Popular Websites for Students
- Bonus.com
Kids' supersite that offers a protected "playground" of internet
content, featuring hundreds of games, puzzles and other activities.
Play interactive games and imaginative activities, use online coloring
books and explore worlds of information.
- Dosity's
Language Arts Links has some unique online
word games and writing opportunities.
- Enchanted Learning is
very kid friendly and always updated with new information, this has an
awesome online dictionary/encyclopedia, incredible thematic "Zoom
Units" and great diagrams for kids of all ages. This is a must see. Can
also access through Zoom School.
- Fake
Out vocabulary game by Education Place
- FunBrain.com
Internet Learning Games is an award winning website for students in
grades K-8.
- Geography World Games includes,
among many more, National Geographic Geo Bee Challenge and Discovery
Channel Geo Game as well as a link back to the Geography World homepage
of related resources.
- Global Grocery List Project Students from around the world share local
grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social
studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines.
- KidzPagePoetry
has poetry and verse submitted from children around the world. Children
can write their own poetry for submission as well.
- Kid's Domain Links to explore from
around the world.
- Mightybook.com
features read-aloud picture books, sing-along songs, video song books,
poetry, story-writing and illustrating contests and learning games
designed for children ages 2-12.
- Monster Exchange Project involves a
child trying to communicate an original monster image into another
child's mind.
- Search Engines for Young Students
was written by Julie Coiro to help guide learners and their teachers
through the maze of child-friendly search engines.
- Scholastic News Zone, Weekly Readerand Time for Kids are
wonderful reading materials for students reading in the content areas.
- Solve an online Mystery at the popular The case.com.
- StarChild Learning Center for Young Astronomers is a popular interactive website with information about the
solar system organized into appropriate reading levels for elementary
students.
- The ABC's of Using the
Internet with Students in Grades 4-6 created by Julie Coiro
includes an alphabetical list of popular educational websites for your
students.
- The Student Zone at
North Carolina's Wise Owl website is a well organized list of featured
sites and archived links related to their curriculum. Also features a
similar "zone" for teachers, parents, reference, and media/technology.
- 700+ Great Websites from American Library Association (ALA) described as "amazing, spectacular, colorful web sites
for kids and the adults who care about them".
- Wacky
Web Tales interactive writing and publishing from Education Place
Recommendations by Classroom Teachers
This page last updated May, 2007.
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