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Tools for Learning on the Computer
Early Elementary
ABCya is the leader in free educational kids' computer games and activities for elementary students to learn online. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are based on primary-grade lessons, enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.
FunFonix (it's the pronunciation that counts!) has a variety of early elementary phonics worksheets and online phonics games. Their worksheets are completely customizable!
Sadlier Phonics has several grade-appropriate online games and activities for students K-6.
Visit Phonics Student Online Components
Sesame Street has a variety of activities that help students work on basic skills like counting, forming sentences, recognizing different shapes and objects, etc.
Because everyone loves Dr. Seuss… This website is full of interactive whiteboard-friendly games, activities, printables, and ideas for lesson plans focusing on the subjects made interesting and accessible by Dr. Suess' stories.
This website is a free resource for young students to practice letters and sounds! Its phonics-based approach is perfect for PreK, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.
The Color is home to hundreds of free online coloring pages that don’t even have to be printed. Everything is interactive and done online! Your pages can be saved to your gallery and shared with your students' families. This is a great activity for students who finish early.
English (ELAR)
When your students need inspiration, this site is the place to go. It features more than 300 detailed creative writing prompts, as well as journal ideas. You can also use the writing prompts as great warm-up activities each day.
Visit Creative Writing Prompts
Forvo is the world’s largest pronunciation dictionary. It’s very valuable for ESL students because they can look up any word and hear it pronounced by an authentic English speaker.
This fun game helps your students learn the different parts of speech! There are three levels of difficulty that can be assigned to your students.
This website is a fantastic resource for ESL teachers and students alike. It has an extensive collection of spelling games and activities that are great for non-native speakers. Try the Catch the Spelling Game.
An online English spelling resource that includes free units, games, and word lists.
Practice spelling with free interactive spelling games that are compatible with interactive whiteboards, mobile phones, and tablet PCs.
Storybird is a website that allows you to combine pictures and drawings to tell a story. It is very user-friendly, and you can have several students all working together on the same story.
This automatic generator comes up with over two billion (no joke!) creative ideas for writers. It was named to Writer’s Digest Magazine’s list of 101 Best Websites for Writers in 2012.
This game plays just like a real spelling bee. Students hear the word and get one chance to spell it. They can have the word repeated and can also read a definition.
Instructional Resources
Mathematics
These basic flashcards will give your students the repetition they need to master the very important skill of counting money.
View the A+ Math: Money Flashcards
AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic, which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (K- 8) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level. The AAMath.com site contains thousands of pages of Math Lessons. The Fractions portion of the AAA Math website is particularly useful because it provides visual representations and easy-to-understand instructions.
This free website looks like it may have been designed in the early ’90s, but it’s got tons of great content for addition, subtraction, times tables, long division, fractions, decimals, and more.
Free collection of online math games for grades K-8 organized by the Common Core standards.
Math Game Time has interactive math games, videos, and worksheets that are separated by grade level. Your students will be able to practice everything from counting to decimals.
Math concepts can be tricky, but Math Pickle’s videos are really good at simplifying concepts.
Math-Play has online math games that are organized by grade level, content, and game type. You’ll find resources for addition, subtraction, multiplication, integers, fractions, and more.
Miscellaneous
Detailed information about each of the 50 states, including abbreviations and capital cities. Excellent for teaching U.S. geography!
Learn More about the 50 States
Create your own shareable timeline with images, video, audio, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and PDF files.
Puzzlemaker is a tool that helps you create and print customized word searches, criss-cross puzzles, hidden message puzzles, and more, all using your own word lists.
Visit Discovery Education Free Puzzlemaker
At e-Learning for Kids, you can search through educational games by grade level or subject. There are materials for grades 1-6 in math, science, and language arts.
Education City is an award-winning online teaching and learning resource mapped to your state and Common Core standards for elementary students in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Spanish. The web-based, modular resource features research-based, animated activities designed to support student engagement and achievement. You can use the username 145387 and the password 979543 to log on.
This website allows your students to review English vocabulary and grammar at varying levels of difficulty. For each correct answer, the website will donate one grain of rice. Have your students play Free Rice when they finish early, and keep track of how much rice your students have contributed to combat hunger.
Have your elementary students practice their math, science, and language arts skills with games and interactive activities from Fuel the Brain!
Get Practice with Fuel the Brain
FunBrain has over 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
A resource for students and educators with history activities, plus short videos on all major U.S. history topics.
Mr. Nussbaum is a website with tons of interactive games and activities for math, language arts, history, geography, science, and more.
Educational games and videos from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Wild Kratts, and other PBS KIDS shows.
This fun, award-winning activity has students role-play as history detectives who investigate what actually happened on the first Thanksgiving.
Learn More about Plimoth Plantation: Thanksgiving Interactive Activity
Free games for learning how to use money, tell time, count, and read. Also, you’ll find mazes, memory games, puzzles, Sudoku, and more!
TeacherTube is exactly what it sounds like—YouTube for teachers with many educational videos to choose from.
Over 1,000 educational activities, games, animated lessons, printable worksheets, interactive storybooks, and more.
Create beautiful word clouds from the text that you provide. Like Tagxedo, it gives prominence to words that appear most frequently. You can save, print, and share your creation.
