Early+Childhood+(PK-K)

Pre-K Resources * Language Arts * Math * Units of Inquiry

Pre-K Resources

 * Pre-K Alphabet Resources
 * Pre-K Arts and Crafts
 * Language Arts
 * Pre-K Listening Discrimination
 * Pre-K Mathematics Resources
 * Mouse Skill Resources
 * Pre-K Music and Dance
 * Pre-K Teacher Resources
 * Thematic Units
 * Writing
 * Cutting Skills Worksheets

Language Arts
Phonemic Awareness
 * Interactive chart: @http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/phonemic-chart
 * Apps for K-5 core language standards
 * Alphabet Action - Click a letter to hear its name and see a picture - Online Game

General
 * Oxford Owl - a FREE website built to support you with your child’s learning. To help you along the way, you’ll find age-specific [|reading] and [|maths] tips and activities, FREE eBooks, and lots of fun ideas to really bring your child’s learning to life. You will also find support and advice on a range of questions you may have – including helping your child with their phonics, motivating boys to read and ensuring your child is doing their best in maths.
 * SmarTots is a website that hosts reviews of iPad & iPhone apps for young students. App reviews on SmarTots are written by teachers and parents. The reviews are arranged according to content area and age of the intended users. To find an app for your students go to SmarTots then select an age or content area. Unfortunately, it seems that you cannot combine the two filters. SmarTots reviews both free and paid apps.

Math
> **(**//www.pbskids.org/lab//**)** > The company has announced 60 new cross-platform games that help children aged two through eight build critical math skills. Available free on the PBS KIDS Lab Web site, the games feature a colorful cast of characters, from Curious George to the Cat in the Hat. Each game suite links to a set of games that are accessible through computers, mobile devices, and interactive whiteboards.
 * Oxford Owl - a FREE website built to support you with your child’s learning. To help you along the way, you’ll find age-specific [|reading] and [|maths] tips and activities, FREE eBooks, and lots of fun ideas to really bring your child’s learning to life. You will also find support and advice on a range of questions you may have – including helping your child with their phonics, motivating boys to read and ensuring your child is doing their best in maths.
 * **PBS KIDS new games**
 * **Johnnie's Math Games**: You can now find over 1000 activities for JK-8 through this site! @http://jmathpage.com/

Units of Inquiry
Inquiry Resources General * Traditions Unit * Jobs Unit *

Inquiry Resources General
> Old Maps Online is a good use of Google Maps that I recently learned about through Google Maps Mania. Old Maps Online is designed to help you find historical maps of where you live or any other location that you enter into the search function. By default Old Maps Online searches for maps near your location. You can refine your search to a specific time using the timeline slider on Old Maps Online. Old Maps Onlinedoesn't host the maps that you find through their search box. Old Maps Online refers you to the host of the maps. One of the frequently used hosts is the David Rumsey Historical Map collection. This morning Google announced the release of a new way to view images in Google Maps. 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps is a collection of public Panoramio and Picasa images of famous landmarks arranged into 3D panoramic tours. You can take a tour of places like the Grand Canyon, Buckingham Palace, and Fenway Park. Here's a complete list of the places for which 3D photo tours are available. To access these new views you do have to have to be using a modern browser that supports Web GL technology. The video below highlights the new 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps. > > >  > > > ** Applications for Education ** > > If you don't have access to Google Earth on your school's computers, the 3D Photo Tours in Google Maps is a great alternative for showing students what some of the famous landmarks they may have studied look like. > //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * Images to support inquiry and understanding
 * Fotopediais a collaborative photo encyclopedia that hosts high-quality images whose subjects are matched to Wikipedia articles. For subjects that don't have a Wikipedia entry the community can build one. Some images are linked to a map so that you can see where the image was taken. You will find that some Fotopedia contributions are Creative Commons-licensed (copyright friendly) and others are not.
 * Integration example: Browse Fotopedia for a Creative Commons-licensed picture of a Zebra (to be posted on a class website about animals). Browsing is a great visual way for students to discover information about animals. While browsing the collection of Zebra images students can read the article about Zebras, click and see where the images were captured, and then jump into browsing images and information about where those images were captured. In the Zebra example, a student can begin with looking at pictures of Zebras and go to browsing pictures of Tanzania and reading about habit in Tanzania. //(This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//)
 * ===Old Maps Online - Find Historical Maps for Your Area===
 * ** Applications for Education **: There are other ways to find historical maps online, but Old Maps Onlinemakes it very easy to do. The maps that you and your students find could be used as overlays in the Google Earth layers. You might also use the maps for a local history comparison activity by comparing your students' current vision of where they live with what it looked like in the past. //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * ==New 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps ==

Traditions Unit

 * Family Traditions, PBS Teachers : @http://www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/theme/familytraditions.html
 * "What Is a Family?": @http://www.justmommies.com/preschoolers/preschooler-education/what-family-preschool-theme
 * Family traditions...Folklore...Familylore: @http://www.preschooleducation.com/art41.shtml

Traditions Unit Video

Importance of Jobs

 * @http://www.fisher-price.com/us/littlepeople/clubhouse/games.asp?section=airport&gameID=LP_DiscoveryAirport%27,%20%27airport%27,%20%27width=655,height=520,scrollbars=yes

Community Workers
 * 1) Who's at the Door? - Two community workers are presented, students decide which one is described.

Technology Integration in Early Childhood
Reasearch
 * Technology In Early Childhood Education, courtesy of the Northwest Educational Technology Consortium
 * Information and resources for using technology with young children in a center or classroom setting.
 * Meaningful Technology Integration in Early Learning Environments [[file:OnOurMinds.pdf]]

Online Games for Early Childhood:
 * @http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/preschool.htm
 * @http://funschool.kaboose.com/preschool/
 * @http://www.kindersite.org/Directory/DirectoryFrame.htm