This site is currently under construction and will be updated on a regular basis.

Ever wish you had a place to help you help your child learn? Whether you have a preschooler or a high schooler, you may find help here to explain any concepts your child wishes to learn more about. This list is not inclusive, not all encompassing, nor is it meant to advertise or promote anything. It is just a list of sites that others have found useful.

Pre-School to Eighth Grade Students

    KneeBouncers For the very young.

    FunBrain: Mad Libs, web books, math arcade

    National Geographics for Kids: Kung Fu Trash Master, Recycle Roundup and more.

    Discovery: Little Lost Whale, Mission: Planet Earth, Orangutan Island

    FunSchool Kaboose: Wild Word West, Lightning Librarian, Action Fraction

    Animal Planet: Pet Detective, Mutt Maker, Meerkat Match-up

    ABCYA Educational computer activites for elementary students

    Fisher-Price Online Games Online games that encourage counting, ABC's, reading and memorization

    Kids Click for elementary research, all articles are reviewed by libraarians and reading levels are noted.

    First-School Preschool themes, lesson plans, activites and crafts

    FluxTime K-5 Animation Creator

    PBS Kids Join your PBS favorite characters as you they reinforce the skills presented on their shows.

    National Academies Press More than 4000 books online, greared for the secondary and college students.

    FluxTime K-5 Animation Creator, On this site you can create animations, save it to your webspae, collaborate with others and show off your creations.

    A Plus Math An interactive web site developed to improve math skills. Create flash cards, do the Math Mind Puzzle or play other math related games in the game room.

    Math Playground Designed for elementary and middle school students, this site offers an action packed way to practice math skills and logic.

    NASA This site has sections for the public, educators and students.  The student section is an extensive site offering educational news, podcasts, eClips, research resources and games suitable for K through High Education.  The educators link offers similar materials and teaching resources.

    Kidzone Fun Facts for Kids Free printable worksheets for grade levels P-5 and many topics.

    StorylineThe site contains videos of actors and actresses from the Screen Actors' Guild reading children's books aloud. The site also contains activities to go along with the book.


    SCIENCE

    ScienceWithMe

    Magic School Bus

    NASA Kids Club

    Bill Nye the Science Guy

    Sid from PBSKids.org

    National Geographic's Kids Science Page

    READING

    Reading is Fundamental RIF: the nation's largest children's literacy organization.  This site offers activity lists, articles, tips and booklists for coordinaters, teachers and parents.  For students there are literacy games, read along stories, and a reading planet.  Reading Planet offers a Book Zone where stories and songs can be listened too, an Activity Lab with a coloring book, reading activity calendar, and a story that can be illustrated, a Game Station  and Express Yourself, a place where students can dicuss books, collaborate on books, and more.

    Story Place Created by the public library of Charlotte, NC proposes to be the Children's Digital Library. Attention capturing stories followed by both digital and paper activites.

    Starfall Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Educational entertainment, where children have fun learning to read.

    Wacky Web Tales Choose a story title, add the requested parts of speech and create a fanciful story.  Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above.


    ART SITES

    Crayola
    Family Corner Many, many wonderful and exciting ideas.
    KinderArt Crafts that are inexpensive or free, many times useing recycled materials.
    Artists Helping Children Crafts for Kids, Art Resources for Children, Free Coloring Page and Free Arts/Crafts Ideas/Activities


    ALL STUDENTS

    Michigan eLibrary

Internet Safety
Homework Help Sites:
School Resources
    Michigan Middle School Mathmatics

    NETS - National Education Technology Standards  ISTE standards with the purpose of helping students, teachers, and administrators measure proficiency and set aspirational goals for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to succeed in today’s Digital Age.

    METS - Michigan Education Technology Standards  Aligned with the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Students, and divided into sections based upon grade, K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9- 12, they are meant to provide teachers with an outline of learning expectations and will be used to drive educational technology literacy assessments for the next several years.&
Classroom Resources
    Edsitement Created by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site offers suggestions and lesson plans covering the subjects of Arts and Culture, Literature and Language Arts, Foreign Language, and History/Social Studies.

    The Teachersguide.com Days to celebrate, lesson plans, thematic units, free educational clipart, links to websites on technology, education and special education

    teAchnology Provides free adn easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students by offering free access to lesson plans, printiable worksheets, rubrics that are ready to use, teaching tips, themes, games, downloads and Webquests.

    Google for Educators  Assembled o this page are tools and information that "support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge.  Here, you’ll find a teacher’s guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom. And to spark your imagination, you'll find examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom."

    Teachers Pet The Teacher's Pet is a word processor toolbar, for both Open Office and MS Word, that can transform any text into fun classroom activities.  The software can create crosswords, bingo cards, jumbles, word search puzzles,flashcards,cloze tests, pair-matching puzzles and much more. To unlock some of the features the full version must be purchased.

    Hot Potatoes (for the web) The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.  Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

    Global Virtual Classroom
    The Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) project is a collection of free, on-line educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and education departments around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the information superhighway.

    Kidzone Fun Facts for Kids
    Free printable worksheets for grade levels P-5 and many topics.

    Kids Click
    for elementary research, all articles are reviewed by librarians and reading levels are noted.

    Instructional Technology ProfessionalDevelopment Web Sites

    4Teachers (http://www.4teachers.org)
    4Teachers is a comprehensive Web site that provides educators with a portal to numerous IT tools and professional development opportunities. Interested individuals even can access an education technology-planning guide. Additionally, there are links to grant opportunities that specifically target K-12 classroom settings.

    ALTEC (http://pd.altec.org)
    ALTEC is for teachers who are interested in locating IT-focused professional development opportunities. This site offers help with learning basic and advanced IT tools. Teachers can register for online opportunities.

    Beginning Teacher's Tool Box (http://www.inspiringteachers.com/bttindex.html)
    This site is a wonderful resource for teachers who are looking to learn new technology integration skills. It provides access to mentors, resources, and advice. Furthermore, this site has a collection of articles describing best practices for integrating IT tools into the classroom.

    STAR Tech Professional Development Program (http://www.startechprogram.org)
    This program is open to anyone interested in learning how to integrate IT tools into their classroom. It guides teachers through a professional development program. Interested teachers can learn a range of skills for their individual classrooms.

    Music Town: Children's Songs and Lyrics     Kids' Music Town presents a large selection of children's songs, along with their lyrics.

    TeacherRated - Websites, Resources & Tools Where K-12 teachers find, rate and share the best of the web including teaching resources, research sources, online student activities, educational games and more.
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