Art

Chicago Children’s Museum - Chicago Children’s Museum Web site includes a virtual tour of their exhibits, interactive games, and lots of links for kids.

A. Pintura Art Detective - This clever site uses a Dashiell Hammett detective style to help children explore the world of art.

Peter Rabbit - Read about Beatrix Potter’s life, art and the characters she created in her timeless children’s picture books.

Social Studies

The U.S.A. Quiz - This is an interactive quiz that tests kids’ knowledge of where the states are on an outlined map of the United States. This site also connects to quizzes about Africa, Canada, Europe and the entire World.

Science

Edible Experiments – If you want to get a real “taste” for science experiments, check this site out.

National Geographic Kids - One of the best resources for information on the Net about the world, its people, and its wildlife!

Astronomy For Kids- A great place to learn all about the stars and planets!

NASA for Kids - Learn about space, rockets, astronauts and more!

Kids Planet - Are you interested in finding out about endangered species?  Then, this is the place for you!  Here, you will find information about these animals and what is being done to help them.

Science News for Kids: Cool STEM articles make for fun, informative reading.

Math

Math Pickle - Iridescent beetles, LEGO gunships, gnomes in trouble - math has never been more fun.  This is a site that employs these and other kid-friendly elements to teach various math concepts from K to 12.

Reading

Between the Lions- The perfect place to read books online.

Magic Tree House - Learn all about Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree Housebooks, ask her a question, or write a book review.

Dav Pilkey’s Website ‘O Fun - The award-winning author and illustrator gets silly (and serious) in a site designed to encourage creativity and fun.

International Children’s Digital Library - On this Web site, you will find a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.

Starfall - This is the web site for the emerging reader!  Each vowel sound, diagraph, and word family has an animated story and a little book that goes with it.  The book can be downloaded and printed as well!

Lil’ Fingers - Lil’ Fingers is a computer storybook, game, activity and coloring site perfect for kids ages 3-7.

Building Language for Literacy - From naming letters to practicing rhyming...the perfect place to practice reading!

Unite For Literacy - A picture book oasis for building literacy skills! Multiple audio languages make this a great fit for ELL and primary students.

Sports

Sports Illustrated for Kids - A busy, colorful site with articles about sports figures from Jackie Robinson to Jackie Joyner-Kersee, league standings, games and more.

Current Events

New York Times Learning Network - This site is perfect for fifth-grade students who are looking for news headlines or information on the most up to date current events.

Washington Post for Kids - Ever seen your parents reading the Washington Post and wish you could too?  Well, now you can!

Tween Tribune - A daily news site for tweens. Each day they post links to the day's most compelling news from a tweens perspective. Stories chosen for TweenTribune are selected by tweens working closely with professional journalists. Tweens can submit links to stories they'd like to share, submit their own stories and photos, and comment on the stories they read.

Youngzine - Written for upper elementary through high school readers, covers current events around the world.

Dogonews - Calls itself the “leading source for current events, news and non-fictional articles for kids and teachers."  Key vocabulary words in articles are linked to dictionary entries.  Articles often end with comprehension questions with critical thinking challenges. 

Newsela - A great place to find current events that are leveled for all readers.

Global Voices - A website written, translated and curated by more than 800 citizen journalists and media experts.  This offers an excellent resource offering local and often underreported, stories. Searchable by topic or region, the site is available in 43 languages. 

Kidpost: Kid-centric news site could use more comprehensive, timely content.

General

DK Findout - This is basically a FREE site that rivals Pebble Go - but it's about almost EVERYTHING!

Scratch - A perfect place to code!

Code.org - Another perfect place to code!

Typing.com - Use this to hone your typing skills!

Online Recess - Games For Play And Fun

Games with Your Favorite Characters - The perfect place to play games, win contests and have fun with your favorite book characters, authors, and series!

Seussville - In case you couldn’t tell by the title, this is the place to go to explore and learn with many of Dr. Seuss’s characters!