March 21, 2014

Seriously the Best Websites for Elementary and Middle School Students All Free!!!!

These are amazing websites for elementary and middle school students! Great variety for all ages!!

Shel Silverstein
One of the best poets ever!! Great children's poetry!! I even love it! My favorite is the Unicorn. This website has learning activities based on his short poems. His poems teach a lot about the world. Don't judge, be yourself, be happy, and more!!

Bubba Brain
Great website for building vocabulary

abcya
Is a great website for grades K-5. It has very amusing games for all subjects!! Ice Cream Talk is personally one of my favorites!! It is for 4th grade but is a good refresher of nouns and verbs!

Wonderopolis
This is a great site for exploring the wonderful world we live in. Ask questions, find answers to how the world works.

Children's Library
Great books for kids! You can
  • select the language they prefer to use
  • return to the last page they were reading
  • save their favorite books in a personal bookshelf
  • access these features from any computer
This allows kids to make their own stories online by choosing a setting, plot, and more!!
Kerpoof also has an App
This website is better for second grade and older.  Kerpoof allows students to create stories, spell a picture, make a card, and create movies, drawings and pictures. Teacher tool sections allow teachers to create lessons incorporating Kerpoof. Students can save their work as they go!

BrainPop
Brain pop has videos on many different topics including safety online, science, reading and more! Great for all ages! Seriously one of the best.

E Learning For Kids
a great program that allows kids to learn in the following topics. It is fun, educational and an exciting new way to learn!




Fun Brain
FunBrain has over 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy KidAmelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket. This is my family and my favorite for elementary and middle school students.

Turtle Diary

Over 1,000 educational activities, games, animated lessons, printable worksheets, interactive storybooks and more.

Fuel The Brain

Have your elementary students practice their math, science and language arts skills with games and interactive activities from FueltheBrain! Does require to create an account but it is free.

Free Rice

Donates rice to poverty each question your child answers right. Your students review English vocabulary and grammar at varying levels of difficulty. For each correct answer, the website will donate one grain of rice. Have your students play Free Rice when they finish early and keep track of how much rice your students have contributed to combat hunger.

Mr. Nussbaum

Interactive website with a lot of different subjects to learn! Play games and activities to expand your knowledge!

Smarty Games

It is just what it sounds like. Games for Smarty Pants'! Learning how to use money, tell time, count and read. Also, you’ll find mazes, memory games, puzzles, Sudoku and more!

Dr. Seuss

This website is full of interactive whiteboard-friendly games, activities, printables and ideas for lesson plans focusing on the subjects made interesting and accessible (and discussible!) by Dr. Seuss’ stories.

StarFall
This website is a free resource for young students to practice letters and sounds! Its phonics-based approach is perfect for PreK, kindergarten, first grade and second grade. My siblings love this website!

Spell-A-Thon

Great website for spelling! Many fun games, word lists, and more!! Available as an App!

Many Things
This website doesn't look put together but the content is what matters!! Great games and learning  activities for all subjects including spelling. Available as App


Story Starter
Just what it sounds like this automatic generator comes up with over two billion (no joke!) creative ideas for writers. It was named to Writer’s Digest Magazine’s list of 101 Best Websites for Writers in 2012.
"The obsessed silverware polisher rode the bicycle into the dark corner for the mystery writer." This came up when I just typed in the website

Math Chimp

Free collection of online math games for grades K-8 organized by the common core standards. Available as an App!


AAA Math

Great math website. Best for fractions. Easy instructions for the more difficult math learners. 

E-Nature

Use eNature’s Endangered and Threatened Species search engine to enter your zip code and learn about highly-threatened animals near you. There are also animal-related games, quizzes and more!

Comparing Planets

This website lets you compare any two planets!! Very fun and educational!! Great for space units or Venn diagram!

Exploratorium
The official website of the Exploratorium, the museum of science, art and human perception in San Francisco. It includes materials and activities for a variety of subjects,  from astronomy and space to the human body.

Free Education- Official Department

A trove of free science resources from the U.S. Department of Education.  Find high-quality materials for the Applied Sciences, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Physic
al Sciences, Space Sciences and more.

Science Experiments and Science Fair Ideas!


Switcharoo Zoo
Let your students create their own animals by assembling different animal parts. Have them imagine a habitat for their new animal, describe how it survives, what it eats and its relationship with other animals. For older students have them categorize them in different groups such as Genius, Species, Kingdom, Family etc. Available as an App.

Magic School Bus

Join the crew in learning with the Magic School Bus

Mission Us

Mission U.S. is home to two free, interactive, immersive U.S. history games. One focuses on the American Revolution, the other focuses on a slave’s quest for freedom, and both bring history to life around the student, giving events of the past an immediate and highly personal appeal.

iCivics

Free lesson plans and interactive games for learning civics. Some of the topics covered by materials at iCivics include citizenship and participation, separation of powers, branches of government and budgeting.

Playing History

Playing History aggregates all of the free history games on the web into a simple, searchable database. If the era you’re teaching hasn't been mentioned elsewhere on this list, use Playing History to see if anyone has yet to bring it to life in online-game form!

Check these amazing websites!!!

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