This page is one small part of Good Sites for Kids!
Portals are sites that exist to provide you with lots of lists of links to many other good sites. Kind of like what we do.
(We put Yahooligans first because if you only have time to check out one portal, Yahooligans is it! Note: the site's been drastically changed lately. Yahoo! now calls its fine portal site Yahoo! Kids)
Yahooligans School Bell This is a huge web portal for kids. Monster site with links to thousands of safe sites about everything. Large, well-organized groupings of links to curriculum areas. School Bell has over 2800 language arts sites, over 400 math sites, almost 15,000 science and nature sites, over 4500 social sciences sites, and more!
Actionbits "Action Bits is a series of in-depth technology skills classes developed by a team of professionals — experienced teachers & veterans of the high-tech industry — committed to teaching kids the computer skills they will need to excel in school...and beyond!" Parts of this site require a login, which you may get upon request. Besides tech modules, Lynne's Library features many elementary through high school links to some very good math, language arts, science, health and other ed sites. Pretty cool.
Athropolis
Links page is a big list of useful links, often with arctic themes.
Huge variety here, who else has a kayak building project, castles, HTML tutorials
next to how trebuchets and propellors work?
BBC's
Main School Site British, huge, and very good!
Plenty of learning things for kids. Tons
of activities broken down by age and subject. (For Americans: "Numeracy"
= math.)
Black Hawk Elementary's hotlist lists 78 elementary learning sites, mainly math and language arts related. There are good web pages here.
Blue Web'n has been around for many years. They always have “good sites.” From the site: “Blue Web'n is an online library of 2,025 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area).”
Curriki The Global Education & Learning Community. "At Curriki, the sole mission is to educate. By building a world class learning environment that is community developed and supported, and publishing it for free on the Web, Curriki works to ensure that anyone, from anywhere can participate. This is about No Child, Parent or Teacher Held Back. This is about delivering access to free, quality curricula so that kids can go as fast as they can." You truly owe it to yourself to investigate this site.
Discovery Education from the Discovery Channel. Featuring Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators, Puzzlemaker for printable crossword puzzles, clip art, Lesson Plan Library, Brain Boosters, Learning Adventures, Science Fair Central, lots more! You need to visit this site if you haven't already.
Discovery Kids Home page for kid sites from the Discovery Channel. Sites for preschool (Ready Set Learn!) up to high school. Their Fun and Games sections has over 50 activities (some of which we already list.)
eLibrary.SD71
Home Page
from Comox Valley School District, British Columbia. Amazing, stupendous, just
great web portal site! VERY well organized, EXCELLENT section on how to do research!
Good teacher resources section. The Subject Links area is absolutely astounding!
Example: Social Studies: Ancient China > organized into 11 sections. Section
1: Building a Knowledge Base has seven links that build on each other. Math,
Science, etc. are organized along similar lines. Well done!
Early
Learning "This page features early learning websites
for young toddlers and pre-schoolers. Fun ways to introduce your toddler to
their abc, 123, shapes and colours with great games, downloads and flash cards."
Also sites for older children. There are some wonderful things on here, many
of which were new to us! Part of allkids,
a fine learning & shopping site from the UK.
Enchanted
Learning (The ZOOM sites people.) Amazing site! So much to
see and do, so much to print off! You could probably run an elementary classroom
and fulfill all state standards using this site's online lessons and its printable
activities, if not for NCLB demands. Subscribers get tons of even more goodies
to use. (Yes, we subscribe.)
Getting Students Connected
Fine site from the Avon-Maitland School District Board of Seaforth, Ontario.
Huge hotlist of links arranged by grade, and we mean huge. Thanks to the Grandview
Cougars.
Grain Valley School District of Grain Valley, Missouri. A gigantic collection of education links on this hotlist page, all subjects! Be sure to click on every block on the page. "The following pages were designed for our students, teachers, parents and community. There are countless interactive and engaging resources on each page. The links were selected to support and enhance the learning experiences of our outstanding student body."
Grandview Elementary's hotlist has a page of sites arranged by area of study. The Word Problems for Smart, Really Smart, and Really Really Smart 5th Graders are great!
Johnnie's Math Page Links to Interactive Math Tools and Activities for Students and Teachers from Kindergarten through Middle School. "I mentor elementary teachers in math teaching and learning and originally built this resource for them. It was popular so I've made it available to teachers and kids across the country. If you could let students and teachers know about this resource, it would be greatly appreciated." No problem!
Johnnie's Story Page has plenty of links to web stories for grades K - 8, including a Spanish section.
Kathi Mitchell's Virtual School is a BIG collection of links to good and varied educational and activity sites arranged by subject and grade. We've used several of her sections. A superb collection of links to "good sites!" This site is listed twice with alternate names so you won't miss it.
KidsClick! Web search for kids by librarians. Over 600 kid subjects arranged by subject area, and searchable by alphabetical name or use their search engine. This gem was listed on our original site, but it got lost! Well, it's back and still great.
Kids
Activities from allkids.
This is allkids'
big listing of kid sites by categories. This page features Early
Learning, free colouring pages, Nursery Rhymes, Online Stories,
Boredom Busters, Outdoor Activities & Games, Childrens Hobbies & Interests,
Childrens Free Fun Sites, TV and Book Characters links, Kids TV show links,
Kids Movies links with critiques and schedules (UK). Someone worked long and
hard to bring this to fruition.
Kids Konnect Very good research site for lots of subjects. Kids can browse by subject or by alphabetical order. Thanks, Mr. Vetch.
KidsOLR Kids Online Resources has lots of online lessons covering various parts of the K-12 curriculum. Their Telling Time activity is already in our Math and Telling Time section. Way too extensive to cover it all here - go check it out.
Kids Software "is a blog about free software, commercial software and websites for kids. The blog is maintained by Marianne Wartoft, who also runs the site Educational Freeware." This site is packed with links to wonderful places such as Starfall and other fabulous destinations.
Kids World Check this site out now! From North Valley Net in California. This excellent portal site has sections on: Government and Politics, Fun and Games, Geography (cities), Museums, Animals/Farming/Zoos (big list of zoos), Health and Medicine, Schoolwork Help, Science and Math (combined, also Time), Sports and Recreation, Vacation Time (travel), History, Art and Music (combined), and Books and Stories. These are sites that fit well with subject-focused computer lab sessions.
Knollwood Elementary's hotlist Lists URLs without descriptions, but a very good list regardless. Go Mighty Knights!
Marco Polo (ThinkFinity) Teachers: Here's an amazing portal with hundreds of links! "Internet content for the classroom." Teachers have done whole seminars with this amazing content-based site. Lesson plans, professional development, more. Note: This site is now known as "ThinkFinity.org"
Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School is a list of links to good and varied educational and activity sites arranged by subject and grade. We've used several of her sections. A nice collection of links to "good sites." This site is listed here twice with alternate names so you won't miss it.
Mrs.
Wilkie's Websites "Click on one of the links to the
left to access the web sites that you wish to use." Do it! This is a HUGE,
HUMONGOUS collection of education sites, indexed by subject. A big vertical
list sits on the left side of an otherwise nondescript page. Do not be fooled!
This is one of the best! It's also a good introduction to wikis.
National Geographic Kids This is Nat Geo Kids site map page. It lists all their goodies for kids: Animals, Games, Stories, Activities, People & Places, Photos, and even Videos! A ton of resources!
Nassau Library Kids Section Tons of information. Site has very many links, just click on a section and look.
PBS Kids Fantastic sites! From the home page you can go to the home site of every PBS kid show from Arthur to Zoom! The sites are also cross-indexed by category: Games, Stories, Coloring, and Music. The GO! link goes to even more PBS educational games. Our favorite show site is Between the Lions which covers reading and language arts!
Pete's PowerPoint Station ("FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format & Free Interactive Activities for Kids") looks like a little homemade site for kids but it's HUGE inside! This site is set up with a model railroad theme. Pete's Presentations (Themes and Topics is the page title) lists 838 (yes, eight hundred thirty-eight) education topics, from ABC's to Zoo! Each Topic has links to that subject area, sometimes dozens of links. Not only PowerPoints (lots of them) but games and links to "good sites." Greta's Games has mostly academic games organized by subject. Often a dozen or more links per subject. Hannah's Homework Help Station has PowerPoints about doing research, and links to various research sites. You could spend a week looking in here! Anything you need for K-8, and some for higher schooling as well.
Pinedale Elementary School's Hotlist of sites Big list of education sites sorted by areas - language arts, math,etc.
Pinedale Elementary School's Standards Support links Another listing of sites, different from above, sorted both by area and grade level. Very useful.
South Canyon Elementary's hotlist has some sites we have seen almost nowhere else. We're happy to put South Canyon's list here.
South Dakota Ed Web Site The State of South Dakota's own official site of lessons and activities.
Teach the Children Well "is a collection of links to sites carefully selected by a teacher for students as well as their parents and teachers. The site was designed for elementary grades but many of the sites will also be of interest to older students. Elaine M. Doolittle, M.Ed." There are big lists of sites on all sorts of topics. A necessary site for your bookmarks. Interesting site layout, too.
Valley View Elementary's hotlist is quite good and full of "good sites" (& has the world's longest URL.) Go Li'l Vikings!
Open this "portal" for me and we'll go steal the steaks, OK?
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