Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Seasonal/Holidays | Posted on November 30, 2009
Larry Ferlazzo\’s Best Holiday Lesson Resources
Larry Ferlazzo’s web site always has the “BEST” of the best lists. Check out these resources for teaching about December holidays.
The free K12Online Conference has started today with its opening keynote by Kim Cofino.
The K12 Conference is entirely free and online. You don’t need to register to “attend” and once presentations go live they are available forever. You can never “miss” a presentation because you can always go back and see them.
This link takes you to the 2009 Schedule of Events.
This link helps you get started with the free online conference.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Search Engines | Posted on November 24, 2009
Mugurdy Visual Search Engine renders your results as screen shots of the web page.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Educational Resources, Games | Posted on November 23, 2009
Tutpup Educational Games
Check out this free educational game site.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Odds and Ends | Posted on November 23, 2009
Elmers Glue Crew
Elmer’s Glue has partnered with Wal-Mart in a recycling program for used glue sticks and bottles. Click the link to sign up your classroom.
Pinky Dinky Doo
Pinky Dinky Doo harnesses the power of television, print, and interactive media to promote reading and imaginative storytelling. To achieve this, Pinky invites children to participate in funny and fantastic stories, games, and songs that support critical early literacy skills.
The series has four primary goals. It aims to:
Celebrate the power of inventing and sharing stories.
Pinky showcases the storytelling process, demonstrating to children that stories come from ideas in people’s heads. It shows children that they can use their imaginations to create their own wonderful and surprising stories.
Introduce basic narrative elements.
Pinky‘s stories and games call attention to the following elements:
- Characters (what are people’s names, characteristics, and roles in the story?)
- Dialogue (who said what?)
- Main ideas (what happened and where did it happen?)
- Sequence of events (what happened and when did it happen?)
- Details
Provide opportunities to use effective listening comprehension strategies.
The more time children spend reading, being read to, and talking about what they read, the more they are able to think about and understand stories they hear. Pinky‘s stories are designed to:
- Engage viewers in the language and interaction surrounding the stories.
- Promote children’s ability to listen, think along, and learn.
Expand vocabulary through stories.
Listening to stories is an effective way to build vocabulary. Pinky‘s stories and games:
- Focus on the meaning of words and concepts within the context of the story.
- Feature fun activities containing rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration.
Explore.Org — probably suited more for middle and high school.
Explore is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes. Both educational and inspirational, explore creates a portal into the soul of humanity by championing the selfless acts of others.
explore’s growing library consists of more than 250 original films and 30,000 photographs from around the world. We showcase our work at film festivals, on over 100 public broadcast and cable channels, and on numerous online destinations including explore.org, Snag Films, Hulu and TakePart.
Expo Writing Center from Scholastic has writing lessons by grade level.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on November 20, 2009
Lincoln Memorial Interactive Field Trip
Experience a virtual walk through of the memorial and listen to park rangers share their reflections on the memorial and its history.
Family Literacy Council – Explore the Literacy House
Explore the rooms of theLiteracy House, and see how simple it is to help
your child learn through daily activities using everyday household items.
The main ingredients are you and your child, and the payoff is big!
Discovery Box
Discovery Box provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? What if you had to try to convince people that intensive farming was wrong? What pieces of evidence would you assemble to help convince others you were right? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the Discovery boxes submitted by others.
Vocab Sushi.Com is a new, free site for vocabulary development and practice. It is probably too advanced for most of our students, but those of you with middle/high school students may enjoy the site. It’s also a fun way to enhance your own vocabulary!
Watch Know Educational Videos
WatchKnow is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.
WatchKnow is now officially launched, after being developed for over a year. Whether you’re a student, a parent, a teacher, or just someone who cares about the education of children, you can now use our service and get involved to make it even better. Please sign up! (But did you know that you can add new videos to our system without signing up? They’ll have to be approved first.)
There is no better online cause than the future of our children. And just imagine how fantastic it would be if there were a resource online we could go to, or send our kids to, that would explain every topic they study in school instantly and reliably. Many of the resources needed for such a site already exist online; they just need to be organized.
WebMath.Com from Discovery Education has math mini-lessons by topic and grade level. I can see these lessons being used for activating strategies or to review basic math concepts.
Fuel our Future Now K-2
Fuel our Future Now 3-5
This Department of Energy site has a unit by grade levels on “What Makes a Car Go?” There are links to standards, lesson plans, video resources, and student work materials.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Desktop Publishing | Posted on November 16, 2009
Typing Web
TypingWeb is a free online typing tutor, keyboarding tutorial, and typing certification for typists of all skill levels. Benefit from TypingWeb’s keyboarding lessons and certifications.
Teachers Love SMART boards blog has a nice list of Thanksgiving resources that would work very well on Promethean Boards.
Where Does Thanksgiving Dinner Grow is a site where students can see geographicallywhere the food on their plate comes from.
Class Tools.Net
Classtools.net provides free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites. There is no signup, no passwords, no charges…
National Geographic Kids is a site many of you already use, but in case you’ve missed it, check out the wealth of resources — perfect to use with Promethean Boards.
This looks like a great opportunity — a great way to incorporate a real life project into science instruction. There are two categories — grades K-2 and 3-5.
We Can Change the World Challenge
The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge gives students the opportunity, tools and inspiration to become those agents of change. Beginning August 19, 2009 through January 31, 2010, elementary school classes from across the country will be challenged to create sustainable, reproducible environmental improvements in their classroom or school.
Top prizes will include a chance to appear on TV, a grant for your school, and a trip for the teacher to New York City and more.
Have Fun Teaching web site has links to reproducables, educational videos. songs, flash cards, teacher productivity tools, and even social networks especially for teachers.
Big Huge Labs Creativity Site has almost every application you can imagine for creating projects with student photography — everything from posters, mats & frames, calendars, badges, slideshow, captions, black & white, cubes, and CD covers. The possibilities are endless and the site is free.
Science Links Sorting Game has students sort plants and animals into various categories.
Math Live Video Lessons for Students has dozens of math skills to select with a complete video lesson on that topic.