Product 6 - Annotated Website List
Here is a list of 20 valuable websites for teachers and students.
1 Teacher-created thematic units
This is a wonderful site full of teacher-created thematic units and resources. The site is mainly a teacher tool, but contains links to theme relevant student applications.
This site is designed for use by teachers. This site contains links to many other sites that will help teachers design assessment tools. The kinds of tools included are rubrics, checklists, and anecdotal records.
3 National Geographic Education
This is teacher resource site designed by National Geographic to help teachers support students learning geography. The site contains online, student-friendly, activities, lesson plans for grades k - 12, an online teachers' material store, and a teacher-friendly online community.
4 NAEYC - National Association for the Education of Young Children
This is site of an organization founded to improve the education programs of young children. This is a professional teacher and parent resource. The site contains information about NAEYC, membership information, conference information, and an online archive of "Young Children" journal.
This is a website created and maintained by a former early childhood teacher to serve as a resource for other early childhood educators and parents of young children. The site contains resources for k and pre-k in literacy, math, environment issues, and ways to integrate families into the learning process.
6 Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
This site is a collection of educators' resources put together by over 30 federal agencies to facilitate finding educational resources. The site has links to resources for many content areas including technology. The site is designed for use by teachers.
This site is a student search engine site. It is intended for use by students. The site also contains helpful reference-type links to a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a thesaurus, and similar materials.
This site is designed to be used by students to learn and practice concepts while having fun. The site is organized by grade level and features many innovative and interactive activities for the students to experience.
This site is a student and teacher resource. The site features many interactive and fun activities for students, and features a curriculum alignment guide for teachers.
10 EduGames
This is a student and teacher-friendly site that contains interactive learning games and resources for k - 8. This site is focused on language arts, math, social studies, and science. The site is maintained by Houghton Mifflin.
11 Kid Wizard
This is a cute site for students, with the help of a parent or a teacher, to explore the "magic" of science. The site is themed around dragons and magic. The activities described are fun and hands-on.
This is a underwater themed site with links to 1500 interactive learning games. This is mainly a student resource, but could be used in the classroom to allow for practice on content area concepts.
13 Intel
This is a teacher resource site hosted by Intel that offers free information for educators on how to use technology in the classroom.
14 Kid's Lab
This is a site designed to be used by parents to work with their child on specific reading skills. The site is organized by grade level and by skill.
15 Website of Snaith Primary School
This is a student and teacher resource. This site contains information on different topics arranged by theme and written in simple language and highly attractive writing prompts.
16 Kid Authors
This is a teacher and student resource. The site contains student published student work. The host offers students the opportunity to publish their own work. The site also contains a few teacher resource links.
This is a site for teachers and students. The content is focused on learning multiplication. The site contains interactive and classroom activities to support learning of multiplication.
18 The K Crew
This is site is mainly a teacher resource. The site is hosted by four kindergarten teachers and features their classrooms and lesson plans. The site models excellent use of a classroom website and developmentally appropriate practice.
This is a teacher and student resource. This site presents fun ways to teach and learn about proper nutrition. The site is organized into resources for educators, parents, students, and school food service employees.
This site is a teachers' and students' resource. The highly aesthetic site features links to multiple resource sites for many areas of concern for early childhood education including, but not limited to: education agencies, child safety concerns, educational games, music for children, and the health of children.
