Road to Grammar Jr

Road to Grammar Jr. provides quizzes (you can choose a topic from a large list), interactive activities (puzzles, word games...), and extra help suitable for younger ESL learners.

The website is viewable on smartphones and tablets. You can use a smartboard or projector to try it as a class activity.

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/junior/

The resource requires Adobe Flash.

(Main website for adult ESL learners: http://www.roadtogrammar.com)

Math Playground

Math Playground is a learning site created by Colleen King in 2002 for students in her classes who needed to practice math facts. 

It provides math games, logic puzzles and problem solving activities. You can find math games by theme and by grade level. It is described as a safe place for children to learn and explore math concepts at their own pace.

http://www.mathplayground.com

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathplayground

On Facebook: https://es-es.facebook.com/MathPlayground/

U.S. Geological Survey. Educational Resources

The USGS was created in 1879. It is the sole science agency for the US Department of the Interior. 

The USGS provides science about the natural hazards, the water, energy, minerals, the health of our ecosystems and environment, and the impacts of climate and land-use change.

It also provides educational resources (for Primary, Secundary and Undergraduate Education) and useful information about the Earth and its processes.

http://education.usgs.gov/

Anglomaniacy. English for kids

Anglomaniacy.pl is a Polish website created by Barbara Kowal with thousands of resources for kids who are learning English as a foreign or second language. They will find here lots of online activities and printable worksheets.

Anglomaniacy is divided into four main sections: vocabulary, expressions, grammar and printables.

Also a useful website for teachers and families.

http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/index.html

#Syria Sources in English

More than 7 million Syrians have been forced from their homes and more than 400,000 people have lost their lives in years of armed conflict, which began with protests against the government of President Bashar al-Assad and have escalated into a civil war.

This site developed by a professor in the Seattle area provides very interesting resources to deal with the issue in the English language classroom.

https://syriasources.org/

NewseumED

Headquartered in Washington D.C, the Newseum is an interactive museum that promotes free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. It was open in 2008.

NewseumED is a free online learning platform for teachers and students that shows the Newseum's commitment to reach all who wish to better understand these freedoms and their relationship to learning and teaching history and civics.

It provides free learning tools on media literacy, EDcollections, lesson plans, activities, EDideas, and much more.

You can register to get free, complete access to all these resources.

https://newseumed.org/

SciShow Kids

Hosted by Jessi Knudsen Castañeda, and aimed at youngsters, this YouTube Channel offers short video lessons on a variety of topics (animals, space, science experiments...).

https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowkids

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/scishowkids

On Facebook: https://es-la.facebook.com/scishowkids/

Simple English Videos

Website hosted by Vicki Hollett and her husband Jay, English teachers and teacher trainers. 

On this site you will find more than a hundred videos to help you learn and improve your English. Videos are categorized by level and theme.

http://www.simpleenglishvideos.com/

Also on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/vickihollettvideo

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/VickiVideos

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/SimpleEnglishVideos

On Google+:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SimpleEnglishVideos

CommonLit @CommonLit

Free instructional materials created by teachers, for teachers to support literacy and critical thinking development for students in grades 5-12. 

You can search and filter their collection (by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard), share it with your students, and track progress.

Tutorial on YouTube.

On Twitter: 

https://twitter.com/CommonLit

Michelle Brown Founder and CEO of CommonLit:

https://twitter.com/michelleeileen

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/commonlit/

On Pinterest:

https://es.pinterest.com/CommonLit/

Webpage: https://www.commonlit.org/

Science Bob

Educational resource for elementary school and middle school students with suggestions for experiments and science fair projects. It provides videos, science questions and answers, science websites...

This resource was created by Bob Pflugfelder (@ScienceBob), a science teacher, author, and speaker, whose experiments have been featured in many magazines and on TV programs.

On Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/sciencebob

On Twitter: 

https://twitter.com/ScienceBob

On YouTube: 

https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceBob

On Pinterest: 

https://es.pinterest.com/source/sciencebob.com/

On Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/sciencebob/

Website: https://sciencebob.com/

GoNoodle. Brain breaks

GoNoodle is a free service designed to promote physical fitness and to improve self-regulation, academic performance, language skills, and more. It provides an online environment where they can choose avatars to represent themselves. This environment helps them channel their physical and emotional energy.

Hundreds of short funny videos (2-5 minutes) that get the kids active at school and at home. Very interesting for quick brain breaks in the classroom.

https://www.gonoodle.com/

An example:

MIT+K12 Videos

MIT+K12 Videos is an educational outreach media program in the Office of Digital Learning. They produce original digital media and live programming that seeks to spark curiosity and a love of learning among middle-high school students, open the door to the STEM world, and promote STEM-literacy among the general public. 

Teachers can find all of their videos available to download and stream on their PBS Learning Media page. They will find related resources, follow-up/ supplementary activities, and standards alignment for each video to integrate into the classroom. Supplementary materials can also be found on their Pinterest page.

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/mitk12videos

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mitk12

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MITK12Videos

Blog: http://mitk12videos.tumblr.com/ 

(Source MIT+K12 Videos)

http://www.k12videos.mit.edu/ 

ESL Phonics World

ESLPhonics World is an internet based educational tool that promotes playful learning for kindergarten, nursery and primary school kids. 

It provides free educational ESL resources: phonics alphabet worksheets, handwriting and tracing worksheets, anagram worksheets, vowel sound printables, beginning blends, ending blends, diphthong worksheets, consonant sounds and blends, ESL phonics flashcards, kids alphabet rhymes & songs, phonics video games, interactive flash games, animal crafts for kids, family crafts, colouring worksheets & pages, flashcards, short & long vowel printables, r-controlled vowel pages, trigraph printables...

http://eslphonicsworld.com/index.html

WordGames.com

Playing word and vocabulary games is a valuable part of learning English and this is a very useful resource for this purpose.

WordGames.com is a dictionary of impressive free flash word games (puzzle games, memory, matching games, crosswords, typing, word search...) 

We recommend that you visit this site. You can learn and practice a large number of areas of English vocabulary and have some fun as well.

http://www.wordgames.com/

Uptoten. Educational games

Uptoten is a learning website with hundreds of fun educational games and activities for children aged up to 10 that challege the mind, encourage creativity, help with problem solving, and stimulate memory development among other skills.

Many of them are useful to try to teach English to little kids. Games are organized by age (0-6/ 6-10) so you can find the best online games for your child.

A very good tool and a creative way to learn and practice English. 

Visit: http://www.uptoten.com/

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/uptotenkids

ABCya.com

ABCya is a free educational resource that offers online learning games for grades K-5.

All the games are free to play on PCs, a subscription is required to removes the ads. 

On mobile devices the games are not free and require a subscription. They feature six free mobile games each week and encourage children to play these games before deciding to subscribe.

Hundreds of engaging learning activities.

http://www.abcya.com/

Ahora entiendo inglés

Canal en YouTube que aporta numerosos vídeos (la mayoría tienen una duración de entre 5 y 15 minutos) con explicaciones sobre diversos aspectos de la lengua inglesa. Pensado para hablantes de español ya que las explicaciones están en esta lengua.

Puede resultaros interesante como refuerzo de las explicaciones para el alumnado, repasos disponibles en red, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ahoraentiendoingles

http://www.ahoraentiendoingles.com/

Eyes on Bullying Toolkit

The Eyes on Bullying Toolkit was developed and written by: Kim Storey, Ron Slaby, Melanie Adler, Jennifer Minotti, and Rachel Katz, at Education Development Center, Inc.

This toolkit provides specific insights, strategies, activities, and resources to address bullying. It is designed especially for parents, caregivers, educators, and healthcare providers who work with children and youth in homes, early childhood programs, schools (K-12), afterschool and youth programs, camps, and healthcare settings. (Source: Eyes on Bullying Toolkit)

http://www.eyesonbullying.org/pdfs/toolkit.pdf

Factmonster.com

Factmonster.com is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. On Factmonster you can find facts on many subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, health... It combines essentian reference materials, fun facts and homework help.

Its content is written and edited by experts and includes an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, a homework center, and educational games.

Visit Factmonster.com on:

http://www.factmonster.com/

ProfessorWord

ProfessorWord is a free to use browser tool tha helps you learn new words while you surf the web. This user friendly browser bookmarklet can help you prepare your English vocabulary for SAT, ACT, GRE, and similar aptitude exams.

It works with all modern browsers.

For more information, visit:

http://www.professorword.com/