Introduction

The Internet Resources

AUTUMN (Sept.-Nov.)

• A is for Apple - What a way to begin the school year. Children love apples and any elementary teacher would love what this site has to offer. From an apple number book to Johnny Appleseed, this resource will provide you with crafts, printouts, and information. Personnally, I like to follow up with making our own homemade applesauce.

• Falling for Colors of Autumn - A lesson that involves creative movement, a list of resources, extension of the lesson, and assessment. Teachers and students both will love what this website provides.

• Turkey Time - If you are looking for a place to find crafts, printouts, activities, and information on turkeys, you have come to the right place. And just in time for Thanksgiving!

• Who's that Following Me? - This site has seven kindergarten lessons all relating to shadows and light. There are activities for the children to participate in outside that allow for them to experience the shadows they can make. Spring would be another good time to teach these lessons.

WINTER (Dec.-Feb.)

• A Snow Storm - This website offers 'a blizzard of winter lessons'. The lessons are arranged according to grade levels. There are cross-curriulum activites, book lists, games, lessons on the 'Mitten' by Jan Brett, and snowflakes.

• Beyond Rudolph - Enchanted learning continues to be a great resource for teachers. For information, printouts, crafts, and books on reindeer click here.

• The Truth about Teeth - Begin your lesson with a catchy rhyme, then follow it up with information, crafts, and coloring pages. Children can learn that taking care of their teeth is important and fun! Give them a lesson in life they will never forget.

• This Makes Sense! - Every teacher's dream site, click on this link and discover a fabulous resource for educators on the Five Senses. There are fun activities, games, information, and stories. For example, you can test your sense of sight. Different games to experience taste. There is information for the sense of smell plus a bubble game. Hearing is applied through the use of a technological piano where children play a piano and see the wave forms for themselves. There is a story and questions on Goldilocks and the Three Bears which deals with the senses in the story. Hear Barney read a story and play I spy with scholastic. Of course, there is also a memory game. This is the place to be!

SPRING (Mar.-Apr.)

• A Hopping Good Time - Students will not run away from this lesson. Read an all time favorite story Runaway Bunny and create your own bunny mask. This is perfect for the season.

• Leaping Into Spring - Children love these little slimy critters. Focus this interest into many learning activities. Visit this website for songs, crafts, facts about frogs, the frog life cycle, and different types of frogs.

• Planting the Seed - **Make sure you go to the drop down button under science, scroll down until you see plants, and click on it.** The first two links offer great lessons for the elementary teacher. Spring is Sprung demonstrates water movement in plants. It truly catches the eye. The second link is Observational drawings. It gives examples of how children can create their own personal drawings of the parts of a plant.

• Healthy Eating - Wow! This is a great site to visit if you are teaching the food pyramid. There are a list of lessons under Food and Nutrition that include ideas for a particular food or food group, the actual food pyramid, hands on activities, and photos.

SUMMER (May-June)

• Educational Water Fun - **Scroll down until you see the Sink or Float lesson listed in alphabetical order according to grade level.** This lesson provides the teacher with a great opportunity to employ student interest and teach the basic concepts of sink and float. There is a Blues Clue website to visit, Sink or Float Activity Sheet, and an Assessment Sheet.

• Delve in with Dolphins - This link will provide the elementary teacher with interesting printouts and facts about this intelligent creature. There are crafts and activities too. You can find links to discover information about whales, fish, and the ocean itself. A great unit is awaiting you!

• Exploring Stars - If you visit this link, you will find rhymes, crafts, information, calendars, and coloring pages. Stars may be out of our reach, but learning about them is not.

• Dinosaurs - There are numerous lesson plans covering all areas of the dinosaur theme from types of dinosaurs and their characteristics to fossils and how scientists learn about dinosaurs. There are coloring pages, thematic units, links to webs including museums, songs, poems, fingerplays and puzzles.