Pre-K - Third Grade Activities
  1. * Parent Report.com does other age spans, but this link is geared to 3-5 year olds' activities
  2. * Education World's Early Childhood Center: references, resources, and fun
  3. * Marilee's Kidsworks and Kidspix, some neat K-2 activities
  4. * Preschool Zone, teaching ideas for early childhood and special education
  5. * DLTK's Crafts and Activities, some school related, some not
  6. * Big Idea, for fans of Veggies Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato
  7. * Funschool Games, a lot of word, picture, and puzzle match up activities
  8. * Kids' Domain, activities, downloads, and lesson plans
  9. * First School Themes, activities, crafts, and lesson plans
  10. * Crayola, busy site by the crayon people, with links for children, parents, and teachers
  11. * A Kid's Heart.com, online games and activities, with a lot of good links for children in the early grades and their teachers
  12. * Perpetual Preschool: themes, teaching tips, and a teacher to teacher section
  13. * Letter Lane, an engaging alphabet-based activity page
  14. * Dolch Words, good list with a table for each grade level's words
  15. * Edupuppy, elementary materials for various subjects
  16. * Early Childhood Education/Daycare, one person's short list of the very best sites
  17. * Early Childhood Education, another view of the most important links
  18. * Beginning Reading Worksheets, alphabet and some early Math sheets for downloading
  19. * Early Childhood Education Listserv (discussion group) and some sites
  20. * Journal of Early Intervention from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division of Early Childhood (back issues online)
  21. * Words and Pictures, phonics builders and games for 5-7 year old level
  22. * TumbleBooks, books online (with sounds and motion)
  23. * Preschool Coloring Book.com, coloring pages, journal pages, and "no line" coloring sheets, arranged by themes (animals, western, sports, etc., even dental health)
  24. * Pics4learning, a site for creating flashcard-type pictures, with many ready for downloading
  25. * Learning Page.com has a lot of great worksheets and other materials, too
  26. * Educational Games, Worksheets, Word Lists, etc., for teachers and parents
  27. * Technology Resources for Early Childhood Education, some Boardmaker canned files and other software support
  28. * Boardmaker keyboard shortcuts and a few other suggestions
  29. * Tic Tac Toe Math Game, requires math flash cards and a 3x3 grid
  30. * K-3 Math from the Jacksonville School District
  31. * Cool Math for Kids, this is for elementary and middle school, but the site has links for higher math too
  32. * K-3 Language Arts from the Jacksonville School District
  33. * 2-Week Unit on Body Parts with activities for students of various levels
  34. * 2-Week Unit on Shapes with activities for students of various levels
  35. * Aplusmath.com creates math cards and games based on the facts you need to know

Fourth - Sixth Grade Activities
  1. * Comprehensive Activities Site (with some overlap of links referenced here)
  2. * Brain Pop, fun site that uses short videos for lessons in Science, Math, and English based on U.S. national standard for grades 3 through 8 in these subject area
  3. * Enrichment Activities for Gifted students, with links to the 3rd through 8th grade curriculum
  4. * Math and Reading Help for Kids is an article directory full of tips and resources for helping kids perform better at school.  There is also a homework help section for all grade levels
  5. * Cyberbee, various elementary activities and curriculum ideas
  6. * Kids' Freeware, a lot of free software (games and activities) for downloading
  7. * Sentence Building Game, downloadable freeware
  8. * All 4th and 5th Grade Subjects, useful research and homework help site
  9. * Cool Math for Kids, this is for elementary and middle school, but the site has links for higher math too
  10. * The Internet as an Encyclopedia, and a great effort at that!
  11. * Reading Planet, the kids' link on the Reading is Fundamental site
  12. * Kids in the House, informative and entertaining site from the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (meant for middle school-aged students)
  13. * Virtual Science Fair, with a lot of experimental designs and ideas for Science Fair projects
  14. * All Science Fair Projects, over 500 on this site, categorized and searchable
  15. * Widgets, interactive problems from Washington State University (you have to have Shockwave loaded first, or download it from their site, then reboot)
  16. * Stories to Grow By, for elementary schoolers to use (with parent and teacher links to help)
  17. * 50 States, nicely done set of facts about each of the United States
  18. * SodaConstructor, students can create and then move objects or set in motion objects developed by others
  19. * Science Activities Manual for kindergarten to 8th grade

Seventh - Ninth Grade Activities
  1. * National Geographic for Kids. The homepage also has links for parents and teachers
  2. * Glencoe, the textbook publisher's site for sixth through twelfth grade activities
  3. * Applied Math Activities, linked to specific occupations 
  4. * SOS Mathematics, help with middle and high school math
  5. * Channel One Teacher, good current events/news activities site for intermediate and early high school students
  6. * TerrServer, from the U.S. Geological Survey; check out the advanced search to find your school or home
  7. * U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Publications, includes a great World Factbook and maps
  8. * County/City Databook, a searchable resource from Census 2000
  9. * Country Studies from the Library of Congress
  10. * Discovery Channel's school link. Also see BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
  11. * PuzzleMaker, from the Discovery Channel's school link, good for crossword and wordsearch puzzle development
  12. * Ancient Civilizations, great site from a middle school teacher in Pennsylvania
  13. * Basic Human Needs Course, content from a Vermont middle school teacher's course
  14. * Aesop's Fables, nicely done collection of the famous stories with morals

Tenth - Twelfth Grade Activities
  1. * Study Guides.net, well done collection in all subject areas
  2. * Study Skills, suggestions for high school students from Studyguides.net
  3. * Digital Reference Library, easy to use source from the University of Pennsylvania
  4. * Bulfinch's Mythology, fables, epics, etc.
  5. * Complete Shakespeare, MIT's link to each of the plays
  6. * List of Classic Works available for Literature.org, by author
  7. * Bartleby, classic works and reference books online
  8. * A Book a Minute, highly condensed classics, science fiction, and bedtime stories. Irreverent, but it's a hoot. The site even has a movies link.
  9. * SparkNotes, better at online study aids than its more famous cousin, CliffsNotes. These sites are for students, of course. But teachers will enjoy the user's comments sprinkled throughout the SparkNotes site.
  10. * Grammar, help at the senior high, college level
  11. * Britannica, a searchable version of the encyclopedia
  12. * Periodic Table of Elements, clickable, printable, and manipulatable
  13. * Economic Overview from Economy.com
  14. * Recent U.S. Supreme Court Cases by year
  15. * U.S. Senate, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
  16. * U.S. House of Representatives, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
  17. * Statistical Abstract of the United States, based on the year 2000 Census returns
  18. * U.S. Government Notes on Foreign Countries, arranged geographically (by region) and alphabetically
  19. * Country Studies from the Library of Congress
  20. * U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Publications, includes a great World Factbook and maps
  21. * Federal Statistics, U.S. statistics arranged by state or region and grouped by various topics
  22. * Scientific American, the online version of the magazine
  23. * Applied Math Activities, linked to specific occupations
  24. * SOS Mathematics, help with middle and high school math 
  25. * Math Links from textbook publisher Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
  26. * Math Prep for Standardized Tests, from Chicago Public Schools
  27. * ThinkQuest, a searchable database of 4,500 education-related Web sites
  28. * Schoolwork.org is for high school help
  29. * 700+ Great Sites for History, Geology, Science, and Technology
  30. * Glencoe, the textbook publisher's site for sixth through twelfth grade activities
  31. * Delphi For Fun.Org's classic math topics
  32. * ExploreMath.com for Math activities and lesson plans
  33. * Hot Math.Org has odd-numbered solutions for many of the texts used in high schools
  34. * Secondary Education Vocational Programs from the State of Tennessee Department of Education, site gives the curriculum standards for many of the areas
 
 
Last Modified on March 4, 2009