Online Resources for PreK-3 |
Interactive Games and Activities
Most of these sites work best with high-speed connections. You may have to download flash players to make the interactive games work. Some sites have subscription service to gain access to more games and activities, but also include a sampling for free. |
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Sesame Street - games, Stories, Art, Music. May have to download flash player. High speed connection. |
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Crayola Creativity Center - have fun being creative and colorful. Includes lesson plans. |
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UptoTen - kid-safe site with games, activities, and more. Very well done. |
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Enchanted Learning - theme related pages filled and activities. Not as nicely designed as some of the other sites, but lots of good info. |
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Learning Planet - interactive games and activities. Teachers may subscribe for $39.95 year for full access. |
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Toon University - interactive demo games (math, reading, science, social studies). Adult + 2 children membership is $39.95 year. |
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Kaboose - play the free games. Adult + 2 children membership is $19.95 year. |
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Scholastic - activities, lessons, interactive games. See the PreK-2 section. |
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Berenstain Bear County - activities and games that support the wonderful Berenstain Bears books. |
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FunBrain - educational games and activities. |
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PBS Kids - games and activities based on popular TV characters (Barney, Teletubbies, caillou, etc) |
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Disney's Rolie Polie Olie - fun games and activities. Turn on your speakers! |
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BrainPop - educational animated movies for K12 students. |
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Kids Domain - lots of educational games! |
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4Kids - games, activities, and more! |
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Billy Bear's Playground - games, activities, and more! |
| Literacy |
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Starfall - interactive books and word games to help children learn to read. |
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The World of Peter Rabbit - games and activities related to Peter Rabbit and friends. Pretty site, looks just like the books. |
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Magic Keys Books to Read - click through online books to read. |
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Children's Literature Web Guide - internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Find book award winners listed here. |
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Seussville - fun reading games and activities. |
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ReadWriteThink - search for grade-specific lesson plans and web resources that support literacy. |
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Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project - award winning site from Maryland aimed at improving literacy in early childhood. |
| Social Studies |
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White House for Kids - explore the White House in a kid-friendly environment. |
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Abraham Lincoln - learn about Abe from this 1st grade class site from Lincoln City, Indiana. |
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Harriet Tubman - about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad from a 2nd grade class in New York. |
| Science & Math |
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Cool Science for Curious Kids - interactive science activities from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. |
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Invention at Play - for young inventors. |
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The Yuckiest Site on the Internet - kids love Discovery's yucky site full of worms, roaches, and gross body noises! |
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Math Matching Game - addition, sums 0 through 9. |
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Math Flash Cards - create your own online math flash cards - as easy or as difficult as you need them to be! |
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Early Math Interactive - create your own online math drill game. |
| The Arts |
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San Francisco Symphony for Kids - turn up your speakers and enjoy this musically educational site! |
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Make a Flake - create a virtual snowflake |
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Color Pages - free color pages, wide variety of topics |
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ABC Teach - categorized color pages |
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Crayola - color pages and activities |
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Create-a-Book - color pages and big letters to print and color (pdf files) |
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Graphic Garden - cutesy pics for kids to color |
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Coloring.com - color pages (site has a few popups) |
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Kidz Page - printable colouring pages |
| More for Teachers |
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EduPuppy - the site that boasts "everything for early childhood education." |
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Teachers Net - visit the Primary Elementary Center for ideas, lesson plans, information. |
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Kinder Korner - a site full of great resources and ideas by Victoria Smith, a creative K-1 teacher from CA. |
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Busy Bees - a fun 1st grade website by Mrs. Tonnessen, an educator from NJ. |
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Core Knowledge Lesson Plans (1st grade) - teacher tested lesson plans for first grade classrooms. |
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Cool Websites for Kids - look on the left side for links for little kids, like the Bob the Builder site. |
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Online Resources for Early Childhood Professionals - great collection of categorized sites supporting early childhood education. |
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Grade 1 Curriculum Links - click "In The Classroom" then "Curriculum Internet Links." From Howard County Public Schools, Maryland. |
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ALA's Great Sites for Kids - American Library Association selected these great sites for kids. |
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Internet4Classroom's Kindergarten+ - long list of categorized sites for K-3 classrooms. |
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MI Kids - good list of K2 sites from a Michigan educator. |
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Best Sites for Preschool and Kindergarten - good list of sites by category. |
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Everything Preschool - the name says everything! |
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The Idea Box - early childhood education and activity resources |
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Preschool Printables - things to print and use in your classrooms (some popups) |
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PBS TeacherSource PreK-2 - good resources from PBS |
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Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner - tons of great sites |
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KinderStart - search engine for kid-friendly sites |
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Language Arts from Shawnee Mission School District (KS) - long list of sites |
