It's summer. Kids can't play outside all the time, so here are some fun online activities that will keep their attention while feeding their brains. These are all tested on my classes throughout the school year. When my students are done with the day's planned projects, I let them pick a website or software of their choice to fill the last five or ten minutes before the bell rings. These five, I've found to be favorites"

Virtual surgery and more

HangMan

The Reading Website

  LogicalThinking for K-5


Discover exciting science via skateboard

For more, visit Great Websites for Kids. Over four hundred sites for grades K-5.

Do you have some favorites? I'd love to hear them. I'm always collecting websites for next year...

Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and creator of two technology training books for middle school. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman.  She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education. Currently, she’s working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.

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