Heritage Elementary School
Teacher Resources Web Page
Grades K - 4

Using technology can either expand or limit your interaction with students. It all depends on how you want to use it. 
 

Exemplary Classroom Web Sites

Welcome to Mrs. Levin's ESL Pre-Kindergarten Classroom at Riverchase Elementary School, Coppell, Texas 
Mrs. Blakely Kindergarten Class at Spring Trail
Mrs. Griffin's Kindergarten Class at Nottoway County Public Schools
Mrs. Klein's First Grade Class at Coleman
Mrs. Carter's Second Grade Class at Spring Trail
Mrs. Peters Second Grade Class at South Lawrence East School in Massachusetts
Miss Hillebrand's Second Grade Class at Bartlett
Mrs. Moniuszko's Second Grade Class at Nature Ridge
Mrs. Walkowiak's Second Grade Class at St. Philip Catholic School, Richmond, Ontario Canada
 
 

Interactive Activities

Interactive activities for K - 4. 
 
 

Lesson and Learning Activity Resources

Kinder Korner has lesson plans and resources for K-2.

Primarily Primary has lots of lessons, many using the internet, for K-2 students.

Dr. Labush Links to Learning has nice resources for K-6.

EduPuppy Resources for preschool - 2.

Everything Preschool has more than 150 themes including games, crafts foods, etc.

The Perpetual Preschool has activities submitted by preschool teachers.

Preschool Education has print outs and ideas for activities.

Eduhound Resources for grades 3-8.

Cool Teaching Lessons and Units    http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm
from coollessons.org  is a source of units and lesson plans, especially WebQuests.

Lessons and Enrichment Activities for grades 2-4 from Susan Naysnerski, K-4 Technology Coordinator for Narragansett (RI) Public Schools.

District 101 (Illinois) Elementary School Web Sites. Find out what sites their teachers think are cool. Choose a grade and then the Hot Links.

Wrentham Public Schools (Massachusetts) Student Page has resources for grades K-4. When at this site, go to the section Pick one to see internet sites. Then click on the subject you like. Some of the subjects are further subdivided by grade level, saving you a lot of time.

Elementary Links K - 6 from Oswego (NY) City Schools.

Resources, Lesson Plans and Activities for KINDERGARTENS  is an Internet Hotlist on Kindergarten created by Sue Roseman.

The 50 States from connectingstudents.com have a ton of links, lessons and units to help your students learn about the Fifty U.S.  States. (This page is no longer being maintained but many links are still good.)

Berit's Best Sites - This is a directory of safe, recommended Web sites for children up to age 12.

Kid Stuff from Kathy Schrock  has activities and resources for students K-8.

Online Activities from Scholastic.com   has learning activities for your class. 

ABC Teach  has math and reading activities and much more.

Holidays and Crafts  is a site that provides activities for holidays.

Puzzlemaker from allows you to make and print out word searches, crosswords, math squares and others.

Journal Entries is a site that gives your students creative writing prompts.

Kid Info Activity Page  has many activities and resources for your students.

Mrs. Wilt's Bookbag has classroom management ideas, lessons, songs, writing prompts and much more.

ProTeacher has resources and lessons plans for K-6.

Mr. Donn's U.S. History and Geography Lesson Plans & Activities and World History and Geography Lesson Plans & Activities (K-8) are extensive lists of units and lesson plans maintained by Lin and Don Donn.

Sharp Resources  from Dr. Vicki F. Sharp and Dr. Richard M. Sharp and Learning Page includes lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.

Exemplary Uses of Technology are winners of the Larry Stilgebauer Award presented by the Kane County (IL) Regional Office of Education.

L2K Helpful Things For Primary Teachers by  LuAnn Lawhon has ideas for math, science, computers, art and language arts. It also has suggestions on how to plan and the nuts and bolts of using centers with you students.
 
 

Webquests and Project Based Modules - High Quality Assignments

WebQuest Collection from Cool Lessons - all subjects and grades

Research Modules from Cool Lessons - all subjects and grades

Visual Organizer of Activity Formats from Filamentality has some examples of matching the type of web based activity to the goals you have for your students. To find a particular activity use the Search the Registry.   Just specify the grade level, etc. of the topic you're looking for and click on the "start search" button.

Research Modules are another way to look at the different levels of activities, all of which still challenge your students to think.

Writing Sites

Writing Activities for various grades

Writing Assignments for elementary schools

The Five Paragraph Essay
 


ELS Sites

ESL Resource Links for Teachers
Tiddlywinks! Original Teaching Activities for ESL  (grades k-8) by Judith Rohlf
To Learn English.com
Mrs. Johnson's ESL Pages
ESL Kindergarten Ideas
The ESL Area
Eduhound Espanol
English Language Learning Portal - UsingEnglish.com (some free materials)
 
 

Collaborative Project Based Learning - High Quality Assignments

Online Projects from Cool Lessons - all subjects and grades

The Changing Face of Our Community
 
 

Copyright © 2003 Richard Levine and Cool Lessons 
          This page may be used for non-for-profit educational use only. This page was developed to be used by the staff of Heritage Elementary School, Streamwood, Illinois during a 5 day workshop in the Spring, 2003. The workshops will be given by Richard A. Levine, Illinois State Board of Education Certified Professional Development Provider #100201.  R. Levine's role is to act as facilitator, consultant, and co-learner/investigator in the Illinois Professional Teaching Standards of Learning Environment, Planning for Instruction, Instructional Delivery and the Core Technology Standards for All Teachers, Standards 1 through 9.  If you have any comments or questions about this page, contact Rich Levine  at coollessons.org