Category: Websites
21 Great Websites and Apps for Earth Day
April 22nd is Earth Day. Celebrate it with your students by letting them visit these websites:
- Breathing Earth
- Breathing Earth YouTube Video–of CO2 use, population changes, and more
- Conservation Game
- Earth day collection
- Earth Day—NASA Ocean Currents
- Eco-friendly house
- Eeko World
- Ecotourism Simulation–for grades 4 and above
- Electrocity
- Footprint calculator
- Home of the Future
- My Garbology
- NASA City
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11 Easter Sites For Your Students
Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. The Easter date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. This year, it’s March 31st. Here are some websites your students will love:
- Easter color-me (for Kindergarten/first grade)
- Easter Color Me to print or import to drawing program
- Easter games II
- Easter games III
- Easter games IV
- Easter poems and songs (to play online)
- Easter Puppies–video
- Easter puzzles and games
- Easter songs for kids
- Easter story--the Easter Egg–video
- Easter Word hunt (Starfall)
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28 Unique Ideas for Publishing Student Work
After you’ve looked at these 28 sites, there’s no reason to print student work and stick it on a wall. You have too many options:
- Book Cover creator
- Create a magazine cover
- Flipboard—organize ideas into mag
- Glogster—posters
- Go animate
- Issuu (http://issuu.com/)
- Newspaper—create a newspaper
- Newspaper—create a newspaper clipping
- Newspapers around the world
- PhotoPeach–online slideshows
- Poster maker—like an eye chart
- Posters—8×10 at a time–simple
- PowerPoint games for kids
- PowerPoint stuff
- PowerPoint Templates
- Prezi
- Print Large Posters in 8×10 bits
- Print Posters One Page at a Time
- Publish the magazines
- Scoop-it—organize webpages
- Screen Capture—full webpage
- Screencast-o-matic
- ScreenLeap—screen share for free
- Slideboom—upload PowerPoints; share
- Tackk—create online fliers
- Turn short stories into books
- Wideo–create videos online
- Youblisher to make your pdf documents flappable
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7 Websites That Ring in Spring
The temperatures are freezing on the East Coast, but Spring is right around the corner and we as teachers must get ready for it. What better way than with Spring Websites. Here are some of my favorites:
- Life Cycle I
- Life Cycle II
- Spring Games
- Spring Games II
- Spring Garden–click to find flowers
- Spring Word Search
- Spring Word Scramble
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16 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students
Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites:
- Color the shamrock
- Color the Pot-o-gold
- Color the leprechaun
- Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle
- Puzzle–St. Pat’s puzzle II
- Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle
- Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle
- Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle II
- Puzzle–Leprechaun jigsaw puzzle
- St. Pat’s math
- St. Patrick’s Day history–video
- St. Pat’s Day songs–video
- Tic tac toe
- Webquest for St. Patrick’s Day I
- Webquest II
- Wordsearch
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20 Sites for Authentic Assessments
Here’s a good collection for both summative and formative assessments:
- Class badges
- Grading automatically w G. Docs–Flubaroo
- Hollywood Sq/Jeopardy Templates
- Jeopardy Labs
- No Red Ink–track student learning, create quizzes, CC-based–free sign-up
- Online quizzes that you create, online grades
- PollDaddy
- Puzzle maker
- Quizbean–make and take quizzes online
- Quizdini
- Rubrics I
- Rubrics II
- Rubrics III
- Rubrics/Assessments—create–KSchrock
- Rubrics—for CCSS
- Socrative
- Technology use survey—interactive
- Test creator—online
- Tests—create fill-in-the-blanks
- Padlet
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Read Across America Day
Many people in the United States, particularly students, parents and teachers, join forces on Read Across America Day, annually held on March 2. This nationwide observance coincides with the birthday of Dr Seuss.
Here are some great reading websites for students K-5:
- Aesop Fables—no ads
- Aesop’s Fables
- Audio stories
- Childhood Stories
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Edutainment games and stories
- Fables—Aesop—nicely done
- Fairy Tales and Fables
- Interactive storybook collection
- Listen/read–Free non-fic audio books
- Magic Keys–stories for youngers
- Mighty Book
- Open Library
- PBS Stories–Between the Lions
- RAZ Kids–wide variety of reading levels, age groups, with teacher dashboards
- Signed stories
- Starfall
- Stories read by actors
- Stories to read
- Stories to read for youngsters
- Stories to read from PBS kids
- Stories to read–II
- Stories to read—International Library
- Stories—MeeGenius—read/to me
- Stories—non-text
- Story Scramble
- Story time–visual
- Storytime for me
- Teach your monster to read (free)
- Tumblebooks (fee)
- Ziggity Zoom Stories
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17 Websites to Manage Your Classroom
These are clever approaches to keeping order among avid learners:
- Bouncy Balls–balls bounce based on level of noise in the classroom
- Calmness Counter–how noisy is your classroom? Let students see.
- Class Dojo—class behavior mgmt
- Class Badges
- Doodle—schedule meetings, polls
- Forms—Adobe interactive pdf, collect results
- Google Safe Search Preferences
- If This Then That—manage social networks
- Open Badges
- Password creator
- Plagiarism Tracker
- Random Team Generator
- Sign-up Genius–organize volunteers, presentations, lists of all sorts
- Tagible–organize videos from YT, Vimeo, more
- Teach with IPads
- Too Noisy--another app to show noise level in classroom (app)
- Volunteer Spot–organize with free online sign-up sheets
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14 Websites for 4th Grade Culture
Here’s a list of great 4th grade websites on Culture:
- Classrooms around the world
- Clothes around the world
- Eat—food around the world
- First Thanksgiving
- Google World of Wonders
- One day around the world–video
- 360 Panorama of the world
- Language Mapper—around the globe
- Life in a Day—video (long)
- School lunches around the world
- Sleep—where children sleep around the world
- US Languages
- What we own—around the world
- World National Anthem
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19 Valentine Sites For Your Students
Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else:
- Dress up the heart
- ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu
- Line up the hearts
- More heart writing
- Valentine Day games and stories
- Valentine drag-and-drop
- Valentine match
- Valentine mouse skills
- Valentine projects from Winter Wonderland
- Valentine puppy jigsaw
- Valentine rebus game[gallery type="slideshow" ids="44901,44902,44903"]
- Valentine rebuses
- Valentine Sudoku
- Valentine tic-tac-toe
- Valentine typing
- Valentine unscramble
- Valentine’s Day apps
- Write in a heart
Do you have any I missed?
Holiday Lesson Plans
Looking for holiday lesson plans? Here’s my collection.