By Rameen Naviwala
Collecting resources to help your students as an elementary school teacher can be challenging, but if you are looking for influential websites great for STEM learning acceleration, look no further. We’ll dive into four such resources and how they can help your students in and outside the classroom. Here are four comprehensive elementary school websites.
1. National Geographic Kids
The National Geographic Kids website allows your students to learn more about science and social studies through games, videos, and eye-catching activities. Their game sections enable students to enjoy learning about various topics like biology. This website is an excellent resource for elementary teachers looking to engage their students while helping them learn more about nature and animals in a fun way.
2. Smithsonian’s History Explorer
Smithsonian’s History Explorer website is an exceptional resource for students to learn more about history through lessons, interactive media, and activities. The filtering system is particular, so searches by grade, resource type, and historical era are easy to find. You can find plenty of ready-to-reach lessons from this site to engage your students in American history, prepare to teach lessons from this site, and engage students in history.
3. Zearn Math
With Zearn, your young students can learn from hundreds of math lessons, including warm-ups, lesson-specific skills, and guided practice with interactive video lessons. Video lessons involve both students and teachers to help your class learn. As a teacher, you can access the curriculum from their dashboard, the option to try out the digital student interactives, and a student report to help track student progress. Zearn is an outstanding way for your students to learn more about math, no matter which kind or what level they are on. The built-in lessons are an asset to understanding and helping your students grow.
4. Scratch
Scratch is an educational elementary school website MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group created that teaches block-based coding language. Your students will learn all about how to code and the intricacies of computer programming and science. There are a whole host of activities: creating variables, building functions, using snap drag-and-drop blocks of code together to create programs for animation, digital storytelling, and so much more. This website is a great way to encourage your students to become interested in careers in computer science and learn how to code and create animations.
These are just some influential elementary school websites can help push your students further in their education. These websites are of great help and a perfect way to help map out lesson plans and have resources for your use so you can keep encouraging your student’s academic growth.
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