These are my 62 favorite first-grade websites. I sprinkle them in throughout the year, adding several each week to the class internet start page, deleting others. I make sure I have 3-4 each week that integrate with classroom lesson plans, 3-4 that deal with technology skills and a few that simply excite students about tech in education.
Here’s the list:
- Aesop Fables—no ads
- Audio stories—read by actors
- Audio stories—speakaboos
- Alphabetic order
- Build a Neighborhood
- Breathing earth– the environment
- Brown Bear Typing
- Childhood Stories
- Classic fairy tales
- Clifford
- Clocks
- Clocks II
- Comic Builder
- Create a story
- Dino Fossils then and now
- Edugames at PBS
- Edugames from BBC
- Egyptian Madlibs
- Fairy Tales and Fables
- Games that make you think
- Geography—find msg around the world
- Greece-Rome—Winged Sandals
- Make Believe Comix
- Math Games
- Math/LA Videos by grade level
- Mighty Book
- Money flashcards
- Money—counting
- Mouse skillsMr. Picasso Head
- Museum of Modern Art
- My Online Neighborhood
- Number concepts
- Number Order
- Online typing practice
- Pharaoh’s Tomb Game
- Science websites
- Shapes, colors, letters, numbers
- Starfall
- Stories for children
- Stories from PBS
- The Magic Schoolbus
- Where is Santa?
- Wild on Math—simple to use
- Word games—k-2
Do you have any to add?
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.