Early Childhood Care Education

Free Lesson Plan and Theme Templates: (Click the Blue Links to Explore Each Site)

Preschool Themes and Lesson Plans-Educational printable worksheets, crafts, and coloring pages suitable for toddlers to preschool.

Everything Preschool  Preschool Themes, The largest selection of preschool themes on the internet. 

Themes - Fantastic Fun and Learning Get a free printable list of themes to plan your year, and find planning guides and theme activities for  your favorite preschool and kindergarten themes.

K12ReaderResourcesAndLessonPlanTemplates Free, printable lesson plan templates for teachers and parents - daily, weekly templates. More than 1500 ELA activities.

TeacherPlanetLessonPlanTemplates Organize class content and clearly identify aims and objectives for students with our free downloadable lesson plan templates.

TemplateLessonPlanLab This page contains creative lesson plan templates in different categories: preschool lesson plan template, weekly lesson plan, and common core.

ABCTeachEducationalResources (Both Free and Membership Available) Free and some paid for educational resources for teachers, homeschool families, and parents. The best selection of free reading comprehensions, language arts, math, social studies, art, music.

Gryphon House Hundreds of free activities and free crafts for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and elementary school children.

Center for Early Childhood Education Videos

A to Z Teacher Stuff

PreKinders hundreds of classroom tested lessons and ideas to teach Pre-K: everything you need from math to literacy, fine motor to classroom management.

Resources for Early Learning This site provides exciting, engaging media-rich learning opportunities for educators, parents, and caregivers of children. From detailed lesson plans to simple, everyday activities, you will find everything you need to help your children succeed.

Free ELA & Reading Sites (K-5^th)

ReadWriteTHink A language arts teacher's dream; lesson plans, professional development, and all-around quality support.

ReadWorks  The quality and scope of texts, lesson plans, assessments, and supports on this platform can help facilitate targeted reading instruction in any classroom.

StoryPlace Welcome to StoryPlace! Our Pre-school Library is full of great activities for you to explore. Choose a theme below to start the fun! Animal theme icon.

StorylineOnline free online interactive books brought to life, by actors and celebrities.

WORDWORLD WordWorld empowers children as early readers by making the important connections between letters, sounds, words and meaning.

PBS Reading Games Explore reading and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters like Elmo, WordGirl, Super Why and Daniel Tiger!

Free Kids Books

Uniteforliteracy

Free Math Sites (K-7^th)

FunBrain Find math games by topic or by grade at FunBrain. On this math site for kids, students can enjoy playing a variety of games that reinforce key mathematical concepts and engage young learners. These games focus on a fun theme, like sports, animals or unique landscapes. Educational videos are also included, and there’s a special “Playground” with games suited to pre-K and kindergarten students.

Math Blaster The goal at Math Blaster is clear: “Your success depends on your ability to use your brain and logic skills.” With an exciting theme featuring aliens and outer space, Math Blaster lets your students become intergalactic heroes based on their math operation and critical thinking skills. Registration is required, but the game itself is free.

Multiplication.com  From the Multiplication Grand Prix to the Knight and the Princess, students can practice their basic math skills in a fun and engaging way on this math site for kids. There are additional resources available on the website for parents and teachers who want to help reinforce and teach skills. Check out the Classroom Games section for off-line fun.

Math Games Times Designed for students from pre-K through 7th grade, Math Game Time offers fun, educational games focused on critical math concepts. With options like Integer War, Ratio Martian and Jet Ski Addition, students quickly engage with games that are on-target for their grade and the Common Core Standards.

SuperKids Math Worksheet Calculator: Create math drill worksheets using this tool.

(Science Sites (Pre-K-8^th)

NASA Kids’ Club NASA Kids’ Club provides a plethora of space focused games, videos, images and activities to introduce and help kids learn about the world of space.

 BrianPOP Science Brain POP offers educational animated videos and lessons covering different science topics. Each featured science topic comes with illustrative videos, quizzes, and accompanying activities.

 Discovery Kids An excellent source of educational video content to help kids learn about different science topics. The site also provides interactive games and links to mobile science apps for kids.

 Science Kids Science for Kids is a website that features a treasure trove of educational science materials. These include online games, experiments, lesson plans, quizzes, science projects, free activities and many more.

National Geographic Kids National Geo Kids enables science lovers to explore the world of science through a collection of apps, games, magazines, toys, videos, and many other materials.

Hands-on Lessons and Activities About Oceans

Social Studies Sites (Pre-K-5^th)

Jumpstart Has social studies games and worksheets. 

Education.com Has printable worksheets about community helpers, feelings, maps and more.

Leapfrog Has printables, activities and videos on geography, culture, history and more for early education. 

The Educator’s Spin On It  Has fun lesson plans to teach preschoolers about geography and cultures. 

Love to Know Features free preschool printables and activities on cultures, geography, relationships and more.

50 States Has map outlines, quizzes and tons of info.

Free Music/Arts Sites

Art

KindeArt Offers info on teaching art to preschoolers as well as a large database of activities.

National Gallery of Art  Has lessons, online courses, videos, films and activities for all ages.

ABCYA  Has drawing, coloring and painting games.

IncredibleArt Has a long list of online art games.

TeachingArt Has fact cards about famous arts, online books with activities and printables.

MUSIC

 A Place Of Own Shows you how to make musical instruments with your preschooler out of recycled material.

MUSIC LAB Experiments  Lets users explore musical concepts and sounds.

Creating Music  Lets users create and listen to their own musical masterpieces.

ClassicFunForKids Offers videos, games, quizzes and activities about classical music composers.

Song Cubes for Pre-k using a song cube is a great way to teach simple tunes and beats! In this activity, you’ll create two cubes. One cube will have a different song on each side, and the second cube will have various ways of expressing the beat.

Meaningful Music Mom  How to Make DIY music instruments for Pre-K.

CK-12.org free online textbook, flashcards, tutorials for grades K-12