"National Geographic is a trusted resource for all aspects of geographic education. This site has resources for grades K-higher education and the breadth of the resources available cover a wide variety of activities, interactive material, mapping (of course), and guides for instructors. The scope of the site is such that subjects such as arts and music, English language arts, and biology are options along with -ology topics that one would expect to find in a site from National Geographic. The indexing of the site by grades, content types, and subjects allow easy searching through the website." (AASL)

Ideas for children to do when they are not in school to keep learning!

This site offers illustrated recipe picture books that get kid chefs excited about cooking.

Great games and activities for reading and math for kids aged 3 to 11. This site is targeted at parents and children, and can easily be used for free at home.

Find fun online games for kids featuring PBS KIDS characters. Students can find printables, coloring pages, online games and more.

PBS has created and shared tons of media rich, engaging, digital lessons for a wide range of grade levels and subject areas.

Find FREE videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers like you. Choose from lots of filters that will customize your search so you can find exactly what you're looking for.

If parents did these 5 simple things they would greatly improve their child's readiness for school and reading. These suggestions come from a former Reading Recovery Teacher and a mother of a very early reader.

Have your kids go on a picture scavenger hunt in your home - either with a pencil and paper to make a list, or with a camera.

This site offers toddler and preschool age ideas .

Preschool Inspirations offers movement aids in self-regulation and supports the brain to be in the optimal zone for learning. Not all families may be comfortable with yoga for their children so consider offering more than one option for movement to promote well-being and learning.

Preschool is the perfect time to make math fun and relevant for kids. These engaging worksheets teach ordering skills, matching, counting, and number lines, which are the basis for future math success. Create dynamic, custom preschool activity books based on your students' level and abilities that will help them believe in this equation: Math = Excitement!

This comprehension resource from edHelper offers loads of preschool math lessons, activities, and worksheets in lots of areas: math review booklets, mazes, matching, shapes, ordering, counting, grids, greater than/less than, shapes, book units, number lines, comparing numbers, and skip counting.

Progressive Phonics is an all-in-one reading program that is easy, fun, and totally FREE---that's right, totally and completely free!

And with Progressive Phonics, ANYONE can help teach a child to read and write in just a few minutes a day, which makes it ideal for parents, teachers, tutors, volunteers and home-schoolers.

No experience necessary. Just pick a book and start reading it with your child/students.

Matching handwriting worksheets and activity sheets for each book -- when children write what they learn, they learn it better.

Also teaches the essential sight-words (and phonics rule-breakers) that most phonics programs fail to teach.

Instant access -- download and use today.

Our books can be read on-screen or printed on your color printer. Each book takes 4--8 minutes to print and uses as little ink and paper as possible.

But don't judge a book by it's home page. Read one of our books with a child and see for yourself.

You can also select from a wide variety of languages.

Google Quick, Draw! tells you what to draw and then uses artificial intelligence to try to guess what you're drawing. Fun!

ROVER (Recommended Online Video Education Resources) is a video streaming service for Saskatchewan teachers and students in the PreK-12 education system. It is managed and maintained by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. ROVER is a video-on-demand service that provides teachers and students with the convenience of immediate access to streamed, educational videos that support curricula. ROVER videos are housed on a server located in a school or school division network so there are no bandwidth issues, resulting in better picture quality and continuous play of videos without pauses. The videos are intended for viewing on the streaming site and not for copying or downloading.

There are approximately 1,500 videos in ROVER’s combined English and French collections that can be accessed by teachers and students to enhance learning in the classroom.

If you are unable to access the site, it may be because a Saskatchewan Ministry of Education Blackboard login is required. All students have an Edonline account, so contact your child's school or the Ministry of Education’s Support Desk at 1-866-933-8333 or email at stans@gov.sk.ca for login information. Your child's student number will be required.

This playful phonological awareness activity to build rhyming skills using colors. Lots of fun for preschoolers and early readers!

If you’re looking for a way to teach your student/child to recognize rhyming words, try these free printable clip cards!

The San Diego Zoo Kids site offers thousands of resources for educators, including lesson plans, games, live feeds of animals, and detailed information on a variety of species from the African dwarf crocodile to the Western lowland gorilla.

This site is excellent for animal research projects.

There are a number of excellent videos and you can even watch a number of animals LIFE via WEB CAM (koala, ape, condor, elephant, panda, penguins, polar bear & tiger). Students can search videos for recorded clips at the bottom of the videos tab.

There are also games, activities and stories on the site.

Be sure to click the "for grown ups" section at the top right of the screen to see how you can a number of teacher resources and even book a video-conference for your class.

SciShow produces informational science videos for students of any age. They do have the look and feel that would likely appeal to younger students.

These videos are hosted by Jessi and her robot rat “Squeaks” and answer questions that inquiring young minds really want to know.

A variety of topics are covered in videos including: science on the playground, getting to know your emotions, simple machines, experiments, animal information, brainteasers and more.