State Standards available to download at the California Department of Education website.
Reading and Language Arts
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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning
children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring
celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced
illustrations. Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children,
parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental
curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to
strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language
learners.
Students can enter their spelling lists or choose from the appropriate grade for spelling and vocabulary practice. Grades 1 - 8.
They gather together links to free audio books from all over the web, making them available from one convenient source, where they are categorized by their historical relevance. You can listen to many books for no charge, or pay just $15 per year to access all of their materials.
Daily Grammar sends you e-mail messages with a grammar lesson five days of the week and a quiz on the sixth day.
Vocabulary building program that feeds the hungry with each correct word. Through the UN World Food Program, for every correct word, 20 grains of rice are donated. Fascinating background. Go to options to set vocabulary level. For 4th grade and up.
Great website for learning vocabulary, making flash cards, especially useful with ESL students.
Printable handwriting practice pages or blank activity pages.
Great place for ideas. Beautiful artwork enhances pages of activities, alphabet cards, handwriting cards, certificates, dolch words and flashcards.
Designed for kids (mostly) and adults interested in quality children's literature. This site offers kids an opportunity to see their work published on the web. All submissions are welcome.
Kids FREE crafts, printables, activities and games plus 362 indexed Mother Goose rhymes.
Teaching reading with Giggly Bunny, a limited version of their complete set for sell, but good alphabet practice.
Phonics, reading, and language arts for K-2nd grade. Read stories written by kids.
Safe site from Scholastic for kids ages 8 - 12. Games, activities, books, current events, writing games, make your own comic, etc.
Make practicing spelling fun. Contains over 30,000 words, and you can add your own. Use pre-created lists based on subject, literature, or grade. Create your own and publish them for others to use also.
A website for young readers to help with learning to read, phonics, etc.
Do you love Dr. Seuss? Visit this site that includes a storymaker, games, favorites Dr. Seuss characters and print and plays.
Vocabulary University is a great site with interactive word puzzles and lesson plans. Geared for grades 4 and up.
A link to Meriam Webster word central contains a dictionary, thesaurus, and word games.
Great way to learn new vocabulary words, especially for middle school students. You can do a word a day or a word a week.
Mathematics
Contains hundreds of pages of basic math skills, with interactive practice and explanations on every page. Math problems are randomly created.
Site has a collection of lessons, calculators, and worksheets to assist students in algebra.
This site is an animated interactive dictionary for students which explains over 500 common math terms in simple language.
Site contains math instruction, reinforcement, and learning activities.
Great tool to reinforce math facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Lots of Math games for K - 8. Has other subjects available also, including state geography.
Math challenges for middle school families! Click on challenge index for choices.
This section on teaching tips explains math concepts to home school parents who in turn are teaching their kids.
Math activities, lessons, and games for all grades K-8. All activities align to state standards.
This website had different subject areas with specific skills. Find the skill/concept you are having difficulty with and click on it to watch a video of it being taught! Great response from users.
Practice pages are in 4 steps: first glance, in-depth, examples, and workout.
Got a math question? Check out the FAQ’s on Dr. Math’s website.
Numbers, Algebra, Geometry, Data, Measure, puzzles, quizzes, and an Illustrated Math Dictionary for Grades K - 8.
Grades 1-8 play with numbers and give your brain a workout. Logic, Math, and Number games, Thinking Blocks, Math Manipulatives, Word Problems, and Common Core Math.
Math instruction videos by topic.
Multiplication games, activities, worksheets and resources.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Math manipulatives for numbers and operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis & Probability. All grades K - 12
Lessons provide practical tips, hints, and examples. Lessons also point out common errors and are cross referenced so that you can study related concepts.
The MATHguide offers graphing and mapping calculators, puzzles, projects, tutorials, and online quizzes (lessons) and help center for middle and high school students and their teachers.
Site has printable math facts worksheets.
An online resource for math on the web today with over 100,000 graded exams to date.
This site is great for parents/students stuck on math problems.
History/Social Studies/Geography
Helpful resource for state report assignments. Has all state flags, songs, and symbols.
A source for facts, statistics, history and maps of countries around the world.
Interactive site with games and explanations about the US government and things students should know about the world on a level they can understand. For younger students.
Excellent map site.
Click on Test Your Knowledge, if you are a geography trivia buff - this is the site for you. For maps and other resources - maneuver your way through this site.
Online World Atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical, and cultural information. Includes maps, flags, currency conversion, and time zone information.
Geography from across the Atlantic - the British cover physical, human, countries, skills and have helpful Teacher Resources.
Test your geography knowledge. Games sorted by continent, name, or topic.
Find out about the journey over on the Mayflower. What was it like to be on board, see the passenger list, find out about the people.
The website for the National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
National Air and Space Museum The official website of the National Air and Space Museum.
Current event website.
The official internet site of the White House designed for kids of all ages.
Science
From Discovery channel - a site just for kids with games, puzzles, quizzes, and a "tell me" search section that answers science questions and even visits the Mythbusters.
Neuroscience for kids. Great ideas for studying the brain.
Arts and Drama
Available at each of the CHEP sites - Atelier presents DVD-based art lessons. The website provides and easy-to-understand chart to help determine the level of instruction that would be appropriate for each child.
The webpage for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Bright ideas for Learning offers books for teaching and learning about art. Site also has free art activities.
Crayola offers a number of artistic resources on their website. Lesson plans, art resources, and projects including nearly everything from creating animals to discovering science.
This site contains art lesson ideas suitable for grades K-8.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers fun art experiences. Questions, games, movies, and more abound on this interactive sit.
PBS offers resources for educators - lessons and ideas for projects. For PreK-12.
Masterpiece Art Instruction offers art curriculum for the homeschool community. CD's, books, lessons, and additional learning tools are available, as well as a series of free lessons and projects.
All Subjects
Site provides an interactive way for children to learn math, geography, language arts, and more.
Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home and everywhere kids are.
All subject areas - collection of free online educational videos, photos, lessons, quizzes, games and puzzles - includes grammar, phonics, stories, and writing skills.
Games and videos for younger students with characters like Clifford, The Cat in the Hat, and others from PBS television shows.
Educational games for all grades and subjects. Exceptional geography games by region, country, and of the world.
TED
ED is working with expert educators and TED Speakers throughtout the world to
creat and share high quality interactive video based lessons all for free.
Free mindfulness meditations that you can practice on your own.
Great training workouts for all ages on YouTube
Parent Support and Lesson Ideas
Lots of fun and useful worksheets and materials for primary grades.
Educations Helper is a great website for creating and finding lesson ideas in every subject and every grade level. There is some free access and a a $20 to $40 yearly membership for additional resources.
Remote
learning STEM Resources, distance learning tips and tricks along with on-demand
videos for all Explore learning products like Gizmos, Reflex and Science4us.
Fun BrainSet up games and activities that are relevant to curriculum being taught.
Make puzzles for different lessons or assignments. Great for students, parents, people of all ages.
The official website of the Smithsonian Institution, with information regarding its sixteen museums and the National Zoo.
There are approximately 350 different websites addressing every and any need a teacher could possibly ever have.
This site has a lot of the unit studies you can buy in the store, but is also has funtastical freebies. Lesson plans and ideas by teachers for parents and teachers.
Family Education has become the Internet's most-visited site for parents who are involved, committed, and responsive to their families' needs. This site offers practical guidance, grade-specific information, strategies to get involved with children's learning, free email newsletters, and fun and entertaining family activities.
Classical education and homeschooling information, guidelines, and links for home schoolers and concerned parents.
Research / Search Engines
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