- The
Perpetual Preschool *Cool Site* - Over 6,000
free songs, crafts, games, snack ideas, and learning activities for preschool
and kindergarten educators to use in the classrooms. Includes thematic units,
professional development resources, and teacher forums.
- Ask The Preschool Teacher - A place to ask questions
and get responses from qualified preschool teachers. Includes an archive of questions
asked previously.
- A-to-Z
Kids Stuff - Includes lesson plan themes, monthly calendars, educational activities,
and free downloads appropriate for use with young learners.
- CanTeach
- Resources for Educators - Features classroom management resources, children's
songs and poetry, planning tools, and free lesson plans.
- Classroom Charlotte Mason - A discussion forum
about the why and how of implementing Charlotte Mason's educational ideas in the
early childhood classroom.
- Early Childhood Education Resources on the World Wide
Web - Provides annotated links for teachers and children.
- Early
Childhood Education Web Guide - Provides childcare professionals with the
up-to-date Internet resources.
- Early Childhood Educators and Family Web Corner
- Provides articles, message boards, chat area, and extensive web guides.
- Early
Childhood Educators Resources - Links to pages providing ideas for art, science,
small group, circle time, and quiet time activities.
- Early Childhood Resources - Links to information
about child development, curriculum, and parenting.
- Earlychildhood.com - Improving the education and
general life experience of young children. Advice from experts in the early childhood
field, creative projects, and sharing of ideas and questions with the early childhood
community.
- EdnoLand.com - On-line preschool community provides
resources for teachers and parents, as well as interactive activities for young
children.
- EduPuppy.com - Directory of resources for early
childhood educators and preschool teachers includes lesson plans, thematic units,
and technology resources.
- Everything Preschool - Includes lesson plans,
art, songs, thematic units, and book reviews.
- Facts in Action
- Summarizes early education research and policy for parents, teachers, advocates,
and policymakers . From the Early Education Clearinghouse.
- First
School - Features activity calendar, educational themes, crafts, printable
activities, and other resources in English and Spanish.
- Hummingbird Educational Resources - Includes lesson
plan ideas, links, message board, and links.
- The Idea
Box - Site aimed at parents and teachers of young children offers games, songs,
kid recipes, craft ideas, and message boards.
- Kinder
Korner - Resource website for Pre-K through 2nd-grade teachers and includes
an early childhood education discussion list with more than 1,200 subscribers.
- Kindergarten Classroom - Thematic reading and
math readiness activities for kindergarten science and social studies units. Technology
connected lessons for each unit plus links to age appropriate sites.
-
Lasting Benefits of Preschool Programs - Research
article explores the long-term effects of various preschool educational efforts.
- Marilee Schuhrke's Page - Offers topically-organized
annotated links to help teachers develop thematic units.
- Mothergoose.com - Free activities, crafts, games,
and printables for ages 3 to 6.
- Ms. Haygood's Primary Page - Offers teaching ideas,
class schedule, curriculum ideas, and a monthly thematic scope and sequence.
- MuddlePuddle Early Years Home Education - Features
thematic activities parents may do at home with toddlers; many games reflect the
Montessori approach. Includes a support list and information on Cleft Lip and
Palate.
- National Child Care
Information Center (NCCIC) - Provides daycare regulations by state.
- Postcards for Preschool - Kids at the Preschool
Workshop are learning about the United States and other countries around the world.
Educators can help by sending a postcard.
- Pre-K
Directory of Schools - Large, searchable directory of U.S. preschools.
- the pre-kinder corner - A site for 4- and 5-year-olds,
their parents, and teachers of preschool students. Activities, curriculum, schedules,
and important early childhood links.
- Preschool by Stormie - Monthly curriculum and
lesson plan ideas.
- Preschool Education - Activities for the preschool
and kindergarten classroom grouped by theme, and a free newsletter.
-
Preschool Printables - Provides free printable
calendars, classroom news, awards, bulletin boards, file folder games, charts,
and so forth.
- The
Rainbow Bag - Activities and ideas for parents and teachers of young children.
Also includes a page on frequently asked interview questions for beginning teachers.
- Recipes 4 Learning - Free kids recipes, crafts,
learning games, songs, and poems.
- Resources for Early Childhood Education - Small
collection of links compiled by researchers at Pennsylvania State University.
- Sherry's Kindergarten - Lesson plans and favorite
links for preschool and kindergarten. Changes monthly.
- Suzyque: Cyber Preschool - Offers fingerplays,
snack recipes, art ideas, printables, and curriculum calendar. Activities grouped
by months and themes.
- Tammy's Teaching Tips - Provides tips, themes,
ideas, and activities for preschool teachers as well as elementary teachers.
- Teaching
is a Work of Heart - Site updated monthly provides thematic activities and
screened links.
- Technology and Young Children - Includes information
about educational practices, research, funding. A project of the National Association
for the Education of Young Children.
- Technology in Early Childhood Education - Assists
educators in connecting technology with the way young children learn. Includes
information about technology and curriculum, project planning, classroom arrangement,
software selection, ergonomics, and internet safety.
- Web Corner Index: Teacher Pages - Hundreds of
organized links related to early childhood issues.
- What Does Research Say About Early Childhood Education?
- Explores contemporary research and recommends home and classroom activities.
- A World of Kindergartens - Theme-based activities
drawn from an international e-mail discussion group.
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