Additional Teacher Resources

Here are some links to teacher resources and student interactives. Enjoy!

http://www.brainpopjr.com/

Animated videos based on content for younger students.

http://www.teachertube.com/

Very similar to www.youtube.com, but designed and maintained by teachers.

http://del.icio.us/

Easy to use bookmarking add-on for firefox so you don’t loose all the cool site addresses!

http://www.zotero.org/

It is another add-on to firefox that will help you build citations for papers. This is an easy way to make sure you accurately cite your work.

http://www.skrbl.com/

Same idea as a smart board; it allows students to write on the computer or tablet and project for the whole class to see.

https://www.blogger.com/start

Easy site to set up a blog.

http://sjbrooks-young.com/id113.html

This is one of the main sites that a presenter at the IFL conference has set up with many resources.

http://webtoolsforeducators.pbwiki.com/

This is another site that the presenter at the IFL conference created and this one is an interactive site that allows others to post additional resources. This site has links grouped by topic located in the side bar, which allows for slightly faster searching.

http://gliffy.com/

This site is one of several ways that you can map your thoughts online.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

A great resource for pictures and information about social events and primary source documents.

http://www.flickr.com/

A media site that offers photos that can be used to provide visuals for students.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Wow, what a find! This site has many interactive math activities and it is already sorted by grade and by math section.

http://readwritethink.org/materials/trading_cards/

Students can follow the prompts to fill out information about a character in a book the read, about themselves, or about a character they are creating.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordbuild/

This site guides students through creating a word chart by word families. Students can focus on one word family, or all 8 or 9 word families that are included in this site. At the end students are able to make a print out of the words they created and the words are nicely arranged into their word families – like a mini word wall for that student.

http://www.wordcentral.com/

While dictionary skills are important to know, this is an interactive site that allows students to quickly find a word definition. In addition to finding meanings of words students can also begin to build their own dictionaries that can be used across the curriculum.

http://www.mbgnet.net/

In this site you are able to explore the various ecosystems of the world and compare them to the ecosystem that they live in. This is an interesting way to study the differences in the ecosystems.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/

There are interactive games, sorted by content area, that can be used as an alternate way of teaching something or that can be used for review and/or enrichment

http://pbskids.org/lions/fox/soup.html

I found that this site would be a useful way to allow the students to practice identifying letters in a kindergarten or first grade classroom.

http://www.epals.com/

When I was a kid my family hosted exchange students from at least 9 countries. What a great way to be introduced to new cultures! I feel very strongly about introducing students to new cultures because I feel this is one way that we have help our world be more accepting of differences. This site allows you to sign your classroom up and find a penpal for the class or penpals from individuals. What a great way to teach about cultures and to teach about letter writing!!

http://pbskids.org/license/?next=1

This is an interactive that teaches kids about web safety. We know kids are going to be on the internet, so we need to make sure that we teach them how to be safe on the internet.

http://goodnightstories.com/stories.htm

It’s a site that contains stories written by kids! What a great way to teach young kids how to write by showing them writing by other kids. This also has options for letting students decide parts of a story (story building), hear a story read to them, fill in parts of a story, finish a story and send a story in. I would be interested to know what the process is for getting a story up on this page. What a great way to boost a kid’s writing.

http://www.funbrain.com/

This is a popular site with students that has games to reinforce curriculum at school. It is an easy site to move through and is pretty safe for kids to use.

http://www.starfall.com/

This is not a new website for me, but I decided to include it because I use it so much. Students can interact with this website independently, in small groups or in a large group or teacher lead activity. The websites offer short stories for kids to read, letter studies, word family stories, activities that involve reading and different styles of print. I love that the students are able to click on the words to have the computer reread a word for them and it even sounds words out using phonics! There are characters that appear throughout the website in different stories or activities. There are also printable activities that students can take home with them. Great site – the kids really enjoy it!

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

This has information, interactive sites and visuals for kids about the government arranged by grade with Ben Franklin as your guide.