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Early Learning Activities

Early Learning Activities

A  free collection of activities and games for children  up to ten years old can be found at UpToTen

Visual Math Learning a free online tutorial for learning math

Gayle's Preschool Rainbow Activity Center shares activities and lesson plans for preschool teachers.

Kelly's Kindergarten is full of great ideas and links.

Take a visit to Stories and Rhymes from the CBeebies at BBC.  You will find a large collection of favorites stories as well as some that may be new to you.

Inkless Tales is a great site for young children that includes all aspects of learning!

Dolch sight words are available for pre-primer through grade 3 at Literacy Lane's Word Way.  Check out the multimedia flashcards for grades 1-3.

Technology
What is RSS and how can it make my life easier?  A quick start guide for educators.
Best 2.0 Web Applications for Elementary Schools
Check out TILT, Teachers Improving Learning with Technology, and view vidcast that are created by teachers for teachers.
Teacher Tools
SCORE ( Schools of California Online Resources for Education) has links for Science, Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts.
A great collection of links for Teachers from the Greater Boston - East Pipeline Network!
Easy Test Maker is a free service that creates multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test.
Want to learn more about the weather?  Visit our page of weather links!More Weather Sites

 

Fine Arts Dictionary published by Houghton Mifflin Company defines terms related to "Fine Arts" including music, art, and architecture - both classical and contemporary. 
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities offers "best of the best "of great freeware products.
Famous January Birthdays
SchoolExpress offers 9000+ free worksheets for children ages 3 - 10.
Joy2Learn presents world-class visual and performing artists in e-Presentations available to schools free of charge. These are the first in an ongoing series of interactive presentations created for classroom use.
Explore Blue Web'N a library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web from at&t
123 Certificates -Print rewards for students, friends, family, party guests, anybody.  Reward the student of the week, the player of the game, the spelling bee winner, teacher of the month, a student that has worked hard.  Reward somebody today!
What Colors Mean provides interesting background and example of the meaning generally recognized for basic colors.
Why not put your study information online and give students a fun way to prepare for tests?  Follow the simple directions to make your own matching games and quizzes at Create Your Own Online Learning Games
 
At Flashcard Exchange you can create, study, print, download and share flashcards and best of all, it's free!
The California Learning Resource Network provides educators supplemental electronic learning resources.  Search the content standard database to locate Internet or software resources based on subject or grade level.
The Online Math Library provides resources for both teachers and students of mathematics.
Brainchild provides online assessment by grade level and by subject with diagnostics tied to state tests (click your state). Find strengths and weaknesses. Then, go into an interactive learning mode directed towards the weaker areas. Print out scored assessments with feedback for correct and incorrect answers.
Teach a great life skill!  Help students understand more about their money – how to save it, invest it, and manage it at My Money.
Online Teacher Resources - including worksheet and rubric generators.
RHL School is your place to get an enormous supply of free quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Looking for lesson plans? Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.
Visit TAPPED IN™, an online workplace of education professionals engaged in collaborative activities with colleagues.
eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms.
Elementary School Teacher and Guidance Counselor Resources contains strategies and tips to assist in promoting school success and successful classroom management.
How to Study was developed by a Florida educator to help students in grades 3-12 do better in school.  Listening skills, note taking, keeping up with assignments, and reading strategies are just a few of the topics addressed.
Looking for Lesson Plans & Resources for Teaching Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Reading, Writing, Thematic Units, Themes and Classroom Activities?  Then check out LessonPlanz.com! for a collection of over 3,500 links to preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle school and high school resources. 
The Learning Page presents free, downloadable worksheets and lesson plans for teachers and parents of elementary level schoolchildren.
The New York Times Teacher Connections provides news summaries, daily news quiz, and the interactive crossword puzzle with educational Web links for educators.
    ELL
Topics is an online magazine for ESL students but can also be a terrific resource for all of us as these learners write and create illustrations or photos on a variety of subject areas. 
Larry Ferlazzo is a teacher in California who has a web site with sections specifically designed to assist
adults and children who are learning English as their second language.
Lantern Fish has great resources for ESL teachers.
Interesting Quizzes for ESL Students
Flash Quizzes for ESL
MES English..com has ready to print flashcards, POWERPOINT FLASHCARDS, matching handouts, phonics worksheets, theme lesson plans, award certificates, multilingual handouts, COLORING sheets, word searches, projects, ESL games, advice and activities.
Math is a collection of math activities by Larry Feralazzo

English themes for beginners is a collection of activities by Larry Feralazzo

 

Science

Need a Science Fair Idea?  Check out these sites:
Explore the Ocean with 13 interactive games from BBC - seven big challenges and six 'Just for fun' games.
Treasures of the Sea:  Exploring the Ocean through Literature is an awesome site centered around the ocean and includes book activities, writing activities, web resources, art activities, lesson plans ( K-8) and teacher resources.
Creative Chemistry has lots of full-color worksheets and teaching notes for fun activities suitable for a chemistry club, over two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides, PowerPoint slides, and a chemistry calculator.
*Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 300 million science-specific Web pages
Science teachers will want to add Biology In Motion to their list of favorites.  This site offers a collection of learning activities, animations, and cartoons designed to help explain difficult, but widely taught, biological concepts.
BioMedia Associates is a group of biologists, teachers, educational designers, and filmmakers who collaborate to make learning programs for biology. Their web site contains free educational resources for teachers such as Multimedia materials, Biodiversity/ Informational Galleries and quizzes and contests.
The Rainforest Alliance offers a free curriculum for grades K-6 with lesson plans based on national standards.
Explore the Natural Science Pages and take a journey through the wonders of science.  By means of animation and interaction, this site allows the user to experience scientific concepts.
Free Science Worksheets features over 20 science labs for biology, chemistry, and physics.
Visit Jefferson Lab for teaching resources that can be utilized online or downloaded. In addition to hands on activities, there are worksheets, games, and puzzles.
  • It’s Elemental  from Jefferson Lab – This is an interactive periodic table great for all grade levels.  The page also includes links to games, word searches, and more

  • UV Detectives

Singing Science Songs is a mp3 collection of a 1950-60s LP series on space, energy, weather, and much more!  Listen online or right click the links and save them!
The Internet Public Library (ipl) has a terrific list of Math and Science Resources for Teachers and Parents.

Math

TIME Kits, Tools for Integrating Math and Engineering are standards based curriculum units that integrate a real-world engineering problem into the math and science curriculum.  This is an National Science Foundation project from West Virginia offering many great ideas for including engineering in your math and science class!
Visual Math Learning a free online tutorial for learning math
Shape and Space in Geometry
offers you a fun and colorful, instructive and practical way to deal with geometry.
Math and Science Gateway
is a very comprehensive database of resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful.
Math magic - Are you a math magician?  Test your skills!
Challenge your students' Math IQ with Who Wants to be A Mathonaire?
Teach and reinforce money skills and basic math skills with the resources available at Online Money Games.
Teach Multiplication Facts - the times tables.  This site has activities, worksheets, and games to teach all students multiplication.
Elementary Math - All of the sites listed on this page are interactive, unless otherwise noted.  Sites that have an * next to their name are excellent sites, however, they have ad banners on the page. 
Interactivate includes 133 math related activities for all aspects of math.
As a new year rolls around explore the teaching resources found at the Clock and Time Unit from the Franklin Institute.
SchoolExpress Math Online Worksheets
A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive maths dictionary which explains over 500 common
mathematical terms in simple language.
The Math Magic Resource for Teachers provides online interactive games for learners.
The Internet Public Library (ipl) has a terrific list of Math and Science Resources for Teachers and Parents.
Terri Santi has created a resource for New Math Teachers.

Snow Activities

How to make Paper Snowflakes.
The Basics of Snow
Winter Theme Unit provides Preschoolers learning activities and ideas, fingerplays, nursery rhymes, art activities, and a few melting experiments for young scientists.
Looking for weather related classroom activities?  A complete Snow Unit is available through Greentown Elementary School (check out the other offerings!).
Is It Snowing In the South? contains books, songs, poems, language/ group activities, math activities, learning centers, art activities, snacks, and internet resources.
Take a virtual fieldtrip to Antarctica aboard the research vessel, Polar Duke.  There are teacher pages, student activities, live telecast and more.
Discover Winter Songs & Poems and even more winter lesson plans are available at Teach-nology.

History

Check out our newest game, Tennessee Bingo!  A class set of TN Bingo cards and TN Bingo Questions are available online.  Print the question cards on Avery5376 business cards and simply fold and tear apart!  Use the TN Bingo Questions cards to play Tennessee Squares, a whole group activity.
Click2History is an awesome site to learn the story behind many historical events.  It is free but you must signup for a membership
Online Social Studies resources from Holt Rinehart and Winston.
Students can write a fascinating and effective biography at the Biography Maker by following four steps (Questioning, Learning, Synthesis, and Story-Telling) that will guide the writing process. As the final stage, review the biography by considering the Six Traits of Effective Writing.
Virtual Smithsonian Museum
Explore the wealth of history resources based on Tennessee's Blueprint for Learning at Social Studies Online.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Online Quiz
50 States.com provides a wealth of detailed state information with resource links to state homepage, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds, flowers, trees and more! 
Does the call of the open road tug at your heartstrings? Then c'mon. Travel and discover America, seeing all 50 states and their capitals through Postcards from America: 50 State Travel Adventure.
Our Timelines.com is a free to use web site that generates truly fascinating personalized time lines for you, based on your year of birth. They show how your life (or the life of anyone else you choose - for instance, your descendants and ancestors) fits into history as we know it. You can generate as many timelines as you like. If you're into creating web pages, you can even take the timelines we generate for you here and put them on your own pages - an unmatched personal touch everyone will enjoy. 
Educational resources for the Alamo.
The History Channel provides not one, but nine topics for This Day in History.

 

Language Arts

Links for Language Arts lesson plans
100 Writing Prompts
Grammar Girl:  Quick and Dirty Tips for Better WritingThis site is an educational podcast
Language Arts Mini-lessons ( K-5) is a terrific collection of internet links!
Elementary Language Arts from Homeworkspot.com includes information on all aspect of language arts plus fun learning exercises.
It is not too soon to begin getting ready for the 2008 Spelling Bee!  This site has the rules, study resources and FAQs.
Online Basic Skills Games for Language Arts at Jefferson County Schools.
Online Language Arts and Literacy Games for Elementary Students
Words & Tools offers Interactive tests and exercises for language learners of English and Spanish.
Explore Literature Circles, a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books.
Kindergarten and Pre-School teachers will want to visit Get Ready to Read, a wonderful literacy resource.
All Kinds of Books! is a great site with a focus on unique ways to publish student writing.
Poetry Class  promises to take the fear out of teaching poetry.
Check out the rhyming dictionary at Rhyme Zone.
Visual Thesaurus provides an opportunity to visualize synonyms.  Word of advice, when you visit...give it a chance to load, then click to launch, type in a word and press enter...it's well worth the wait!
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