First Grade Internet, Lesson Plans and Webquest Sites |
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| Animals | Community Service | Computer Skills |
| Earth Day | ESL | Famous People |
| Flash Cards | Holidays |
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| * Larson's Math Correlated with Trailblazers. A must! Click on your grade to see the correlations! | Main Idea | Math |
| Plants and Growth | Problem Solving | |
| Reading | Safety | Seasons |
| Science | ||
| 100th Day | ||
Internet Sites
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Lesson Plans
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Webquests
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Animals
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Animals
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| All Animals A wonderful site for kids! | Before You Go on a Yard Trip Children need uninterrupted time to explore outdoors — to feel the textures of their surroundings and search for scientific revelations. |
In Search of Stellaluna's Family It will be your quest to learn the facts about bats. You can help teach Stellaluna and others about the special qualities of being a bat. |
| Animal Diversity This lesson plan expands student knowledge of animal features and behaviors that can help or hinder their survival in a particular habitat | Minibeasts Students will develop an understanding of the similarities and differences between a variety of small creatures, investigate food cycles and food chains, become aware of the need for observation and attention to detail, foster attitudes of caring and protection, and develop a positive attitude towards conservation. | Bear Webquest You are great bear hunters. You are going to hunt for information about bears in the wild. As Yogi Bear says, "You need to be smarter than the average bear" in order to complete your task on the bear hunt. Happy bear hunting! |
| Bear Tracker When you explore this site, you will find information on animals and their tracks. In addition , you will find pictures of the animals themselves and natural history information for each species. | Study Life Cycles with Butterflies This great plan includes creating a simple graph of caterpillar growth. | Penguins Are Cool! Tacky the Penguin, a character in a book written by Helen Lester, doesn't fit in with his friends. Let's find out more about "normal" penguins by working as a team to find facts about them. |
| Bugs Caught in the Web Take an Internet Field Trip! Don't look now, but we're surrounded! They're everywhere — in the yard, in the trees, in our houses, and maybe under our beds! They aren't creatures from another planet — they're those creepy, crawly, and always fascinating, bugs! | Enchanted Learning - Spiders Here
students can color on-line while learning the parts of spiders. |
Spider Webquest This is on a First Grade Level. Brown Recluse Spider |
| Habitats of Local Plants and Animals This site allows you to investigate the habitats of local plants and animals and to explore some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other. | Spiders - Basic information about spiders. | |
| Primary Life Science Links Look here for any animals for your curriculum. | Microorganisms There's and acitivity, detailed information and a quiz at this site. | |
SeaWorld This site is marvelous for primary kids to explore about animals. |
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Earth Day - Lesson Plans
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Earth Day - Webquests
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| Earth Day Activities This is a whole class activity - not really a webquest but it certainly leads students to the independence of webquesting one day. | ||
Famous People - Lesson Plans
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Famous People - Webquests
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| Little Explorers Enchanted Learning | On-Line Famous People Bibliographies | |
| Health - Internet Sites | Health - Lesson Plans | Health - Webquests |
| Nutrition | Nutrition | Nutrition |
| Food Pyramid An
on-line picture of the food pyramid. |
Nutrition! One Hot Topic! In this primary unit students will learn to identify the main food groups and list content examples, distinguish between a fruit and a vegetable, follow the proper sequence when using a recipe, state whether a food item is "junk", and analyze the school menu for proper portions and balance of food groups. | Trip to the Grocery Store The purpose of this activity is to learn the different departments of the grocery store. You will also learn to estimate the amount of money that you will need to complete your purchase. |
| Healthy Foods An activity created with KidPix in which students drag and drop healthy foods inside a circle. |
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| Safety - Internet Sites | Safety - Lesson Plans | Safety - Webquests |
| Abandoned Mines Describes how abandoned mines may look and what to do if you see one etc. | American
Red Cross Site This information is presented on an adult level but
it's very valuable. Information on everything you can think of to prepare
and respond safely to dangerous situations. |
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| Frankenstein's Lightning Laboratory Electrical Safety, Static Electricity and Fruity Electricity are included in this neat site!!! | Health and Fitness A collection of lessons, activities and links for all the safety information you can image on a primary level. | |
| Health and Fitness A preschool introduction to all the safety awareness you can possibly image. | Prepare Yourself! This lesson introduces U.S. students to natural hazards that occur across their country and in their home region. | |
| Holidays -Internet Sites | Holidays - Lesson Plans | Holidays - Webquests |
| Holiday All holidays are found here plus other interesting areas. This one is excellent!! Scroll down to Links or Valentine to select. I suggest clicking on Links instead. | Billy Bear's on Holiday Holidays - Valentines, St.Patrick, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, July 4th, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Birthday, Grandparents, and Earthday. | Monthly Theme Units and Worksheets Each of the 12 months of the year are listed in printable form. Not a webquest but oh, so helpful! |
| Christmas Links | Google Holidays Wonderful children's sites for the holidays. | |
| Math - Internet Sites | Math - Lesson Plans | Math - Webquests |
| AAAMath One of the best sites available for math!! This takes them directly to addition without regrouping.This takes them to subtration without regrouping. | * Larson's Math Correlated with Trailblazers. A must! Click on your grade to see the correlations! | One
by One - A Counting Webquest After reading the book, Ten Black
Dots by Donald Crews, work with your teacher to: |
| Ask Jeeves Math Type in a math related question and Jeeves delivers the answer! | Estimation and Measurement The purpose of this lesson is to use unconventional units of measure to estimate and measure. Other resources are available at the end of the lesson. Check them out as well. | |
| Aunty Math Each challenge (problem solving) is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of Aunty Math, her two nephews Barney and Danny, and her niece Gina. Past challenges and parent/teacher tips are archived at the site as well. | ||
| Dositey K-5 Special sections for K-2, 3-4, and 5-8 make this site easy to find age appropriate math concepts. | ||
| Flashcards! Flashcards are available for every level and every subject up to adults. | ||
| Fun Brain Find fourteen games to play including practice counting money, measurement, algebra, graphing coordinates, secret codes, order of operations, and fractions. These games let you customize problem difficulty, and often offer tips if you give an incorrect answer. | ||
| Homework Spot This site helps students and parents. | ||
| Johnnie's Math Page a collection of K-8 interactive math activeties. This is great for individual or group activities! | ||
| Math Cats! This an award-winning site that's so helpful! | ||
| Math Dictionary for Kids | ||
| Math Forum for elementary students | ||
| Math from Rice University: Education Department Here is another very good primary and upper elementary math site. | ||
| National Library of Virtual Manipulatives As a whole-class demonstration, with small groups, or as individual remediation this site offers an excellent opportunity for teaching/reinforcing/reviewing essential concepts. It would be especially effective for the visual or tactile learner. The site's simple but colorful graphics are especially appealing and striking. | ||
| Skills all First Grade Math Students Should Have | ||
| Understanding How to Read a Graph This is too advanced for them to do alone but gathered around your computer or in the lab on the floor would be great. | ||
| Word Problems The goal of this math website is to help elementary and middle school children improve their math problem solving and critical-thinking skills. | ||
| Reading - Internet Sites | Reading - Lesson Plans | Reading - Webquests |
| Ending Consonant "D" This
lesson teaches ending consonant sounds. The ending consonant in this lesson
is d. The ten words in this lesson are: bird, dad, red, hand, bed, bead,
bread, cloud, head, and keyboard. Students will see the word, hear the
word used in a sentence, and see a picture of the word. Students play a
matching game to review the words in the lesson. |
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Voracious Animal Voices Children with emerging literacy skills choose
an alphabet letter, identify words that begin with that letter's sound
which could describe how a fantasy animal looks or sounds, and then write
poetry using those words. |
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Trip to Wonderland: A Nursery Alice Students, in this unit compare
Carroll's fantastic animals with creatures from other children's stories
and use computers to craft images of their own fantasy creatures. |
Fairytale Webquest The
students will write their own fairytales. |
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A Child Becomes a Reader - K-3 Proven ideas from research for parents but it is worth the teacher's while to read! It tells you what to look for in the K-3 classrooms and where a student should be at the end of each grade (K-3) in reading. | |
| Flashcards | ||
| Flashcard Exchange All levels and all subjects which can be presented as a timed slide show are located in this site! | ||
| Main Idea - Internet Sites | Main Idea - Lesson Plans | Main Idea - Webquests |
| Main Ideas A wonderful site where students or parents read the selection and children choose the correct answers from a multiple list on the right of the screen. It "grades" their answers! | ||
100th Day - Lesson
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100th Day - Webquests
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| 100th Day Activities | ||
| More 100th Day Activities | ||
| Still more 100th Day Suggestions | ||
Community Service - Lesson
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Community Service - Webquests
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| Hud; Kids Next Door where kids learn to become good citizens. Wonderful activities! | We the People This is Houghton Mifflin's history site, K-6.
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Community
Helpers This web quest will inform 1st grade students about community
helpers. The web quest will guide the students through each community
helper and allow them to learn about four occupations with the help of
an adult. This web quest will introduce and inform students about community
helpers. |
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood Public Broadcasting sponsors this and it's good.
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Harriet Quimby: Flying Ace Students read or you read the short story to them. The next screen is an activitiy for them to give details and the main idea of the story. | |
| Predicting and Retelling Read Alouds This is a genric lesson plan to use with predicing and retelling a story. Materials required: Read Aloud book, chart paper, marker, post-its. | ||
Computer Skills- Lesson
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Computer Skills - Webquest
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| Computer Skills | ||
| Ending Consonant "D" This lesson teaches ending consonant sounds. The ending consonant in this lesson is d. The ten words in this lesson are: bird, dad, red, hand, bed, bead, bread, cloud, head, and keyboard. Students will see the word, hear the word used in a sentence, and see a picture of the word. Students play a matching game to review the words in the lesson. | ||
| Growing with Technology We'll work with lots of terms and actions as we grow in technology. | ||
| Works Cited by a First Grade Student - What should be cited by a 1st grade students. | ||
Plants and Growth - Lesson
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Plants and Growth - Webquests
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| Unit on Plants On completion of this thematic until, students will: 1. List the specific needs of plants: water, air, light and minerals. 2. Identify the major parts of a plant: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds. 3. Name uses for each part of the plant. | ||
| Seasons - Lesson Plans | Seasons - Webquests | |
| Windows to the Universe - is a wonderful science site which covers beginners through advanced students. Look under Tearcher's Resources and click on Beginner or Intermediate or Advanced to see what's available. Students may select English or Spanish! | Seasons
Thematic Unit Students will be able to: 1. associate the seasons
with calendar months. 2. compare the weather and clothing of each season.
3. identify the holidays that occur during each season. 4. know the activities
appropriate for each season. |
Seasons and the Weather Every year, the earth goes through four different seasons: Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall. These four seasons usually mean four different kinds of weather. |
| Language Arts - Internet Sites | Language Arts - Lesson Plans | Language Arts - Webquests |
| Ending Consonant "D" This lesson teaches ending consonant sounds. The ending consonant in this lesson is d. The ten words in this lesson are: bird, dad, red, hand, bed, bead, bread, cloud, head, and keyboard. Students will see the word, hear the word used in a sentence, and see a picture of the word. Students play a matching game to review the words in the lesson. | ||
| Story
Writing with Arthur Developed for students in grades 1-3, this guide
provides a wealth of reading comprehension and writing activities. Students
work first to understand the elements of a story, and then are encouraged
to create original ARTHUR stories based on their own experiences. This
guide has received rave reviews from teachers across the country! |
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| The Text Mapping Project This introduction to Textmapping provides instruction for using it in the classroom for reading comprehension instruction. Teachers can explore how to make a scroll of text and mark it to help students understand structure and content. | ||
| Works Cited for First Grade Students - What should be cited by a 1st grade student. | ||
| ESL - Internet | ESL - Lesson Plans | ESL - Webquests |
| English
Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes You can study
a set of words, then choose a game. Instead of studying the word list
first, you can choose which game you want to play, then choose the set
of words. |
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| ESL Kidstuff -ESL & EFL children's resources for English teachers and parents. Over 1,000 flashcard images, hundreds of worksheets, crafts, games, jobs and lots more. | ||
| Shapes | ||
| Shapes Online Story, Activities, Mobile etc | ||
| Science | Science Lessons | Science WebQuests |
| A Balance and Motion Matching Game | ||
| Balance and Motion | ||
| Balance and Motion Frogs | ||
| Solids and Liquids | ||
| First Grade Science Skills Organisms, Earth Science, Physical Science,and Life Science | ||
| Float or Sink - Why? | ||
| Float or Sink? | ||
| Problem Solving Interactive | ||
| Animal Puzzles You use problem-solving skills to put 16 animal puzzles together. | ||
| Dr. Seuss Puzzle | ||
| Group Problem Solving Explain why you answer what you do for each. | ||
| Internet 4 Classrooms Solve simple story problems involving addition and subtraction with numbers less than 20. Scroll down to 1.1.2 b | ||
| Kids Psych Here you'll have all sorts of puzzles and games to use to solve problems! | top of page | |
