FAVORITE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES

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Thanks to everyone who contributed. There are billions of cool website resources for us to use. A lot of you went out of your way to pick your favorite sites and post them for us. It's greatly appreciated.

FAVORITE WEBSITES UPDATED 7/6/08

Classroom Management
Ms. Powell's Management Ideas for Teachers -Classroom Management
Mrs. Luigs' Site
Lesson Plans
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans - All kinds of lesson plans.
Learning Page - Lesson Plans
Reading and Literacy
Literactive - It's a free interactive reading website for primary grades. You have to register and get a password, but it's free.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html - Reading and Literacy Lesson Plans
Literacy Connections - Awesome "how-to" site for teaching literacy. Example: "What are sight words?"
The Teacher's Desk - Great reading/literacy resources for grades 5 and 6
WritingFix - Lots of writing prompts - neat site - scroll down to see all the fun stuff.
ReadWriteThink - Lesson Plans and resources for reading and literacy
The Reading Lady - Reading lesson plans and lots of resources and ideas.
Mosaic Listserve Tools -free, wonderful resources for literacy education!
Interactive Educational Websites for Students
Visuwords - Awesome interactive word-web creator - type in any word! COOL!
FunBrain - Interactive Learning games for the kiddos
BrainPOP - Interactive movies, quizes, and games for kiddos (Free 5-day trial)
National Geographic Kids
TIME for kids
Carl's Corner - Reading GALORE
Raz-Kids - This website reads stories to students based on reading level - Awesome! (membership required)
Starfall.com - Great K-2 Reading site
Storyline Online - Great books read by actors (Free)
Mr. Lettiere's English on the Web - Love the study guides and handouts. He also has great links.
Custom Worksheet Generators and the like
Printable Certificates - Generate custom certificates for your classroom.
EasyTestMaker - Generate your own customized tests! Neat-o.
Traceable handwriting worksheet generator
Crossword Puzzle Generator
Puzzle Maker - From the Discovery Channel
Rubric Generator (and Lesson Plans)
RubiStar - Rubric Generator
Chart Dog - for teachers--it's an online charting program to document just about anything and it creates the graph
SuperKids - Math worksheet generator.
Dolch Sight Words - Free list based on grade level - Pre-K through 3rd
General They-Have-It-All Websites
Zwolle Elementary School Resources - AWESOME SITE!! Tons and tons of elementary goodies listed in alphabetical order. Check it out!
Education World - A little of everything.
EdHelper.com - These guys have it ALL. (Membership requried but it's cheap.)
SparkleBox - TONS of printable stuff for the classroom and it's all FREE. Awesome site.
Links for K-12 - hodge podge of goodies
Real Classroom Ideas - This has so many useful ideas for the classroom.
TeachersFirst - Lots of units and resources - awesome site!
Teaching Resources- She has everything for multiple subjects.
TeachingTips.com- 100+ Resources for teaching without textbooks.
Busy Teacher Cafe - Lots of resources.
The Virtual Vine - Lots of good stuff!
Teaching Heart - K-3 Resources
Art and Crafts
DLTK's Printable Crafts - good craft ideas and you can customize charts
Math
The Math Worksheet Site- Instant basic math drill/review sheets. Nicely done. Fuller version available with subscription, but I got lots of mileage out of the free features.
Figure This! - Fun math brain teasers.
Introducation to Algebra - Great site for pre-algebra and algebra
Math Fact Cafe - Lots of math printables. Cool site.
Hands-on Math - Hands on math activities for elementary
Pattern Possibilities - All kinds of math patterns
Teacher Resources Galore- Fractions, time, money, place value, etc.
File Folder Games - Math games for elementary
Mathwire.com - Standards-based Math Activities
Science
The Science Spot - Everything science.
Steve Spangler Science
Special Education
AAC Intervention - Lots of cool Boardmaker activities!
Augmentative/Alternative Communication - Really cool speech path site with tons of speech-related activities.
speakingofspeech.com - lots of materials for special ed created by teachers.
asteachersites - Tons of really cool Autism-related goodies!
Special Education Sites - Really cool resources and social stories.
Mouse Trial - Interactive online learning games geared toward kiddos with Autism - some free trials but membership fee is low.
Intellitools - Free membership
Adaptations in PreSchool Special Education
IEP Goal Bank - Awesome tool for special educators.
PAT Bank
Make-it-yourself Work Tasks - Another awesome site for special educators and possibly gen edders too.
http://www.positivelyautism.com/ - Great Autism resource site from our very own Nicole. Thanks Nicole!
Tinsnips - printables and ideas for kids with autism, but can be used in any elementary class
Behavior Managment
Intervention Central - Great behavior management resource!
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/ - Discipline help.
Health
HealthyHands.com - I used a lot of printables from this site in my germs unit.
KidsHealth.org - An all-around resource (includes some printables) about everything health and human body related.
Social Studies
MrDonn.org/ - chock full of information about various social studies topics and includes - lesson plans, links to the web by topic, games, articles, you name it.
Roughton's Class - He's helped me tap into what I've really wanted to do with my SS classes and the "Activities" he has listed are so great!
Xpeditions - educator resources ala National Geographic
Atlas - Free printable maps - world
NationalAtlas - Free printable maps - United States
Owl & Mouse- Early reading, a castle to build, map puzzles and maps to print
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - US History, Business/Careers - cool site!
Famous People - Biography mini-lessons to edit
Congress for Kids - Tour the federal government.
White House Kids - Presidents coloring pages
The Constitution for Kids - Everything Constitution. All grade levels.
ESL
Multilingual EGlossary
Conjuguemos- The fast, fun way to practice Spanish verb conjugation
Bighugelabs.com -Do fun stuff with your fotos
http://www.herencia.com/cgi-bin/links.cgi - Latino Links
Reader's Digest Mexico
National Geographic in Spanish
Mes-English- Meant for ESL, but great also for special ed, vocabulary, etc. Plenty of printables, very visual.
Graphic Organizers
Free Printable Graphic Organizers
More free graphic organizers from EdHelper.com
Printables
SEN Teacher - a whole bunch of random, customizable printables.
Preshcool Printables - file folder games that work for the younger kids--free printables
Enchanted Learning - Lots of great printables. Cheap membership.
Misc.
eMINTS -Gives you lots of links on many themes (search engine)
Free Downloads of games to learn sight words, letter sounds, math facts
5th Grade Centers - Lots of centers for 5th grade.
Classroom Architect - Create and print your classroom floor plan. Awesome site.
Classroom Power - Power Teaching
Introduction to Power Teaching
A N I M O T O - create photo montages or videos, with sound and effects.


NOTE: There is one post on page four of this thread that has over 80 websites listed. Plese view that post for more websites that may not be listed above.

 

Steve Spangler Science!

I'm growing upside-down tomatoes on my deck this summer; got the idea from Steve Spangler's website!

 

http://www.fredjones.com/PAT/index.html
PAT Bank ideas

http://learningpage.com
Lesson plans

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/k12links.htm
Links for K-12 teachers

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mlg/mlg.php?&letter=a&language=0000000005
Multilingual e-glossary

http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/index.php
Free graphic organizers

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/
Lesson plans

BTW, how can I make these URLs into live links like you two did in your posts?

 

Busy Teacher's Cafe
Look under "teacher resources"

Carl's Corner
Tons of ideas/activities for reading and centers down left side of page

Virtual Vine
Lots of good stuff!

Teaching Heart
K-3 site

 

http://homepage.mac.com/chrisbiffle/FileSharing37.html

games to learn sight words, letter sounds, math facts

I love super speed-I plan on incorporating it in my class next year.

 

Well this will mainly only help Spanish and bilingual ed teachers but I'm going to put them anyway because I like them.

Conjuguemos: The fast, fun way to practice Spanish verb conjugation

fd's Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your fotos

La Herencia: Latino Links

Reader's Digest Mexico

National Geographic en Español

 

Puzzle Maker (make custom wordsearches, math blocks, and other puzzles) http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

Positively Autism (free newsletter with printable folder games, flash cards, data sheets, lesson plans, and more) http://www.positivelyautism.com/

 

Starfall.com - for prereading/early reading games and activities
Storylineonline.net - great books read by actors (free)

 

Admin -- Can you please sticky this thread or create a new one with an organized list? This topic comes up regularly and it would be SO helpful to have all of these links easily accessible.

Most of my faves have been posted already, but here are some more:
eMints Gives you lots of links on many themes (search engine)
Healthy Hands -- I used a lot of printables from this site in my germs unit.
Kids Health An all-around resource (includes some printables) about everything health and human body related.
Printable maps -- world
Printable maps -- United States
The Math Worksheet Site Instant basic math drill/review sheets. Nicely done. Fuller version available with subscription, but I got lots of mileage out of the free features.
Graphic Organizers for all occasions. From edhelper. Free.
Mes-English Meant for ESL, but great also for special ed, vocabulary, etc. Plenty of printables, very visual.
SEN teacher a whole bunch of random, customizable printables.
Time magazine educator site
National Geographic xpeditions educator resources
National Geographic kids site (not printables, but a GREAT educational site!)

 

Mr. Lettiere's English on the Web

Love the study guides and handouts. He also has great links.

 

I love

virtual vine
lots of resources
www.preschoolprintables.com
file folder games that work for the younger kids--free printables
www.dltk-kids.com
good craft ideas and you can customize charts
www.enchantedlearning.com
great printables
www.tinsnips.com
printables and ideas for kids with autism, but can be used in any elementary class
www.chartdog.com
for teachers--it's an online charting program to document just about anything and it creates the graph
www.jimwrightonline.com
behavior resources

 

Trinda,

the tinsnips link brought up one of those odd domains that has all sorts of stuff -- maybe it's not the correct URL?

OK, it is http://www.tinsnips.org

 

Hi Missy,

When you're in "reply to post" mode, click on the earth icon in the menu above and a pop-up box will show up. Paste your http address in the box, and then it'll insert the link for you. You'll notice that after doing this, part of the inserted code will be highlighted. You simply type whatever you want and it'll inser the text for you. So I can either have http://classroom.4teachers.org/ or Classroom Architect for a link depending on if I type over that highlight or not.

I noticed your links work anyway, so either way, you're posting clickable links.

Great sites, everybody! Thanks so much for sharing! There are soooo many cool websites out there for teachers. :woot:

 

And this is why I LOVE this site!

 

google "yourchildlearns" as one word

Early reading, a castle to build, map puzzles and maps to print

 

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html

http://www.free.ed.gov/?CFID=14341380&CFTOKEN=42a280b1e096bf1-C5982F60-F7E2-7331-77DD58F9FC98CEFE

http://www.figurethis.org/
Math brain teasers

http://www.mathleague.com/help/algebra/algebra.htm
Great site for pre-algebra and algebra

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/names.html
Biography mini-lessons to edit

http://www.teachersdesk.org/
Great resources for grades 5 and 6

http://www.congressforkids.net/games/articlesofconfederation/2_artofconf.htm
Government stuff for elementary, middle

 

Most of mine listed already. I also like

http://writingfix.com
Http://readwritethink.org

 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidentsday/color/
Pictures of all the presidents to color

http://readwritethink.org/
An International Reading Organization site

http://www.usconstitution.net/constkids4.html
Constitution info good for 4th to 7th

http://www.davidparker.com/janine/mathpage/handson.html
Hands on math activities for elementary

http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/heal/rsrchlst.htm
All kinds of math patterns

http://www.teacherresourcesgalore.com/warm_ups.htm

http://www.webeans.net/hutt/ffgames.htm
File folder games

http://literacyconnections.com/WordStudyActivities.html

http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/3.htm
All kinds of lesson plans

http://www.mathwire.com/archives/index.html

http://www.kildeer.district96.k12.il.us/fifth/centers5.html
Lots of centers for 5th grade

 

'daisy, my dear, since you're watching... Bored is right: could you make this a sticky thread, please? Or do I gotta report a post?

 

Wow! I thought I was doing good with edhelper.com (some free, some only with subscription - I think it is DEFINITELY worth the price) - activities and lesson helpers - printables, puzzles, etc.

Scholastic Printables (new, and I think you might have to subscribe, but I'm not sure)

www.readinglady.com and http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm - all free, wonderful resources for literacy education!

Also, check the Yahoo groups - there are tons of teacher groups on there!

 

I second that one. Make sure you find out about the Power Teaching Olympics, you will love that one.

I also like classroompower, but its identity will soon change from a blog.

 

Aside from AtoZ, I think Chris Biffle and yours are the best resource sites (and maybe readinglady.com, too), PT!

 

Thanks! Mine is about to be converted into a portal site for beginning Power Teachers.

 

Thanks these are great! I just purchased a new computer, so I lost all my links...I tried to bookmark them in Yahoo...but did not have much luck.
:up:

 

Great stuff, guys! PW thanks on the tip about Yahoo, I have an account there. I'll have to look into it.

 

That will be fabulous, PT! Now all I have to do is get hired! LOL

Teachling - no problem! Most of the stuff I know came from AtoZ! At least most of it except for Power Teaching and the Mosaic Listserve (available for free at www.readinglady.com), a site & forum for and about reading instruction! I haven't checked Yahoo as much as I should. Edhelper saved my bacon last spring when I was LTS in a 1st grade class for 6 weeks!

 

I did not read all of the posts so I don't know if this site is already here, but here it is http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx.

 

The easytestmaker is great! Thanks

 

www.educatonworld.com - an unbelievable resource for everyone at every level

 

www.edhelper.com

 

Does anyone know the website that lets you arrange your classroom virtually and then print it??

 

i have a bunch listed on my site.

www.freewebs.com/lcluigs

LC

 

my ikeepbookmarks page also has a bunch of 'em!

http://www.iKeepBookmarks.com/cori_luigs



LC

 

More great info & ideas! Thanks, Ic. I'm also created a site to stay organize & have things I need available no matter where I am.

 

Trinda, there are a few of them but my favorite is Classroom Architect. I'll put it on the list under miscellaneous.

 

For discipline help I like http://www.disciplinehelp.com/.

 

100+ Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks

 

superkidsmath.com create math worksheets for various levels and abilities.

 

Thanks, zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!

 

mathfactcafe.com