Lower School Teacher Resources

Technology:Schoolhouse

General Resources:

  • ABC Teach - ABC Teach produces children’s educational activities and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning and enjoyment.
  • Blue Web’n – Blue Web’n is a searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools). You can also subscribe to the Blue Web’n Weekly Update (make a hot link here) to get a weekly e-mail of the Hot Site of the week and new Blue Web’n sites. This is a “must see” for all educators working to integrate technology into their curriculum.
  • EduPlace - The Education Place is Houghton Mifflin’s resource site for elementary school teachers, students and parents. Resources include Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, Intervention, Professional Development, searchable activity database, educational games, and textbook support.

Early Childhood:

  • Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood - Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is a “television visit” between Mister Rogers and his young viewers. With his caring and trusting ways, Mister Rogers has created a calm, safe place for children to learn about themselves, about others, and about the world around them. At this site you will also be able to access other pbskids.org material, such as Clifford, Barney, Arthur, etc.
  • Primary Games - Site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books, holiday activities, musical postcards, crafts, and more!
  • Preschool Rainbow - THEMES GALORE! Preschool education activities and early childhood education lesson plans that give preschool children choices. Ideas for pre-k and kindergarten teachers that enrich classroom curriculum are arranged by theme.

Reading and Language Arts:

  • Puzzle Maker - Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
  • Children’s Literature - Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site. This collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. One of the best sites yet for reviews, teaching ideas, and creative groupings (by theme, by curriculum area, by grade level) of children’s books.
  • Giggle Poetry - A fun poetry site of silly poems to share with your students.There are also many ideas of ways to wrote class poetry.
  • Big Ideas for Beginning Reading - This site is from the University of Oregon and explores the 5 Big Ideas in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principles, fluency with text, vocabulary, comprehension. A complete section is devoted to each area with many, many useful suggestions for teaching beginning readers.
  • Grammar Book - Use this site to find the answers to your questions concerning proper English grammar and punctuation.
  • Book Adventure - Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they’ve read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is a non-profit organization.

Math:

  • NCTM Standards – This is a comprehensive site covering all the math standards. There are suggestions for implementing each standard.
  • AAA Math – More than 1700 interactive lessons, millions of practice problems, fast and easy ways to learn basic math, improves speed and accuracy, challenge games and progress report forms.
  • The Math Forum - A comprehensive clearinghouse of math resources for educators at all levels. Invaluable links to other sites, lesson plans, articles, and online discussions. This is one of the very best resources for K-12 math teachers.
  • Math Stories - This site has over 5,000 math word problems for children in grades 1-3. Grade level problems are grouped by concept categories. There are ready-to-use worksheets with room enough for students to write one. There are also literature related topics. The drawback to this wonderful site is that there is a membership fee. However, you might find the site worth the money.
  • A+ Math – This site was developed to help children practice their math skills interactively. There are many games for the children at different levels. There is also a Homework Helper and a Puzzle Maker. This is a popular site for the children in our computer center.
  • EduPLace – The Support Topic resources for the LS Houghton-Mifflin Mathematics program provide background, tips, and lesson plans for a key topic taught in each chapter. Select both a chapter and a resource. Then click GO.
  • MathSolutions – This Online Newsletter by Marilyn Burns contains interesting, up-to-date topics, as well as lesson plans, reviews, and a question and answer section, This questions and answer section can be especially helpful in answering questions asked by your own parents.

Social Studies:

  • The Invention Dimension - Based at MIT, the Lelemson-MIT Program offers resources to young inventors and encourages young people to enter the fields of science, mathematics, and technology. Visit the Inventor of the Week, take the trivia challenge. and check out the hot Reso
  • Geography - This site is especially great for its geography contents. There are clear maps of the US and World, including individual states and countries. It also includes age appropriate questions to go along with the maps.
  • American Folklore - This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, Tall Tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and many more.
  • National Geographic for Kids – No one presents the world quite like the National Geographic Society. This Web site is just for kids, with a close link to National Geographic World magazine. The site touches on geography, history, and science through monthly World issues, with many other mouse-clicks to facts and fun.
  • Time for Kids – The online version of Time for Kids magazine is the news, information and exploration destination for kids on the Internet. The site lets you create, learn, get involved, explore, play, guess right, guess wrong, exercise your clicking finger, and generally become a news know-it-all!