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Research article written by Dr. Sherron Roberts (UCF teacher in elementary education) about how you can enhance poetry writing through technology - since we are doing a poetry unit in my 5th grade class, this is specifically interesting to me.

Publish your own book! Great for students to practice using their vocabulary words, etc... Love this! Cool way to incorporate publishing too!

Lots of links to virtual field trips! Several for science, and a few for other subject areas. Grade level appropriateness is also listed.

Formerly called Science News for Kids, this is a great resource for elementary and middle school students. In my classes I assign a monthly "science current events article" and this is one of the recommended sources.

This website provides information on why rubrics are so important to use in the classroom. It also has printable rubrics that teachers can use for all different grade levels and all different assignment types such as projects, reading, and writing assignments.

"'Animated Educational Video Clips"

This is an animated site for kids. Sight contains information in all subject areas. There is a fee to use all of the site but they provide some free material as well. I like the clear explanations they have on the topics.

An awesome website for elementary students! The videos can also be added to Nearpod lessons and viewed with headsets.

This website is a great way to introduce and reinforce touch typing with your younger students. I use this program with my third grade keyboarding class. They love getting to the song at the end and can't wait to move on to the next level!

This is a great page for read aloud books. There is a good selection of children's books on a variety of topics. The stories load quickly and are of good quality. Highlighted words tell emerging readers which word is being said. Allow students to listen by themselves at their seats or as a whole class presentation!

If you teach 3rd-8th grade this is an excellent tool for reviewing parts of speech. Using the old "mad libs" concept of creating ridiculous stories by replacing words before reading the story, this site engages students in grammar, and they don't even know it :-) It includes a "parts of speech help button" and plenty of different stories.

This is a great website for students to use for research projects.

This website has over 100 interactive games for students to play on topics such as animals, geography, science, math, and language arts.

Tons of free educational games for all different elementary levels, including pre-k. Covers all subject areas. Has great graphics

Help students in grades 2-4 stop the summer reading slump by downloading these free books. Audio and comprehension included.

Each ZIP file contains all seven PDF titles in the grade-level series Students who don't read much over the summer show a decline in reading performance from the end of one grade to the start of the next.

"Vocabulary Games"

This website offers free, interactive resources online featuring Latin & Greek root-based activities at grade levels. It was listed as an instructional resource on the Florida Department of Education website.

This site provides interactive and fun ways for students to practice and learn new vocabulary words via games, puzzles, and crosswords. It is suitable for students from high elementary grades through college!

This is a great site for cyber safety resources. The student sections are divided by grade chunks (elementary, middle, and high school). Each section has age appropriate videos and games regarding cyber safety. The teacher section contains lesson plans to help teachers present the material to their different audiences.

This website compiles games from around the Internet in one location. Each of the games correlates with topics learned in physics lessons. The games are entertaining for the students but also provide teachers with springboards into more difficult topics like gravity, force, motion, and Newton's Laws.

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

This is a great site for children ages 2-8. It teaches pre-reading as well as reading skills up to 2nd grade. Includes games, animated stories, songs, and writing activities. I use it daily!

Starfall is a free website that teaches children how to read through phonics. It has practice games on phonemic awaresness. The program is great for grades K-2, second language learners and special education.

This website has a good assortment of online games for many subject areas. There is also a section of pre-school read alouds to explore. Be careful! As this website is a free site, there are some ads along the sides and top of the pages.

This site has educational games for kids grades Pre-K to 8th grade.

This online interactive game is geared toward second graders in the hopes of introducing and reinforcing economic concepts. Students begin by creating their bakery and selling items. They soon begin to realize that to sell an item they need the materials to make it. To get the materials, they need money to purchase them. The game is highly engaging, however, a several discussions on the economic concepts are needed before students begin to grasp them concretely.

This website has some great information for parents and teachers on how to teach children how to spend and save wisely. The website also features several games and other interactive sections for students to explore and learn more about money. This is a good website to allow children to explore as a center activity or as a whole class.