This page provides a variety of Math and Science Websites for use with elementary school students

by Jon Mitteness

A+ Math

http://www.aplusmath.com/

Intended for elementary students

An interactive math site designed to help with math skills. This site includes interactive flash cards, games, homework help, and worksheets for practice with math skills.

Ambleweb Numeracy Hour

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/numeracy.htm

Intended for elementary students and teachers.

Ambleweb provides a large variety of interactive math activities such as multiplication tables, function machines, and mental math problems. The site also provides a variety of tools for teaching shape, space, angles, number sequencing, patterns, simple bar graph creation, and skills practice programs and games.

Cool Math

http://www.coolmath-games.com/

Intended for students of all ages.

Cool Math has a large amount of math games for students to build their math skills.

Create a Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/

Intended for students in grades K-12

Create a Graph allows students to interactively create a variety of graphs. It is user-friendly site that allows students to choose the type of graph and include their own information. It also has excellent help, examples, and templates in and easy to understand way.

Fresh Baked Fractions

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/fob.cgi?A1=s&A2=0

Intended for middle elementary students.

Fresh Baked Fractions provides students the opportunity to practice finding equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions in an interactive manner. Students receive instant feedback through this online fraction practice site.

I Know That

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_Math&COOK=

Intended for Pre-school to Sixth Grade students.

I Know That provides online multimedia educational games in math, science, social studies, language arts, and the arts. This site is an excellent resource for math and science games that students seem to really enjoy and benefit from.

Interactive Math Sites for the Smartboard

http://www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveSitesMathSmartBoard.htm

Intended for teachers for use on interactive whiteboards.

This site provides excellent math activities for interactive whiteboards. Links are provided for practice and teaching such skills as odd or even, greater than/less than, thermometer reading, telling time, numberlines, a virtual geoboard, and attribute blocks.

Internet4Classrooms

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_original.htm

Intended for K-8 students.

Internet4Classroom provides grade-level specific math and language activities for students. Various activity links are organized by subject as well as by category. A description of each link is provided in an easy to understand format.

Math Mastery Cyber Challenge

http://www.mathmastery.com/cyberchallenge/

Intended for elementary students.

CyberChallenge provides math skills practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Multiplication.com

http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

Intended for middle elementary students.

Multiplication.com provides students instant feedback and skill building practice through interactive math games. Students may choose addition, subtraction, division, or multiplication practice in a variety of the game choices.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/grade_g_2.html

Intended for students in grades K-12.

This excellent virtual manipulative site provides easy to understand, interactive virtual manipulatives for all grade levels. For each level of student, categories of manipulatives include numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability practice.

Amazing Space

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

Intended for anyone interested in space.

Amazing Space provides a large variety of space related news and activities. Users are able to search for various tools by topic and by type. Examples include black holes, galaxies, gravity, a history of science, the solar system, graphic organizers to use with learning, as well as a variety of other areas to explore.

Cool Science for Curious Kids

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html

Intended for elementary school students.

Cool Science for Curious Kids invites kids to explore biology through a variety of information and ideas to explore the science on their own. There are excellent learning activities in a variety of topics.

EdHeads

http://www.edheads.org/

Intended for students in grades 2-6.

EdHeads provides virtual science activities in the areas of Simple Machines, Weather, Virtual Knee Surgery, Virtual Hip Surgery, and the Odd Machine.

Gamequarium

http://www.gamequarium.com/science.htm

Intended for 3-6 grade students.

Gamequarium provides interactive games for students studying a variety of scientific topics. Included topics include energy, matter, electricity, space, dinosaurs, forces and motion, ecology, animals, and other.

Inventing Modern America

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/i/invent/www/ima/games.html

Intended for upper elementary students.

Students use interactive games to learn about topics such as Which Came First and Invention Connection.

Inventive Kids

http://www.inventivekids.com/indexFlash.html

Intended for elementary school students.

Inventive Kids explores a variety of inventions and their histories. Students are able to choose from a number of activities that provide an inventive experience in a variety of ways.

Live Science

http://www.livescience.com/

Intended for an audience of teachers, parents, and students.

This site includes a large variety of science topics. Many articles, video clips, and other information have been provided to cover a large amount of science topics.

NASA KIDS CLUB

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

Intended for elementary students.

This NASA website provides a huge variety of learning activities and information for kids at a variety of levels. There is a large amount of space information and learning opportunities within this site.

ReviseWise Science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/

Intended for students ages 4-11.

This site provides interactive learning opportunities with Science, Math, and English. Within each subject area is a variety of activities, factsheets, tests, and worksheets for students to work through. Space categories include Living Things, Materials, Physical Processes, and a Game Zone.

The Science Explorer

http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/

Intended for elementary students.

The Science Explorer provides a number of hands-on science activities. This site provides excellent activities for science exploration by providing clear directions and a number of exciting activities.

StarChild

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

Intended for elementary students.

StarChild provides a variety of informative and interactive activities to study space. Students may choose a number of levels of activities to study the solar system, the universe, and other space stuff.

Welcome to the Planets

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Intended for middle elementary students.

This site includes excellent information on planets and other space topics. This would be an excellent resource for students doing projects on planetary information.

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/

Intended for elementary students.

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet is an awesome interactive site for exploring all things yucky. Kids learn through a variety of activities that cover topics such as worms, roaches, and the human body.

KidSites

http://www.kidsites.com/

Intended for all ages of students.

KidSites provides links and descriptions to a large number of kid-friendly educational games and web-sites for learning. There is a large variety of links for all levels of users.

Thirteen Ed Online

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/students.html#

Intended for Teachers, Parents, and Students

This site provides a large variety of math, science, and other activities. It also includes lesson plans as well free online courses.

University of Virginia Center for Technology and Teacher Education

http://teacherlink.org/home.html

Intended for teachers looking to integrate technology into English, Math, Science, and Social Studies.

Includes a large variety of technology-rich lesson ideas for teachers to use with all levels of students.