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35+ Easter Websites and Apps

Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. To non-Christians (or non-traditional Christians), that event signifies a rebirth of spring that is filled with joy and gifts — and chocolate! Overall, it is America’s most-popular holiday with Christmas a close second. The date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. This year, it’s March 31, 2024.

Here’s a good mixture of games, lesson plans, stories, and songs that can be blended into many academic subjects (for updates on this Easter-themed list of websites, click here):

18+ Interactive Easter websites

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This website includes a colorful collection of Easter (and Spring) games and information that is visual and enticing to youngers. Games are Easter Math, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Egg Dress-up, Easter Word hunt, complete-the-sentence, and more. Also, viewers will find websites about the history of Easter around the world.

ABCYa Easter Egg Hunt

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Like all of ABCYa’s games and activities, Easter Egg Hunt is a colorful and intuitive educational game for young children. It is easy-to-understand, playful, with favorite Easter symbols and energetic music that will engage children. The five Easter-themed games are easy-to-understand (no directions required) with a countdown clock to motivate activity. Nicely, it also aligns gameplay with the national standards met.

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Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring

A few 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 Games
Spring Vocabulary (video)
Spring Word Scramble
Spring Word Search
What Happens in Spring (video)
What Happens in Spring–PS (video)

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11 Valentine Sites For Students

Here are eleven fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else (click here for updates on this list):

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Do you use any I missed? If you’re looking for more, here’s my collection of holiday lesson plans, easily adaptable to Valentine’s Day.

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12 Online Resources About Puzzles

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National Puzzle Day is celebrated on January 29th each year. It’s a day dedicated to enjoying and solving puzzles of all kinds, including jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, Sudoku, and various other brain teasers. Puzzle enthusiasts often use this day to engage in their favorite puzzle-solving activities and share their passion with others. Whether it’s a solo endeavor or a group activity, National Puzzle Day encourages people to exercise their minds and have fun with the challenges that puzzles present. If you have any specific questions or if there’s anything else you’d like to know about National Puzzle Day, feel free to ask!

Puzzles are also a great way to practice keyboarding skills like drag-drop, click, and select.

Here are popular puzzles resources teachers are using to teach mouse skills, critical thinking, and more (for updates on this Puzzles list, click here): (more…)

13 Websites to Learn Everything About Landforms

If your third grader has to write a report about landforms, try these websites:

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8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer

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8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer

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14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

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Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them:

Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app)
Canadian Thanksgiving
Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities
Plimoth Plantation–a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.
Thanksgiving edu-websites–CybraryMan
Thanksgiving Games
Thanksgiving games and puzzles
Thanksgiving games–Quia
Thanksgiving Lesson Plans
Thanksgiving Wordsearch
Turkey Templates — activities in Google Slides

If you’re an iPad school, try one of these:

Berenstein Bears Give Thanks
Primary Games–games, coloring books, more
Thanksgiving coloring book

If you’re looking for projects, you’ll find two on Ask a Tech Teacher:

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Thanksgiving ASCII Art
Comics
Countdown Clock for the Holiday
Team Challenge
Thanksgiving Poll

Here’s a gallery of some of the Thanksgiving/Holiday projects:

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17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

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Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bell’s chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program.

Today, education can be found anywhere, by teaming up with students in Kenya or Skyping with an author in Sweden or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station. Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research. Learning has no temporal or geographic borders, and is available wherever students and teachers find an internet connection.

This vast landscape of resources is often free, but this cerebral trek through the online world requires students know how to do it safely, securely, and responsibly. This used to mean limiting access to the internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) students would be discouraged from using an infinite and fascinating resource.

It didn’t work.

Best practices now suggest that instead of cocooning students, we teach them to be good digital citizens, confident and competent in 17 areas:

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