Have you ever seen a toddler with mom or dad’s cell phone in hand? If you have, I’m sure you will agree it’s amazing how quickly they learn how they work. While to many this may seem like a bad thing, screen time can be harmful, there is a way to turn this time into something productive. Wait what? Screen time can be good? Yes! There are several websites out there to help your students with reading, math, and science skills. In addition to learning more about different subjects, your students can also learn about more about the world around them. Check out these seven websites to help your students learn!
Websites for Reading
Reading is a vital skill for all students to have. When students are good readers, they gain a larger vocabulary and have a better critical thinking skills. To help enhance your students reading, check out these websites to help your student learn.
Starfall
The first website starts at the very beginning. Starfall is a great website that opened its windows in September of 2002. The sole purpose of Starfall is to help students learn how to read through phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and sight words. While this is where Starfall started, today it also includes some English and math work for students as well.
One of the best things about Starfall is it’s free! But you can pay for a membership and get extras like animated songs, mathematics, and more reading activities.
KidsReads
Another great reading website is KidsReads. KidsReads goes beyond just reading a book and introduces your student to articles, book reviews, and author biographies. This great website will introduce your students to a variety of topics and can even introduce them to a new favorite author.
Websites for Science
While focusing on reading is important in the classroom, a bigger world is the world of STEM. Science, the S in STEM, can be difficult (and maybe messy) to really get into. Your students can learn more about science with these great science sites.
DOGOnews
DOGOnews is a fantastic website that will not only touch on science topics, but give your students a chance to read about social studies while boosting their ELA skills. This website has a ton of articles for kids about current events, science, social studies, and the world in general. Let your students get lost in these articles and learn more about the world around us. While this website does require reading, it can foster a love of science as well.
Science Bob
If you want to focus more on science, you can check out what Science Bob has to say. On Science Bob’s website, students can read about experiments, find experiments to try themselves, science fair ideas, and more! Students who want to find something cool to do can’t go wrong with Science Bob; they can even watch videos of past experiments. One of the best features of this awesome website is the Science Q and A where students can ask questions and get them answered by the expert himself.
Another great hidden feature of this website is while it is a website that wants to visited, it also encourages students to step away from the screen and learn which makes this website a great website to help students learn.
Math Websites
While reading and science sometimes rule the roost, you can’t count out math. Math, another part of the STEM family, is an important skill to work on whenever possible. Not only because students will use math in life, but because it is the subject that most students struggle with. To help your students early on, check out these websites to help your students learn.
Brain Pop Jr.
Brain Pop Jr. is a site that is fun and interactive for students. It has games and activities for students to do not only in math, but in science, art, and history too. While you do need to pay for a full access to Brain Pop Jr., it does have a lot of fun free stuff to explore as well.
Coolmath Games
Another great website is Coolmath Games. If the name doesn’t give it away, this website is great at giving your students a chance to use their math skills in the form of a game. This website has so many fun games that put your 
student in the driver’s seat asking them to use good strategy and logic while playing “skill games.” This website is great for helping your math rock stars and your struggling math students. If your students get bored with these math games as well, check out a few other games that will give them a laugh on Teachers Pay Teachers.
AbcYa
The final website I have for you is truly the best of them all. This gem of a math site puts your students into some sweet real world situations by having them work with numbers in the form of money. It also has fun games that takes students on an adventure they won’t want to miss. This amazing website will make your students love math all while helping them enhance skills.
While screen time isn’t always a good thing, it’s not all bad and to be honest, it’s here to stay. So, if you can’t beat them, join them and let them join in on some fun with these great websites that will help them learn and strengthen their reading, science, and math skills.
