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ABCya.com is a free online resource, which incorporates computer educational games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. They are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills.

This site is free to all users. I feel that with a brief introduction to the site, it should be very easy to navigate for all students and other users. Considering the content, this site would be useful to students grades 8-12. Much of the site is also dedicated to teachers of these grade levels. It does not look like the most exciting website one will ever visit, but it seems like it could be a nice break from a history textbook. What might be difficult for some users is trying to find historical information that is not featured in the main exhibit at the time. While it seems like if you dig deep enough, you can find what you want to about American History, it is much easier to simply explore the featured exhibit, which currently (as of 6/8/11) is the Reconstruction era. The information is very credible and up-to-date. Aesthetically, it may be more appealing to students who like an online platform than a textbook. It has a look of being very organized, though personally I feel like it could look slightly more "professional." In terms of user-help, the site notes that its "Ask a Historian" and "Contact Us" features were disabled due to SPAM. Therefore, users can no longer contact the site managers. I believe this to be a huge drawback of the site.

This website is a great for student that are learning how to read. It has sections like ABCs- Let's get ready to read where student learn letters and sounds, and section like I'm Reading " where students can read easy books and practice their fluency.It is a great tool for differentiating activities.It is a free website.

This is a free resource, which teaches children to read with phonics. The website has 4 levels of reading: ABC's, Learn to read, It's fun to read, and I am reading. It could be used by teachers and parents to help the student acquire different level of skills in reading. Is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

This is a website for students from grades K -12 and after selecting the grade level students are provided with stories, play and learn games, picture dictionary, homework topics, "Career Corner". The section for educators has useful project ideas and websites that can be helpful in your science class. It is free and everybody with internet can access it.

Free website used to develop lesson plans in art. Lesson plans contain the objectives, materials, planning, assessments and examples. This website is better used for teachers, but students who are interested in art projects would enjoy this website. This is very effective learning tool because the website uses various forms of art from clay, abstract, collage, sculptures and etc. The information is up-to-date and contains unique art projects. The website is organized by grade level to help find appropriate art for each grade. There is an email available to contact the creator by email. The art lesson were submitted by teachers and allows users to add comments about each lesson.

This is a free website for teachers to keep track of online grades. Its free for teachers and you can create unique user names for your students. You can create online quizzes and flashcards.

This is a website that is great for teachers. It provides lessons for all grade levels. There are games here for students to play and lessons that are themed. It is a very easy to use website and best of all its free :) The quality of information is great and there is a lot of support if you can't access something.

This website provides interactive math activities for grades pre K to 12. It is very useful for visual representation of math concepts.

This is a free website that comes from a televised math program from Loyola University. It allows viewers to call in to answer questions posted by the host. It could appeal to students. Aesthetically, its a little bit boring but the information given is very informative so it could be an effective learning tool. This would be appropriate for middle school grades and up. If a video doesn't upload, there is a link to click for help.

National Library of Virtual Manipulative provides opportunities for students to practice their math skills by using manipulative. The topics in that website are appropriate for grades 3-5 and can be used as a center activities.

This website provides big variety of skill building activities for students from kindergarten to 5th grade. It includes language art, math, science, and social studies. It also list the Illinois learning standards and provides websites with strategies and graphic organizers to help you working meeting these standards.

This is a free website and is very easy to use. To use this website, you create a video (or your students) using a movie maker software or something similar, and you record audio to go along with your video. This is appealing to students because it allows them to post videos and also allows them to watch videos posted by other students. It is a great learning tool because it gives students a vareity of explanations for different concepts. It appears up-to-date. I would say that it is approporiate for middles grades and older since making videos would be the hardest part. In terms of support, you would need to call or email.

Free website to use to cite various sources. Easy to follow steps to cite a variety of sources. I feel this would appeal to students because many students struggle with putting the correct punctuation marks and to cite sources correctly. The aesthetics is very general there are no creative graphics. I feel the website is up to date since 2010. I loved the fact I could just put in the ISBN number and the book information would pop up and I just click submit. This information can be used from 4th grade and up. The only negative is there is no contact support available.

This is a free website that allows you to use different media sources to help you supplement learning in your classroom. It's free and can be used from grades PreK to 12. Its very easy to use and can also help you align lessons to standards.

This is a free website that allows students to put together a human skeleton. It is easy to use and is visually appealing. It is an effective learning tool that students would enjoy using because it is a game. Although students label the bones of the body, there is no information about the bones. This would be an ideal game for students who are learning about the body (probably 4th grade and above). There is a contact page for user comments and questions on the abcya.com homepage.

This is a free tool to help children learn about bones. It would be appealing for students to use, but could use more color and graphics. It is easy to use and would be an effective tool for students between 3rd and 5th grade. In addition, the content is accurate and simplified. There is a "Contact Us" page that can be accessed by going to the www.e-learningforkid.org homepage for users to submit comments or questions.

ABCya.com is free website that provides educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

This a interesting website that students can visit every day and find sections like "This Day in History", "Mind Benders", "Word of the Day", "Word of the Day". Give students the opportunity to choose a subject and a grade level and compare themselves to other students by taking a quiz. In the section "Graph" gives students a chance to create different types of graphs.

This is a free, easy to navigate resource for teachers where free worksheets, quiz ideas, and fun activities can be found. The website has free resources for Pre-K to Middle School grades.

This is a free website, which has a huge list of free tales. It is easy to use and it is meant for students in grade 3rd and up. It is a great resource, which can be used in a language arts classroom. Students can identify parts of speech and refer back to the tale of choice. It is great.