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With schools closed, here are some educational online resources for children to keep them engaged in learning.
| • | Language Arts |
| • | Math |
| • | Science |
| • | History/Social Science |
| • | General Interest |
Language Arts
All Grades
BookPALS Storyline Online
Streaming video program featuring famous people reading children’s books aloud.
http://www.storylineonline.net/
PBS Teachers
PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find materials suitable for language arts in a range of grade levels.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/readlanguage/
Children's Storybooks Online
Many wonderful free children’s books are available to read at Children's Storybooks Online. Stories span age ranges from preschool, young children, teens. http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Pre-K
The Pre-School Library
The StoryPlace Pre-school Library is full of great activities for you to explore. Choose a theme to start the fun!
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp
Elementary School
Games
Matching game of letters and sounds (picture of an apple matches with a picture of the letter A)—best suited for first graders or younger.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/abcmatch/
Matching game where you can sort words by their first letter sound, their short vowel sound, or their long vowel sound—best suited for students in grades 1-3.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/
Website that has a variety of games for students in grades 3-5 to practice various aspects of grammar.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_language/grammar_park.html
Game where you flip two chips over to create a word (that is made up of a root plus a prefix or a suffix) and then decide where in the paragraph the word fits—best suited for upper elementary students or early middle school students.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/flip/
Time for Kids Homework Helper – Language Arts
Included are the best Language Arts websites. To see the best sites in a more specific topic, like Biographies or Books & Authors, click on a subtopic.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/hh/rapidresearch/0,19469,73175,00.html
Bookhive
In the Zinger Tales section you can watch online videos of professional storytellers like Jackie Torrence, Doc McConnell, Tony Tallent, and Donna Washington telling traditional folk tales. Provided by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County.
http://www.bookhive.org/
Math
This website addresses all grade spans. The instructions are accessible by clicking on the instructions link for each cell. Please be aware that, due to the virtual manipulatives, it takes a while for pages to load. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
This website links to the SDUSD math department, which has games and activities for parents to do with their children at home for grades K - 5. http://www.sandi.net/comm/factsheets/math_games.pdf
This site contains several math related games. We recommend Math arcade, math baseball, and car racing.
www.funbrain.com
This site contains games designed to help students understand basic number concepts. It is mostly for primary students.
www.abc.net.au/countusin
This site breaks down several different mathematical concepts, mostly for middle and high school students. We recommend the applets with algebra coursework on linearity and applets with mathematics in context.
www.fi.uu.nl/wisweb/en
Science
ZOOMsci:
Mixing hot science with cool ideas. This website for kids has over 100 different activities that can be done with materials all readily available at home. Check out activities in chemistry, engineering, the five senses, forces and motion, life sciences, patterns, sound, structures, and water. Each activity can be printed out. http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/
History/Social Science
The Huntington Library
Wonderful primary source-based lessons may be found at the website of The Huntington Library, a research institution and archival repository near Pasadena, California. The following are links to standards-based lessons written for grades 4, 5, 8 and 11: The Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858; and, The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic. http://www.huntington.org/Education/less4lib.html#GW
The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's foremost repository of historical and literary materials. From the Family homepage, links are recommended to America's Library for grades K-8, Lifelong Literacy for grades 5-12, and American Memory for grades 8-12. The latter link takes students to a robust search engine from which students may access millions of documents.
http://www.loc.gov/families/
The Smithsonian Institution:
"The Smithsonian has collected more than 142 million objects—from flags and fossils, to sculptures and spacecrafts, to toys and tapestries. There’s something for everyone at the Smithsonian. Check out Smithsonian Kids for lots of fast, fun, cool, scary, patriotic, and beautiful things from the Smithsonian! You can also send free E-cards to your friends!"
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/
The White House:
The federal government maintains a White House website that contains a number of interesting links for children. Students in grades K-5 will find a link to information about the various pets that Presidential families have had with them in the White House (click PETS on the left hand side of the homepage); and, students in grades 5-8 that are also sports fans will enjoy the photographs and information linked to the SPORTS site on the same homepage.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
General Interest
ITV Offering Standards-Aligned Television Programming For Students and Parents to Use When Schools Are Closed:
http://www.sdcoe.net/news/07-10-23-ITV-prog.asp
Internet Public Library for Kids
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Scholastic Kids
Scholastic produces educational materials to assist and inspire students: http://www.scholastic.com/kids/
PBS Kids
Free preK-12 resources to support learning at home and at school.
http://pbskids.org/
