Social Studies
Art in History: https://www.artinhistory.com/art-projects/190/US-History-Projects
Association for Library Service to Children: http://gws.ala.org/category/mathematics-computers
NASA S'COOL: http://scool.larc.nasa.gov/lessons_and_activities.html
Florida Center for Reading Research: http://www.fcrr.org/for-educators/sca_k-1.asp
Education Place:http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.jsp
Art in History: https://www.artinhistory.com/art-projects/190/US-History-Projects
- This website provides art materials for that can be purchased for students to use in classroom art projects. The class package comes equipped with paints, pottery, brushes, and a lesson plan. Educational videos are also available, regarding topics such as US colonial history, the Aztecs, and King Tut. This source is best for older elementary students.
- This website provides maps of countries around the world. Maps of geographical features, the structure of communities, and climates of countries are included. This website is appropriate for all elementary students.
- This website provides extension activities and lesson plans for teachers that cover colonial life, the American Revolution, and a variety of videos on US history. Videos topics include navigation, dying clothes, and colonial medical practices. This site is geared toward older elementary students.
- This website provides maps and non-fiction ebooks for students in all grade levels. Books on a variety of animals are available with a read-aloud feature. Full lesson plans that align with the books, as well as extension activities and handouts are provided. There are also activities and games for ipad use.
- This website provides middle and high school students with a virtual tour of what it was like traveling on the Underground Railroad. Students are able to decide what path they want to take during their journey, making it an interactive experience for the entire classroom.
Association for Library Service to Children: http://gws.ala.org/category/mathematics-computers
- This website provides various computer based websites that include interactive games and extension activities. Websites include Hooda Math, FunBrain.com, and Math Dictionary for Kids.
- This website provides student based virtual manipulatives that cover place value, probability, and tens frames. The website is for students in prekindergarten through eight grade.
- This website provides student-based math extension activities for the classroom. Math topics are separated by grade level. Topics include measurement, numbers and operations, and data analysis. The activities are aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy.
- This website provides a list of interactive games and apps for iPads. Games are on topics such as fractions and decimals, sorting three-dimensional shapes, and place value.
- This website provides virtual manipulatives when physical materials are in short supply. Several math manipulatives are readily available for student use. Math mantipulatives include pattern blocks, mazes, geoboards, tangrams, and base blocks.
NASA S'COOL: http://scool.larc.nasa.gov/lessons_and_activities.html
- This website provides lesson plans that are also available in Spanish. Several lessons incorporate both math and science as well as literacy and science. There are interactive games such as "Weather Jeopardy" and "Weather Bingo." This resource covers all aspects of weather and provides printout extension activities for student use.
- This website provides a way to get students involved in learning unit vocabulary. Teachers can upload word lists to Spelling City and students can use the site or app during station activities. This website is a great way to introduce students to the unit before teaching a lesson.
- This website provides teachers with materials to answer their students' questions. Questions such as "Will Your Tongue Really Stick to a Frozen Flagpole?" will help trigger students' prior knowledge about the properties of water and create an engaging experience for students. This website has interesting topics that students will want to know more about.
Florida Center for Reading Research: http://www.fcrr.org/for-educators/sca_k-1.asp
- This website provides literacy materials separated by grade level and unit topics. Printouts that focus on enhancing students' reading strategies, comprehension, phonics, and fluency are provided. Resources for a variety of grade levels are easily accessible.
- This website provides interactive games for student use. This link is great for helping students with word families and rhyming words. Students have the opportunity to create their own sentences about themselves. They have ability to form proper sentences about topics they can relate to.
- This website provides student invented word walls, a reader's checklist for book choices, and "I can" statements. These are aligned with ready to use lesson plans that are available for teacher use.
Education Place:http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.jsp
- This website provides students not only with the usual graphic organizing templates such as the ice cream cone or step-by-step chart, but a garden gate chart and the five sense chart.
- This website provides students with the opportunity to create their own graphic organizers for brainstorming ideas. Templates for this website include Venn diagrams, sorting baskets, cause and effect, and character traits.
- This website provides students with various ways to organize information before the writing process and to illustrate information they learned during the day. Templates include think-pair-share charts, circle of events charts, and cluster webs.
- This website provides graphic organizing materials for older elementary students. Templates include literary units such as personal thesaurus diagrams, persuasive diagrams, and positive-negative charts.