Curriculum Resources for the Primary Grades

by Mary Kunimitsu

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Alphabet	Earth	Insects	Poetry	U.S.A.
Animals	Family	Japan	Reading	Volcanoes
Art	Farms	Kids stuff	Reptiles	Water
Authors	Food	Languages	Recycling	Weather
Birds	Geography	Maps	Safety	Whales
Books	Government	Math	Science	World
Character	Hawaii	Money	Sea life	Writing
Computers	Health	Music	Space	Zoos
Cultures	History	People	Stories	Kindergarten
Dinosaurs	Holidays	Plants	Television	Teachers

Alphabet

• Little Explorers 
• Dinosaur Alphabet Book
• Alphabet Action
• Surfing for ABC's

Animals (also look at Zoos and different kinds of animals as Birds, Insects)

• Animal Printouts
• Polar Pairs
• Forest Animals
• Desert Animals
• Animals at the Smithsonian National Zoo
• Animals, Dead or Alive
• Horsefun
• Bats Bats Everywhere (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Rodent Home Page (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Weird Animal Express (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• How to Pick a Pet (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Animaland

Art

• Crayola
• Coloring.com
• Funorama
• KinderCrafts
• Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
• DLTK's Pokemon Crafts for Kids

Authors

• Eric Carle 
• Jan Brett
• Dav Pilkey
• Stan and Jan Berenstain
• Marc Tolon Brown
• Audrey Wood
• Nancy Carlson
• Patricia Polacco
• Robert Munsch
• Mem Fox
• Gail Gibbons
• Dr. Seuss's Seussville!

Birds

• Zoom Birds
• Eaglekids
• Hatching Emus 

Books 

• Berenstain Bears - Learning & Fun
• The Magic School Bus Fun Place
• Winnie the Pooh and Friends
• Magic Tree House
• I Spy
• Franklin the Turtle
• Seussville 

Character

• Thomas the Tank Engine
• Values: Making Good Choices for Life (ThinkQuest Jr.)

Computers

• Computer Art at Silly Billy's World 

Cultures

• Flags of All Countries
• Zoom School Australia
• Zoom School Canada
• Afro-America Kids Zone
• Zoom School Africa
• Mexico for Kids

Dinosaurs

• Zoom Dinosaurs

Earth

• Explorers Club: Air

Family

• Between the Lions (reading with a lion family)
• FEMA for Kids (how to help your family avoid disaster)

Farms

• Farm Animals (a story) 
• Kids' Farm
• Davis' Farmland 

Food 

• Dole 5 A Day: Just for Kids
• The Story of Milk
• Nutrition for Kids (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Nutrition and the Food Pyramid
• Kellogg's Nutrition Camp Game
• The Food Timeline

Geography

• Zoom School Antarctica
• Evan's Ecuador  

Government 

• White House for Kids
• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for K-2 Kids

Hawaii

• Endangered Species of Hawaii 
• Virtually Hawaii
• How Hawaii Was Formed
• Hawaii's Living Treasures (ThinkQuest Jr.2000) 

Health

• KidsHealth.org -Calling All Kids!
• Kidfit (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Kids Pages for the National Institute of Environmental Health
• Colgate Kid's World No Cavities Club

History

• Wayback - US History

Holidays

• Kid's Domain Holidays
• Holiday Hanukat (Hanukkah)

Insects

• Entomology for Beginners
• Zoom Butterflies
• Welcome to AntBoy's Bugworld!
• Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery
• Beestie Beetle and His Family of Friends (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Insects at Enchanted Learning

Japan

• Zoom School Japan
• Kids Web Japan

Kids stuff

• Funschool
• Enchanted Learning
• ALFY-The Web Portal for Kids
• Kids Domain
• BBC Schools
• ABC Toon Center
• The Rainbow Raccoons
• FunBrain
• KidsCom
• Kidzone
• Kid's Korner
• Julia's Rainbow Corner
• JayZee Bear
• Primary Games
• World Village Kidz
• MamaMedia
• Squiggly's Playhouse
• Kids' Space
• KidsPsych
• Kidzpage
• Play Kids Games
• Up to Ten

Languages

• Say Hello to the World 

Maps

• Lonely Planet - Destinations
• Wild Sanctuary Sound Safaris  

Math

• Virtual Manipulatives
• Dosity Math
• Math Baseball
• AAA Math
• Harcourt Math 

Money

• KidsBank
• How Much Money at Aplusmath.com 

Music

• Hop Pop Town
• Children's Music Archive
• Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs & Rhymes of All Nations
• Sing Along Midis and Lyrics for the NIEHS Kids
• KIDiddles - Mojo's Musical Mouseum 

People

• Jobs for kids who like ... (learn about careers)
• Meet Cool People 
• Biographical Dictionary
• Fascinating Females (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Great Inventors and Inventions (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Abraham Lincoln for Primary Children 

Plants

• KinderGarden
• Gardening for Kids
• Kid's Valley Webgarden
• All About Plants (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Rainforests

Poetry

• Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes
• A Pocketful of Rhymes
• KidzPage! Poetry and verse for children

Reading

• Words and Pictures from the BBC
• Starfall
• Koala trouble
• Interactive Cliffored Storybooks
• Charlotte's Web (about the book by E.B.White, done by a Gr. 2 class)
• On and In (Spatial Concepts and Words)
• Welcome to I'm a Kid (Weekly Reader Pre-K to 6)
• Sunnie BunnieZZ
• Wacky Web Tales
• Meddybemps
• Between the Lions: Get Wild About Reading
• Game Goo (for grades K-2) 

Reptiles

• Jason & Ben's Page on Reptiles (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Radical Reptiles, Awesome Amphibians (ThinkQuest Jr.)

Recycling

• Explorers Club: You and Your Environment 
• Explorers Club: Garbage and Recycling 

Safety

• Kidd Safety
• Vince & Larry's Safety City
• Smokey Bear
• Scottie's Firehouse
• Buckle Up, Teddy (car safety) 

Science

• Cool Science for Curious Kids
• Living Things
• Science for Kids

Sea life

• Zoom Sharks
• Sharks of Hawaii: Most Common Inshore Species
• What's It Like Where You Live? - Shorelines and Oceans
• Hawaii Coral Reef Network
• Adventures of Lilo the Green Sea Turtle (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Ocean Life on Guam (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Deep Sea Creatures (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Kids' Sea Life Resources from Seminole Country Public Library

Space

• StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
• Kids Astronomy
• Zoom Space

Stories

• Meddybumps
• Bedtime Story
• Mr. Storytime
• Children's Storybooks Online
• Lil Fingers

Television

• Nick Jr.
• Disney
• Sesame Street
• Fox Kids
• PBS Kids

U.S.A. (United States of America)

• 50 States and Capitals
• Stately Knowledge
• 50 States of the U.S. (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• Zoom School USA 

Volcanoes

• VolcanoWorld Kids' Door

Water

• Explorers Club: Water

Weather

• Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page
• Hurricane: Storm Science 

Whales

• Zoom Whales
• WhaleTimes Kid's Page

World

• Just for Kids - Biomes
• Zoom Rainforest
• Peace Corps Kids World 

Writing

• Welcome to Monster Motel

Zoos

• San Diego Zoo
• San Diego Virtual Zoo (ThinkQuest Jr.)
• ZooNet for Kids 

Kindergarten

• Kindergarten Kafe
• KinderArt
• Kinder Korner
• Kindergarten Teacher
• Mrs. Fontanella's Kindergarten/First Grade
• Carol Gossett's Kindergarten Connection

TEACHERS (resources and ideas)

• The Idea Box - Early Childhood Education and Activities
• Learning to Read and Internet4Classrooms K-2
• EduPuppy (Everything for Early Childhood Education)
• AlphaBites (Activities for each letter of the alphabet)
• Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers
• Teaching Strategies Online: Early Childhood Education
• EarlyChildhood.com
• Reading Rockets and ReadWriteThink and EarlyReading
• Ms. Ross's First Grade Class and Mrs. Flanagan's First Grade (Barrett Elem., PA)

Listing of some recommended resources

• Because of the enormous amount of books for the different units, please use the library's online catalog to find available ones at the public and school library. Also, you can search at amazon.com by subjects for recently published books.
• The following are recommended videos.
  • DK: Amazing Animals series
  • National Geographic Edventures - Really Wild Animals series
  • Kid Vision - There goes a ..... series
  • Sea World Busch Gardens Shamu & You Exciting World of Animals series
  • Audubon's Animal Adventures series
  • Magic School Bus series  
• The following are recommended cd-rom programs or computer software.
  • Broderbund/ The Learning Company - Arthur Adventures series, Kid Pix Studio Deluxe
  • Comptons - Ocean Explorers
  • Conter - Community Exploration
  • Discovery - Animal Planet
  • DK Interactive - Amazing Animals, My Amazing Human Body, My First Amazing History Explorer, My First Amazing Science Explorer, My First Amazing World Explorer, My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary
  • Edmark - Bailey's Book House, Millie's Math House, Sammy's Science House, Stanley's Sticker Stories, Thinking Things 1, Travel the World with Timmy, Truly's Time & Place House, Thinkin' Science, Let's Go Read!
  • Grolier - Get Ready for School Charlie Brown
  • Humongous - Big Thinkers First Grade, Blues ABC Time Activities, The Farm, The Jungle, The Airport
  • IBM - Crayola Make a Masterpiece
  • Knowledge Adventure - Jumpstart series, Dinosaur Adventure, Undersea Adventure, Print Artist, Kid Works Deluxe, Math Blaster
  • Learning Company - Paint Write & Play, Reader Rabbit series
  • Microsoft - Explorapedia, Oceans, Dangerous Creatures, The Magic School Bus Explores the World of Animals, Arthur's Reading Roundup
  • Pierian Spring - KidsCulture
  • Sunburst - A to Zap, Type to Learn Jr.
  • Tom Snyder - Neighborhood Map Machine, The Graph Club 

Possible Field Trips on Oahu (addresses and phone numbers are at most websites)

• Waikiki Aquarium
• Honolulu Zoo
• Bishop Museum
• Sea Life Park - 41-202 Kalanianaole Hwy., phone 259-7933
• Honolulu Fire Department
• Honolulu Police Department - phone 529-3111 (Beretania main station)
• Honolulu Art Academy
• Honolulu Board of Water Supply
• Hawaii State Public Library
• Hawaii State Parks
• Meadow Gold Dairies - 925 Cedar St., phone 949-6161
• Queen's Medical Center - 1301 Punchbowl St., phone 538-9011
• Polynesian Cultural Center - Laie, phone 293-3333
• Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden
• Waipahu Cultural Garden Park (Hawaii Plantation Village - 94 695 Waipahu St., phone 677-0110 (See Sugar Plantation Days ThinkQuest site)
• Lyon Arboretum - 3860 Manoa Rd., phone 988-0456
• Hawaii Nature Center - 2131 Makiki Hts. Dr., phone 955-0100
• Camp H. R. Erdman (YMCA) - 69 385 Farrington Hwy., phone 637-4615 
• Waimea Falls Park
• Dole Plantation

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