Category: Reviews
Weekend Website #66: What’s Your Carbon Footprint
Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
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Weekend Website #60: Google Tools and Bloom’s Taxonomy
Every Friday, I’ll send you a wonderful website (or more) that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
[caption id="attachment_5658" align="aligncenter" width="614"] Support Blooms Taxonomy with Google Tools[/caption](more…)
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Weekend Websites #56: 23 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5
This is the time of year when teachers worry about math facts and the automaticity of math skills. The following websites focus solely on that facet of math. I’ve broken them down by grade level, but you can decide if your second graders are precocious enough to try the websites for grades 3-5 (click here for an UTD list):
K
1st
2nd
- Math Flashcards
- Math Practice Test
- Mental Math
- Mental Math Drills
- Minute Math
- More Quick Math
- Multiplication Tables (more…)
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Weekend Website #54: 20 Great Research Websites for Kids
Here are quick, safe spots to send your students for research (for updates to this list, click here):
- All-around research site libraryspot.com
- Dictionary www.dictionary.com
- Edutainment site—requires subscription www.brainpop.com/
- General info research www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
- Internet research sites for kids http://ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html
- Kids search engine for the internet kids.yahoo.com (more…)
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Weekend Website #61: Brainy Widgets from Wolfram Alpha
Every Friday, I’ll send you a wonderful website (or more) that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
[caption id="attachment_5665" align="aligncenter" width="614"] Educational widgets for your blog or website[/caption](more…)
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Weekend Website #53: 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom
This list has a little bit of everything, and will kick-start your effort to put technology into your lesson plans:
- 10 Tech Alternatives to Book Reports
- Analyze, read, write literature
- Animations, assessments, charts, more
- Biomes/Habitats—for teachers
- Create a magazine cover
- Create free activities and diagrams in a Flash! (more…)
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Weekend Website #52: 7 Sites About Coin Counting
Second graders (sometimes first graders) learn about money. The only way to really ‘get it’ is by repetition, so I came up with a list of websites to provide redundancy for each type of learner. Thought I’d share them with you (check here for link updates):
Do you have any to add to this list? These are mostly for youngers–I’d love some for older age groups. (more…)
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Weekend Website #50 Visuword
Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
[caption id="attachment_4806" align="aligncenter" width="614"] Visuwords–makes words exciting[/caption](more…)
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Weekend Website #49: Tux Paint
Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
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Book Review: 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The all-in-one K-8 toolkit for the lab specialist, classroom teacher and homeschooler, with a years-worth of simple-to-follow projects. Integrate technology into language arts, geography, history, problem solving, research skills, and science lesson plans and units of inquiry using teacher resources that meet NETS-S national guidelines and many state standards. The fifty-five projects are categorized by subject, program (software), and skill (grade) level. Each project includes standards met in three areas (higher-order thinking, technology-specific, and NETS-S), software required, time involved, suggested experience level, subject area supported, tech jargon, step-by-step lessons, extensions for deeper exploration, troubleshooting tips and project examples including reproducibles. Tech programs used are KidPix, all MS productivity software, Google Earth, typing software and online sites, email, Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, internet start pages, social bookmarking and photo storage), Photoshop and Celestia. Also included is an Appendix of over 200 age-appropriate child-friendly websites. Skills taught include collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, creativity, digital citizenship, information fluency, presentation, and technology concepts. In short, it’s everything you’d need to successfully integrate technology into the twenty-first century classroom.