Links to Activities at School
Nonfiction and Research
Kiddle is a relatively safe search engine. Use with caution. Make sure not to click on any ads at the top of each listing. Use good research skills to go only to reliable websites.
https://www.kiddle.co/
Information on many topics from National Geographic for Kids:
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Information on animals from the San Diego Zoo:
http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/
A research tool for wide-ranging topics from The Smithsonian Learning Lab:
https://learninglab.si.edu/
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Information on many topics from National Geographic for Kids:
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Information on animals from the San Diego Zoo:
http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/
A research tool for wide-ranging topics from The Smithsonian Learning Lab:
https://learninglab.si.edu/
Children's Literature
Poetry
Hear and see poems read aloud from The Poetry Foundation:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/children
The Academy of American Poets has selected poems for kids:
https://poets.org/poems-kids
Fiction
Here are links to websites connected to some of the literature students study in K, 1st, and 2nd grades.
This list includes a few authors' websites to explore. Some have fun activities connected to books:
Jerry Pinkney books:
https://www.nrm.org/2009/12/jerry-pinkney-imaginings-an-artists-exploration-of-images-and-words/
Grace Lin books: https://gracelin.com/
Beverly Cleary books: http://www.beverlycleary.com/
Blue Balliett books: https://www.blueballiettbooks.com/
Chris Van Allsburg books: https://chris-van-allsburg.harpercollins.com/videos
KidLit Book Trailers: https://kidlit.tv/category/book-trailers/
PBS Kids programming for all ages (click cc to get captions): http://pbskids.org/video/
Hear and see poems read aloud from The Poetry Foundation:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/children
The Academy of American Poets has selected poems for kids:
https://poets.org/poems-kids
Fiction
Here are links to websites connected to some of the literature students study in K, 1st, and 2nd grades.
This list includes a few authors' websites to explore. Some have fun activities connected to books:
Jerry Pinkney books:
https://www.nrm.org/2009/12/jerry-pinkney-imaginings-an-artists-exploration-of-images-and-words/
Grace Lin books: https://gracelin.com/
Beverly Cleary books: http://www.beverlycleary.com/
Blue Balliett books: https://www.blueballiettbooks.com/
Chris Van Allsburg books: https://chris-van-allsburg.harpercollins.com/videos
KidLit Book Trailers: https://kidlit.tv/category/book-trailers/
PBS Kids programming for all ages (click cc to get captions): http://pbskids.org/video/
Problem Solving
Here are two sites with interesting math word problems:
- Bedtime Math
- https://bedtimemath.org/
- Math Maven's Mysteries
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/maven/
PBS Kids - select appropriate grade-level for problems and ideas across subject areas:
Grades K-2
illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/grades/early-elementary/
Grades 3-5 and older
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/grades/upper-elementary/
Ancient Number Systems, Place Value, Math Explorations
This link has interesting interactive information about Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Chinese, and other ancient number systems.
Learning how people developed symbols and systems based on ten is a foundation for understanding place value.
http://www.macropolis.org/numeri/numbers/numbers/index.htm
Write Any Number Project:
Explore many activities from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
Make sure "interactives" is checked on the right sidebar to choose games:
https://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac&st=n_a_g_m_d&gr=Pre-K-2_3-5
Use logical reasoning to balance shapes and numbers:
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3531
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3530
Use spatial reasoning with tangram puzzles:
http://www.tangram-channel.com
Math is Fun! There are many activities on this site. The second link helps you graph data. (Watch out for ads; the main website is free.)
http://www.mathsisfun.com/index.htm
http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/data-graph.php
(Some sites have ads and game quality varies.)
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