84 Elementary Teaching Resources for Classroom Engagement

Elementary students learn best when their days are filled with variety, movement, and hands-on activities. The right classroom resources can turn everyday lessons into memorable experiences, sparking curiosity and making learning truly enjoyable. From lively games to creative visual tools, these teacher-recommended picks are designed to keep kids engaged and motivated.

Among the top favorites, Blooket transforms review sessions into exciting classroom competitions, while Canva offers easy-to-use templates for everything from sight words to word walls. For literacy, Raz-Kids provides a vast library of leveled books and interactive reading activities, helping students build confidence and fluency. And when it comes to classroom management and communication, Class Dojo stands out for its ability to connect teachers, students, and families in a positive, supportive environment.

Whether you’re looking to energize your lessons, streamline classroom routines, or inspire creativity, these trusted tools-endorsed by educators-make it easy to create a vibrant and effective learning environment where every child can thrive.

99Math
99Math is my favorite resource to use with my students. 99Math covers math for all grade levels. Just like IXL, you can import your class through Google easily. Once they are in, you can do live games with the students or have them work on individual needs. My students love this website because it gives prizes every time they hit a new level. A little competition and incentives can result in improved learning. (Nicole P. K-5)

ABC Mouse
They have activities and levels to continuously give students a fun time while learning. (Michelle Z. K-5)

ABCya!
The benefits of this site is that it offers grade levels from pre-k to 6+. It's nice to have different grade levels available because not all students are on the same level and you don't want to hold a child back because of that. The kids look at this website as fun because it has games. But it is an educational website and it is a great reward to work towards while still learning and aiming to get better. (Lexie C. K-5)

Angela Watsons's Truth For Teachers
I link to the podcasts. I started listening to them, starting with episode 1. They resonate greatly with me as a new teacher, and help me rearrange some of the clutter in my mind, and reduce some of the teacher noise I hear throughout the week. The podcasts are short and they help me stay true to the teacher I want to become and the practices I want to use. (Vanessa S. K-5)

BetterLesson
BetterLesson is a website that allows you to access multiple resources that promote your professional growth. You can have personalized sessions where you talk specifically about your needs as a teacher and those of your students. You also have access to teaching strategies, and professional training workshops and you can also share your own experiences as a teacher through a journal, like The Teaching Channel, but in my opinion, much more interesting. (Lina R. K-5)

Beyond the Pen
This site has video instructions on teaching sentence writing as well as printable cards for students to use as physical reminders of the things that all sentences must have in order to be complete. (Amanda K. K-5)

Blocksi
It's not a free product, but for any teachers who have students that use Chromebooks/laptops for their work. It is a great tool. A teacher can see the students' screens, send them messages individually or to the whole class, send a "heads up" which temporarily stops everything on their computer and block or restrict access to certain websites if needed. (Ann Marie, L. K-5)

Blooket
Create your own games based on the content your students are currently studying. It is an excellent interactive game site that is very motivating for students while teaching the content. (Joanna N. K-5)

Boom Cards
allows for fun interactive practice / ready-to-be-used material / tech-based / can be assigned individually or groups. (Joseph M. K-5)

Brain Pop
BrainPop is a great supplemental source for teachers and students. It has videos of a variety of subjects from history, language arts, science, math and more. It can be used as a refresher/ pre-teaching tool that gives teachers ideas for what to add/how to structure their instruction, and it has multiple resources on each topic, such as quizzes, related readings, and games for students. (Zaria R. K-5)

Brainingcamp
various manipulatives for students to use such as base-ten blocks, fraction circles, number lines and place value disks. (Vanessa S. K-5)

BrainPop Jr.
This site covers so many topics, especially in writing and math. The videos are short and friendly, and the students enjoy the characters. (Amanda M. K-5)

Canva
Has templates for letters, sight words, and word walls that can be easily adjusted for the class. (Landon W. K-5)

ClassDojo
ClassDojo is a classroom management tool and a way to keep in touch with parents. I use ClassDojo to provide weekly class updates and to contact parents individually. It helps connect me with them and it is a great place for positive interaction, which can sometimes be absent. ClassDojo also works as a classroom management tool because the students can earn "points" for specific traits, such as kindness. These points can then be adapted to the classroom however a teacher finds beneficial. (Madison B. K-5)

Common Sense Education
It breaks down the information by grade and is not extremely broad. There are sections addressing certain material that may be difficult to discuss with younger ages and how to go about some discussions. (Elyse C. K-5)

Coherence Map
Lists all the different Common Core Standards for Mathematics and allows teachers to see connections between standards. Helps reinforce and reteach foundations as necessary and prepare students for future learning. Provides lesson plans and activities that adhere to the standards. (Cassandra G. K-5)

Colorín Colorado
Provides resources for teachers to support bilingual and ELL students with teaching strategies, professional development, and research-based tools. Also offers families helpful advice on supporting their children's learning and promoting language development at home. (Wilmarilys V. K-5)

Common Core Sheets
Offers a variety of printable worksheets aligned to Common Core standards for math and other subjects. (Lauren W. K-5)

Dashboard AI Teacher Planning
An AI-generated lesson planning tool. Useful for creating all types of content for your classroom, including exit tickets, assessments, and homework. Prompts can be tailored by subject, content, and grade level. (Seth L. K-5)

Dream Box
Meets students where they are in their math skills and provides math games to build their knowledge. (Lareiny F. K-5)  

EDSITEment!
Developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, EDSITEment offers a variety of free resources in literature, social studies, and history. Materials include lesson plans and study guides for teachers seeking content with a strong humanities focus. (Elaine L. K-5)

Edutopia
This site offers a variety of resources for teachers to learn a lot from. There are many current topics that any teacher can relate to as well as tips to become a better teacher and create a more effective classroom environment.  (Marilyn T. K-5)

Education.com
This site has many resources for teachers of all areas, but especially great lesson plan suggestions. Used as an additional resource for new teaching approaches. (Cheryl F. K-5)

Easel (Teachers Pay Teachers)
This website helped our kids to know multiplication. (Rathi R. K-5)  

Explore Learning
This site provides a fun interactive way for students to review math. They have 2 different programs: reflex and frax. Reflex goes over addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; frax goes over fractions. (Ameerah F. K-5)

FlipGrid  
Different fun ways of having the students upload their work and have classmates view it.  They get to record and publish. (Melissa R. K-5)

Freckle
Freckle is a great way for students to focus on specific standards in Math or ELA to review. (Jaclyn C. K-5)

Funbrain
Offers fun and educational games, books, and videos for kids. (Elaine L. K-5)

Fun for Spanish Teachers
Provides engaging resources for teaching Spanish to elementary students. (Wilmarilys V. K-5)

Generation Genius
Generation Genius has SO MANY great videos for science I use all the time. The videos are kid-friendly with humor thrown in and each comes with an assessment about the video as well. The best part- the kids love these videos and I think that helps them retain the info even better. (Alyssa K. K-5)

GetEpic!
Epic is an online reading site with tons of books on every topic. As a teacher, you can create an account and add your students. Students can access Epic from home, which is nice, and can look up any topic they want and find a bunch of books. There is a feature to read the book aloud for students who are still learning to read and there are quizzes on there for them, too. (Jenna F. K-5)

Gimkit
Great for learning math facts. The whole class competes against each other in a game show format that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win. (Kristin K. K-5)

Great Minds
Provides lesson plans, slides, assessments for students, and homework handouts. (Jeremy R. K-5)

GoNoodle
Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts to get kids moving. (Alyssa Z. K-5)

History.com
This site has great information on a variety of topics on culture and history. (Faiza Z. K-5)

Hit the Button
Interactive math games for number bonds, times tables, division, and more. (Cassandra G. K-5)

Imagine Math
Imagine math has a regular math mode, and then a math facts mode. Both begin with an assessment that allows the game to be tailored to the particular student. The teacher is also able to access student progress. (Amanda M. K-5)

IXL  
IXL is a great website to monitor students' progress in all content areas. You can easily import your class from Google and an account is made for them. As a teacher, you can highlight the different tasks/lessons you want your students to work on, and ask them to log in. Those highlighted lessons will be right there for them to work on. It gives students a lot of practice questions and does not allow students to move on until they reach a certain score, which allows me to check for understanding. (Nicole P. K-5)

K-5 Learning
It has worksheets/resources you may need for class activities/homework. (Khin A. K-5)

Kahoot or Blooket
educational "videogame" type setting where students can play and review what they previously learned.  students love to compete against each other.  Also allows the teacher to see who really needs more help with the lessons. (Melissa R. K-5)

Khan Academy
I've used this site for my own benefit in math.  I just got approval for this to provide supplemental help to my 2nd-grade math students.  Lots of practice, video explanations and quizzes. (Denise F. K-5)

Learning for Justice
Access to lesson plans and other related resources for a culturally relevant classroom. Topics include race and ethnicity, religion, ability, class, immigration status, gender and sexual identity, bullying and bias, and rights and activism. (Kristen S. K-5)

Lexia
Gives extra comprehension and phonics help. (Josleyn H. K-5)

LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning provides training on many different skills from technical to social. This is a great resource for teachers who need a refresher on computer applications or want to take a course that may better their classroom instruction, such as "teach others how to think critically." (Zaria R. K-5)

Lucky Little Learners
Luck Little Learners is a blog created by a teacher who specializes in grades K-2. The website includes training, resources and lesson plans. I have used it when I felt like my curriculum was not providing me with content that my students would understand and enjoy. There are thousands of resources, the website gives you differentiation suggestions, and fun ideas to incorporate into your learning. (Shayla M. K-5)

Lumio
Lumio has been very useful for me, as I am not a very skilled person with the use of ICT in my classes. I learn a lot from the number of activities that I can find to support my students’ learning. I can create games, videos, puzzles, and many other interactive activities to share with my students or parents so that they can review the concepts we see in class at their own pace. (Lina R. K-5)

Mystery Science
Mystery Science provides engaging and standards-aligned science content with a focus on hands-on learning. It can be a valuable resource for educators and parents seeking to make science education more enjoyable and effective for students. (Mike P. K-5)

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Provides resources for early childhood educators, including guidelines for developmentally appropriate practices, professional development, and research-based articles. (Julia M. K-5)

National Geographic Kids
This site shows excellent resources for showing history and culture in a kid-friendly format. (Faiza Z. K-5)

Nearpod
A plethora of interactive lessons. They have lessons for just about anything. Students can follow along on their Chromebook, which I believe is helpful for engagement. There are so many different resources and lessons on this site. I believe that no matter what grade/subjects any teacher will find this useful. (Taylor L. K-5)

Newsela
Newsela is an incredible site that allows educators to access current events/informational articles at all reading levels. The content is edited to serve students of all ages and grades, which makes real-world connections to curricular content all the more possible. Search anything from a news article covering an event that occurred this week, to a step-by-step breakdown of a science, social studies, or ELA concept. Then use drop-down menus to automatically edit the text to fit your students' reading levels! (Annie L. K-5)

NJ State Standards
Official site for New Jersey’s academic standards, including math. (Riley M. K-5)

No Red Ink
An excellent resource for succinctly drilling grammar concepts. Upon account creation, students add lists of interests that they have, which the site incorporates into the example sentences given during the practice. There are a wide range of topics that range from simple things like capitalization up to more involved things like how to punctuate dialogue correctly or how to identify compound/complex sentences. It is quite smart too - if a student repeatedly gets questions on a certain topic wrong, it does not progress them to the next section until they are getting a reasonable amount correct to demonstrate understanding. (Tristan D. K-5)

NY Times - Wordle
Great for quick Do Nows during Word Study, this is the first thing my students do in the morning as a warm-up before we get started with our word study lesson on whatever prefix/suffix is being taught that week. (Tristan D. K-5)

Orton Gillingham
Structured literacy resources for reading instruction. (Cicelia C. K-5)

OTIS for Educators
OTIS for Educators is a site that I have been exploring thanks to the NPS training. I have found it very interesting because it offers professional development courses. They also offer training on how to incorporate ICT to make your classes more interesting. You can find lesson plans that you can adapt to your needs. It is a great site for all teachers. (Lina R. K-5)  

PBS Kids
Tangible and child-friendly resources for students to reinforce learning and for entertainment. (Diamond J. K-5)

PBS Learning Media
Makes it easy to find shows and videos related to classroom topics, with accompanying worksheets and activities. Assignments can be shared on Google Classroom. (Aly F. K-5)

Prodigy
A math site aligned to grade-level standards that allows students to battle one another, making learning competitive and fun. (Dani T. K-5)

Raz-Kids
Helps develop literacy through fun games and accessible reading material. (Ronan B. K-5)

Readworks
What a website it is!!! I just love it. It is such an amazing place to get stuffed with all the material a teacher needs for reading and language art. It is fully loaded with reading passages suitable for all different grades from elementary to high school. It provides a lot of stuff for different skills students need to develop and work on like comprehension, making inferences, key ideas and details, summarizing, drafting, and increasing vocabulary with audio and videos, along with the pictures and different sets of questions available at one location. It has fiction, non-fiction, poems, fantasy, etc. in abundance. I personally prefer it a lot. (Bhawna J. K-5)

Responsive Classroom (Resources)
Offers a huge variety of resources for educators about how to ground your practice of teaching in the core principles of culturally responsive and relevant teaching. (Kristen S. K-5)

Saavas
Comprehensive curriculum resources for elementary teachers. (Landon W. K-5)

Scholastic Teachables
Hundreds of worksheets and printables for all subjects and grade levels, including differentiated instruction materials. (Jessica D. K-5)

SeeSaw
Much, but not all functions are free. A teacher can create lessons here in a digital format to be completed on the computer and there is a vast library of lessons, both from SeeSaw and from a community library where other teachers include lessons they created. Students submit their work, and the teacher can review it easily or share completed work with the whole class. (Ann Marie L. K-5)

Sightwords
A bunch of **FREE** resources that focus on sight words, it includes Dolch, Fry, and written sight words, and even has flashcards, lists, and a template to make your own sight words. A must-have for anybody teaching guided reading! (Eddie D. K-5)

SplashLearn
You can make it grade and content-specific. There are interactive games, worksheets, and lessons to reinforce classroom content. Links can be shared with parents and students for home activities. (Kristin C. K-5)

Starfall
This site helps to remediate or enhance learning that occurs in the classroom. (Sydney E. K-5)

ST Math
Visual instructional program that builds a deep conceptual understanding of math through rigorous learning and creative problem solving. (Karen S. K-5)

Susan Jones Teaching
Susan Jones teaches first grade and has created review games, center activities, and other resources that align with first-grade standards and common curriculum. (Kathryn S. K-5)

Super Teachers Worksheets
Great for creating worksheets with class-specific content, homework printouts, graphic organizers, and printable paper for writing and drawing. (Lauren W. K-5)

Teachers Pay Teachers
This site is amazing. I can find all the content related to the curriculum on this platform. It has all the useful resources available at one single stop. It has videos, anchor charts, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, activities for science, math and many other subjects based on the curriculum as well as grade level. It has a variety of graphic organizers available here. It also has pictures for different topics available to aid students with audio-visual aids. I prefer to use this website because its activities keep the students entertained as well as engaged. (Bhawna J. K-5)

TeachFlix
It has a multitude of sites that are kid-appropriate and instead of sending kids to YouTube, you can ensure all videos watched are appropriate. (Stephanie H. K-5)

Teaching Strategies
Curriculum and assessment resources for early childhood education. (Julia M. K-5)

Teaching Second Grade
Resources and ideas for teaching second grade. (Elsa Rodriguez. K-5)

TED
TED is my absolute favorite resource for my personal and professional inspiration and education. While it has engaging and informative talks on almost every subject, a simple search under the topic "education" opens up a world of curated talks from experts in their field. Some are inspirational (which we teachers all need now and then), others are data-driven (giving us proven strategies to improve our practice), and almost all open our eyes to new world-views and ways of leading our classrooms. (Annie L. K-5)

The Classroom Community Copilot
Found content related to lesson planning, including a poetry unit. (Falguni S. K-5)

The Teacher Toolkit
Provides practical classroom management tools and strategies. (Aly F. K-5)

Toy Theater
They have academic math games that target different objectives in grades 1st - 8th. (Michelle Z. K-5)

United States Census Bureau
On this site I found population numbers dating back to colony times and was able to use them in a lesson. Also, there are many Activities Overview Math History/Social Studies Geography Sociology. Activities Grades K - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8 Grades 9 – 12. (Kostas P. K-5)

Vooks
Animated storybooks that help bring reading to life for young students. (Mindy T. K-5)

We Are Teachers
So many great worksheets, activities, relevant blog posts, etc. to use and can search by grade or subject. (Alyssa K. K-5)

Wordwall
It is a great resource in terms of interactive games. The teacher can create his own game or pull from the site and use it for the class. It is good for creating exit tickets or practicing. (Ozenc Y. K-5) 

Xtra Math
Students can practice multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction in a fun way. (Cheryl F. K-5)

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