Education Resources

We all know how important math skills are for all school-age children. Strengthening easy concepts can be done at home. Often, parents feel overwhelmed trying to teach math skills to their children because they

This Interactive World Map is great for kids, and parents too. My family has been using this for years to help our kids with homework. The best thing about it is you can start at the home page and choose a

In most schools these days, parents are required to supply snack for their children.  This mid-morning boost can get boring for kids after a while.  We have some healthy ideas for this week.  If

One of the most important teachers in your child's life is you.  A parent has a big influence on their children, especially when it come to early reading skills. There are three areas to keep in mind

Homework is an inevitable activity your school age child will participate in for many years.  It can cause stress and headaches for kids as well as parents. It doesn't have to be doom and gloom at your

While looking for free printable worksheets to give the kids over the summer, I came across this really awesome website!! They have worksheets for Math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, counting

Make learning and studying multiplication fun by using useful computer games.  My 4th grader loves this website because in her words, "For most of the games you play, it doesn't seem like you're playing a

If you have a child that struggles with math or simply enjoys math and needs to keep up with their skills, make it fun.  My 4th grader loves math and she recommends the Sumdog website.  In her words:

I am blessed with two children who love to read. They are both already great at decoding and fluency, but we've been working on improving comprehension. I developed a strategy that seems to work well for my

For all of you homeschoolers and those of you who feel you could use a little help in understanding math and would also like to practice exercises from kindergarten to the 12th grade, this free site is worth checking

MIT ESP (Educational Studies Program) offers classes one weekend in November, March and over the summer break at MIT for middle school and high school students. Classes cost $30 for as many classes as you are able

Internet safety is so important to our children. Every year in the computer lab one of the first things we learn about is Internet Safety. I will include links to good age appropriate websites about Internet safety. 

Students need keyboarding skills and this site will help all levels of typing skills. Level 1 begins a goat showing them where their fingers belong on the keyboard. Each level adds two new letters until they have

There are many sites I have used in the eight years of teaching computer to Kindergarten - 5th grade, but this remains one of my favorites. This French site offers no directions. It is purely and exploration site

Verizon Foundation has partnered with nationally recognized leaders in educational disciplines including literacy, math, humanities and science to create Verizon Thinkfinity (http://thinkfinity.org).  The

Want your student to beg to learn the times tables? Want to have that in game format? Want it FREE? Learn Multiplication from anywhere you can get internet serviceIF Adjusts to their pace and repeats facts

This free children's learning site is for just about every subject. It has games for astronomy, biology, dinosaurs, history, geology, math, and even spelling and memory. Many of the games are on the main

Here's a great game that just uses playing cards to teach basic math. All you have to do is pick a number between one and thirty. Let's say seventeen for example. Using a shuffled deck of cards

Math Worksheet Wizard is another good site for free math worksheets for K-5. You can customize thousands of these worksheets based upon what you want to cover. The worksheets are attractive in a whimsical

Here is a site that offers an extensive amount of free printables for teaching. It doesn't matter if you're homeschooling or helping your children with homework. These resources were created by a teacher

Here's an excellent resource for students, parents and teachers. It's an online almanac, atlas, dictionary, encylopedia and more. You can get homework help and find facts about almost anything. For example

Here's a good interactive fun educational website for learning elementary math. It has flashcards, work sheets, games and something called a homework helper that allows you to enter in your solved

Anyone who is looking for some great worksheets but doesn't have time to scour the internet for them - check out the collection of various workbooks published by Kumon Publishing . We recently ran across them

Changing schools can be a challenge no matter when it happens.  During the summer your student may have an opportunity to meet potential classmates.  However, when it is necessary to move during the school

 If you have a middle school age child that has begun acting out or showing signs of stress, this site can be a great help.  Many middle school age children find that making the transition from elementary

My Charter School is currently doing a fundraiser with Insider Pages for 3 weeks.  I can't tell you how easy and wonderful this fundraiser is! All you have to do is submit information about your school

This website offers free educational activities and instruction in virtually all the major disciplines, including test prep for high school SAT. There's even a section that offers strategies on how

This past weekend my grandkids were curious about my book of sudoku and wanted to try and learn how to do them. Well, as much as I would like to think that they're little geniuses, they're not and I

Here is an excellent site to teach your elementary aged kids about electricity. It clearly explains all those scary things like volts, amps, watts and where it all came from. It's divided into sections where

My grandkids love the program Animal Planet, especially SuperFetch. So I decided to visit their website to see what other interesting tidbits they had to offer. This site is an excellent resource for learning all

This afternoon while the grandkids were here I added water softener salt to the system and of course this opened up all kinds of questions from their inquiring minds so I took the opportunity to teach them

As an old science professor, I'm always looking for ways to generate interest in science in kids, especially little girls. If you can make science projects fun to them at an early age, they won't

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DreamBox is a fun online math learning game for kids that is a completely individualized education experience. We're celebrating launching our Facebook page by giving away three 1-month subscriptions and one

Fun summer math activities calendars from DreamBox Learning. Keep your kids brains from melting during the summer. August is get ready for kindergarten month! Help prepare your child for kindergarten through

I really like this educational program called Adventures of Scuba Jack because of it's rich educational content, made FUN!  From their website: "The Adventures of Scuba Jack is an educational

It’s never too early to prepare for back-to-school! momAgenda’s back-to-school checklist helps get all your ducklings in a row for a less frantic first day of school. This free printable provides a handy

Here's a fun math learning development chart much like a child growth chart. Understand how your child is doing in math with this easy-to-read downloadable chart. This one page chart is packed with information

If you are looking for a good quality math workbook to keep up your child's math skills during the summer, this is it.  While everything is moving online, Noetic Learning had this idea to move kids math

If you are still wondering what to do with your kids this summer..consider college!!  Most community colleges have "kids college" in the summer, offering a variety of enrichment classes and activities

As a child, I switched schools quite often.  My parents worked hard to prepare us for changing schools. They did everything they could to make the transition easy for us and all of my changes went well. I

Thankfully, there is lots of great kids educational software that's now available free on the internet via websites.  However, my favorite has always been the Reader Rabbit software that's been available

My daughter does not like studying for her spelling tests. In fact, she really, really hates studying for them. Earlier this year, I'd spend at least an hour a day arguing with her about going over 15 words. 

Finally, get your kids to study!  While you might not ever make it fun, you can create easy and effective study habits. It’s always a challenge helping your kids study a home. But if you try and make

During a recent flight I met the young author Sarah Peralta.  She is the author of All About My Brother.  Sarah was just eight when her book was published...simply amazing.  But more so

This awesome website called Kid-Friendly Search is divided into school subjects including math, language arts, reference, and others. Each category has several websites. Each website has several activities, games

This is a fun site that's great for kids who are in the process of learning multiplication or will be doing so soon.  There are several games that help teach the multiplication tables

My daugher doesn't like to do her homework. Like most parents, I feel that education is important, so I fight non-stop with her to get her homework done. I've even been known to do her homework for her

You may have heard of Bill Nye, the science guy.  I "stumbled-upon" (also a great site, btw) his site called the eyes of nye while browsing the web today.  The site puts forth

I love this game! The Roll-a-Gingerbread game is an easy game to make and even better to play! Another great tip and idea from My Montessori Journey - she just amazes me with her fun ideas youngesters.