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What You Might Have Missed in April–What’s up in May
Here are the most-read posts for the month of April:
- Tech Tip #90 Doc Saved Over? Try This
- 18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am
- Earth Day Class Activities
- How to Create a Paperless Classroom
- 11 Online Resources About Physics
- Online Reading for National Library Week
- Human Body Websites for 2nd-5th Grade
- #32: How to Use Art to Teach Grammar
- Tech Tips #170: Cover your webcam!
- How to Stop Hating Your Computer
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Human Body Websites for 2nd-5th Grade
In my school, 2nd grade and 5th grade have units on the human body. To satisfy their different maturities, I’ve developed two lists of websites to complement this inquiry. I put them on the class internet start page so when students have free time, they can visit (check here for updates):
2nd-3rd Grade
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- Body Systems
- Build a Skeleton
- Can you place these parts in the correct place?
- Choose the systems you want to see.
- Find My Body Parts
- How the Body Works
- Human Body Games
- Human Body websites
- Human Body—by a 2nd grade class—video
- Human Body—videos on how body parts work
- Inside the Human Body: Grades 1-3
- Kids’ Health-My Body
- Matching Senses
- Muscles Game
- Nutrition Music and Games from Dole (more…)
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Online Reading for National Library Week
National Library Week is April 23-29, 2023. It allows us to promote our local libraries and their workers. Find more about here at the American Library Association.
Because I know most of you online only, I thought I’d share my favorite online libraries with you (click here for updates to the list):
For Children
- Aesop for Children–collection of fables
- Actively Learn–add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.
- Audio Books–apps for books purchased through Audio Books (and free ones)
- Bookopolis–focused on student reading
- Books that Grow–read a story at many different reading levels
- Class Literature
- Epic–a reading library for kids, 15,000 books; most digital devices
- RAZ Kids–wide variety of reading levels, age groups, with teacher dashboards
- Reading Rainbow–library of books; free to try
- Tumblebooks (fee)–focused on student reading
For All Ages
- Free Books–download any of our 23,469 classic books, and read
- Actively Learn–add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.
- Bookopolis–focused on student reading
- Books that Grow–read a story at many different reading levels
- Class Literature
- Epic–a reading library for kids, 15,000 books; most digital devices
- Free Books–download any of our 23,469 classic books, and read
- Great Books Online by Bartleby
- Gutenberg Project
- IBooks–amazing way to download and read books.
- International Library
- Internet Archive— Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
- Kindle–read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface.
- Librivox–free public domain audio books
- Loyal Books
- Many Books–Over 33,000 ebooks that can be browsed by language, author, title.
- Online Books Page
- Open Library
- OWL Eyes–for the classics
- RAZ Kids–wide variety of reading levels, age groups, with teacher dashboards
- Reading Rainbow–library of books; free to try
- Tumblebooks (fee)–focused on student reading
- Unite for books (free) — gorgeous, easy-to-navigate site.
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18+ Easter Websites and Apps
Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. To non-Christians (or non-traditional Christians), that event signifies a rebirth of spring that is filled with joy and gifts — and chocolate! Overall, it is America’s most-popular holiday with Christmas a close second. The date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. This year, it’s April 9, 2023.
Here’s a good mixture of games, lesson plans, stories, and songs that can be blended into many academic subjects (for updates on this Easter-themed list of websites, click here):
18+ Interactive Easter websites
Preschool-2
This website includes a colorful collection of Easter (and Spring) games and information that is visual and enticing to youngers. Games are Easter Math, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Egg Dress-up, Easter Word hunt, complete-the-sentence, and more. Also, viewers will find websites about the history of Easter around the world.
ABCYa Easter Egg Hunt
Preschool-Kindergarten
Like all of ABCYa’s games and activities, Easter Egg Hunt is a colorful and intuitive educational game for young children. It is easy-to-understand, playful, with favorite Easter symbols and energetic music that will engage children. The five Easter-themed games are easy-to-understand (no directions required) with a countdown clock to motivate activity. Nicely, it also aligns gameplay with the national standards met.
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What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April
Here are the most-read posts for the month of March:
- 11 Online Resources About Puzzles
- Software vs. Online Tools
- 19 Tech Problems Every Student Can Fix
- 25 Sites to Add Rigor and Authenticity to Word Study
- How to Compare and Contrast Authentically
- 6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun
- AI and ChatGPT in Education
- Use the SAMR Model to Energize Class Tech
- Beginning Graphs in MS Excel
- Invention Convention 2023 is coming
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Invention Convention 2023 is coming
Invention Convention Worldwide is a global K-12 invention education curricular program mapped to national and state educational standards that teaches students problem-identification, problem-solving, entrepreneurship and creativity skills and builds confidence in invention, innovation and entrepreneurship for life. Signups for the annual Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention US Nationals (2023) start March 31st.
Here are websites to help you and your students learn about the excitement of inventions:
- A Guide to Inventions
- Famous Inventors
- How Inventions Change History (video)
- How the popsicle was invented (a TEDEd video)
- Invented by accident I
- Invented by accident II
- Inventions from the Military –crazy ones
Check back here for updates on this list.
More about inventions
- Teach About Inventions with PowerPoint
- 5 Ideas for Teaching Students the Most Important Skill They’ll Need
- 5 Fun Science Experiments Kids Do at Home
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
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17 Online Chemistry Resources
Here are popular online resources about Chemistry:
- Beaker–a digital beaker app
- Chemistry collection from Carnegie
- ChemCapers
- Chemistry instructional videos
- ChemmyBear–resources for Chemistry and AP Chemistry classes
- CK12 Chemistry simulations
- Collisions Chemistry
- Concord Consortium–chemistry, earth science, engineering, life science, physics
- Crash Course: Chemistry (videos)
- EMD PTE — periodic table
- Interactive Periodic Table
- Molecules–Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers.
- Periodic Table of Elements–interactive
- Periodic Table videos
- PhET Simulations for chemistry and physics
- Reactions–short videos on chemistry topics
- Slow Motion Chemistry — videos on chemistry
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Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring
Spring websites, lesson plans, printables, activities:
- 7 Science Experiments that Teach About Spring
- Books from Scholastic about Spring
- Life cycle of a snake
- Life Cycle Lesson Plans
- Life Cycle resources
- Life Cycles
- Life Cycle Symbaloo
- Plant life cycle
- Spring Puzzle
- Spring Garden–click to find flowers
- Spring Games
- Spring Vocabulary (video)
- Spring Word Scramble
- Spring Word Search
- What Happens in Spring (video)
- What Happens in Spring–PS (video)
Ideas from TeacherVision:
Printables
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
- Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet
- Baseball Fun
- May Day
- Butterfly Facts and Questions
- Butterfly Life Cycle Quiz
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Poster & Activities
- More Spring Printables
Lesson Plans
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What You Might Have Missed in February–What’s up in March
Here are the most-read posts for the month of February:
- #WorldReadAloudDay February 1st
- Groundhog Day and the 100th Day of School
- 14 Tech Assessment Strategies
- 72: Check Your Math in Excel
- Is ChatGPT Writing Your Students’ Homework? New Tech Will Detect It
- Tech Tip #45 My Screen is Sideways!!
- 57+ Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
- You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…
- 3 Projects to Teach 1st Grade Architecture
- Teach Vocabulary with the Frayer Model
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11 Online Resources About Puzzles
Here are popular puzzles resources teachers are using to teach mouse skills, critical thinking, and more. There are a few for the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day:
- Digipuzzles–great puzzles for geography, nature, and holidays
- I’m a Puzzle–create your own puzzles
- Jigsaw Explorer–make your own
- Jigsaw Planet–create your own picture jigsaw
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Jigzone–puzzles
- Jigsaw Puzzles–JS
- Kindergarten puzzles
- Puzzle—St. Pat’s Puzzle
- Puzzle—drag-and-drop puzzle
- Puzzle—St. Pat’s slide puzzle
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.