PBS KIDS
PBS KIDS, targeted at children aged 3-17 years, is home to favorite PBS Kids characters with thousands of pages of learning and fun to explore.
http://pbskids.org/
PEEP and the Big Wide World
This site, which features Flash-based games starring Peep and his friends, entices three-to-five-year-olds to explore science. While kids may be having too much fun to realize it, these games will help them learn to estimate distances, mix colors, exercise their memory, and explore basic physics. The site also includes a collection of science resources. You’ll need the free Flash player.
http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Games and Activities
Children can have fun while they learn with these online games and activities! They'll learn about lots of things, from the bones inside us to how to make sculptures.
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/games/grades_prek-2.htm
Count Us In
The games on this ABC Web site are geared to younger children, with fancifully-illustrated exercises to help them grasp basic number concepts. Addition, subtraction, and number recognition are conveyed through cartoons of everyday activities such as bowling, boarding a bus, and visiting the beach. (This site uses Flash.)
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/
Make a PhotoCalendar with Your Students!
Select a location outside your classroom or center from which you can photograph a plant, trees or foliage. Mark a spot on the ground and make one photograph from that spot each week during the year. Allow students to take turns being the photographer. Try to include as much plant life as possible in your photographs. If you use a digital camera the students can see their photos immediately. Otherwise, try to get them developed once every two weeks. Have the students record the date on their photographs and add them to a horizontal calendar on the wall of the room. Discuss how the scene looks different (or doesn't) during different times of the year. After you have a full year's worth of images let students compare the photos to what it actually looks like outside and discuss the changes they observed.
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