Category: Websites
What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April
Here are the most-read posts for the month of March:
- 11 Online Resources About Puzzles
- Software vs. Online Tools
- 19 Tech Problems Every Student Can Fix
- 25 Sites to Add Rigor and Authenticity to Word Study
- How to Compare and Contrast Authentically
- 6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun
- AI and ChatGPT in Education
- Use the SAMR Model to Energize Class Tech
- Beginning Graphs in MS Excel
- Invention Convention 2023 is coming
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Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring
Spring websites, lesson plans, printables, activities:
- 7 Science Experiments that Teach About Spring
- Books from Scholastic about Spring
- Life cycle of a snake
- Life Cycle Lesson Plans
- Life Cycle resources
- Life Cycles
- Life Cycle Symbaloo
- Plant life cycle
- Spring Puzzle
- Spring Garden–click to find flowers
- Spring Games
- Spring Vocabulary (video)
- Spring Word Scramble
- Spring Word Search
- What Happens in Spring (video)
- What Happens in Spring–PS (video)
Ideas from TeacherVision:
Printables
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
- Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet
- Baseball Fun
- May Day
- Butterfly Facts and Questions
- Butterfly Life Cycle Quiz
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Poster & Activities
- More Spring Printables
Lesson Plans
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13 Websites with Online Stories
Here are popular resources teachers are using to share stories:
- Aesop Fables—no ads
- Aesop’s Fables
- Audio stories
- Childhood Stories
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Fairy Tales and Fables
- Listen/read–Free non-fic audio books
- Owl Eyes (classics)
- Starfall
- Stories read by actors
- Stories to read for youngsters
- Storyline
- Unite for Literacy
Click for more online story resources (or to update this list)
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What You Might Have Missed in February–What’s up in March
Here are the most-read posts for the month of February:
- #WorldReadAloudDay February 1st
- Groundhog Day and the 100th Day of School
- 14 Tech Assessment Strategies
- 72: Check Your Math in Excel
- Is ChatGPT Writing Your Students’ Homework? New Tech Will Detect It
- Tech Tip #45 My Screen is Sideways!!
- 57+ Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
- You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…
- 3 Projects to Teach 1st Grade Architecture
- Teach Vocabulary with the Frayer Model
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3 Projects to Teach 1st Grade Architecture
Many Fridays, I report on a wonderful website or project my classes and parents love. This one is teaching architecture to youngers:
Lesson Plan:
Three projects over six weeks and your students will learn about blueprints, room layout, dimensions, and more. Plus, they’ll understand how to think about a three-dimensional object and then spatially lay it out on paper. This is challenging, but fun for first graders.
Spend two weeks on each projects. Incorporate a discussion of spaces, neighborhoods, communities one week. Practice the drawing, then do the final project which students can save and print. Kids will love this unit.
- First, draw a picture in your drawing program of the child’s home. If you don’t already have a class favorite, check this list. Many have architecture tools so show students how to find them. Have kids think about their house, walk through it. They’ll have to think in three dimensions and will soon realize they can’t draw a two-story house. In that case, allow them to pick which rooms they wish to include and concentrate on what’s in the room.
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57+ Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
Here’s the list of Kindergarten websites I use most often during the school year. Notice that many of the headings are links to more websites under that theme:
Animals
Art
Coding
Critical Thinking
Digital Citizenship
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- Bullying–a read-along book
- Cybersmart Hero
- Hector’s World–Cyberbullying
Farms
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14 Online Resources about Farms
Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach about lots of different types of farms:
- Agriculture in the Classroom
- Alligator farm–video
- Dairy Farm tour-video
- Egg farm–video
- Farm Games
- Farm Games–Boowa and Kwala
- Find a dog
- Fish Farm–video
- Harvest of History–bit older
- Llama farm—video
- Organic Farm–video
- Virtual Farm–4H
- Wind Farm–video
- Wind turbine farm–video
–image credit Deposit Photos
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7 Online Resources to Teach About Vehicles
Do your first graders love vehicles? Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach about them:
- Build a car–abcya Design your very own vehicle with ABCya’s Create a Car! Choose from cars, trucks, buses, and even construction vehicles. Customize your vehicle with different wheels, engines, and more. Enjoy the ride!
- Vehicle Puzzle–click and drag puzzle pieces into place for this picture
- Freight Train Cars–video about all the cars in the freight train from Railway Vehicles
- Patterns in Vehicles–learn about patterns in this video by recognizing them in a video
- Transportation matching–mix and match vehicle parts to make your own unique vehicle
- Transportation Sequence Games–a lesson plan about transportation (but it does require a BrainPop Jr subscription)
- Vehicles–a wide collection of coloring pages for many different vehicles
Do you have any I can add to the list?
–image credit Deposit Photos
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15 Online Coloring Apps
Good websites and apps, some for kids, some for adults. Beware: Many have in-app purchases and advertising
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9 Winter Websites
Here are Winter activities to share the joy of winter:
- 5 Videos to teach about winter
- Animal Winter Games
- Winter Facts and Worksheets
- The Winter Solstice, from PBS–a video for youngers
- Winter Vocabulary–a video
- What is a Solstice, from National Geographic–a video
- What is the Winter Season–a video
- Winter Coloring Pages, Printables, and more
- Winter Games–digital
Click here for updates on this list. #teachaboutwinter (more…)