PBS Kids Lab...Every New Technology is an Opportunity for Learning

This site is geared towards (for now) children age 3-8. When looking for games on particular subjects, you can filter by skills you are looking for (ex. counting, data analysis), age, device and PBS show. The site also shows home and classroom activities (complete with objectives, etc.).

Kerpoof!

This site is owned by Disney and it is FREE! You can create accounts for your class, allow students to send messages to each other, and save and publish student work.

Here are the activities that they provide:

Spell A Picture- Add pictures to your landscape by spelling the items correctly.

Make A Movie- Create a basic animation that includes adding characters and programming a variety of movements for them, adding music and text bubbles.

Make A Card and Make A Picture-

Make A Drawing - Kids can save their drawings and insert them into other activities (Make A Movie, Tell A Story)

Tell A Story- Kids can create a digital story by selecting backgrounds, characters and objects to tell their story. There is plenty of space below the scene for students to type their story.

PBS Reading Elementary

PBS Education might as well hire me on to their marketing team because I feel like I keep talking about their resources. But honestly, they're awesome. I recently found on the PBS Kids Island-Teachers page a graphic of their Literacy Framework for Kindergarten through 3rd grade.

The graphic gives a complete breakdown of the individual skills and the cool part is that you can click on the colored blocks and it takes you directly to the lesson/video/activity for that specific skill!

PBS Raising Readers: Reading Activity Calendar

PBS comes through again! They have a daily Reading Activity Calendar that you can follow and use daily. You can also go back to previous months/days in the year as well! And for our ESL teachers, it can be translated into Spanish!