10 Website Evaluations

MrNussbaum

• Grades 2-5
• Student Resources
• Subject area: Math, Language Arts, Reading, Science, Social Studies
• Audience: Teachers, parents, and students

This site contains lesson ideas, activities, student games, and teacher resources for all classroom subjects grade 2-5. This is a well organized site that demonstrates easy access for teachers as well as students.  It also is starting to match core standards to the activities on the website.


Education.com

• All grades
• Teacher resources
• Subject Area: Math, Language Arts, Reading, Science, Social Studies
• Audience: Teachers

This site is an excellent compilation of activities, experiments, worksheets, and printable center games for all ages.  The website is easy to manage, allowing you to break down by grade, topic, and subtopics.  It also includes get-to-know you games and icebreakers for the beginning of the year activities.


Read Write Think

• All grades
• Teacher Lesson Plans

• Subject Area: Math, Language Arts, Reading, Science, Social Studies

• Audience: Teachers

This site contains hundreds of lesson plan ideas for teachers to use.  You can search lessons by grade level, resource type, learning objective, and theme.  This is useful for mini lessons as well as unit studies.  There are many excellent ideas that are adaptable for any grade level!

A Revolutionary War WebQuest

• 5th Grade
• Student interactive learning site
• Student WebQuest (with teacher lesson plan page)
• Subject Area: Social Studies
• Audience: Students (with teacher lesson plan page)

This site is a wonderful WebQuest idea for teachers to use with the Revolutionary War.  Links are given for students to research a certain aspect of the war with a partner.  Rubrics are provided along with standards for the unit.  

Teacher Vision

• All Grades
• Teacher Resources

• Subject Area: Math, Language Arts, Reading, Science, Social Studies

• Audience: Teachers

This is a perfect site for all teachers to find interactive bulletin boards, unique lesson ideas and quick printables for all subject areas.  Also, this site provides professional development ideas and links to education articles to spark new teaching ideas and strategies.There is an annual fee of $40.00, however the information available is extensive and worthwhile.  The plethora of information is perfect for new teachers and experienced teachers looking for fresh ideas.  

A-to-Z Teacher Stuff

• All Grades
• Teacher Lesson Plans
• Subject Area: Math, Language Arts, Reading, Science, Social Studies
• Audience: Teachers

Looking for free lesson plans, teaching tips, printables, and more?  This is the website for you! There are thousands of pages categorized by grade level ranges, themes, and subjects.  It is a teacher generated website and is a free resource for all educators.  It also includes discussion forums for teachers to connect and discuss relevant topics about their classrooms.

Tips for Teachers

• Grades K-5
• Teacher Resources
• Subject Area: Math, Writing, Reading, Social Studies
• Audience: Teachers

This website is filled with center ideas, free printables, book lists, and general classroom tips.  The site was created by a 4th grade teacher who now teaches 2nd grade who wanted to provide a free resource for unique teaching ideas to be shared.  This is filled with fabulous ideas that can be adapted to many different elementary classrooms!

Scholastic

• Grades K-5
• Student Resources and Teacher Resources
• Subject Area: Reading, writing, social studies, science
• Audience: Teachers & Students

This portion of the Scholastic website provides interactive student activities that explore a range of topics and classroom subjects.  Study jams provide small video clips about different topics (i.e. the water cycle).  There are also unique interactive activities that allow students to use technology to outline stories, analyze characters, and connect to classic literature.


Soft Schools

• PreK-8
• Student Interactive Learning Site
• Subject Area: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Science
• Audience: Students

This website includes many interactive games and practice activities for students to use for all subjects.  The organization of the activities allows for easy manipulation for students.  This would be a great site for early finishers or even practice at home.  

IXL Math

• PreK-8
• Student Interactive Learning Site
• Subject Area: Math
• Audience: Students

This is an excellent website aligned to the common core math standards that gives specific practice to students. There is immediate feedback for students to learn from their mistakes.  It encourages risk-taking and is an interactive way to practice math concepts taught in the classroom.  This is a great source for students to use either in school or at home.  There is a membership fee for $10 a month or $79 a year.  The membership allows for standards goal setting, teacher reports, and student tracking.However, you can use the site practice without paying.