Kinder Elementary |
Learning Links |
A Listing of Educational Links for Parents and Students of Kinder Elementary School |
General
www.bigchalk.com
A comprehensive site for teachers, parents and their kids in K-12. Has over 120,000 links,
screened by experts in the fields, covering over 10,000 subjects organized by grade level.
Not Just For Kids
Kid-friendly web sites are indexed by categories. Animated creatures boogie and jive
while you browse.
www.regentsprep.org
This regents test prep site is excellent to brush up on concepts and information
from math to science to language arts. The information here will really let you understand
what your child is supposed to be learning.
www.yahooligans.com
It indexes sites by homework help, international, games, entertainment, and sports
categories.
After school
Serves as an educational companion for kids of all ages with a sense of humor. It has an
interactive encyclopedia and games.
Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater
A collection of scripts adapted from published stories and retold tales from a variety of
cultures. The grade levels for performers fall mostly between 3 and 9.
Web-Linked Activities for Spotlight on Literacy
Language Arts series
A collection of web-linked activities related to Macmillan/McGraw-Hill's Spotlight on
Literacy series.
Kids Express
The Kids Express is a site that was made for kids, welcomes kids, and is maintained by
kids. The Kids Express supports learning in fun ways, so that the kids don't even realize
that they're learning.
Ports of Call: Quiz Adventure
Students visiting this site can take a quiz
on each of several islands, including math island, current events island, social studies
island, sports island, etc. Their score will be posted so that they may see how well they
did. Then, students can visit the souvenir shop to print out certificates of their
success.
Elementary School Throughout the Ages
This web site is about elementary school throughout the ages.
Authors and
Illustrators
Authors and Illustrators
Children's Author Directory
Links to sites with information on children's authors and illustrators.
Children's Authors & Illustrators Internet
Home Pages
A list of links to homepages of authors and illustrators of books for children.
Children's Authors & Illustrators and
their Books
From the Children's Literature Web Guide, an annotated list of websites on individual
children's authors and illustrators.
Children's Literature-- Authors & Illustrators
-Fairrosa Cyber Library
A list of links to sites about children's authors and illustrators. Also includes listing
by date or name of birthdays of authors and illustrators of children's books.
Dr. Seuss's Seussville!
A collection of games and activities related to the works of Dr. Seuss.
Internet Public Library Youth Division: Author
Page
Author biographies, Ask The Author, and Author Links with links to some of your favorite
authors and illustrators.
Lakeway
Library-Authors & Illustrators
A collection of links to lots of web sites about authors and illustrators of children's
books.
Learning About
Authors and Illustrators
More than 300 links to author and illustrator web sites.
Yahoo! Index of
Children's Authors
A long list of links to Internet resources about individual children's authors.
The Book Wire Electronic Children's Books Index
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the
classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum
areas, themes and professional topics.
Children's Literature Sampler
A source of information about books and related materials for children through grade 8.
Includes history of children's literature.
Children's Literature Web Guide
A list of links to Internet resources about books for children and young adults.
The John Newbery Medal
Information about the award presented annually by the American Library Association to the
author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for
children." Includes information about current wining title and honor books as
well as lists of previous winners.
The Randolph Caldecott Medal
Information about the award presented annually by the American Library Association to the
artist of "the most distinguished American picture book for children."
Includes information about current wining title and honor books as well as lists of
previous winners.
On-Line English Grammar
The Weekly Idiom
Defi
Math
A collection of online
resources to help students improve their math skills. Includes interactive games, a
utility to create and print your own flashcards, and a homework helper section that allows
the student to input a math problem and answer and then lets the student know whether the
answer is correct.
The ArithmAttack
How many computer-generated arithmetic problems can you answer in 60 seconds? The
student can choose an operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) and a
range of numbers to use.
Ask Dr. Math -
Elementary School Level
A collection of questions on elementary school math with answers by Dr. Math.
Aunty Math
From the DuPage Museum, a collection of fun math activities for kids.
Basic Math Drill and Practice
Online practice of math facts; allows student to select operation and range of numbers to
be used in problems.
Flash Cards for Kids
Select the arithmetic operations, degree of difficulty and number range for interactive
online flash cards.
Fun Brain - Numbers
A variety of games related to numbers and mathematics, including Cookie Dough, Math
Baseball, & Power Football.
Fun School .com
A collection of online games-- including math and number games-- for pre-school through
sixth grade.
Kids' Almanac:
Measuring Up
"Whether it's time, money, or weather, it is certainly convenient to have a standard
system of measurement to rely on. Here are some old and new ways people have devised to
keep track of, compare, and define quantities of things." From Yahooligans.
Know Zone
A collection of online interactive math tutorials, quizzes and games from Addison Wesley
Publishing.
Math Brain T
easersMath for Kids
Designed by two fourth graders, this site features math problems with a medieval twist.
Math Magic!
A K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas, Math Magic posts challenges
in each of four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to
air up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog. When an agreement has
been reached, one solution is posted for every pair.
Math Stories
Worksheets of word problems for Grades 1-8, including seasonal and topical problems.
(Not an online activity; worksheets need to be printed and completed offline.
Answer keys included.)
Mega-Mathematics!
The Mega Math project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to
elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them
together.
Monster Math
Monsters star in word problems featuring counting, addition, subtraction and
multiplication with illustrations of monsters.
Multiplication Speed Drill
Number Monster
Online arithmetic game lets user choose operation and level of difficulty. Running
score is displayed, and correct answers are given if answer given is incorrect.
Quiz Math Activities
A collection of online math activities. From the
Quiz home page teachers or students can easily
create their own games and quizzes which are posted and accessed on the Quiz web site.
Room 108 Math
Lots of interactive online math activities.
Take A Chance: Online Probability Project
An instructional unit on mathematical probability.
Telling Time
Information and links to websites about telling time. Includes daylight savings time,
history of clocks, sundials, and ways of telling time by using the natural world.
www.mathforum.com
This site is great for kids K-12. It
features a "Problem of the Week" for each age group, as well as an area called
"Ask Dr. Math", in which kids can both find frequently asked questions and also
email in their own math questions.
Science
brainium .com
This site makes science fun and accessible to kids in kindergarten through 6th grade.
The information is communicated through a game-like interface using cartoon characters to
guide them through the science activities.
Think Quest
An online encyclopedia designed to teach the fundamental components of the cosmos. From
planets to galaxies, to comets to constellations, you will find a plethora of information
at your fingertips.
Spelling
The Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee
Stories and Storytelling
Children's Storybooks Online
Tales of Wonder
A collection of stories and folktales from around the world. Stories can be read online.
Cyber kids Home
For Young Writers
Advice, articles and interviews useful to young writers; links that might help young
writers get started and network with other young writers; online and offline writing
groups, associations, and workshops; markets for young writers to publish their work
online and offline; discussion forum for young writers.
Kid Pub WWW Publishing
A site for publishing kids' writing and reading writing of other kids.
Scriptito's Place - Creative Writing Resource
Center
Creative writing resource center for kids.
OTHER EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING SITES
www.kidscom
Calls itself "educational and entertaining playground." Distinct offerings
include chat sessions with children around the world.
www.animabets.com
Illustrated pages celebrate each letter with representative animated characters and
objects.
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