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We made a presentation at the Horry County First Steps/SCAEYC conference in Myrtle Beach today. The presentation [PDF] had the title “Free and open-source software in education”. We gave a handout with some sites on it, here are the sites:

http://www.earlychildhood.com/: A great website where you can find many free resources and articles. You can also receive the site’s free magazine.

http://www.drjean.org: Dr. Jean gives ideas for activities; you can find all of her neat cd’s and other things.

http://www.rif.org/: A cool website for ideas and games for reading. This website also has a neat coloring book section.

http://www.abcteach.com/: A website with a lot of templates and activities for the teacher. All free…

http://www.teach-nology.com/: A website just for teachers. They have over 23,000 lesson plans and ideas. All free…

http://www.familyeducation.com/: This website is geared toward families and students of all ages.

http://www.dltk-teach.com/: Great website for templates. This website also has a favorite character page where you can print coloring pages of the students’ favorite storybook characters, make birthday cards, or just play games with their favorite character.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/: A website for teaching ideas in many areas. They also have ideas on special needs activities. This is a UK website.

http://www.ncrel.org/: Literacy activities for Kindergarten.

http://www.ed.gov/: A government website for teachers, parents, & students.

http://www.tlsbooks.com/: A website that is trying to sell you things, but it does have free “printables” (as they call it).

http://www.reviewcorner.com/: This website reviews educational products, including computer software, books, music, videos/DVDs, and games. You can find out what other people think of something, before you buy it for your classroom.

http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/: An article called “Helping children learn about reading” by NAEYC.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/: Many ideas at this website for reading and reading activities.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/: Ideas for kindergarten classrooms.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/: This site is for teachers and directors of centers. The website has ideas for classrooms to have to get grants for your program.

http://www.kidscom.com/: A wonderful website that students can use themselves.

http://www.child.net/: National Children’s Coalition website that has a lot of links to other website for students.

http://www.telenaut.com/: Show and Tell website that shows children’s artwork from around the world.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/: Students can check out the White House and other neat things at this website.

http://www.ed.gov/: Ideas for learning science.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/: Checkout the nine planets at this website. It will show you the planets and all the info on the planets.

http://www.worldvillage.com/: Another good site for free-ideas and templates for teachers.

http://kidshealth.org/: A good website that promotes good health for students.

http://www.monarchwatch.org/: Great for a science unit.

http://www.fi.edu/: Another great website for science where teachers and students can go explore.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/: Picture Dictionary for English and with English names and other Languages.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/l: Maps of the World.

http://www.sass.ca/: Games and Activities about staying safe for children.

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/: Web site about space, with different activities for children.

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/: Web site about rainbows, and all the questions that come from seeing a rainbow.

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/: A website for children, that is filled with fun activities for them.

http://www.funschool.com/: A fun website for children

http://richmond.k12.va.us/: Free activities and lesson plans for teachers.