Elementary School Resources

Welcome Elementary School Students! If you are a student in  Kindergarten
to Grade 5, you will find lots of fun and interesting  information on this
site, including computer games in Math,  Social Studies, Science and English. There are also links to help with homework, and sites that give you information about topics that you are studying in school.

• English
• Social Studies
• Mathematics
• Science

Reading/Language Arts

Great books for kids from Pre-K to Grade 2
Suggested_Reading_List_K-2.pdf

Great books for kids from Grade 3 to Grade 5
Suggested_Reading_List_3-5.pdf

Kindergarten - Patrick’s Kindergarten Class (Helps Pre-K and Kindergarten students learn counting, letters, shapes, colors, from a teacher in Alaska) http://www.alaskasmallbusiness.com/kindergarten/

Language Arts Games by grade from the Funbrain web site
http://www5.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s.cgi?A1=selects&A2=la&A4=3&A7=3

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Social Studies

American Revolution. There are also on-line games, word finds, and other activities for students, and a teachers’ forum, and on-line lesson plans). http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/index.html

Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution: An Internet Exploration of the American Revolutionary War (Excellent, extensive resources about the events leading up to and including the American Revolution, with many resources geared towards students. Web site created by the Independence Hall Association)
http://www.ushistory.org/march/index.html

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 (Library of Congress, Special Collections and Rare Books web site) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html

Historical Documents from the Library of Congress (searchable database from the Library of Congress web site) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html

Civics On-line (Civics-related resources for parents, teachers and students)
http://civics-online.org/

The Constitution: An Enduring Document (from the U.S. Information Agency of the U.S. Department of State. The U.S. Constitution information is Chapter 1 in the overall document, “Outline of U.S. Government”)
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/outusgov/ch1.htm

History Games for kids by grade (4th grade and up) from the Funbrain web site
http://www5.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s.cgi?A1=selects&A2=hist&A4=3&A7=3


Social Studies/Geography links http://7-12educators.about.com/msub62historygeo.htm

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Mathematics

Ask Dr. Math – Elementary School Math (from Drexel University)
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/drmath.elem.html

Fast Food Combinations: How many possible combinations can be made from a special menu of eight items? http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.mcdonalds.html

Funbrain Games for Kids (from the Funbrain.com web site) http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

Math Games for Kids by Age (from the Funbrain.com web site)
http://www5.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=selects&A2=math&A4=3&A7=3

Math games, practice, etc. on a variety of math skills (from AAA Math) http://www.aaamath.com/

Pre-Kindergarten Math Resources (from Drexel University) http://mathforum.org/teachers/pre-k/

Primary Math Games (Web site created by a teacher. Includes on-line games for counting, addition, subtraction, and money.) http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm

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Science

Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Educational resources for teachers, students and parents related to the Chesapeake Bay, including field trips, teacher training, educational programs, lesson plans and activities)
http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homev3

Lesson Plan links for Marine Science (Various lesson plans and activities related to marine science, by level – K-12, Elementary, Middle or High School. From the Bridge web page, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] and the National Marine Educators’ Association)
http://www.vims.edu/bridge/lesson.html

NOAA Weather Photo Gallery (Images of cloud formations, hurricanes, rainbows, and other weather-related images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service web site)
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

Solar System Resources (From the Zoom School; many resources and activities about astronomy, the moon, earth and solar system) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/

Web Weather for Kids (From the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Includes activities about hurricanes, clouds, blizzards, tornadoes) http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/webweather/

Zoom School Elementary School Science by subject-area and grade (From the Enchanted Learning web site. This site contains a great variety of activities and resources in many subject areas within science.) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/categories/science/

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