These are my 93 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.
Here’s the list (check here for updates):
- Aesop Fables—no ads
- Aesop’s Fables–audio and visual
- Alphabetic order
- Animal Games
- Animal Games II
- Animal homes
- Animal Homes II
- Audio stories—read by actors
- Audio stories—speakaboos
- Brown Bear Typing
- Build a Neighborhood
- Build with Legos
- Childhood Stories
- Children’s Stories–MagicKey
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Clifford
- Clocks
- Clocks II
- Color US Symbols
- Comic Builder
- Create a story
- Dino Fossils then and now
- Eco-friendly house
- Edugames at PBS
- Edugames from BBC
- EekoWorld
- Egyptian Madlibs
- Fairy Tales
- Fairy Tales and Fables
- Fairy Tales–signed
- Forest—Walk Through a Forest
- Games that make you think
- Garfield Internet Cyberbullying
- Geography—find msg around the world
- Great Websites—can’t get thru all
- Greece-Rome—Winged Sandals
- Groundhog Day Games
- Groundhog Day Video
- Hangman
- Holiday Elf Games
- Holiday hangman
- Holiday Hangman II
- Holiday—Design a Gingerbread House
- Holiday—match game
- Holiday—Math Facts
- Holiday—Math Facts
- Holiday—North Pole Academy
- Holiday—North Pole Academy
- Home of the Future
- Interactive storybook collection
- Internet safety–read-to-you book
- Kerpoof
- Keyboarding—Hyper Spider Typing
- Language—parts of speech
- Learn to Type—Big Brown Bear
- Listen/read–Free non-fic audio books
- Magic Schoolbus
- Make a Face
- Make another story
- Make Believe Comix
- Make your own Story
- Math Games
- Mighty Book
- Money flashcards
- Money—counting
- Mouse Click Skills—gorgeous
- Mouse skills
- Mr. Picasso Head
- Museum of Modern Art
- Music with Hands
- Music—Quincy & Magic Instruments
- My Garbology
- Number concepts
- Number Order
- Ocean Tracks
- Online typing practice
- Pharaoh’s Tomb Game
- Rainforest collection
- Rainforest Websites Videos
- Rainforest—3 games
- Rainforest—great but a bit of reading
- Rainforest—Jungle Journey
- Reading games
- Science websites
- Starfall
- Stories for children
- Stories from PBS
- Stories—MeeGenius—read/to me
- SumDog—free reg
- Where is Santa?
- Wild on Math—simple to use
- Word games—k-2
- Writing games
Do you have any to add?
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.