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Educational Sites for
Summer Help
ByKaren Brooks
6/8/11
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.delicious.com/dembe01/summer
• http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks
• http://en.calameo.com/accounts/285487
• http://www.karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com
• http://www.karenbrooks.wikispaces.com
• Leadership Express on Facebook.com
VideoDigital Dossier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA
All My Favs – Educational Tab http://edu.allmyfaves.com/
Fun Activitieshttp://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/activities-projects/watching-garden-grow-30277.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=ReadingRockets.org
Reading Rockets on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/ReadingRockets.org
Parent ResourcesReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/
Parent ResourcesReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/
2011 Summer Readhttp://www.readingrockets.org/books/summer/2011?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia
•Download the 2011 guide for all ages(491K PDF)* •Books for 6-9 Year Olds •Books for 3-6 Year Olds •Books for 0-3 Year Olds
•Audio Books
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/
2011 Reading Lists• More
– ALA 2011 Kids Book List http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb/index.cfm
– http://www.cslpreads.org/pubfiles/pdf/2011/OWMS_bib.pdf
– K-6 Book list http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/panda/subjectlinks/elemSRL2011.pdf
– Books for Boys - http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/toppicks/a/books_boys.htm
– 6-9 Recommended Reading http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/panda/subjectlinks/2011MidSchoolSumRdgList.pdf
– 9-12 Summer Reading - http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/panda/subjectlinks/summerReadingHS2011.pdf
– The Horn Book – Summer Reading http://www.hbook.com/resources/books/summer.asp
– NEH Summertime Favorites - http://www.neh.gov/projects/summertimefavorites.html
http://www.haisln.org/recommendedreadinglists.html
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 Jr
Paid 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/
Discovery Education Summer Activitieshttp://school.discoveryeducation.com/parents/summer/
2010Recommended Reading Lists
Continued
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/
