Best Educational Websites for kids education
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Supplement the School
The teacher in the class room has little time to cover the syllabus with her students. Enough extra activities eat into her precious time with the class.
It is not possible for one individual to pay attention to the special needs of each child in her class. This is where the parents must step in and help the teacher. After all both want the best for the children.
The role of the parent is a supportive one to the teacher. Education is not merely the book learning that the child must have.
It is also a set of life skills that he needs to learn to survive in the world today. While it is important to know how to add numbers, it is equally important to know how to add friends as well.
The trouble is that most parents do not have the time that is needed to sit down and develop worksheets or quality activities that will be personality enhancing. This is where the websites on the internet can really can really come in handy.
There is so much useful information available online. It is amazing what all you can find if you just know where to look.
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My Pick of the Best Pre-Schooler Educational Websites
- Free Phonics Resources
Free Printables for Teachers - Free flashcards, worksheets, handouts and game cards to match, phonics materials, projects, games, and more all ready for download and printing. - IXL Math
Math practice tool for educators and families that adapts to a student's individual level of proficiency and includes achievement awards and progress reports. Various membership options are available and non-members are always welcome. - Everything Preschool - Early Childhood Education Made Easy
As the name suggests, find activities, arts, crafts and learning material here. The activities in the alphabet section are truly amazing. Kids will learn and have fun. - DLTK\'s Educational Activities
Free, printable educational activities for preschool, kindergarten and grade school children. You can do online story telling with their amazing tales section. Kids love it and learn morals too. - First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts
Free preschool printable activities, crafts, lesson plans, themes and coloring pages for toddlers, preschoolers, Kindergarten, daycare, and after-school. It is a great free resource for kids who are interested in creative stuff. - Reading and Literacy: Your Child: University of Michigan Health System
If you want to teach your pre schooler child how to read, you must read this article. It is has comprehensive set of resources that you can use. Very informative.
For School Kids
- International Children's Digital Library
Find all the books and stories you would ever like to read here. I believe that they also have stories in other languages including Mongolian and Farsi. So check out if yours is there as well. - Learn to Read with phonics
A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books.Great stories to read along with your kids and learn phonetics. - Aplusmath.com
Interactive educational math activities for grades K-12. Includes math games, worksheets, flashcards and more. Good teacher resources as well. - Sheppard Software - educational games and activities for kids of all ages.
Maths, Science, History, Vocabulary, General Knowledge, this site has got it all for school kids.Check out the interesting quiz sections. - Free Math Worksheets @ MathSlice
Preschool stuff, free math worksheets for grade 1 to 5. Worksheets available for middle school and high school students. Games based on maths are also available. - Primary History index - links, information and resources for Primary School history study - SchoolHi
A teacher created site containing online games, lessons, links, worksheets and quizzes relating to the National Curriculum for History in England. Useful resources for all history teachers around the world!
Explore and Widen Horizons
- Educational Websites For Kids - The KidsKnowIt Network
It has a number of links to interesting pages that your child might like to explore. - Yahoo! Kids
Yahoo Kids! is the ultimate web guide for kids! Features fun and educational resources for kids with games, animals, music, jokes, movies, news, astrology, TV, science, e-cards, reference, and more. - Stories From the Web - 7-11 Home Page
If you like books and stories then come on in. You can read stories, e-mail authors, write reviews and even write your own stories. You will need to sign up for a membership. - Ask Kids
A search engine that kids can use to gain knowledge on any topic that they like. - Count On
Challenging games and activities for school children, resources for teachers and general maths investigations. Try out the games, they are addictive.
Have Fun and Learn
- Free Math worksheets, Free phonics worksheets, Math Games and Online activities and Quizzes
Maths, Science, Phonetics, Quizzes. A whole lot for you to do and learn. Check out the special Christmas worksheets and games available just now. - BBC - Schools
Learning resources for kids at home and at school. Find activities and games.Great resources and fun ideas to put to use. - ENCHANTED LEARNING HOME PAGE
Enchanted Learning Software creates children's educational web sites and games designed to stimulate creativity, learning, enjoyment, and imagination. You will need to join up as a member. - PrimaryGames.com - The Fun Place to Learn! - Free Games for Kids
Fun site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring free educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books, holiday activities, musical postcards, crafts, worksheets, and more!
Specifically for the Educator
While the kids love exploring the internet there is a lot that the teacher can find and use online as well. From Lesson Plans to hand outs these sites offer comprehensive teaching material on any subject that you desire. The trick is in making good use of all that is available to you.
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Resources for Teachers and Parents
- Fun Stuff and Activities for Kids -- National Geographic Kids
Fun activity ideas for kids and families, from cool science experiments to crazy jokes. - Fun Homeschooler Units
A lot of resources that are based on different subjects such as literature, geography, science and history besides activity suggestions for holidays. - NationMaster - Lesson Plans: Understanding Terrorism
Free lesson plans and education section for country comparisons, energy, wilderness preservation, terrorism, earth studies and cartography. Research a statistical database, maps, flags, graphs and pie charts. - The Teacher's Guide-Free Resources for Educators
Teachers can find lesson plans,thematic units, children's songs, book activities, free educational clip art and more. - Lesson Plans
Free Lesson Plans, Worksheets, and Classroom Bulletin Board Ideas. - A to Z Teacher Stuff: Lesson Plans for all Subjects and Grades
Lesson plans and teacher resources for themes and thematic units, literature & book activities, math, science, learning centers, social studies, computers, reading, writing, P.E./health, cooperative learning, and more. - WorksheetWorks.com
Find all the worksheets that you will ever need for your child here. - Get Ready To Read
Get Read To Read provides preschool teaching ideas, reading resources, online reading games pre-reading activities and preschool learning activities. A great site to pick up ideas for activities involving your kids. - American Library Association
This site has great links for all subjects that your young student may feel like exploring. In fact even higher graders will find some home work help here. They have a coding system appropriate to the age level, so you waste less time hunting. - National Institute for Early Education Research
Share your data or gain insights from the research being conducted by others. As a teacher you can gain invaluable experience by merely keeping abreast with the latest education news and research. - Teaching Resources, Children\'s Book Recommendations, and Student Activities | Scholastic.com
View lesson plans, book lists, and educational products for children grades Pre-K to 12. Classroom materials include online activities for kids, printables, and author interviews. Connect with other educators. - National Association for the Education of Young Children
To get the most out of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, you need to become a member. They have periodic journals and online programs that you will find useful as a teacher.
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Very informative ...good job
thanks snehal.
4blackyouth.com is one of the best websites out for career information and online tutors. It's called 4blackyouth,but it's good information for any student who is making career decisions
I'm sure these will prove invaluable for many parents.
This is a great hub for people with kids. A wealth of helpful information all in one location. Great job, cashmere!
Thank you for the new site link jamia, will check it out.
Taylor and Money glitch, thanks for the appreciation.
If you enjoyed Cashmere's list, you would probably also enjoy Improve-Education.org.
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congrats. Keep up the good work.
My thanks to you on behalf of all the children,parents and teachers of the world.
May God bless you.
Have a nice day.
This is a wonderful list. There are two other great Kids sites that feature Educational material that I think will be good to add.
Thanks Share 310 I will check these new sites out!
This hub is very informative and helpful. Greatr hub.
You missed two big ones in my opinion:
www.teach-nology.com
www.mathworksheetsworld.com
I believe that the internet has so much power to supplement kids' learning at school. However, with such power we should be cautious as well of the repercussions because it can be a source of unwanted information as well.
Thank you Kimanesha.
Yes teachbyday these two sites are great as well.
I agree with you adorababy, the internet is like science, a good servant but a bad master...
Great resources. I have also found that Reading Horizons has great free resources.
Never heard of the site. Will check it out
Check out Tutorgiant.com for free assessments and hundreds of math and English videos with worksheets.
I'll take a look at it Stuart
Thank you for all the great resources. This is simply great.
I found the starfall phonetic alphabet song very useful for my four year old.
That's a ton of helpful educational resources. Excellent hub.
Good work
This website is a fantastic and the coolest webite that I have have ever seen.Excellent work.
Nice Hub very helpful for kids
Thanks for the useful page on the Best Educational Websites.
For high school internet resources, I would go to your state's Department of Education website and find links to online tests. Most states are now administering minimum competency tests, and you probably can find examples of these tests and/or practice tests online. There is a lot of controvercy surrounding the use of exit exams, but I think these sites are still useful in understanding what each state expects high schoolers to know by graduation time - fair or not. Below are a few links to high school state testing help
This is a great list. I'm going through it to see what will work with my class and my children. Great hub.
very useful resources. thanks for sharing
Many educational websites are used as tools for students to learn outside of the classroom. Parents are assisting their children due to an overwhelming amount of students in the typical classroom. If you find these websites to be beneficial to your children then check out Forest Trail Academy to help pursue their continued education.
very information, I forwarded this information to my students.
very useful hub-page. nice work .
Excellent information.....all very useful and handy.Thanks.
Thank you, glad you found the resources useful
Very informative post. Good job. You can also be interested on this site www.bdeduarticle.com
Thanks for the post! A website that helped my son learn to read online was http://www.readingwithgigglesandgames.com
Hi Cashmere.
My comment applies to the "Specifically for the Educator" area.. Anyone who needs to teach Spanish language to pre-school kids may want to check out http://spanishforpreschoolers.com/. It's a comprehensive guide to the methods that work.
Cheers,
Ben
Thanks Leslie and Ben. I'm sure the websites will help
Great overview. I have looked at some of these with my daughter and some will definitely help with mathematics.
Another usefull resource is www.typekids.com My daughter used this cours to learn touch typing.
Sounds interesting will check it out Ana
Thanks Cashmere for stating the importance of the parents' roll in their child's education, and how they can participate and help their child succeed in school.
This is a fantastic hub, especially for parents. You really nail how important participation is in parenting.
You might like this resource. It's a STEM education site for kids and parents to do projects together at home. http://rollingrobots.com/STEM-education-projects
STEM sites are good. Did you catch the news about the FIRST robotic competition supported by STEM? Amazing stuff the teams came up with
Check out this website khanacademy.org. It is one of the best new ideas and execution in field of education. I promise you that it will not disappoint. The websites founder recently spoke at a TED conference as well.
Sounds interesting, will check it out. Which TED talk was it?
Thanks Mamta will check it out
Hey Cahsmere,
Great list, thanks for putting this together.
Check out www.gosocialstudiesgo.com. It's pretty unique.
Thank you. I'll check out your site as well.
Really good information. Another good and free website for Math and Olympiad preparation is http://www.edugain.com
Everyone with school age kids should consider bookmarking: http://www.formulaconversion.com/ It is a great metric to english conversion site, but unlike others it shows you the algebraic steps to go from one unit to another which is great for learning!
Thanks for sharing
Hi ,
Please do review www.makemegenius.com .My kids find this site very useful for their science lessons.
I'll have a look at the site. Thanks for bringing it to my notice Tina
Hi Tina, my kids loved www.makemegenius.com.Best thing is now I have to spend less time on weekend ont heir studies as we found all their Science book is covered here.Thanks again (yeah voice-over could had been better)
In Indian context, which website you suggest.The purpose is academic education, I have two kids ,one studies in 4 th & other in 6 th. Have checked www.pitara.com,www.learnnext.com as well as as www.makemegenius.com. Whereas pitara is not for academics ,learnext is for 6th onwards & also charges huge money for a poor content. makemegenius was closer to what I was looking for ,but kids get bored by watching same video again & again although it helped them to understand the concepts. Do you have any knowledge about any site for maths (same to www.makemegenius.com which is for science education) or any other website which can cater to Indian children? Thanks for help
I'll compile a hub and get back to you
Check out http://www.w3kids.com.
This is a nice website for kids.
thanks for the link will check it out
ZooWhiz www.zoowhiz.com is all new and would be a great addition to your listing. It is FREE and covers math, reading, spelling, punctuation, grammar and more for kids aged 5 - 15. It s highly motivational, curriculum correlated and growing in popularity rapidly.
Will check it out Graham
hi ,have gone through all of the newly suggested sites ,zoowhiz.com,w3kids.com & http://www.makemegenius.com. Found 1st one good for Maths & English for K12 kids ,2nd one good activities for pre- primary kids & last one for science learning for K12 children. The 1st & 2nd has great designs on austhetics wise ,they score great but content is too much common also on 1st one it is paid, the 3rd one is basic in design but host something new & content is very vast. These are my personal views.
khanacademy.org is awesome! It has a lot of free videos. It was featured on 60 minutes today. A lot of people have started using a "flipped classroom" idea where kids go home and watch the videos and then come to class ready to work on problems. Therefore, class time is the independent working time where the teacher is just giving feedback and correcting any mistakes. This has been a method that has been very effective, as most of the learning takes place when kids are confronted with mistakes in their way of thinking.
Video is always more effective as a teaching tool
I wouldn't argue that it's MORE effective, as there is no space for a student to ask questions if they don't understand the video. However, I would say that it is a good tool.
That's a good point, but most videos are better than reading about a it in a book
@freemarketing & casmere -would agree with you on importance of videos.For kids, would not recommend Khan Academy ,as for little grown-ups that works fine For kids would recommend sites like http://www.brainpop.com & http://www.makemegenius.com where Videos have been made in animation form keeping the needs of young children in mind.
very information, I forwarded this information to my students.
Thanks for your information. This would help most of the parents and teachers to train their kids in an effective way. I feel that your listing can be added with few other preschool activities website like http://bforball.com Certainly there are various activities included for kids in the website.
good ones, found www.makemegenius.com best for Indian kids.To the point, no games,easy to understand language
It's a very very usefull hub ! Thank you ! ;)
Patty Inglish, MS 2 years ago
The University of Michigan materials are quite good especailly! Thumbs up!