SeaWorld, this is not the same as www.seaworld.com. which is their site about the SeaWorld Theme Parks.
www.thewildones.org - Scientists. Excellent site about people working all over the world in the field of science and conservation.
www.globe.gov - The GLOBE Program. This site is about GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) schools throughout the world.
www.myhero.com - Anyone Can Be a Hero. This is an incredible site about people (and animals!), that have made some sort of remarkable impact in our world. There are links that the heroes would be (or would have been) interested in.
www.k-6educators.about.com/msub110.htm?rnk=r&terms=public
ations+ - Publications for Elementary School Teachers. This is a great site about education publications that are available.
www.enchantedlearning.com
www.storiestogrowby.com - Absolutely Whootie: Stories to Grow By. This is a fun site for kids. Here you will find fairy tales and folk tales from around theworld.
www.family.com - lots of information about all kinds of stuff!
www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster/kids/kidsfun.html -
Kid Fun. This is a great, fun site with links for kids of all ages. Scroll down the page to the link to Gustown and check out the toy store. It is alot of fun! They try to keep all of the links as safe as possible for children but they advise staying
with young ones while they surf the net, just in case. (The link to: The Yuckiest Site on the Internet is too yucky for me!)
AOL:Endangered Animals Mania - a web site scavenger hunt through theInternet to find endangered species! Lots of fun!
www.amazingadventure.com - The Amazing Adventure Series - Read Along Stories.
www.send4fun.com - This is an electronic card site for kids. They can send silly jokes and pranks to each other via e-mail. It IS NOT completely kid safe. It is a great way for friends to have a water balloon fight without getting wet!
www.20q.net/ - Twenty Questions. Go ahead, try your luck against the computer. Think of something and the computer will ask you 20 questions to try to guess what you are thinking of. It is entertaining, educational and eerie! The site is free, but you must either register with a screen name and a password (good if you want to keep track of how many times you beat the computer and vise versa), or use the anonymous registration, before you can play.
www.findoutwhy.org - Disneys Timon and Pumba explore the world of science. Through games and activities, they answer several science questions.
www.puzzles.about.com - every kind of puzzle imaginable, for children or adults, lots of links to computer games and lots of print outs
http://funschool.lycos.com/ - lots of computer games for grades K - 6
http://familyeducation.com - excellent learning games for preschool, K - 6, lots of tips on parenting, tons of information for teachers, parents and kids. Part of the Learning Network
www.canineworld.com - web site about dogs: rare dogs, primitive dogs, service dogs, popular breeds, wild dogs, anything pertaining to dogs!
www.nwf.org/ - National Wildlife Federation web site. Environmental education and Ranger Ricks Kids Zone. Information on Free Animal Tracks Workshops for teachers sponsored by Wal-Mart
http://dww.deafworldweb.org/asl - Handspeak: A Sign Language Dictionary, learn sign language online. They will walk you through step by step.
www.africam.com - one of my favorite sites on the web! There are over 15 different animal reserves that have about 10 or 20 cameras located through out the parks. Every 15 seconds a photograph is sent to the web so you are almost live on safari at any time! There are shark cams and whale cams too. Because this action is live, you may come across some activities that sensitive children (or adults like me!) may find hard to handle, such as a lion or shark getting their dinner, so you may want to view this site with those that are a little turned off by that sort of thing. It is interesting and lots of fun to watch baby animals play! There are video files to watch and diaries of the naturalists and photographers to read. It scared me to death to read the diary of one photographer at the shark cam who was sitting in a boat and turned around to find a great white shark with its head sticking out of the water staring at him! It scared him more than me, Im sure, but it scared me half to death just reading about it!
www.wheresgeorge.com - I have not tried this yet but I think some kids may find it fun to track their re-circulated dollar bill on its journey around the country.
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/ - Bill Nye the Science Guy on line. Lots of experiments.
www.governmentguide.com - great site for older students and adults
http//caninetoday.com - all things dogs, about every breed. Fun quizzes.
www.funbrain.com - Kids Center. Site for kids, parents and teachers. Internet quizzes in 8 subjects available in the Quiz Lab. I have not tried the quiz lab yet.
www.watermelon.org/ - all things watermelon! Part of the site is dedicated to students and teachers. Informational, easy to navigate site.
www.ctw.org - Sesame Street Workshop. Lots of pre school activities.
www.just-pooh.com/100acre.html - the funny, all silly, all stuffed with fluff guy himself. Stories, fun and character guides.
www.genxtvland.simplenet.com/SchoolHouseRock/ - the old classic is now on the web. Now we can all groove with Conjunction Junction Whats Your Function once again.
www.familyplay.com/activities/ - lots of fun, educational activities for indoors or outdoors.
http://kids.infoplease.com - a site for any information about anything designed for kids.
www.abcnews4kids.com - news from around the world designed so that children can understand. Site for upper level elementary and jr. high.
www.childfun.com/ - crafts for kids,.....preschool themes, coloring pages and more!
www.simplyfamily.com - site for children and families. Information on travel, education, etc.
www.lehigh.edu/zoellner/top_ten.html - Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University Web site. Has a multi media encyclopedia on musical instruments. Resource for all ages with digital audio samples. Take a quiz on musical instruments.
www.scholastic.com - thousands of lesson plans and reproducibles for grades K-8, online activities, software and book club.
www.billsgames.com/mazegenerator - great site for older students
www.teachervision.com - lesson plans and all sorts of other information
http://pe.central.vt.edu - I think it is the best site on the web for lesson plans concerning PE or Health
http://school.discovery.com/ - great site for lesson plans and all other sorts of stuff
www.education-world.com - lesson plans and other stuff
www.pbs.org/teachersource - you can find lesson plans here (probably great ones!) but I found it a little hard to navigate
www.usmint.gov/kids/lounge - this seems like a fun site, there are lesson plans here but because it is a site that belongs to the US Mint, the lesson plans are all about coins but they can be easily adapted.
http://www.bigchalk.com/ Big Chalk: Homework Central.
I'm an Elementary Education major. Here are some websites I've used in the past. Some may be outdated. Some may not be completely kid safe -- they may be able to link outside of the site. Okay, you asked for some, here you go: www.specialed.about.com - Special Education Home Page. This is an excellent site with tons of links that will lead you all over the Internet to all things related to special education.
www.earlychildhood.about.com - Early Childhood Educators Home Page. This is a great site with tons of links that will lead you all over the Internet to all things related to early childhood education.
www.k-6educators.about .com - Elementary Educators Home Page. This is one of the best sites on the Internet that has to do with Elementary Education. The site has thousands of links to all things related to: student teaching, substitute teaching, new teachers, expert teaching, lesson plans, classroom sites etc.... Great site!
www.askeric.org - Ask ERIC Lesson Plans. One of the best sites for lesson plans, in any subject, for any grade.
www.thegateway.org - The Gateway to Educational Materials. One of the best sites on the web for lesson plans! You couldnt possibly visit all of the links because there are so many!
www.educationplanet.com - Education Planet - The Education Web Guide. An excellent site for lesson plans for K-12.
www.alfy.com - ALFY - The Web Portal for Kids. An excellent site for kids and teachers. It was designed and developed by educators to allow children to safely surf the Internet. The site is designed especially for children ages 3 - 9. Great for lesson plans.
www.disney.go.com/educational/classroom.html - Disney Educational Productions - For Your Classroom. Great web site with lots of Disney links.
www.whaletimes.org - Whaletimes SeaBed. A marine animal site about whales, dolphins, sharks, penguins and more.
www.seaworld.org - You can get great information here about all types of animals. They have a link that is great for lesson plans. Although this is owned and operated by SeaWorld, this is not the same as www.seaworld.com. which is their site about the SeaWorld Theme Parks.
www.thewildones.org - Scientists. Excellent site about people working all over the world in the field of science and conservation.
www.globe.gov - The GLOBE Program. This site is about GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) schools throughout the world.
www.myhero.com - Anyone Can Be a Hero. This is an incredible site about people (and animals!), that have made some sort of remarkable impact in our world. There are links that the heroes would be (or would have been) interested in.
www.k-6educators.about.com/msub110.htm?rnk=r&terms=public
ations+ - Publications for Elementary School Teachers. This is a great site about education publications that are available.
www.enchantedlearning.com
www.storiestogrowby.com - Absolutely Whootie: Stories to Grow By. This is a fun site for kids. Here you will find fairy tales and folk tales from around theworld.
www.family.com - lots of information about all kinds of stuff!
www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster/kids/kidsfun.html -
Kid Fun. This is a great, fun site with links for kids of all ages. Scroll down the page to the link to Gustown and check out the toy store. It is alot of fun! They try to keep all of the links as safe as possible for children but they advise staying
with young ones while they surf the net, just in case. (The link to: The Yuckiest Site on the Internet is too yucky for me!)
AOL:Endangered Animals Mania - a web site scavenger hunt through theInternet to find endangered species! Lots of fun!
www.amazingadventure.com - The Amazing Adventure Series - Read Along Stories.
www.send4fun.com - This is an electronic card site for kids. They can send silly jokes and pranks to each other via e-mail. It IS NOT completely kid safe. It is a great way for friends to have a water balloon fight without getting wet!
www.20q.net/ - Twenty Questions. Go ahead, try your luck against the computer. Think of something and the computer will ask you 20 questions to try to guess what you are thinking of. It is entertaining, educational and eerie! The site is free, but you must either register with a screen name and a password (good if you want to keep track of how many times you beat the computer and vise versa), or use the anonymous registration, before you can play.
www.findoutwhy.org - Disneys Timon and Pumba explore the world of science. Through games and activities, they answer several science questions.
www.puzzles.about.com - every kind of puzzle imaginable, for children or adults, lots of links to computer games and lots of print outs
http://funschool.lycos.com/ - lots of computer games for grades K - 6
http://familyeducation.com - excellent learning games for preschool, K - 6, lots of tips on parenting, tons of information for teachers, parents and kids. Part of the Learning Network
www.canineworld.com - web site about dogs: rare dogs, primitive dogs, service dogs, popular breeds, wild dogs, anything pertaining to dogs!
www.nwf.org/ - National Wildlife Federation web site. Environmental education and Ranger Ricks Kids Zone. Information on Free Animal Tracks Workshops for teachers sponsored by Wal-Mart
http://dww.deafworldweb.org/asl - Handspeak: A Sign Language Dictionary, learn sign language online. They will walk you through step by step.
www.africam.com - one of my favorite sites on the web! There are over 15 different animal reserves that have about 10 or 20 cameras located through out the parks. Every 15 seconds a photograph is sent to the web so you are almost live on safari at any time! There are shark cams and whale cams too. Because this action is live, you may come across some activities that sensitive children (or adults like me!) may find hard to handle, such as a lion or shark getting their dinner, so you may want to view this site with those that are a little turned off by that sort of thing. It is interesting and lots of fun to watch baby animals play! There are video files to watch and diaries of the naturalists and photographers to read. It scared me to death to read the diary of one photographer at the shark cam who was sitting in a boat and turned around to find a great white shark with its head sticking out of the water staring at him! It scared him more than me, Im sure, but it scared me half to death just reading about it!
www.wheresgeorge.com - I have not tried this yet but I think some kids may find it fun to track their re-circulated dollar bill on its journey around the country.
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/ - Bill Nye the Science Guy on line. Lots of experiments.
www.governmentguide.com - great site for older students and adults
http//caninetoday.com - all things dogs, about every breed. Fun quizzes.
www.funbrain.com - Kids Center. Site for kids, parents and teachers. Internet quizzes in 8 subjects available in the Quiz Lab. I have not tried the quiz lab yet.
www.watermelon.org/ - all things watermelon! Part of the site is dedicated to students and teachers. Informational, easy to navigate site.
www.ctw.org - Sesame Street Workshop. Lots of pre school activities.
www.just-pooh.com/100acre.html - the funny, all silly, all stuffed with fluff guy himself. Stories, fun and character guides.
www.genxtvland.simplenet.com/SchoolHouseRock/ - the old classic is now on the web. Now we can all groove with Conjunction Junction Whats Your Function once again.
www.familyplay.com/activities/ - lots of fun, educational activities for indoors or outdoors.
http://kids.infoplease.com - a site for any information about anything designed for kids.
www.abcnews4kids.com - news from around the world designed so that children can understand. Site for upper level elementary and jr. high.
www.childfun.com/ - crafts for kids,.....preschool themes, coloring pages and more!
www.simplyfamily.com - site for children and families. Information on travel, education, etc.
www.lehigh.edu/zoellner/top_ten.html - Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University Web site. Has a multi media encyclopedia on musical instruments. Resource for all ages with digital audio samples. Take a quiz on musical instruments.
www.scholastic.com - thousands of lesson plans and reproducibles for grades K-8, online activities, software and book club.
www.billsgames.com/mazegenerator - great site for older students
www.teachervision.com - lesson plans and all sorts of other information
http://pe.central.vt.edu - I think it is the best site on the web for lesson plans concerning PE or Health
http://school.discovery.com/ - great site for lesson plans and all other sorts of stuff
www.education-world.com - lesson plans and other stuff
www.pbs.org/teachersource - you can find lesson plans here (probably great ones!) but I found it a little hard to navigate
www.usmint.gov/kids/lounge - this seems like a fun site, there are lesson plans here but because it is a site that belongs to the US Mint, the lesson plans are all about coins but they can be easily adapted.
http://www.bigchalk.com/ Big Chalk: Homework Central.
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Here are a few more!
http://caluv2tan.freeyellow.com/teacherhelper2.html
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index5.html
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ This is a cool one that allows you to make your own puzzles. You can make word searches with weekly spelling words, or you can make crosswords. It is very neat!
http://caluv2tan.freeyellow.com/teacherhelper2.html
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index5.html
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ This is a cool one that allows you to make your own puzzles. You can make word searches with weekly spelling words, or you can make crosswords. It is very neat!
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