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50 Websites for Education
Language Arts
Author Interviews
www.powells.com/authors/interviews.html
This website has interviews with many of today’s authors. The authors discuss their books, writing habits, and how they became interested in writing.
The Biography Maker
www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm
An engaging website that teaches how to write a biography report.
Book Adventure
This is a free reading website dedicated to motivating K-8 students. Students may even earn prizes for participation.
English Grammar 101
English grammar tutorials for language arts classes, home schooling, adult study, and ESL courses.
Fables Online
Five major areas that are setup for visitors to get excited about.
Folk and Fairy Tale Dictionary
www.op97.k12.il.us/instuct/ftcyber/alpha.html
Elementary schools from around the world participate in this website. Classes choose a fairytale or folktale and create and illustrated dictionary with words from the story.
Grandpa Tucker
This website is designed to bring classes together for a fun language arts activities.
The Mother Goose Pages
www.personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes.html
Read and listen to Mother Goose tales. They are each listed in alphabetical order.
Word Central
This is a website dedicated to looking up words. It is a great alternative to the dictionary.
Write Me a Story
www.kidscom.com/create/write/write.html
Every week Kidscom gives a challenge to write a story using specific characters, places, and props. Kidscom picks the ten stories that will be published on their website. Visitors will vote for two winning Stunningly Stupendous Stories.
The Writing Process
www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess
Everybody needs some help with writing projects every now and again. This website provides your students with some tips, tricks, and thoughts.
Math
AAA Math
This website offers interactive math exercises and problems and basic math lessons for elementary students.
Ask Dr. Math
If your student has a math question, Dr. Math will help them figure it out.
Brain Teasers
Each Wednesday one new brainteaser at each of the three grade ranges is given. The solution is posted the next week.
CoolMath.com
This fun website has lots of math games, lessons, cool things, counting coloring pages, online calculators, and more. The website is divided into two categories for ages 3-12 and 13 and up.
Flashcards for Kids
This website offers practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing with online flashcards.
Math Glossary
www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/math
This website was created by Harcourt. It is designed for grade levels to give practice on all math topics. There are also links to other websites.
The Math Page
www.school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/bjmath.html
This is a great website from the Manhattan Community College. This site is full of basic math skills.
Science
Cool Science
www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/bp/123/science.htm
This website offers a variety of online activities to explore. The students can view things such as the life cycle of a butterfly, different classifications of animals, or microscopic particles to name a few.
ENature.com
There are online field guides to learn about North American plants, animals, insects, birds, and sea creatures. The website is sponsored by the National Audubon Society.
Marshall Brain’s How Stuff Works
This website lets students explore how some common things work. It covers areas such as electric motors to radar.
Insect World
A comprehensive website dedicated to the differences in insects and bugs.
NASA Kids
NASA offers many great adventures for kids. They also offer links to sites of interest and other NASA sites.
Science Learning Network
This website offers online exploration of science museums and resources for teachers and students.
Simple Machines
www.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm
The website offers students the chance to learn about basic principles of simple machines. Students can discover ideas, play games, and put the machines to work on this website.
Volcano World
This website offers everything you ever needed to know about volcanoes.
Social Studies
50States.com
This websites is arranged into information links for all 50 states. Click on the initial of the state to find a wealth of information for each state.
Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
Students join Ben Franklin to learn about government in the United States. There are separate areas for different grade levels.
Biography of America
www.learner.org/biographyofamerica
This website offers an examination of U.S. history in a narrative format.
Census Bureau
Students can find census data about any area in the U.S.
Declaration of Independence
www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charter_of_freedom/declaration/declaration.html
This is an online guide that offers tutorials, timelines, facts, and information related to issues of the Declaration of Independence.
History Channel
This website offers links, information, and a teacher’s guide to support the cable channel.
White House
This website is an extensive look at the President and Vice President along with the White House.
White House for Kids
This website is full of the same information as the regular White House website except it is geared towards kids. It is interactive and full of pictures and information.
News
Discovery.com
Provides a link to all of the activities that are sponsored by the Discovery Channel.
Time For Kids
This is the online version of the weekly kids magazine.
U.S. News
This is an online version of the magazine that offers up-to-date information about news in the U.S.
Yak’s Corner Newsmagazine for Kids
Yak’s Corner is an online version of a weekly news magazine for kids. There is a lot of news stories, original puzzles, games, crafts, recipes, Pet of the Week, Star of the Week, and more.
CNN
This website is loaded with news, information, videos, and pictures of all that is going on in the world.
Teachers Websites
A to Z Teacher Stuff
This website is full of online lesson plans and resources.
Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site
This website is a collection of books for kids. It is full of ideas of how to use the books to teach your students.
EdHelper.com
The website offers lesson plans, worksheets, teacher’s plans, web quests, resources, and more.
I Love Teaching
Teaching ideas, links to sites, and links for new teachers can be found on this website.
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide
This website offers resources for every curriculum area. It is easy to search and find what you are looking for.
LessonPlansPage.com
This website is dedicated to PreK-12 teacher resources on the Internet. You can find lesson plans to match your criteria.
LessonPlanz.com
This is a searchable directory of free online plans and resources for all grade levels and subjects.
Marco Polo
Provides teachers with a number of resources to use when implementing technology into classrooms. There are also resources for students and teachers.
Neat-School House
This website is organized by classroom subjects, administrative support, and general resources including lesson plans, links, and projects.
Web English Teacher
This website presents English teachers with resources, lesson plans, web quests, videos, jokes, puzzles, classroom activities, and more.
WWW4teachers
This is an online website for teachers that want to implement technology into education.
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