elementary school resources - free worksheets/lesson plans/activities

The KidsKnowIt Network is an education hub with lots of free interactive online materials for elementary school teachers - main areas covered are Animals, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Dinosaurs, Geography, Geology, History, Human Biology, Math, Memory and Spelling

Topics introduced in a variety of ways - online tasks/games, free educational movies and educational music. Nice site to work though over a period of time. We found the educational movies to be very informative and productive. The educational music was surprising at times but once you've listened to one you become hooked - not just on the variation in music styles but more importantly to the content. The games provided for multiple subjects are top-notch - our favorite has to be Add It Up Math Game (excellent way to improve mental arithmetic).

A must for any teacher covering mathematics/numeracy skills - site allows you with the click of a button to generate printable worksheets (mathematics/numeracy).

Massive range of topics.

• addition
• subtraction
• mixed
• multiplication
• division
• order of operations
• fractions and percentages (always a bugbear for most children)
• greater than/less than
• odd even
• rounding
• averages
• exponents
• factorials
• prime numbers
• telling time.
  

Great way to produce training exercises with real depth in seconds. Most importantly - relevant to pupil needs.

Site also has a daily vocabulary builder (words graded by year group/pupil level).

Really nice collection of games - our favorite has to be Breakout 2D (your coordination skills have not been tested until you try this game) - logic games - breakout - breakout 2D.

The icing on the cake for this site is the Feature Articles - thoughtful educational items for both pupils and teachers.

Worth a visit - this site is aimed for a younger audience. This web page provides four stylish animated Aesop stories - professional quality and thoughtful. Nice moral at end of each story - this would be a safe starting point in raising interest in reading/fables.