Webliography
Throughout your Level II coursework you will review online resources. Webliography is a way to share the websites you find valuable with your colleagues. Also, if you already know of other great student technology sites that offer teachers tools to help students envision and use technology, share those as well. It is through this type of online sharing that our community of educators blossoms.
Please make sure that all of your webliography entries include the following:
-Title
-Web Address
-Appropriate Grade Level(s)
-Description
*The web address must be a hyperlink so others can click on it and view the website. To learn how to do this, go to Blogger Help.
Here is an example of a webliography:
Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com/
Grades K-8
This is website with lots of great (and free) educational games for math and language arts! Also, quizlab allows teachers to assign quizzes that students take and then the results are sent via e-mail to the teacher.
Please make sure that all of your webliography entries include the following:
-Title
-Web Address
-Appropriate Grade Level(s)
-Description
*The web address must be a hyperlink so others can click on it and view the website. To learn how to do this, go to Blogger Help.
Here is an example of a webliography:
Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com/
Grades K-8
This is website with lots of great (and free) educational games for math and language arts! Also, quizlab allows teachers to assign quizzes that students take and then the results are sent via e-mail to the teacher.
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iknowthat.com
iknowthat.com
Grades K-6
This is an excellent site that has tons of interactive games in every subject at every grade level. My students particularly enjoyed the Math Dojo. The site will ask you to register, but just click "Maybe Later" and you can play everything.
Microsoft Teacher Tools
www.microsoft.com/Education/LessonPlans.mspx
Grades K-College
This page on the Microsoft web site has lesson plans which integrate technology for all grade levels. The plans can be sorted by topic, Microsoft application or theme. I think this looks especially useful for whole class lessons in the computer lab.
NASA Kids
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
Grades K - any
It's a great site for kids to learn about space related topics as well science with the use of games and web quests. It is a very interactive site allowing kids the freedom to search safely, while having fun learning.
Typing in Spanish
An easy guide to help students and teachers learn to use accent marks, upside-down exclamations and question marks, and the "n" with a tilde on any computer. Includes use of Spanish spell check.
children's authors websites
This website offers links to many, many different authors of children's books.
Yahooligans.com
K-12
A fun resource for kids is yahooligans.com. I especially like the Ask Earl pages where fun, strange questions have been posted and answered.
yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/ask_earl/
Houghton Mifflin Education Place
http://www.eduplace.com/kids
Grades 1-6
This seems so obvious, but it is an excellent site for kids to use. If kids click on school books, they will be able to look up vocabulary words associated with the story you are on on eglossary. This program includes audio, which is wonderful for your struggling readers. Kids can then choose eWord Game to practice the vocabulary. Plus many other activities.
Houghton Mifflin Education Place
http://www.eduplace.com/kids
Grades 1-6
Added link.
Can I plug my own site here?:)
HM Tech
hmtech.wikispaces.com
Currently K-2 and growing
This is a collaborative site that connects you to technology integration ideas for the Houghton Mifflin LA series. It has links to teaching resources, downloadable presentations and homework as well as links to games for students.
Between the Lions
pbskids.org/lions/songs
K-3
PBS Kids is a huge site with a huge variety of activities but my current favorite is their "Between the Lions" and its hillarious collection of videos and songs to help you learn vowels and other LA skills.
http://www.50states.com/
http://www.factmonster.com/states.html
Grades 4-6
Both websites are useful in finding fun and interesting facts about the 50 states.
www.elcerritowire.com/2/index.htm
K-6
I found this site which is maintained by a teacher. It has many games that correlate with the California standards.
Miami Herald in Spanish
Miami Herald in Spanish. Useful for Spanish learners, native speakers. Can be used to compare news stories in different languages, summaries of articles, to teach parts of a newspaper, or as a stepping off point for creation of a class newspaper in the target language.
powerpoints/elementry
Grades K-5
This is an excellent site that contains many student produced PowerPoint presentations. It's a site that students could explore independently or in connection to a particular lesson. It's also a useful site for teachers. Since they are produced by kids, you could use them to show to your kids. It includes presentations for science, math, and language arts.
Activities for ESL Students
a4esl.org
Quizzes, tests, online puzzles for students learning ESL. Contributions by thousands of teachers. Daily personal home pages for students. ESL oriented podcasts.
Starfall.com
K-2
This is a wonderful sight for primary grades to use at home or in class for teaching and for kids to practice independently. We use it in our computer lab and the kids love it. It is great for letters, sight words, word families, short easy stories and has great animation! It also has great audio for beginning readers and English Language Learners too.
Kevin Henkes
Grades K-3
A colorful,friendly web site of Kevin Henkes's book with a brief biographical page.
CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE AND READ UP ON IT! We really want our kids to make a difference in the world, and they want to be taught what is out there.
www.ryanswell.ca
I have found many fun activities for my students on this site!
Internet4classrooms
Eyewitness to History
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
Grades 3-8
This is an excellent site for history. "Eyewitness to History" offers primary documents from different eras in history. This site would be a useful source for research projects and to build background knowledge for Social Studies.
http://www.mistergworld.com/12-001.htm
Grade 5
This is an amusing site for students wanting to know where state names originated from as well as what the quarter for that state looks like.
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/kidspace/stateknow/
grade 5
Site filled with stately information for anyone wanting to know about the fifty states.
Animals of the African Serengeti
This is a great site for kids who need to research topics related to animals of the African Savanna. The site is provided by the National Zoo in Washington DC. There's great photos, puzzles, games, and homework assignments
Kidspired Tales
www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~ptk1nc/kidspired2002/
This site was an interent project by a couple of teachers that has been completed, but it has great student writing samples and can be a springboard for your own ideas. These two teachers also have other complete internet projects.
Washington Library Media Association
http://www.wlma.org/Instruction/wlmaospibenchmarks.htm#skills
Grades: All
This site cleary states the "Essential Skills for Information Literacy" in an easy to read format. Each skill lists the criteria for students to reach these goals as well as the benchmarks for different grade levels. It is a great reference for teaching students information literacy skills.
Two websites I found useful during my lesson planning were: City of Costa Mesa and Yahoo Maps
Koday's Kids Amazing Insects
Koday's Kids Amazing Insects
K-5
This is a great site that has a multitude of photos of a wide variety of insects. Great for kids to just explore.
google search engine
Actually, the website I used the most was Google, BUT, since I have become more adept at Boolean searches through the CTAP class, I am MUCH faster at getting the results I want. I also shared many of the fun sites we looked at and the search techniques with my 16-year-old computer nerd son, and he was amazed (he thought he knew it all).
Ben Franklin's Guide to Government for Kids
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/index.html
This is a great web site that makes government comprehensible to kids. It is divided into four differnt levels for students in K to 12.
Education World
Education World
This site has amazing resources in Ed Tech as well as how to integrate it into your curriculum. It also has lesson plans and other cool fun stuff for teachers to use in the classroom. Also really excellent articles on anything to do with teaching.
Here are a bunch of Rubric ideas I found to meet your Tech. lesson assessment needs.
Rubric ideas
This is a branch link off of school.discovery.com. You'll find rubric samples and ideas for almost any subject or standard area. Includes rubrics for students web pages, subject specific areas, rubric builders, and teacher self assessment rubrics.
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-Amanda Donnell
I couldn't possibly just pick one!
wikipedia.org
Grades 2 and up
The most up-to-date information on the web. Perfect for current events.
school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalelem.html
Grades 3 and up
Great printable worksheet for students to use to evaluate websites. This helps them understand what is a reliable website and why.
Amanda Donnell
teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm#
Grades 2-6
This poetry engine is fun for the kids and a great way to introduce different types of poetry
Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids
bensguide.gpo.gov/
All Primary Grades
This is a great site that teaches students about the U.S. government from neighborhoods to the three branches of the government in a way that is understandable to children.
This site was helpful when planning a website eval. lesson http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
Amanda Donnell
This site is terrific for use on a SmartBoard for teaching time
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/
Virtual Manipulatives
K-6
This site provides many small applications that help reinforce math concepts that are taught in the classroom... for example, there is a money section that gives a dollar amount and asks the students to choose the bills and coins needed to match the amount, or you can set it to ask the students to input how much money is displayed, or to use various coins to make a dollar. There is a large range of activities that cover most of the math standards.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
Grades 2-6
This is an interactive website that acts as a portal for many activities.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/
Safekids Quiz
K-6
This site give a simple, short quiz about how to safely use the internet and other online services. It covers issues like giving out your name, picture and personal information, how to handle someone who is being inappropriate in an e-mail or chat, etc. It would be appropriate for all grade levels, although younger students would need to have it read to them.
http://www.safekids.com/quiz/
Grade levels 3-6
This is a great site for all content areas. There are many interactive games. Some are alittle above grade level so review carefully before you use it with your class. It has expecially good math games. http://www.brainpop.com
Grade levels K-6
This website is informative, colorful, interactive with puzzles and quizzes, has classroom activities and worksheets, crafts that can be done at home, and links to other websites.
http://enchantedlearning.com/
This website would be goof for primary grades.
This website is about rainforest animals. It is visually stimulating. It has great picture links of animals and the links go to other neat sites.
http://www.rainforestheroes.com/
PBS is a trusted site that I primarily use for the game "Look Out Below". It is a version of a Making Words activity, where the children chose which words can be made from the letters of the shown word. After 4 successful attempts the character, a pupet, falls down and says "Look Out Below".
http://pbskids.org/
EdHelper
Appropriate for all grade levels.
This is a fantastic website to use for additional resources in all subject areas. The yearly subscription costs $20 and is worth every penny.
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://www.janbrett.com/
Grades K-3
This is a delightful author's sight. Jan Brett makes her website very parent, teacher and child friendly. She keeps her pictures current with the holidays and with her upcoming books. I recommend this every year to parents and teachers.
This site is appropriate for grades 4-6
It is an excellent source for acceleration and remediation.The menu of math activities is extensive and the instructions are clear. Students enjoy the activities.
http://mathisfun.com/
Academy of Achievement
Grades 5 & 6 (could work for any grade)
This is a great website for teachers assigning independent research assignments. I have used it in conjunction with Houghton Mifflin's Theme 2 "Give It All You've Got!"
http://www.achievement.org/
Funbrain Grades 3/4/5
When we're in computer lab and finish our assignments, students always want to access this site. Lots of fun educational activities that catch their interest.
http://www.funbrain.com/
Starfall
Grades prek-2
Starfall.com is a very motivating site for beginning to intermediate readers. It is interactive and has the reading pages based on increasing difficulty. There are print out pages for students to continue to enjoy reading even when they off the computer.
http://www.starfall.com/
Math is Fun
Grades K-6
This is a great webiste to practice math for all grade-levels K-6. It has some higher level thinking skills such as figuring out how to have a profitable lemonade stand as well as basic fact practice .
http://www.mathisfun.com/
PreK-K
Kinder by Kim is a wonderful website for kindergarten teachers! There are fantastic lesson plan ideas, journals that span across the content areas, and thematic units. We have had a wonderful time "borrowing" some of the fun ideas that Kim presents.
Have fun!
http://www.kinderbykim.com/
Toon University
Parts of Speech
Grades K - 3
http://www.toonuniversity.com/
DeDe Mackintosh
10/16/2006
This site has an amazing variety of learning activities addressing many of the California Standards. I will be using it as a review of parts of speech playing a game. To assess prior learning, I will play an interactive game where I supply a sentence and name a part of speech (noun, verb, adjective or adverb) and ask students to choose that part of the sentence. Then I will go to this website where students will play a game that involves identifying parts of speech in a sentence. We will play as small groups on the smartboard. Students earn points with correct answers.
Ask for Kids (formerly "Ask Jeeves") is a good place for kids to begin research on just about any topic. The hits are filtered to be more kid friendly, although not all are useful for fourth graders. There are games too, but I haven't used them.
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Starfall
Grades: PreK-2
Description: Starfall.com is an interactive reading website. Students are able to use the different links to improve language aquisition. Students are able to choose a subject area which they are interested in to view. This interactive website is a wonderful way to gain student interest to books and stories.
http://www.starfall.com/
An incredible site for anyone interested in ancient history. Students can interact with ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, etc. User friendly, as well as interesting.
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
K-6
This is a fun site that has tons of resources for teachers. The resources range from calendars, paper books with print and pages for students to color. The site covers holidays, seasons, social studies, and science ... and so on. It's great for when you need a quick lesson, or a "follow-up lesson" you've been teaching in the classroom.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
http://www.askforkids.com/
Ask for Kids (formerly "Ask Jeeves") is a good place for kids to begin research on just about any topic. The hits are filtered to be more kid friendly, although not all are useful for fourth graders. There are games too, but I haven't used them.
Interventioncentral.org - K-12.
This is an excellent resource for all teachers to assist them with students that are at-risk or who have special needs. It lists various interventions that can be used in the classroom. Student Study Team members can utilize this website for modifications to suggest at SST meetings.
intervention central.org
Interventioncentral.org is an intervention website for all grade levels. This applies to teachers who have students that are at risk. This is also a site that the SST team may refer to for ways to better assist students move forward in their eductional goals.
interventioncentral.org
Interventioncentral.org is an intervention website for all grade levels. This applies to teachers who have students that are at risk. This is also a site that the SST team may refer to for ways to better assist students move forward in their eductional goals.
interventioncentral.org
Daniel Patterson
englishplus.com/grammar/
Language Arts
Grades 7-12
This website has examples of common grammar mistakes, with suggestions on how to fix them. This is easy to use, has very clear examples, and is a good resource for kids to interpret teacher comments regarding grammar based mistakes.
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp
Grades Pre K-6 depending on the activity.
Tumble Books is a website free to use if you go through the Newport Beach Public Library site which is www.newportkids.org. This site offers an alphabetical list of stories that have animated pages as the narrator reads the story to the class. We've used these stories for our Word Hunts in the Words Their Way program. Each page can be paused so the students can look for words in their group's spelling pattern.
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp
Grades Pre K-6 depending on the activity.
Tumble Books is a website free to use if you go through the Newport Beach Public Library site which is www.newportkids.org. This site offers an alphabetical list of stories that have animated pages as the narrator reads the story to the class. We've used these stories for our Word Hunts in the Words Their Way program. Each page can be paused so the students can look for words in their group's spelling pattern.
Time For Kids
K-6
This site is great for current events, fun learning games and trivia. It also has great geography links and works well with Time For Kids magazine. Check out the online postcards kids can email to friends.
Time for Kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
K-6
This site is great for current events, fun learning games and trivia. It also has great geography links and works well with Time For Kids magazine. Check out the online postcards kids can email to friends.
www.ultimateiditarod.com/teachers.htm
Grade: 4
A great website giving information about the Alaskan Iditarod Race. Perfect for 4th grade teachers using Houghton-Mifflin-- gives teachers and students background information about the race for reading the first story "Akiak".
Gameaquarium.com
Ages 5-12
This is an excellent site for interactive math games. If you have a smartboard, it would be great to use for center time. Learning activities are categorized according to age and cover a variety of subjects including music.
During the lesson, kids will visit danielapatterson.blogspot.com ; time.com ; ask.com ; and several other links via my blog.
Replication
Grades 10-12
This site is an excellent resource for DNA replication. It has a really cool Quicktime video of a replication fork.
Replication
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/GenWeb/Molecular/Theory/Replication/replication.htm
Grades 10-12
This is an excellent site for a student reference for DNA replication. It has a good Quicktime video of a DNA replication fork.
Here is a nice web site for help / tutorial for Powerpoint.
http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PowerPointHelp.htm
Might help if I gave the site address. Oh well.
Standards 1A
The utilization of the internet encompasses all learning. Students who are information literate are able to evaluate information critically, competently and creatively. They are able to pursue their own interests independently. They appreciate literature and creative learning.
The internet can help students in so many ways. Students are able to access information of interest at home or at school at the touch of their fingertips. There is a wealth of information as well as education tools to assist teachers and students.
Lesson 3a-b, f-
I found a cool site.
It is http://www. disney.go.com/home/today/index.html
It has many cool Disney related links to videos, character sketches, Disney archives, and much more.
California Native American Tribes
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/california
Grades 3-4
This site has great information about California Native American tribes. Individual tribes are named and described. It's very kid friendly for research.
CTAP 201 Lesson 3F
Here's what I got from typing in lessons AND magnetism AND K-12.
Smartboard Magnet Activities
K-12 Chemistry Lessons
Magnetism and Magnetic Force
Science Lesson Plans
Kathy Schrock’s Guide For Educators
Kathy Schrock
All grade levels
Kathy Schrock’s site filled with quality resources both for student learning and teacher learning. Check it out!
Pacific Bell's Blue Web'n Blue Webn'n General Resource
All Grade Levels
Blue Web'n is another great general reference center that can point you in the right direction to quality resources for teaching. If your looking for something new to do with that boring lesson, try their webquest links, students will love the change of pace and teachers will be able to integrate technology into their lessons.
Math Wire
www.mathwire.com
This is a rich web site with many classroom tested activities. As the name suggests it links to other websites, which also have great activities. Why reinvent the wheel. I was attracted to the website because of the easy to read format and a few easy standards based activities I could easily implement in my classroom.
Math Wire mathwire.com
Grades K-12
This web site has a wealth of classroom-tested activities that use the constructivist approach to teaching mathematics. This site links to other websites, which additionally have great activities. I like the website because of the easy-to-read format and relevant student-friendly, standards-based math activities I can easily implement in my classroom.
www.starfal.com is a great site for students to practice phonemic skills while interacting with the characters that are doing the instruction.
oops ... it's actually www.starfall.com not starfal (I'm betting that many elementary teachers are familiar but it's the best site I know of to work on specific skills.)
starfall
www.starfall.com
It is for grades K-2. A great site for Reading and phonics.
Diana
http://www.earthwatch.org/ed/home.html
Grades K-12
Great site for science activities and virtual field trips
earthwatch.org
earthwatch.org/ed/home.html>
This is a fun Science website for K-12.
Eduplace.com
This is an approved Reading First website. It has many activities that support Houghton Mifflin
Grades K-6
www.eduplace.com
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Kidwriters/index.html
This page is a great addition to any writing program, incorporating internet usage with writing lessons already in the curriculum.
http://www.eduplace.com
This site correlates directly with the Houghton Mifflin curriculum and is a great site for additonal resources linked directly to theme stoies and skills.
Enchanted Learning
www.enchantedlearning.com
Grades 1-6
This is a wonderful website full of fun interactive learning activities for teachers and students. It covers many topics from holidays to whales. There are read and do quizzes. You can download arts and crafts. There is even an internet scavenger hunt!
Enchanted Learning
www.enchantedlearning.com
Grades 1-6
This is a wonderful website full of fun interactive learning activities for teachers and students. It covers many topics from holidays to whales. There are read and do quizzes. You can download arts and crafts. There is even an internet scavenger hunt!
Nutrition Dole 5 A Day
http://www.dole5aday.com/
Teachers and K-6
This is a great website for teachers and students. Teachers can access free material and lesson ideas on health and nutrition and students can engage in many different activities and reverence centers to learn the value of choosing healthy lifestyle.
Telling Time
www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/den/clock/index.htm
Grades K-3
This page allows students to manipulate a clock by clicking on the clock face, and position hands to correspond with time prompt. Students start at level one and progress upwards. Cartoon characters and sounds are fun.
moneyinstructor.com
Site provides stock market lesson plans, worksheets, and investment strategies for upper elementary and midle school students. Site offers appropriate extensions for students who wish to track a portfolio.
moneyinstructor.com
http://www.moneyinstructor.com
Site provides stock market lesson plans, worksheets, and investment strategies for upper elementary and midle school students. Site offers appropriate extensions for students who wish to track a portfolio.
CTAP 201 Lesson 3F
Index-China.com
This site was very informative on Confucius historically and how it is related to in modern times. There are also many other helpful links to a variety of topics including art, business, food, travel and the people of China.
Keyboarding Skills
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing
Elementary
This site engages students excellently in beginning and refining their keyboarding skills level by level. It's cute, interactive, and free. A good suggestion is when loading onto computer lab desktops, do it in intervals, because it takes quite a bit to load.
Teaching Fractions
Grade: 5th
Address: http://www.321know.com
This website is great for teaching kids how to understand fractions. An extensive yet easy to understand description is given for students. In addition, there are numerous games and activities to help engage all learners at all levels.
Rocks and Minerals
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/rocks.html
Grades: 3-6
This site provides students with information on how rocks and minerals are formed, the classifications of rocks, and how to test for hardness.
California Gold Rush (4th grade)
zimmer.csufresno.edu/~earlb/GoldRush.htm
This is a great website that gives students a lot of background information about the California Gold Rush.
2nd Grade
Great website with many free resources and online games
http://www.apples4theteacher.com
the british museum
No matter the ancient civilization, The British Museum is an excellent site for students to research and experience. Lots of simulations, excellent maps, and challenges for students.
the british museum
No matter the ancient civilization, The British Museum is an excellent site for students to research and experience. Lots of simulations, excellent maps, and challenges for students.
www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/simplescience/feature.htm
www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/simplescience/feature.htm
This is a great site for K-2 students to interact with simple science. The site includes games, science experiments, and book references. The homework hub is fantastic for science project ideas, resources, and practice activities in many curricular areas.
Newport Beach Public Library
http://www.city.newport-beach.ca.us/nbpl/Children/children.htm
Grades K-8
This website has many different features. It links to Tumble Books which can help students practice reading skills. It gives a lot of recommendations of books to read by genre which is helpful if a teacher is trying to put together a list of books for book club. It offers students homework help. Overall, this website is very helpful to the teacher and student.
http://www.dositey.com/
This site has a lot of free lesson plans and activity sheets, as well as some products you can buy. They have activities for various curricular areas. The ones in math for time and money are very good.
learning disabilities online
Teachers and parents
This is an excellent resource for teachers and parents to help and understand students of all ages with learning disabilities. It gives tips and strategies on how to help them in school.
3A
CTAP 120 - 4b
Starfall
I love Starfall "I'm Reading" because it is a great support for those students who can already read and would love to have another source of exciting things to do. I found some cute littel poems that could be enacted by 2 or 3 students and presented to the class. I also liked the non-fiction and fiction books that they can read and I plan to use the Chinese Fables for Chinese News Years this year. The site is colorful, cute and very age appropriate.
parents and teachers
This is a very informative site for anyone involved in the development of interventions and programs for individuals with learning disabilities. It is also an information site for resources and products in an easy to read manner.
I thought that funbrain was a good website for reinforcing math skills. I especially like the games as they covered a large range of skills and challenges. We have been working on estimation and I found an especially fun and interesting game that would reinforce this skill as well as challenge the students. I plan to offer this tomorrow for students who finish the required work on estimation.
Learning Disabilities Online
This is a very informative site for anyone involved in the development of interventions and programs for individuals with learning disabilities. It is also an information site for resources and products in an easy to read manner.
I especially like funbrain as it offered students all kinds of games that were both fun and challenging. I liked the math games as I want students to have an opportunity to reinforce the skills that we work on on
a daily basis. There was an interesting game for estimation which I intend to use tomorrow as we are working on this skill right now.
I especially like funbrain as it offered students all kinds of games that were both fun and challenging. I liked the math games as I want students to have an opportunity to reinforce the skills that we work on on
funbrain
I especially like funbrain as it offered students all kinds of games that were both fun and challenging. I liked the math games as I want students to have an opportunity to reinforce the skills that we work on on
Activity 201 3f
How Stuff Works
I use the website How Stuff Works quite a bit, for those students who ask questions about how things work to which I just don't know the answer. The site presents information in a step-by-step, understandable way that I usually adapt to present to the children.
Activity 201 3f
Epals is a great site for grades 1-3 to apply writing projects and exchange ideas with other second graders.
mrnussbaumgames.com
This site offers a multitude of math games at many levels. There are games that lend themselves to smartboard technology that would be great for centers. There are activities for all strands in math. We tried the draggable multiplication with 2digit numbers by on digit. The children were totally engaged and enjoyed the new learning.
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Mr. Myers Classroom
Mr. Myers Classroom
Grades 1-5
This is a wonderful site that has interactive practice and games for math facts, as well as other important math standards. You can also print out practice sheets to work on speed and accuracy.
Orange County Performing Arts Center: Arts Teach
http://www.ocpac.org/artsteach
All Grades
Don't forget about our local resources for Southern California! The Orange County Performing Arts Center provides multiple resources to support the content standards. If you have a question, give them a call!
k-2 Grade
Starfall is a great website to help with early readers. It's child friendly,interactive and fun to use. My students are currently working on vowel sounds and read through the different stories that emphasize that letter.
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k-2 Grade
Starfall is a great website to help with early readers. It's child friendly,interactive and fun to use. My students are currently working on vowel sounds and read through the different stories that emphasize that letter.
starfall
Course 201 Activity 3a-b,f
kinderkorner
This is a great web site for kinder teachers to obtain multiple resources and web sites for ideas and activities throughout the year.
Gary Langston
Prongo contains a Math Baseball game that my students love to play.
Prongo
expert
This website allows students to pose their own science quesions and get a quick response on a variety of topics. It is a good research site for the primary grades.
k-2 Grade
Starfall is a great website to help with early readers. It's child friendly,interactive and fun to use. My students are currently working on vowel sounds and read through the different stories that emphasize that letter.
starfall
Nutrition Dole 5 A Day
Dole
Teachers K-6
This is a great website for teachers and students. Teachers can access free material and lesson ideas on health and nutrition and students can engage in many different activities and reference centers to learn the value of choosing a healthy lifestyle.
Activity 3F
Brainpop
Brainpop is a great sight. I had the students read about Penguins and answer the questions on the quiz on their individual computers. The students enjoyed it and learned a lot. Back at class we answered the questions again on paper in groups.
CTAP 205 Lesson Website
Grades 2- 6
Great website for music lessons to go along with the orchestra or band. Check it out!
Playmusic
CTAP 205 6c
pbskids
This is a great beginning reading game for story sequencing practice.
CTAP 205 6c
pbskids
This is a great beginning reading game for story sequencing practice.
CTAP 205 Lesson 6C
PBSKIDS
The PBSKIDS website is a fantastic website for young learners. Kindergarten students are able to sharpen their math and science skills in a fun and interactive format. It also provides differentiation for a variety of learners. This website is enjoyable for both teachers and students.
CTAP 205 Lesson 6C
PBSKIDS
A wonderful website for students to learn various mathematics skills at the Kindergarten level is PBS KIDS. Students are able to place numbers in order from 1-100. It is an interactive way to make learning numbers fun! This website is great for differentiating instruction, a valuable tool for all teachers!
Kathy Schrock's Guide For Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide
This is an excellent site for educators. It is always up to date and has so much information in all areas. It is definitely one to save as a favorite!
Star Child
Grades 1-3
StarChild
This is a great webiste about astronomy for the kids. It is entertaining and interactive and is even fun!
2nd-4th grades.
This is a great powerpoint presentation that introduces some basic rules for syllabication and includes flash cards for practice.
http://jc-schools.net/langarts/syllables-rules_files/v3_document.htm
Syllabication Practice
2nd-4th grades
This is a great website that teaches some basic rules of syllabication and includes flash cards for practice.
http://jc-schools.net/langarts/syllables-rules_files/v3_document.htm
CTAP 120 4b
www.kinderbykim is a fantastic website for kindergarten teachers. There are fun and enriching theme activities that incorporate both academics and art. This website is a terrifc tool to help make your kindergarten year successful and engaging for your kindergarten students.
Lesson 3a-b, 3f
pbs
Grade K-2
This is a great sight for studying about different animals. It provides a map of the world. You can click on a region and it will bring up different animals from that region. If you click on the animal, it gives a portifolio of the animal. Very clear and easy to read info and includes a great picture. Super if you are doing research for animal reports, animal habitats or just writing stories about animals.
Lesson 3a-b, 3f
www.pbs.org/kratts
Grade K-2
This is a great sight for studying about different animals. It provides a map of the world. You can click on a region and it will bring up different animals from that region. If you click on the animal, it gives a portifolio of the animal. Very clear and easy to read info and includes a great picture. Super if you are doing research for animal reports, animal habitats or just writing stories about animals.
CTAP 205 6c
The website kidsplanet.org is a great site for researching endangered animals and the Endangered Species Act. The information is presented in a "kid friendly" manner with headings and appropriate information.
120 4B
On the Internet for the Classroom web site, there is a link to Cartesian graphing activities in a game-like format. On the Maze game, students had to move a house to different x y plots. Although this site provides helpful information, the actual interface seems a bit "primitive" for today's students.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/GeneralCoordinates/
Thinkquest
Library.thinkquest.org
Grades 6-8
This website offers links to many pages that relate to social studies (for example the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs). I found the websites fun for the kids to explore. I was able to create webquests using these sites as well.
PBS
Pbs.org/teachers
This has a list of monthly-recommended book selections for teachers and students. It also has many different lesson plan ideas organized by grade level and subject.
Yahoo
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Young_Adult/
This is a list of young adult author websites. This is a great source for my students to use when researching their authors
CTAP 201 Activity 3a-b, 3f
http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
Grades K-12
This is a wonderful site that allows students to write stories and publish them on the web. Then students are able to return to the site and other students have the opportunity to comment on their work. There are also opportunities to talk to real authors via chat rooms and discuss writing. This website provides an excellent opportunity for students to write for an authentic purpose.
Homographs/Multiple Meaning Words
http://www.quia.com/cb/8285.html
Grades 2-4
This is a one or two player game in which students work with multiple meaning words. Two definitions are given for one word, such as "something used with a hammer OR part of your finger or toe." Students must supply the word (nail).
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/
Grades 6-8
The Earthquake Shake- Teaser is an excellent link for the history of earthquake detection as well as animated illustrations on earthquake activity and seismology. The information was clear and was presented well.
Brain Pop Jr.
BrainPopJr
Grades: K-3
Brain POP Jr. provides short movie clips in seven different subjects. Each movie is also supported with follow up activities including; quizzes and worksheets.
CTAP 205
http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/nativeamerican/natam.html
Native American Tales
Grades 3-12
This is an excellant source for Native American Legends and Tales online. There are many different legends and tales from lots of Indian tribes. This was a good place to find examples of legends that students could compare for my lesson.
Ask Jeeves
askjeeves.com
Grades 9-12
I like this search engine because you can type in questions instead of searching for a single topic. Often it introduces you to additional information or other ways to look at a problem or a topic.
cyberbee.com
cyberbee.com
Grades 9-12
The students will be writing their own criteria for evaluating a web site. This site is an excellent quick resource for them to accomplish this task in a short amount of time.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/ontario/
This is a simple, yet challenging webquest activity. Good for 3-6 grade Social Studies for all level students in small groups.
http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Medvetz/webquest/#task
Incredible resource for 2nd grade Social studies!!!
Great for small group work
A great website to check out for the third grade study of the California Native American Chumash Indian tribe is:
http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/index.htm
A great website to check out for the third grade study of the California Native American Chumash Indian tribe is - Click my name above.
Course 201: 3a,b 3f
A really great site to check out for students who need extra help with third grade math is this one:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Capacity
Great website for early readers! There are fun interactive games and stories:
www.pbskids.org
Course 205
www.tumblebooks.com
Tumblebooks is a great site to design lessons around. The students really enjoy the online books.
http://pbskids.org/license
This is a great site to reinforce the rules of the road for students. I often use this site after an introductory lesson on Internet usage rules.
Christopher Brady
Ensign Intermediate
http://www.thecounter.com/stats
This site offers global statistics on what browser, operating system and resolution internet users are using to browse the web.
Christopher Brady
201 1A
Having read the Information Literacy Standards For Student Learning, I realize just how awesome and important of a job it is to teach these skills to children. In the socio-economic group in which I teach, most children know how to find information on the Internet related to a scholastic inquiry or a personal interest. Many do, however, lack the expertise to evaluate the information critically and competently. This is not because of a lack of technological skills, but rather the inability to critically evaluate information in general. The remedy, in my opinion, would be a curriculum that is not based on scoring well on standardized tests.
The Biography Maker is a fantastic website to help kids write a biography using higher level thinking skills.
Biography Maker
QuickMath Automatic Math Solutons
http://www.quickmath.com/
Grades 6-12+ (Algebra, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, Calculus)
This website provides web-based solvers for many math topics, such as equations, inequalities, and matrices, and many more.
CTAP 201 - Lesson 3
Google
http://www.google.com/
Grades 4-12+
I find Google to be an excellent source for searching the internet, as one can search for webpages, images, maps, video (when it's not blocked), and even news for current events. The one main drawback is that Google's rankings are gamed from time to time allowing mercantile sites to rise to the top. However, that also provides ample opportunities to demonstrate to students how to determine the value of information acquired from the internet.
Prentice-Hall Textbook Support
http://www.phschool.com/atschool/california/mathematics/
Grades 6-12+ (Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Algebra 2)
This website gives support files, chapter outlines, and enrichment activities tied to the text books we use in Newport-Mesa.
CoolMath
This is a great site to review many math concepts for grades multiple grades. I used this site around testing time to have students review their math concepts.
http://homepage.mac.com/bobspang/Mrs.SpangsClass.htm
Grades: K - 6
This is an awesome math web site. It provides MANY different interactive games that are geared towards the California standards. I find my self using this website during center time as well as when I am differentiating the material to meet the different levels in my classroom.
Title: Santa Maria Bonita Unified School District
Web Address: http://www.smbsd.org/
- Click on District Programs
- Click on Reading in left column
- Find your grade in the left column
Grade Levels: K-6
Description: This website is useful for teachers and students. Teachers can find all documents related to Houghton Mifflin and the Focus Wall in document format ready to be printed. There are also website ideas for teachers to use to stimulate background knowledge of students before beginning a story.
Eduplace
http://www.eduplace.com/
Grades 1-6
This website allows the teacher, student, and/or family to find various information and ideas needed for all the subject areas and follows the Houghton Mifflin curriculum for all the subjects. It provides quizzes, word searches, activities, lessons, assessments and more.
http://www.mindinst.org/cont/edu/demos.php
I like the above softwear because it make math accessable to students of all languages and teaches them how to use the computer with out requiring them to read to progress. so it is accesiable to students who are english learners. It begings with an intro and shows arrows of what to do next while they are obtaining the content.
Houghton Mifflin Education Place
http://www.eduplace.com/kids
Grades 1-6
This website is great for students because it has tons of information on the reading that is being done in each theme. It offers information on the authors of each short story, as well as, other books they have written. One of it's most valuable tools is the vocabulary words. This website can be used as a great tool for extension activities, or as a way for ELL students to gather a better understanding of the story being read for the week.
Microsoft lesson plans for students and educators
Microsoft Lesson Plans
Grades K-12
This is a website with lots of great lessons that clearly describes how to use Microsoft programs in each lesson.
Native American Tribes
www.nativetech.org
Grade 3
This is a great website for many different purposes. Articles may be printed to be read in centers, or assigned to read on the computer, or used as a resource for reports. There are great articles on things like arrows, beads, clay, pottery, clothes, and weaving. There are many other fun things like games, food/recipes, and poetry. It is a fun site!
Arts Edge
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
Grades K-12
This site is an excellent resource for teachers and students. Its is faboulous for arts educators and even for the classroom teacher wanting to integrate the arts into their classroom curriculum. Lessons are avaiable for all areas in the arts and there are even cross-curricular lessons including Technology. All lessons are targeted towards the National Standards for Music Education. There is an Explore section for students to Listen to different styles of music and to learn about artists and composers.
Scholastic
GAMES
Grades K-3
I was able to play reading games that I think would work with primary students, and there are lots of links to more info and games.
AJkids
REPORTS
Grades 3-8
This site required a much higher reading level, but I liked the way the information was organized. Would be a good site for researching a report in the upper grades.
Algebra tiles NLVM
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_189_g_4_t_2.html?open=activities
algebra 8-10
virtuqal algebra tiles.
This site is good for you to simulate problems visually for the students. You can set up the problems and show hoe the product is the area inside. You can also change the length of your variables to show different sizes for x and y since the value is unknown. Since you choose the problems you can also start out simple with one variable to allow the student to progress to two variables.
The Nasa website
http://www.nasa.gov/
Grades K-6
This website is excellent for getting the latest in satelite images and links for kids, educators, researchers, etc. The amount of information is vast and current--this will be an exciting place for your students to browse or for the teacher to use to set up a lesson or internet research project.
Funbrain Math
http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/math/
Grades K-8
This website is free and helpful to students who want to learn math in a fun way! The one I found was a virtual baseball game. For each correct answer you get a hit, and for each incorrect answer you get an out. This is a unique way to get kids interested in math while incorporating one of their favorite sports!!!
Title:
Virtual Fieldtrips
Website:
http://www.jasonproject.org/
Grades: k-6
Description: This website uses live satellites and Internet broadcasts to bring real expeditions to students around the world. You must be a memeber, however members have full access to lesson plans, professional development opportunities, and of course, the Virtual fieldtrips.
Title: Earth Watch Institute
http://www.earthwatch.org/site/pp.asp?c=dsJSK6PFJnH&b=392459
Grades: k - 12
This a good resources to use with any levels of your students. The thing I like most about this wensite was the opportunity to show my studnets what something really looks like without having to take them their. This website provides a lto of realia ofr those studnets who have no prior knowledge of topics about the earth.
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
This website is one I found useful for planning my lesson. Education World is sub-titled "The Educator's Best Friend". This site contains many FREE things useful for teachers such as: Lesson planning, professional development, technology integration, school issues and teacher templates (and many more things as well). This site has tons of links that assist teachers in their daily tasks of being a teacher!!
CTAP 205 Webliography
-Meagan Ingersoll
Qwizdom.com
http://www.qwizdom.com/downloads_guides.php
all grades tech support
I used the above site to inform myself how to set up the sytem and beging usinging it has resouces and tutorials on how to use the system as well as contact information for trouble shooting problems. The only thing is they charge for softwear so you much purchase to use the lessons.
States and Capitals
http://www.50states.com/ and http://www.50states.com/maps/
Grades K-8
The first site allows students to print or use a map of the U.S. that has all 50 states and their capitals. The second one allows the visitor to print individual states and a blank map of the U.S. with the state boundaries indicated, this can be used in a variety of ways.
Title: Pumpkin Life Cycle
Address: http://www.ramseysfarm.com/lifecycle.asp
Grades: K-2
Description: This website gives real life pictures of each phase of the pumpkin life cycle and of a pumpkin patch. It was very helpful in planning my lesson about the pumpkin life cycle.
Title: The ABC of Curious Facts about Ants
http://www.bubblegum-productions.com/abc/index.htm
Grade: k -2
This is fun and colorful website that has a fun and interesting twist on informing the view about different facts about ants.
howstuffworks
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Grades 1-12
This is an excellent site that explains how thing work.
LD Online
http://www.ldonline.org/
9th - adult
This is a great site that explains learning disabilities.
EPals
EPALS
Grades: 1-12
This website is intended for teachers and students. It is conducted in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, Japanese, Arabic, and Chinese. Classrooms can become pals that email to classrooms from other countries. There is an EPALS book club that students can discuss books they have read. It is a great service that students and teachers can really benefit from and enhance their learning.
www.smbsd.org
This site is loaded with information to download and use in the classroom. All is based on the Houghton Mifflin reading series. Excellent resource for reading comprehension.
I like the Nasa site the best of the ones I tried. It has stories with great pictures, games and kid activities.
It might be best for second grade and up
NASA
Houghton Mifflin Reading Web Site
http://www.eduplace.com/
Grades K-6
Web site provides support for teachers using Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Many interactive games and activities for students.
Haiku
Haiku
Grades 2-12
This is a great website that gives teachers a few worksheets to use with their students. It has information about syllabes, poems to anaylze, and gets students writing their own Haiku. This website also has other great resources broken down by grade level. For example, the third grade section has cursive worksheets,dolch word lists, animal facts, and math brain teasers.
Reading Rockets
http://readingrockets.org
This web site provides valuable information for teacher inservices, parent communication, and lesson plans. It is a wonderful resource for teachers.
Alta Vista search engine
http://www.altavista.com
I actually always use Google and after taking the CTAP class my eyes were opened up to a number of different search engines. Alta Vista is one of them that my mom always raved about, but I never thought to try. After using this search engine to help me with my CTAP I am no longer narrow minded in always using the Google search engine.
Since beginning this course on Tuesday I have learned that the more specific the URL the better. Here is a websit I found Tuesday, and only found myway back to it on Thursday.
MaggieGame
Jazz PBS Kids
http://www.pbskids.org/jazz/
This is a great site for students who are learning about jazz to explore artisits who perform jazz and the instruments they play. As well as a timeline into Jazz history, where it began and who first enjoyed the sounds of jazz music. Check it out.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/thats_a_fact/english_K_3.html -
In short, That's a Fact by Harcourt Schools is a fun, interactive mathematical game for grades 1st - 6th. Students are either timed or untimed solving mathematical problems for speed and accuracy. My students LOVE this game and it is a great transition strategy played on the ActivBoard.
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