- Educational Service Unit #8
Curriculum Links for
Elementary Education
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- Children's
Storybooks Online
Your young students K-1 will love this Web page! It contains colorful links to more than a dozen full-length online children's books, such as: The Wumpalump, The Littlest Knight, McFeeglebee's Pond, etc. You can read them outloud, let your kids solve the riddles, or let them color in the accompanying pictures in the coloring book! - CRAYOLA
- The
Discovery Channel Online
"The Discovery Channel, known for its award-winning educational programming, now offers a Web site boasting original interactive content with film, music, photography, and illustration. This site is updated daily!" - DLTK
Printable Crafts for Kids
DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children's favorite cartoon characters. The site is run by (me) Leanne, a mom with two girls (ages 4 and 8 - gosh they grow up fast!) as my official craft testers and daddy as my technical support. - Education
Resources
Your #1 Source for Educational Software & Technology - First Grade Plus
- Fun School
- Highlights for Kids
- Jan Brett's Homepage
- KidsCom
- KidsHealth
This is one of the best children's health sites on the Internet. It is a safe place for kids to go to find out more about their bodies and feelings through games, puzzles, and health tips. Parents and educators will find accurate, up-to-date information on child behavior and development, nutrition, growth, surgery, immunizations, and more. - KidSource
Online Education
This site has generous, up-to-date listings of homework helper sites. - The
Little Planet Times
This is an online newspaper designed for students in grades K-5. Instead of learning about current events, student will meet animals, such as Owly-Bear, who promotes reading, writing, and communication skills. - The
Magic School Bus
Here you'll find an art gallery your students can add to, cool online toys, and neat games. - MegaMath
This site is a good place to go for the numberically inclined! This site has wonderful clickable titles like: "Machines that Eat Your Words," "Algorithms and Ice Cream for All," and "Welcome to the Hotel Infinity" which are designed to appeal to the elementary school users. - My
Hero! Project
"This site is an interactive, online project for students at all levels. This project is based on the belief that there are and always have been positive role models for children." - NASA Spaceflight
- Project
Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth
"Visit this site to get the latest information, including images, from the unmanned spacecraft Glileo now orbiting cloud-shrouded Jupiter, hundreds of millions of miles from Earth." - Quest,
NASA's K-12 Education Initiative
This is a NASA project site called, "Live from the Hubble Space Telescope." It donates three valuable Hubble orbits to students so they may observe a celestial body of their choosing. In March and April, this site offered two live video broadcasts which gave students the chance to make their observations and interpret the data on-line with the aid of the astronomers. - Questacon
"Comets, dinosaurs, solar cars, and lab experiments." - Sesame Workshop
- Surfing
the Net with Kids
This site sorts out the best of the online world for students, parents, and teachers. Each weekly column rates and reviews five fun, education Web sites on topics as diverse as Stock Market Simulations, Gargoyles and Monarch Butterflies. - Toon University 1st - 3rd
- Toon University 4th - 6th
- Toon University's Free Child Activities
- World
Kids Network (WKN)
This is a web site for kids, run by kids "from ages of three to infinity." There are currently more than 500 children from every corner of the globe involved in this project, aimed at getting students educated and involved in their community. - World Kids Voyage
- Yahooligans
A kids search engine!