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Sometimes it is hard for kids with special needs to use their fingers. Some of these apps discussed on this site help students use their fingers by tracing letters or spelling their name on a tablet. This site offers apps for math, reading, matching, spelling, memory, and more. Special education kids might need a little bit more stimulation during their learning instead of pencil and paper. Touch tablets allow them to stay interested by learning hands-on and seeing rewards visually.

I LOVE this site!!! I believe in standing up and moving between subjects. Kids' brains need breaks to become stimulated and to get oxygen every once in a while. Brain breaks also give students something fun to look forward to after hard work. This site allows teachers to create a playlist of fun brain breaks. These are great to reduce antsy behaviors and to keep kids with special needs in line.

Rid Rex is a SAFE search engine for kids! Teachers can feel at ease while his or her students research on KidRex.org for projects.

Learning Games for Kids - Education is part of life. It should be fun and challenging... not boring. Learn while you play games! Kids will have lots of fun with these interactive activities with a choice of different subjects.

This video is visually stimulating for students with Austism. Other students will find this video educational as well. The variety in the video keeps kids interested. The video shares social stories, like how to wash your hands. The video also introduces letters and letter sounds. This video would be a good brain break video.

This website is loaded with activities that make learning fun! FunBrain is the Internet's premier location for interactive, educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages, and grade levels.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids on GPO Access provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government. It has age-appropriate Social Studies activities and information that is good for review for grades K-12.

This webpage offers a great deal of help in writing skills to elementary students. It offers graphic organizers, bright ideas for writing, parts of speech, grammar practice, and more. It even models writing by generating wacky tales using words provided by students.

A kid friendly site about peer pressure and online usage.

Want a creative way to get your kids eating more vegetables? Put on a veggie puppet play starring colorful carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower. It's a great way to teach your kids about the benefits of eating vegetables and the importance of a healthy diet. This activity goes with the standard: 4 Indiana Academic Standards for Health & Wellness KINDERGARTEN Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. Students acknowledge personal responsibility for health promotion and/or risk reduction. They describe healthy behaviors to prevent or reduce their risk of injury and/or illness. Students list the components of health as emotional, physical and social. K.1.1 Name healthy behaviors.

I personally think that reading is a huge part of improving English proficiency. Reading logs helps children keep track of their own improvement and also work towards a reward. When I was a kid we got a free personal pan pizza from pizza hut.

I personally think that reading is a huge part of improving English proficiency. Reading logs helps children keep track of their own improvement and also work towards a reward. When I was a kid we got a free personal pan pizza from pizza hut.

Physical activity is being over shone by the heavy emphasis on standardized testing. A great way to keep children active is to incorporate movement into your academic lesson plans. This is a great website that lets you filter-search your lesson plans and best of all, it's free!

Wonderful educational game site for learning! Offers a variety of math and reading fun to keep students interested in learning. Mostly enjoyed by the K-5 grades.

Check out this awesome site. Looking for great worksheets and different types of curriculum this is the site you need.

What's the Time? As kids grow up, there are many new and essential skills and concepts that they must learn. Looking for a good, helpful site with great worksheets to help children learn how to tell time? Check this site out!

Looking for a fun and physical way to celebrate Read Across America Day? Try this chaotic balloon game inspired by The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss. Kids practice the alphabet while trying to keep 1, 2, 3, or even 26 balloons up in the air! This activity would go with the K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase (capital) and lowercase letters of the alphabet

A website which can provide several activities for a first grade social studies class based on geography. However it does have choices on the side for other grade levels too.

JumpStart's collection of fun social studies activities is free, printable, and designed for students of different ages. These activities cover topics in geography, history, civics, and many other related subjects. Parents and teachers using them can rest assured that the kids are learning as much as they're having fun.

To cover science standard 1.4.3, I would love to have my students build this ant habitat in a jar for the classroom. From this, students could observe the lifestyle of an ant and all the hard work they do. Drawing a replica of what they see in their jar would be a great art activity to combine with this idea.