Multiple Content Area Resources

Multiple Content Area
Online Resources
for Students and Teachers

Here you will find safe, online standards based interactive activities and games for early childhood/primary students. There are great activities and resources for both math and language arts.

Scholastic's Computer Lab Favorites provides
self contained interactive activities for all subject areas that can be used during your work station time or in the lab. Students can be directed to what you want them to do or you can have them spin the wheel to find an activity to do.

Integrating quality videos can enhance your classroom instruction. After you have activated your IDEAL account check out Discovery Education Streaming to locate videos that tie into your curriculum, are linked to standards, and have ready made lesson plans and activities. Log into to Ideal to check it out.

BrainPOP Jr. provides educational movies for K-3 learners. These movies can be used to support learning in each content area. The movies cone with quizzes, games, activities, and lesson ideas that can be used to extend student learning of the concept be presented in each movie.

Encarta Kids can be found in ALL Programs to get there Click Start > All Programs > Microsoft Encarta > Encarta Kids. This tool provides students with age-appropriate articles and multimedia. Students have access to kid friendly research material, maps, interactive diagrams, video and more. There is even a function that allows students to have the text read to them they simply highlight the text and press the F8 key and then they can turn it off by pressing F9.

Scholastic has created a resource if virtual field trips that can be used to support students learning. Each Internet Field Trip is designed to enrich the study of a specific curriculum theme or topic. The web resources provided in each field trip can be used as a lesson-planning tool for teachers or may also be used to provide a guided research experience for students beginning to use the Internet independently.

Kid Safe Search Engines
To help your students find appropriate information on the Internet it is important to have them use kid safe search engines. On this resource page you will find links to kid safe search engines and to resources to help teach your student effective search strategies.

The Utah Education Network is an excellent site that provides you with links to a variety of interactive games to support student learning in several different content areas.

Here is a great site for interactive activities to support reading, writing, and math in the K-2 classroom. Below are direct links to the Language Arts and Math sections.

This site has fun interactive learning games for various content areas that your students can visit to help reinforce skills taught in each area.

Scholastic's Teach Now -Back to School Ideas
This page provides lots of great ideas, resources, and lessons/units for the start of the year. Check out the unit called Famous First Graders. In this unit students become reporters, photographers, and movie producers and interview each other as they become "Famous First Graders." What a great way for students to start learning to work together and get to know one another.

End of the School Year!

Check out these great end-of-the-year resources. Below you will find links to resources and lessons that you can use to help you and your class experience a successful end of the school to year.
Scholastic's End of the Year Tips Page
abcteach's End of the School Year Resource Page
Education World's Article: Making the Most of the Dreaded

This site has tons of links to resources you can use as independent skill activities during centers time. Below are links to for each grade level. On these pages you will find interactive math and language arts activities for a variety of skills at your grade level.
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade

Tools and Ideas
Find great ideas and resources you can use with your students on the NEA's Tools and Ideas page. Here you will find lesson plans, classroom management information and, practical tips form classroom teachers.

Global School House is a clearinghouse for more than 2000 online collaborative projects, organized by topic, grade, and project date. Find partners or join projects from around the globe.

Virtual field trips allow students to go beyond the classroom walls to visit sites throughout the nation and the world. Find a virtual fieldtrip for your class to go on by visiting the Virtual Field Trips Resource Page

PBS Kids is an incredible resources of educational games and activities for K-2 students. All PBS Kid Web sites include at-home activities, lesson plans, educational guides and tips for parents and teachers. You can explore these resources by visiting http://www.pbs.org/parents/

NAEYC
National Association for the Education of Young Children This site provides resources and articles for teachers and parents of children ages 3 to 8.

Find information on best practices regarding technology that can be used to enhance student learning in the primary classroom.

Connecting technology with the way young children learn. This site provides resources and information for educators and care providers that work with primary students.

eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate web resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms. Themes are organized by grade level and alphabetically.

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