Best Education Websites: Top Educational Websites from Preschool through High School Students

Preschool Age Website

Hands down, if you ask my three year old what her favorite website is she will say nickjr - formerly called Noggin. My dad actually introduced her to this site about a year ago and she caught on remarkably fast. We all sat around watching a two year old use a mouse and navigate the site with more ease than most baby boomers. From a parent's view, the site has a lot of educational merit. There are games dealing with memory, phonics, vocabulary, numbers, letters, rhyming, basic math, patterns, and stories. She also likes the disney site, but I don't think it's as educational.

Elementary School Age Website

When I taught, I liked the Yahooligans website the best for my students. There is a lot of research to be had on this site as well as some fun games. There is also a parent and teacher resource guide. Other sites, like MSN Kids, Scholastic, and Discovery Kids seem to have more games, video and puzzles. Yahooligans is a better site for school projects and learning. Check it out if you have kids in elementary school.

High School Age Website

This is the area I am the least familiar with, so if you have any insight about this area, please feel free to comment. From what I see, I like the MSN Encarta website for high school age students. Unfortunately, MSN tries to sell you some of their products on this site instead of giving them to you for free. MSN offers basics like an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, world atlas, and multimedia. In the encyclopedia section they had a few great references: literature guides, archives (once again, you might need to subscribe to view some of the articles), historic speeches and documents, and great homework starters. Yahoo has an Education site as well. There are basics like an English and Spanish dictionary, thesaurus, world facts, homework help, and anatomy. There is also help in researching colleges, degrees, course work, and grad programs. It's too bad myspace doesn't offer an educational catch, I guess it wouldn't be so popular if it did.

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prepare4bank 6 months ago

Its amazing!!

roman 7 months ago

Nice one!

2366 8 months ago

AWESOME!!!

sajid kos 19 months ago

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Many of my special needs students require extra practice to learn material from the regular classroom. Some of my students need a a model, or a prompt to stay on task. Some may need auditory or visual instruction. Some may need a self paced lesson. Others may need an alternative reading source. The websites can provide an efficient way to organize student work and progress. There are numerous and valid reasons to use websites to fit the learning profile of special needs students.

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lindz.chase 4 years ago

awesome article, i will definitley show my kids noggin. you can find lots of free information from those website and from http://yourguideto.info

ClickingWorks 4 years ago

Thanks for this interesting hub.

Kim Webb 4 years ago

Great article! I actually love Sprout online too, which I don't think you mentioned.

Tim Star 4 years ago

Great post. I'll spread the word and pass on a site that seems to be a secret.... AccessMyLibrary.com provides anyone in the world to access over 4100 magazines, journals, and newspapers online. The archived and current publications range from magazines like “O-The Oprah Magazine” to “Consumer Reports”, “Mothering”, and “Environment Journal”. Libraries around the world - funded by the people and their governments, embrace the evolution of free information & now allow everyone to discover, research, and read the same credible content that has historically only been available by visiting a library and is now available online. With over 27 million online articles and content growing daily, AccessMyLibrary.com is the single largest source of free information from the most credible & trusted content publishers in the world.

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