Cool Web Sites

Now that everyone is back to school and many of our students have access to laptop computers and wireless internet, I thought our PESD teachers might like to have a list of internet possibilities. That is my focus for today.

Let's start with some web sites for our younger students. Two of my favorites are Funbrain and Starfall. Funbrain, http://www.funbrain.com/, has a searchable database of educational games as well as other activities for K - 8 children. StarFall (http://www.starfall.com/) is a reading site. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.

Math Web Resources: The PESD web site has a great math resources web page at this URL: http://www.phxelem.k12.az.us/technology_and_learning/on-line_learning/Math/math_resources.htm

Science Resources: Here are some science resources that I recently discovered.

• http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_plastics/hop_jr/activities/index.html
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/science_elem.htm
• http://www.teacher-access.com/elementaryscience.htm
• http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/curric/elem/Escience.html
• http://www.science-lessons.ca/games/index.html
• http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/general.html?DOC=education\wande\index.html
• http://eo.ucar.edu/educators/links_elem.html
• http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/teachers_resources/lesson_plans.html

As I find other resources, I'll list them here so check back often.