St. Peter & Paul School
Teacher Resources Web Page
Grades Preschool - 4

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

Interactive activities for preschool - 4. 

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Certificate Creator allows you to make and print certificates.

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.

Make the Link has Illinois Learning Standards Benchmark Grid Help from the St. Clair County Regional Office of Education. If you need help teaching one of the Illinois standards, there is help here.

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

Integrating the 'Net into the Elementary Classroom is a nice summary of six levels of Internet use in the classroom with appropriate links for each from Sarah A. DiRuscio, Forefront Curriculum.

TIP Project Unit Frameworks are quality K-5 engaged learning units from teachers in District 23, Prospect Heights IL. Some of the links used in these projects are located in the second cell at the right here.

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

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.

 Dawn Owen's Primary Elementary Center Ideas has ideas for mostly math and some science centers.

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.

Quick and Easy Science has experiments and demonstrations that teach concepts and cost little using common everyday resources and equipment.

Copyright © 2002 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 St. Peter & Paul Elementary School, Cary, Illinois during an eleven hour workshop for each set of grade levels, Aug. 19-20, 2002. 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