Category: Websites
Weekend Websites: 50 websites about animals
Here are 50 animal websites for grades K-5, everything from Dinosaurs to the wildly popular Wolfquest (click here for updates):
- 3D Toad—3D science study
- Adaptations—game
- Animal Adaptations
- Animal games
- Animal Games II
- Animal games II
- Animal Games III
- Animal Habitats
- Animal homes
- Animal homes
- Animal Homes II
- Animal Homes III
- Animal puzzle games–cool
- Animals
- Animals—San Diego Zoo Videos
- Barnaby and Bellinda Bear
- Bembo’s Zoo
- Build a habitat
- Build a habitat II
- Butterfies and habitats
- Classify animals
- Cockroach—virtual
- Dino collection
- Dino Fossils then and now
- Dino Games
- Dino Games II
- Dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs II
- Dinosaurs IV
- Dinosaurs V
- Dinosaurs VI
- Endangered species collection
- Food chain
- Food Chains
- Frog habitat
- Google Earth—African Animals
- Google Earth—endangered animals
- Habitat Game
- Habitats—create one
- Habitats—match them
- Life Cycles
- Life—the Game–colorful
- Ocean Currents—video from NASA
- Ocean Safari
- Ocean Tracks
- Video Safari
- Virtual Cockroach
- Virtual Farm
- Virtual Zoo
- Wolfquest—simulation–DL
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Weekend Website #133: Embeddable Puzzles
It’s the time of year when children are looking for entertainment and parents want something fun to keep their cerebral fires burning. Entertainment-cerebra–that’s not an oxymoron. Check this website on States, and then check out the other topics available on Quiz Factor.
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Weekend Website #130: EngageNY
Every week, I share a website that inspired my students. Here’s one that I’ve found effective in supporting the pedagogic changes to Common Core
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17 Memorial Day Websites for Students
Memorial Day is the time we remember all of those soldiers (and anyone in the Armed Forces) who gave their lives in the defense of American freedom. In war and peace, they made the ultimate sacrifice, and because of them we are privileged to live the American Dream.
Once a year, we honor them, their sacrifice, and those they left behind. Here are some activities to help students understand the import of this day:
- Folding the American flag
- In Flanders Field–poem
- Memorial Day Maze
- Memorial Day Messages, Speeches, Oaths, Poems, Anthems, and images
- Memorial Day Poems
- Memorial Day Poetry–poems
- Memorial Day Prayer
- Memorial Day puzzle I
- Memorial Day Puzzle II
- Memorial Day Digipuzzle
- Memorial Day Quiz
- (more…)
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7 Educational Websites Students Will Ask to Visit This Summer
The most popular website at my school is Minecraft–hands down, starting in 1st grade (I’m amazed parents let six-year-olds use this sometimes violent game, but they do and students do and the mania starts). Because kids would live in this blocky virtual world 24/7, I only let them play it two lunch periods a week. Those days, my lab is always packed. Kids have no idea they’re learning math (estimation, geometry, shapes), science (geology, rocks, minerals), building, or softer skills like thinking and reasoning, problem solving, hypothesis-testing, risk-taking, and collaboration. They don’t realize they’re exercising that delicate skill called ‘creativity’ or care that Common Sense Media raves that “Minecraft empowers players to exercise their imagination and take pride in their digital creations as they learn basic building concepts.”
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Weekend Website #126: BrainPop Game Up
Every week, I share a website that inspired my students. Here’s one that I’ve found effective in… Here’s a great website to answer that question.
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Dear Otto: I need reading resources for ELL/ESL
Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please complete the form below and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names.
Here’s a great question I got from Shelley:
Tomorrow is a half day planning day so I can’t wait to look at all of the websites you have for 1st grade. I’m wondering what recommendations can you give for ELL/ESL students? One of my student’s home language is Spanish and the other home language is Pashto. Thank you for any recommendations!
I found these websites that share story books in lots of languages:
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Weekend Website #125: Starfall Math
Every week, I share a website that inspired my students. Here’s one you may have missed. Starfall is a lot more than reading…
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12 Great Websites for Earth Day
April 22nd is Earth Day. Celebrate it with your students by letting them visit these six websites:
- Breathing Earth
- Breathing Earth YouTube Video–of CO2 use, population changes, and more
- Conservation Game
- Environmental footprintEco-friendly houseEeko WorldBreathing earth– the environmentConservation GameHome of the FutureMy Garbology
- Ecotourism Simulation–for grades 4 and above
- EekoWorld
- Electrocity
- Eyes on the Earth–from NASA
- Footprint calculator (more…)
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42 Great Story Websites You’ll Love
Check out our latest addition of great websites–Stories. There are 45 websites for grades K-5, everything from audio to international to write your own. Enjoy!
- Aesop Fables—no ads
- Aesop Fairy Tales
- Aesop’s Fables
- Childhood Stories
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Comic Creator
- Edutainment games and stories
- Fables and Fairy Tales
- Fables–Aesop, beautiful
- Fables–Aesop, nicely done
- Fairy tales
- Fairy Tales and Fables
- Get Writing—write your own story
- Interactive storybook collection
- Ivy Joy Fables
- Listen/read–Free non-fic audio books
- Magic Keys–stories for different ages
- Make a Story
- Make another story
- Make Believe Comix (more…)