ACTIVITY IDEA PLACE Over 2400 activity ideas for Early Childhood Education professionals
AIMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science. Their mission is to enrich the education of students in K-9 through hands-on activities that integrate mathematics, science, and other disciplines.
ALPHABET SOUP Alphabet
Soup contains thematic units, holiday units, games and activities for kids;
teacher and parent resources; and crafts, humor and recipes.
BLUE WEB'N
An
online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade
level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, &
tools). You can search by grade level, broad subject/content area , or specific
subject area. Each week 5 new sites are added.
BURBANK Lesson plans for teaching checking account math and other banking-related
subjects for grades 3-6. Download signature cards, sample checks, etc.
BUSY TEACHERS'
WEBSITE K-12 This site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials,
lessons plans, classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.
CANDO'S
HELPER PAGE
A
nice site constructed by a former elementary school teacher. She provides
reading and language arts content, printable worksheets and on-line games kids
can play!
COLORING Loads of coloring pages, jigsaw puzzles and games.
COLUMBIA EDUCATION CENTER
Language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and other lessons for elementary, intermediate and high school levels.
COOL MATH 4 KIDS
Great math and science games for kids. Also, great tips and tricks for
teachers and parents.
CONFUSING WORDS
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers
and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused
or misused.
CREATIVITY PORTAL
The Creativity Portal promotes the exploration and expression of personal
creativity through free learning, arts, crafts, writing and other creative
activities.
CUT THE KNOT Interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles.
DLTK DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun, printable children's
crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational
themes and some of our children's favorite cartoon characters.
DISCOVERY.COM Lesson plans for high school history, animals, astronomy, chemistry, math, earth science, technology, economics and much, much more.
DONNA YOUNG PRINTABLES AND RESOURCES Lots of printables, games, and more, for classroom use (handwriting, art,
science, math, history and English).
EDHELPER
You'll find math, reading comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary worksheets, practice worksheets for standardized tests, hundreds of word problems, logic puzzles, spelling, vocabulary (a subscription is needed for some locations on the site).
EDUCATORS PUBLISHING SERVICE
EPS works with some of the industry’s top experts in language arts and publishes
more than 800 titles for students from kindergarten through high school. EPS
specializes in vocabulary, phonics, and reading comprehension, as well as
materials for students with learning differences. Many free materials and
samples are offered for download!
EDUCATORS REFERENCE DESK
Provides high-quality resources and services to the education community. The
Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on.
2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+
question archive responses.
EDUPLACE Lots of lesson plans, printables, activities and games from the Houghton
Mifflin Company.
ENCHANTED LEARNING
I can't say enough about this wonderful site! There are hundreds of useful lessons, pictures, worksheets, games and more, for kids of all ages....crafts, cooking, science, inventors, languages, calendar activities, music, art...Check it out!
ERIC - EDUCATION RESOURCES INFORMATION
CENTER The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education,
produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education
literature.
ESCHOOLNEWS
News, resources and services related to education.
ESL KIDSTUFF
An ESL
children's resource center for English teachers and parents. Find
flashcards, worksheets, games, songs.
ESL-LOUNGE
Free ESL lesson materials and ESL lesson plans. Printable worksheets for ESL
classroom teaching. English grammar, pronunciation, board games, ESL books,
flashcards, board games, song lyrics and more
FAMILY FUN
A Disney-sponsored site, find fun things to do with kids and food. This site includes make-and-eat crafts, cooking with kids, food zoo, healthy snacking and more!
50 STATES Maps, vital statistics, city guides, fast facts, trivia, outline maps and
more.
FIRST SCHOOL
Free preschool and kindergarten resources for home schooling, educators, child care providers & baby-sitters. Lesson plans, themes, printable crafts, activity worksheets, coloring pages, holiday and events calendar.
THE GATEWAY TO
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS A Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access
to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state,
university, non-profit, and commercial Internet.
GEOMETRY THROUGH
ART
Worksheets, grids, graphs, patterns, lesson plans, vocabulary study guides.
HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES This site encourages the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning
and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating
and using Internet resources for the classroom.
HOMEWORKOPOLY
A great bulletin board idea to get kids to do their homework.
HOWE-TWO® SOFTWARE This site provides many free math-related downloads; games, software and
other teacher resources.
THE IDEA BOX Crafts, music, songs, games, activities, recipes, fun sheets, worksheets and
more for early childhood.
INTERNATIONAL
READING ASSOCIATION
A professional membership organization dedicated to promoting high levels of
literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating
research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading
habit. Our members include classroom teachers, reading specialists, consultants,
administrators, supervisors, university faculty, researchers, psychologists,
librarians, media specialists, and parents. With members and affiliates in 99
countries, our network extends to more than 300,000 people worldwide. Find
research articles, lesson plans, strategies and more.
INTERVENTION CENTRAL
Offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote
positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and
youth.
JUMPSTART COALITION FOR
PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY A clearinghouse or database of personal finance resources available from a
variety of education providers such as government, business and non-profit
organizations.
KIDSBANK A fun place for kids to learn about money and banking and teachers can
request educational materials.
KIDS CLUBHOUSE Lots of activities divided by grade levels. Includes weekly logic
problems/brain teasers and discussions of kids' books.
KIDS R CRAFTY This site offers activity sheets, coloring pages, dot-to-dots, mazes,
vocabulary and worksheets in both English and French.
KIDS ZONE
This site offers THEME UNITS and free printable worksheets for pre-K to Grade 6: math, geography, language arts & science (plus magic tricks & on-line jigsaw puzzles for fun and learning). Also included are TRACER PAGES which can be used to teach handwriting, make-your-own greeting cards, and more!
LEARNING PAGE A hug collection of professionally produced instructional materials for you
to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets...
LESSONPLANZ.COM
Lesson plans on computers and technology, literature, math, science, history, etc. This address is for 9-12th graders, but links are provided to other grade levels.
MATH FORUM A comprehensive list of Internet resources for math topics.
MATH SLICEPrint your own math
worksheets on a variety of topics.
MIDLINK MAGAZINE The Electronic Magazine for Kids in the Middle Grades. This site
included "The 'Write' Spot", artwork, internet news stories and link
sites. You'll have a chance to look in other classrooms to see what they are
doing.
MRS. GLOSSER'S MATH GOODIES Math help site featuring interactive lessons, puzzles and worksheets. Math
Goodies has over 400 pages of activities for students, educators and parents.
MONEY INSTRUCTOR For teachers and parents who want to teach basic money, personal finance and
more! LOTS of downloads!
NEW
TEACHERS IDEAS GALORE
important tips for a special ed teacher who is starting a new school year. These
are primarily geared toward multi-grade Learning Handicapped, or Severely
Emotionally Disturbed classrooms.
OWL - ON LINE WRITING LAB
Presented by Purdue University, this site has a wealth of information, on-line
workshops, tutorials, printable handouts, ready-made PowerPoint presentations
and a newsletter on teaching/learning writing and English grammar skills.
There is also an ESL section!
PBS Over 4000 free lesson plans relating to PBS programs, TV schedule,
technology and teaching tutorials.
PRACTICAL MONEY SKILLS FOR
LIFE From budgeting to saving and investing, you'll find practical, real-world
money skills; tutorials, lesson plans, games and more for young adults.
Parents, teachers and students will find this site helpful!
PRIMARY GAMES Many,
many educational (math, language, science, social studies) games your students
can play on line. Plus printable activity pages, coloring pages and
certificates.
PRIMARY RESOURCES
Lesson plans, activity ideas and resources for Primary teachers.
PROTEACHER.COM An extremely comprehensive site including references to: classroom
management, child development, teaching practices, curriculum ideas, shared
leadership and a section for every subject area.
RAMP READING RESOURCES Richmond Public Schools invites you to take the RAMP to reading resources on
the Internet. Let the colorful hang glider link you to a host of reading
and literacy resources for teachers as well as for students and parents.
READING A-Z Downloadable materials to teach guided reading, phonics, the alphabet and
more. Books, lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards.
READING QUEST
Strategies for reading comprehension in Social Studies.
RHL SCHOOL Quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Worksheets that
are truly unique! Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.
SCHOOLEXPRESS The SchoolExpress website has materials for children
ages 3-10. Teachers, families, parents, children, and grandparents are welcome
to use the site. There are lots of FREE items.
SCHOOLHOUSE PRINTABLES
A great place to find free printable worksheets for young children!
THE
SCIENCE EXPLORER Lots of FUN science experiments to try, with explanations of they "why" and
"how".
SCIENCE FAIR CENTRAL
Help for teachers who are planning a science fair and help for kids who are
designing a project!
SCI TOYS Make toys that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles, at home with
common household materials.
SEE & SAY SIGHT FOR ELEMENTARY KIDS This site will provide students with mastery and recognition of the basic
sight words. Also, they will build reading fluency and reading skills. Here,
students will learn how to put sight words into sentences and find sight words
in puzzles. Finally, students will also learn what sight words are and how to
recognize and spell them, as well.
SURFING FOR ABC'S A web project created by kindergarten and first grade students. They
discovered many child- and family-friendly web sites by searching for topics
beginning with every letter of the alphabet. Great for teachers of
students learning letter sounds.
TEACHER PLANET Lesson plans, worksheets, theme units, grade books, teacher tools, calendars
of ideas and more.
TEACH R KIDS
Designed by children and adults, this site addresses the math difficulties faced
by children at the elementary school level. The combination of online web-based
and offline worksheets aims at achieving excellence and a thorough understanding
of math fundamentals.
TEACHER VIEW Generate and print your own math worksheets, find theme units, and more.
TEACHER VISION
This website is packed with helpful information for educators! Included are: cross-curricular lessons and activities, classroom management ideas, professional development opportunities and much, much more!
TEACHERS.NET
Lesson plans, classroom projects and centers, join 'mailrings'; email other
teachers world-wide with similar interests.
THE TEACHERS GUIDE Lesson plans, thematic units, book activities, teacher freebies, children's
songs, and more.
TEACHERS HELPING
TEACHERS You'll find a list of subject areas on this page which lead directly to
assorted lessons and activities.
TEACHER WEB.COM You can post assignments, announcements or other information on your own
classroom bulleting board. Instantly accessible to students and parents.
TEACH-NOLOGY
This site offers teachers free access to thousands of lesson plans, printable worksheets, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news and teacher tools for classroom instruction.
TEACHNET.COM
A wonderful site chock-full of lesson plans, organizational tips, bulletin board ideas, downloads and more!
TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
An extremely comprehensive site for information regarding the visually impaired. You can download a Braille font, free!
TOUCH MATH Learn this method of teaching math and number concepts. Order a catalogue.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
Students studying special education at the University of Virginia and East Tennessee State University have read and summarized scores of research articles about teaching specific skills to individuals with disabilities. Great ideas and lesson plans.
US MINT Games with money, cartoons, teacher's guide, lessons, more.
VISUAL THESAURUS
This is an AMAZING virtual, multi-dimensional thesaurus! When you enter a word, synonyms begin to emerge from the background and float around the screen. They are colored-coded as to their part of speech. Definitions and other information are provided for each word.
A to Z TEACHER STUFF
ALPHABET SOUP
AWESOME LIBRARY
BLUE WEB'N
CANDO'S
HELPER PAGE
DISCOVERY.COM
ENCHANTED LEARNING
ESL KIDSTUFF
INTERVENTION CENTRAL
