Annotated Website List

Annotated Website List:

Starfall

• Student Interactive Learning
• Students
• Preschool-2nd Grades
•  Reading and Phonics

Starfall is an interactive website that helps children learn to read by using phonics. This website includes games and read alouds which highlight the words as they are read. This is a fun website that children will have a lot of fun with while learning along the way.


Fact Monster

• Student Resource
• Students
• 1-6 Grades
• All Subjects

This website includes easy to find facts for all subjects. It also includes fun games and quizzes to see what you know about the content your searching, or to see how much you've learned from the website. Fact Monster also has a reference desk where you can use encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, atlases, and timelines. This website also includes "how to" information as well. This is a fun and easy to use website for students.

Teacher Vision

• Teacher Lesson Plan Resource
• Teachers
•  Lessons for grades pre-k to 12th Grade
• All Subjects

Teacher Vision is a great resource for teachers to use to get ideas for lessons in any subject in all grades. This website provides printouts, graphic organizers, classroom management tips, first day of school activities, calendars to show teachers what holidays are coming up in each month and many more resources for teachers. This website is packed with useful information and materials for teachers and I would highly recommend it.     


The Teacher's Corner

• Teacher Lesson Plan Resource
• Teachers
• Lessons for All Grades
• All Subjects

The teacher's corner is a great resource for teachers to find lesson plans and other online resources for lessons. This website entails a lot of helpful information such as bulletin board ideas and tips, print outs, lesson plans, a book nook which lists great books teachers have used, a teachers lounge which allows teachers to connect and communicate with other teachers about things that work well in their classroom or things they are struggling with, and several more helpful materials. This is a fantastic website so go check it out!


National Geographic Education Beta

• Teacher and Students Resource
• Teacher and Students
• All Grades
• Science and History

This website can be used by teachers and students of all ages. It has everything, games activties, fact finders, virtual maps, homework help, videos, ways of getting involved in the world around you and many more great ways for students to learn all about different topics relating to science and history. This website is also great for showing your students what's going on around the world and how they are similar and different to the cultures around the world.


Share My Lesson

• Teacher Lesson Plans
• Teachers
• All Grades
• All Subjects

This website is a great resource for teachers made by teachers. This is a place where teachers can go to share and comment on lessons they've used in their classrooms. Share My Lesson has many lessons for all subjects and all grades, and you can view teacher's comments on how useful each lesson they used was or what they would change or add based on their experience with it.


Cool Math 

• Student Interactive Learning
• Students
• Ages 13 and older
• Math

This website is filled with fun interactive games for students to practice their math skills on. This website also has other great resources for students to go to and practice their math skills. There is also a section with overviews of each content area in math, as well as provides a link to the Massachusetts math standards and much more.


Fun Brain

• Student Interactive Learning
• Students
• Kindergarten to Eighth Grade
• All Subjects

Fun Brain has everything! There are math and science games, book read alouds, comic books, mad libs and many more fun activities. This website has matching games, word games, number games, and puzzles. Students will have a blast on this website while practicing multiple subject area skills.


Time For Kids 

• Student Resource
• Students
• Third to Eighth Grade
• Science and Social Studies

Time For Kids is a fantastic website that is full of tons of information. This website informs students about current news that is going on all over the world, and includes pictures and videos with their stories. There is a section about student reporters which shows kids acting as reporters traveling to different places and interviewing important people. This website also includes a homework helper section which helps kids create flash cards, gives them tips on grammar, and gives them tips on how to  write an A+ paper. I would highly recommend this website!


Scholastic For Parents

• Teacher and Parent Resource
• Parents and Teachers
• Preschool to Sixth Grade
• All Subjects

This is a wonderful website that includes a lot of helpful information about child development. This website breaks down the steps of development and what goes on in each. Scholastic for parents includes a lot of useful information on helping your students in and out of school. There is a section for homework help which lists the best ways of helping your child through their homework. This website also includes a news and blog section for teachers or parents to comment on things they learned or find helpful or just to communicate with other parents or educators as well as many more useful resources.