Elementary Teachers' Links

Elementary Teachers' Links
An Internet Hotlist on Elementary Topics

created by Carol Amato
Kingwood Township School

Introduction
These are great sites for elementary teachers. I hope they help you use technology in your lessons.

The Internet Resources

General

Absolutely Whootie - This site has FREE fairytales, folk tales, and play scripts with a positive message.
BlueWeb'n Learning Sites Library - This is a wonderful website with links to all subject areas.
Character Critters - This is a good site for preschool and kindergarten teachers who are teaching character education.
Curriculum Ideas - These ideas will help you integrate the Internet into your curriculum.
Educator's Reference Desk - This site contains lesson plans, links to education information, and a question archive. It also provides access to the ERIC database.
Enchanted Learning - This site will give you information on a wide variety of elementary topics including preschool & Kindergarten activities, K-3 themes, science activities, animal printouts, rainforests, plants, explorers, and much more.
Filamentality - This site will let you create your own hotlist for your students or search for hotlists created by other teachers on the topics you teach.
Internet 4 Classrooms - Wonderful links covering every school subject.
Internet Public Library Kid Space - Check out all the links on this site. They're great.
Kids Love 2Learn - This will guide you to great sites on classroom topics.
Librarians' Index to the Internet - This is a directory of wonderful sites that have been selected for quality by librarians.
Reading n' Phonics - This is a resource site for teachers, parents and students. Preschool and Kindergarten
Room 108 - There are many items here for the one computer classroom. Individual students can practice math problems, listen to stories, and much more.
under5s - This is a wonderful preschool site. Thanks to teachers in the United Kingdom, you will find crafts, worksheets, activities, songs, etc., etc., etc.

Social Studies

Mexico for Kids - This site will give you information on history, geography, holidays, games, toys and much more.
Resources on American Indians for Teachers and Children - Scroll down the page for information of a wide variety of tribes, or to the bottom for a list of wonderful links to other sites.
Scholastic Spectacular State Studies - This site gives hands-on activities for studying your state.
USA Resources for Parents and Teachers - Here you'll find sites for anyone involved with kids and looking for instructional materials about the United States.

Science - Health/PEe

Awesome Library/Physical Education & Health - Check out this site for lesson plans, projects, standards, and links.
Butterfly Bliss - This site will guide you to sites for butterfly information and student activities.
Dan's Wild Weather Page - Weather information for kids between 6 and 16.
Desert Animals & Wildlife - This site, from Desert USA, gives information on a wide variety of desert animals.
Internet 4 Classrooms/ Health & Physical Education Links - Many great links are provided here.
Musical Meteorology - See and hear weather concepts put to music.
Zoom Astronomy - Zoom Astronomy is a comprehensive on-line site about space and astronomy. It is designed for people of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links.

Math - Music - Art - Special Education

A+ Math - This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
AAA Math - This site provides hundreds of pages of basid math skills.
Arts Connected - Click on classroom and then search wizard to locate materials for a wide range of grade levels.
Arts Ed Net - If you visit this site, you will find lesson plans, curriculum ideas, and images organized by grade level.
Arts Work - This site from Arizona State Univesity provides links to lesson plans and resources for music, art, dance and drama.
Internet 4 Classrooms/ Math - Great links
Major Math Web Sites - This is a collection of sites provided by AAA Math.

Language Arts - Spanish

Internet 4 Classrooms/ LA Links - Check it out. You'll be pleased.
Juegos y Canciones para los Ninos - This is a wonderful site for elementary Spanish teachers.
read write think - This site from the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English provides research-based lesson plans and web resources for teaching language-arts skills in the classroom.

Content by Carol Amato, camato@kingwoodschool.org
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Last revised Mon Oct 8 16:36:04 US/Pacific 2007