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Panther Playground

MAP Reading Fluency for NEWA
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For Grades PK – 3rd 

RenPlace
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For AR test and math assignment during school hours.

Think Central
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SCIENCE for grades 5th – 8th

Reflex Math
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Basic facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division for grades 2+

Social Studies OEd
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Online Social Studies for grades 6th-8th

TCI - Social Studies
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TCI Social Studies

Reading Eggs
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ABC Reading Eggs teaches children aged 3-13 how to read with fun and motivational online reading lessons and phonics games.  The school furnishes this program to all enrolled students from first grade through fourth grade.

Epic! Books
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Epic is the leading digital reading platform—built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers—that safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under.

Study Island
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Study Island combines rigorous content that is highly customized to specific state standards in math, reading, writing, science, and social studies with interactive features and games that engage students and reinforce and reward learning achievement. Study Island’s programs enable educators to track student performance in real-time to address individual learning gaps, while allowing administrators to monitor student progress and measure teacher effectiveness.

PWS students from 5th through 8th grades have school furnished access to this program.

AR BookFinder
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Searching for books with a corresponding Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360® quiz is easy with AR BookFinder. Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can search in English or Spanish using criteria such as ATOS book level or a Lexile™ measure, interest level, title, author, fiction/nonfiction, subject, award-winners, state lists, CCSS Exemplars, and more.

Failure Free Reading
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 Failure Free Reading is a highly-structured, non-phonic, language development program that directly teaches reading comprehension, vocabulary and fluency to students who have failed using everything else. Login information is given to the students by their teacher.

Weaver Reading
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Teaches the student how to determine the topic or subject, main idea, supporting details, multiple main ideas, action, and our new Critical Reading and Thinking skills module.  Login information needed from teacher.

Khan Academy
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A personalized learning resource for all ages. Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.

Typing
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Free online keyboarding site. 5th -8th grade students see Ms. Apala for login information.

This is Sand
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Thisissand is a unique playground for creating and sharing amazing sandscapes on ... Start pouring away to experience this special sand piling on your screen!

PBS Kids
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PBS KIDS is committed to making a positive impact on the lives of children through curriculum-based entertainment. With a 360-degree approach towards learning and reaching children, PBS KIDS leverages the full spectrum of media and technology to build knowledge, critical thinking, imagination and curiosity.

StarFall
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Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children

StoryLine
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Reading to children has been repeatedly shown to improve their reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking, concentration and general academic aptitude… as well as inspire a love of reading. The Screen Actors Guild Foundation records well-known actors reading children’s books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that children around the world can be read to with just the click of a Storyline Online video book image.  All of these books have an AR test.

Kids Psych
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We hope that you and your children are enjoying KidsPsych! This site was put together as a vehicle for you to spend quality time with your children, and to help them with cognitive thinking skills, deductive reasoning, and also just to have some fun! It is our hope that as you and your children play these games, you will talk about the skills used in each activity. Each game has information about its objectives, and this may help you to understand more about your child's development and cognitive thinking skills.

BrainPOP Jr
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Online animated curriculum-based content that is aligned to state education standards. BrainPOP Jr. targets kids in kindergarten to third grade. Kids don't need proficient reading skills to use this audio-heavy site. Lessons all begin with a brief video and include a wide variety of school and life topics. The site includes video, game, quiz, and activity sections for science, health, writing, reading, social studies, and math based on national education standards. For a fee more is available.

Brain Pop
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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology.

EdHeads
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Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.

We partner with corporations, universities, and school systems throughout the United States, which help us research, design, and test our activities every step of the way. Not only do teachers and students appreciate our free activities, Edheads has been recognized by almost every major award on the Web for our excellent educational content.

Math Dictionary
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Online Math Dictionary for all ages.

Science Fusion
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ScienceFusion is a state-of-the-art science program designed for building inquiry and STEM skills and optimized for learning in the classroom or at home, on a laptop, tablet, or using a science textbook. The digital curriculum, virtual labs, hands-on activities, and write-in science textbook develop important critical-thinking skills that prepare students for success in future science courses and in the workplace. - 

Digital Public Library of America
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Ambitious online resource contains an incredible wealth of information that kids can access safely. The Digital Public Library of America's mission: to make cultural and scientific works more accessible to the public. With a database searchable by map, timeline, format, and topic, they're hosting well over two million separate records, including text, images, and video. And while the library's vast archives are sometimes tricky to navigate, there's a lot of history to dig into here. Older kids will find the site pretty intuitive, but younger researchers may need a helping hand.

Discovery Kids
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Parents need to know that Discovery Kids is an educational site that encourages discovering all the world has to offer. Articles cover topics about natural disasters, growing up, machines, continents, space, and much more. An activities page provides interactive ideas for recipes, making crafts, designing clothes, and experimenting with science. Games are age appropriate, challenging, and educational, and the online puzzles are fun and entertaining. Parents should know that some games ask for a user name and email address. Also, the site does include a link to shopping and banner ads advertise more Discovery Kids shows.  For ages 10+

ThinkThroughMath
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This is an online math program furnished to the students of Pretty Water School by the Oklahoma State Dept. of Education.  It is designed for our third through eighth grade students to review and practice new math skills.
 

Typing Club
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Typing Club is the most effective way to learn how to type.  It is web based, and highly effective. Typing Club is (and will always be) free for both individuals and schools. There is an optional paid school edition.