Sites for Summer Help

ByKaren Brooks

6/13/2012

Educational Sites for

Summer Help

Overview

• This informational session will look at educational and fun websites for students in K-12 education to help make their summer both fun and educational while on the computer. Websites will be discussed and broken down by grade level. In addition, resources will be provided for both the parent and the teacher. This session is part of the Parent Informational Series.

Resources for Presentation• http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks• http://www.karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com• http://www.karenbrooks.wikispaces.com • http://www.pinterest.com/Dembe27

VideoSocial Media Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EnhXn5boMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EnhXn5boM

http://www.espressoeducation.com/

Incrediboxhttp://www.incredibox.com/en/#/application

Pinterest.comhttp://www.pinterest.com/dembe27

All My Favs – Educational Tab http://edu.allmyfaves.com/

Parent ResourcesReadWriteThink

http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/

Parent ResourcesReadWriteThink

http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/

Resources for Parents

• Mom’s Homeroom - http://momshomeroom.msn.com/

• Summer Activities for Kids - http://www.activitiesforkids.com/summer/calendar.htm

• Mail Just 4 Me – Summer Fun - http://mailjust4me.com/play/summer1.htm

• Kaboose – Summer Activities - http://holidays.kaboose.com/summer/ + Newsletter + Crafts

• Martha Stewart 60 Summer Activities for Kids - http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/60-summer-activities-for-kids

• Creative Kids at Home - http://www.creativekidsathome.com/summerkidsactivities2.html

• Activity TV - http://www.activitytv.com/summer-activities-for-kids

• 80+ Inexpensive or Free Activities for Kids this Summer - http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2011/05/80-inexpensive-or-free-summer-activities-for-kids/

• Disney Go – Summer Fun -

http://familyfun.go.com/summer/

K-2Reading and Ability Level

K-2 Summer Resources• Starfall – Phonemic

awareness, phonics and fluency

• Orson’s Farm: Phonemic Awareness

• GameGoo

• Building Language and Literacy from Scholastic

• Study Dog – Supports all 5 building blocks to reading

Arthur Games from PBS Kids Arthur Games – Letters To... Arthur Games – Poetry Club Arthur Games – Muffy’s Wardrobe Story Scramble

Unmatching Game

Between the Lions Games from PBS Kids

Digby Mole’s Word Games from BBC; end sounds, first sounds, and rhymes

ISpy from Scholastic

Literacy Center

Read and Write with Clifford from Scholastic

Construct A Word from ReadWriteThink

Word Wizard from ReadWriteThink

What’s in the Bag from ReadWriteThink

Picture Match from ReadWriteThink

Sound and Letter Time from Scholastic

• Scholastic News– Ask a Weather Watcher (Listen &

Read)– Here Come the Frogs! (Listen & Read)– Insect World Records (Listen & Read)– Growing Up Gater (Listen & Read)– Meet Mr. President (Listen & Read)– Welcome Back, Bald Eagles! (Listen &

Read)

• Dragonfly no longer maintained by University of Miami, but still available.

• Scholastic Special Reports

• National Geographic for Kids Stories from Around the World Includes Videos, Activites and Games.

• Moppet Games Fund educational games kids 3-12.

• PBS Sesame Games

• Brain Pop JrPaid site, but some free materials

3-5Ability and Reading Levels

• Kids Lab http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/SRW3.htm

• KidsHealth

• PBS Raising Readers

• PBS Science Games Designed for Middle School grades.

• PBS Designed Squad Projects Designed for Middle School Grades

• ABC Teach Science Experiments Most are designed for Upper Elementary

• Picture Book Maker

• StoryBird

• I Know That This site is a supplement to education programs and has both online and offline activities.

• CAST UDL Book Builder

• Discovery Math Homework Help

• PBS Summer Post Cards

• Hands on Activities and Games 286 Pages of activities!

6-8Ability and Reading Levels

• It’s My Life PBS Site

• Scholastic Character Scrapbook

• BBC Bitesize

• Financial Lessons

• Kids Know It

• Pico Cricket

• Bright Horizons Summer Resources

• Food Detectives

• Interactive Math Games

9-12Ability and Reading Levels

High Schoolhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

Magnetic Poetry http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/create.cfm?k=5

Jefferson Labshttp://education.jlab.org/indexpages/elementgames.php

BBC World Historyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/worldhistory/

Playing Historyhttp://playinghistory.org/

More resources on Delicious.com• http://delicious.com/dembe01/Middle_School• http://delicious.com/dembe01/parent_resource• http://delicious.com/dembe01/ss• http://delicious.com/dembe01/art• http://delicious.com/dembe01/music• http://delicious.com/dembe01/science• http://delicious.com/dembe01/math• http://delicious.com/dembe01/ela• http://delicious.com/dembe01/languages • http://delicious.com/dembe01/internet_safety

Other

BBC Learninghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/

Alice StoryTellinghttp://www.alice.org/

• Carnegie Mellon makes downloads of the Alice software available for free at www.alice.org.

• Eight textbooks on Alice have been written. Alice is used by 10 percent of U.S. colleges and in many high schools.

• Also available is a version for middle school children called "Storytelling Alice," which was designed by Caitlin Kelleher, Pausch's Ph.D. student, to appeal in particular to young girls with hopes of increasing female interest in computer science careers.

Scratchhttp://scratch.mit.edu/

http://school.familyeducation.com/

Check out the US Department of Educationhttp://www2.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml

Don’t forget to check teacher websites & District Websites!

Other Resources to Check Out

• Family suggested iPad and Phone Apps for Kids - http://familyinternet.about.com/od/software/tp/ipad_apps_kids_families.htm

• Home – The Summer Learning Place - http://www.megaskillshsi.org/media/docs/summerLearningPlace.pdf

• Summer Reading Brochure - http://www.rif.org/documents/us/summer_reading.pdf • Reading Plant http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet.htm

• Reading Rockets 10 Weeks of Summer Reading - http://www.readingrockets.org/article/391

• Six Games for Reading - http://www.readingrockets.org/article/79 • Language Arts Games online - http://childparenting.about.com/od/languageartsgamesonline/Language_Arts_Games_Online.htm • Spelling Games for Kids - http://homeparents.about.com/cs/homeschooling/a/spell_games.htm • Three Easy Sight Word Games - http://childparenting.about.com/od/makeathomewordgames/a/sightwordgames.htm • YRCA - http://www.pnla.org/yrca/index.htm • Top 20th Century Children’s Literature - http://www.randomhouse.com/features/treasury/vote/

• The Read Aloud Handbook - http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/readalouds/fr/readaloudhandbk.htm

• Public Library Book Search Page http://www.cmlibrary.org/bookhive/

• Lit Charts - http://www.litcharts.com/

Others• http://www.friv.com/• http://www.studyegg.com/users/sign_in• http://www.switchzoo.com/• http://www.beonlineb.com/• http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini/• http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html• http://www.picassohead.com/create.html?skin=original• http://www.whattablast.com/ • http://www.amnh.org/ology/index.php • http://www.kindersite.org/• http://www.mathchimp.com/index.php • http://www.edheads.org/• http://phet.colorado.edu/ • http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm • http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ • http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.php

Thanks for attending!

kbrooks@ulsterboces.org