Are you using BigHugeLabs in the classroom? Sign up for a free Educator account and get the following benefits:
* Pre-register your students so they can sign in without requiring an email address.
* View and download content created by your students.
* Use the site advertising-free.
* Ready to print ID cards for your students
ABCya! is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer games and activities were created or approved by certified teachers. ABCya! educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. ABCya! games and activities incorporate content areas such as math and reading while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade games are equipped with sound to enhance understanding
Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free!
Capture your child's voice and imagination with our creative story building tool and share them with friends and family.
* Encourages creativity and self expression
* Helps reinforce reading and writing skills
* A GREEN alternative to having books made
* NO ads, NO merchandising, NO external links
* Made with kids in mind!
* It's Fun and it's FREE for everyone!
Little Bird Tales was created to help nurture children's creativity and imagination while simultaneously creating one of a kind childhood treasures that can easily be shared. We are dedicated to providing a safe web environment for children, free of advertising, merchandising and links to other sites.
FREE - The new green way of delivering education. Eliminate paper work. Standards-based instruction, assessments online/offline, communicates with parent's online, access thousands of lesson plans and activities.
ISTE Learning is an anytime, anywhere online community for professional development where educators can sample free concepts, buy cool resources and exchange creative ideas. This space provides relevant learning experiences in multiple formats to strengthen the teaching experience and grow digital literacy.
Game Classroom is a one-stop web destination for accessing high-quality educational games, and homework help for K-6 students:
* We scoured the web for the best and most trustworthy games, and conveniently sorted them according to skill, topic and grade level.
* We spent thousands of hours creating an abundance of interactive content for parents to better understand the building blocks behind their child's development.
* We created a comprehensive, free homework help section for parents/teachers to provide to children including learning tips, online resources and sample problems.
All of Game Classroom's educational content has been created by professional educators with over 200 years of teaching experience, and has been outlined using state educational standards. We hope you (and your kids) enjoy Game Classroom and find it a fun place to learn and play games!
WatchKnow is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.
WatchKnow is now officially launched, after being developed for over a year. Whether you're a student, a parent, a teacher, or just someone who cares about the education of children, you can now use our service and get involved to make it even better. Please sign up! (But did you know that you can add new videos to our system without signing up? They'll have to be approved first.)
"Kids Play Park is an educational website for kids. We offer a variety of free kids learning games. Kids have fun learning while playing our games! Play kids math games, art games, kids memory games, word games for kids, kids recipes, and the stock market game that teaches kids about stock."
Like all edcamps, attending this amazing conference on Saturday May 7th at Wayne State University is free! Click here to go directly to the registration page! We are very excited about bringing #edcamp to Detroit because we know there are many educators in the area that are dying to get together and share the wonderful things they are doing in the classroom.
Interested in earning SB-CEUs during your summer break? Michigan school librarians and teachers can now obtain SB-CEUs for select MeL Databases online webinars. All of our MeL Databases workshops are offered free-of-charge to Michigan librarians and teachers, and MCLS has scheduled several online sessions this summer to accommodate vacation schedules.
The Internet can be a scary place for elementary teachers. On one hand, you want to share the Internet as a wonderful tool with your students, but on the other, you worry about safety and helping them find the most useful resources without getting lost on the information superhighway. Because of this, we've put together a listing of some of the best sites for elementary teachers and students online, plus a few tools to help you keep everything together.
Classroom Web Tools is a collection of nine years research into Internet resources to assist in the learning process, not only in the classroom but also at home. Sites have been selected on the basis of quality, reliability, interactivity, ease of use and, of course, free of charge.