Great Websites for Educators
1. American Sign Language
Website: aslpro.com
Category: Video Dictionary
Audience: Teachers, Students
Grade Level: All
Subject: Sign Language
A free online dictionary featuring more than 7,000 ASL Signs. All signs are demonstrated by a person via quick video clip.
Website: discoveryeducation.com/teachers
Category: Resource
Audience: Teachers
Grade Level: K-12
Subject: Science, Social Studies, Math, English
Offers interactive digital textbooks & videos for students, as well as lesson plans and professional development for teachers. Many lesson plans are free, but not all services on the site are.
3. Florida Center for Reading Research
Website: www.fcrr.org
Category: Resource
Audience: Teachers
Grade Level: K-5
Subject: Reading
FCRR conducts research on everything related to reading. The site provides hundreds of free, printable instructional materials for teachers in the areas of phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
4. The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal for Kids
Website: kids.gov
Category: Interactive Resource
Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Grade Level: All
Subject: All
The website's mission: "To provide a safe place online where kids can create, play, and learn". Website is set up with separate areas for students in grades K-5, grades 6-8, and Teachers/Parents. This site features interactive activities, articles, videos on all subjects. Free.
5. Library of Congress for Teachers
Website: www.loc.gov/teachers
Category: Resource
Audience: Teachers
Grade Level: All
Subject: All
Offers classroom materials & professional development to help teacher plan lessons using the library's digital collections. Free.
6. Little Bird Tales
Website: littlebirdtales.com
Audience: Students, Parents, Teachers
Grade Level: Elementary
Subject: Creative Writing
This website is great to teach creative writing using technology. Students can make their own audio storybook in minutes. Students can draw, paint, or insert images. They can also record their voice on each page. The site is free and contains no ads! A refreshingly simple site!
7. PBS Online
Website: pbskidsplay.org
Category: Interactive
Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Grade Level: PreK-1 (Ages 3-6)
Subject: Creativity, Healthy Development, Language, Literacy, Math, Science, & Social Studies.
This site offers 50 learning games for children ages 3-6. The activities feature PBS characters, and the activities adapt to the child's abilities. Parents and teachers can track the child's progress on a graph. Free trial.
8. Sesame Street Online
Website: sesamestreet.org
Category: Interactive
Audience: Children & Parents
Grade Level: Preschool
Subject: Letters, Numbers, Patterns, Matching, Shapes, & Themes (such as Animals, Spanish, Cultures, etc.)
This site features a large variety of interactive learning activities featuring Sesame Street characters. Colorful and attractive games. Free.
9. Starfall
Website: www.starfall.com
Category: Interactive
Audience: Teachers, students
Grade Level: PreK-2, ELL, SPED
Subject: Reading
Free, interactive website featuring games & activities for early readers. Also offers free printable materials. Research-based to incorporate the Big 5: phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
10. Teachers Count
Website: teacherscount.org
Category: Resource
Audience:Teachers
Grade Level: All
Subject: All
This site is a huge teacher resource. It offers information about professional development, grant-writing, etc. It also has a feature titled Best of the Web, featuring lists of websites with specific teaching themes, including ELL resources, museum websites, and environmental education. Free.
11. Teachers.Net
Website: teachers.net
Category: Resource
Audience: Teachers
Grade Level: All
Subject: All
A website full of resources, chat rooms, blogs, live events, & articles for teachers of all grade levels. Includes lesson plans submitted by teachers for all subjects/grades. Free.
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