Soundation is a powerful online music studio with recordings, effects, virtual instruments and over 400 free loops and sounds. This is another great option for those student more interested in the audio side of video production.
Geared more towards high school students, but could possibly be used in lower grades with a small amount of training.
All online newspapers overlaid on a Google Map. Search for content, zoom in and click on a placemark to view the paper. The website also has the ability to translate.
Classroom Connection:
*Foreign Language - read newspaper in the native language
*Social Studies - compare/contrast a particular topic based on the location of the report; how would an incident in Egypt be reported out by American newspapers as opposed to an Italian newspaper?
Grade level- 7-12
CC- Students can analyze different perspectives on a current event by looking at all the different newspapers.
Overview- Using google maps, a user can look newspapers from across the world.
COns- Some newspapers do not correctly translate into English.
Grades K-12
Math lesson plans, interactive online activities and web resources.
Teachers can use this site to prepare math lessons based on many different math skills and concepts.Students can utilize this site in the classroom or at home to pratice math skills.
All grade levels
Interactive "Word Cloud" generator, allowing user to enter various words, fonts and layouts in their design
Classroom Connections:
Students can make wordles of:
*spelling words
* vocabulary words
* related words from content area concepts
* words indicating a grammar skill-i.e.- homophones/synonyms/ antonyms/ rhyming words/ parts of speech
* math concept words
K-12
This is an online interactive tool for students. This is great for students to be able to observe labs that might be too sophisticated or hazardous to complete in class. It's also great for students to practice newly-acquired Math skills. One con is that teachers sometimes "play dead" because of how well the program grabs student's attention. Too much of this would not be a good thing, because they would be lacking that human contact.
Grade K-3
Provides educational movies, homework help, leveled quizzes, games and activities for kids.
This site offes great visual aides and activiites to go along with many different topics across all subject areas.
Teachers can use this site to introduce concepts to students as well as reinforce ans assess students understanding of concepts.
Grades K-12
Internet based science learning experiences, lesson plans and resources.
This site can be used by teachers to help plan engaging and interactive science lessons and give students necessary resources to go along with lessons. Students will receive interacitve activities to help reinforce conepts.
Purpose of the Website: Students and teachers can create collaborative multimedia projects that incorporate video, pictures, and voice. This will allow students and teacher to present materials in a visual way.
Grade Level: K-12
Classroom Connection: Voicethreads can be used for a variety of activities, but one possible project could be for student to share their experience on a field trip. Students can take pictures of their day on a field trip and create a voice thread to share what they learned about their experience.
Purpose of the Website: Glogster is a tool that allows the user to create an interactive poster on various topics. It allows student to express their creativity with many tools that are available to them.
Grade Level: 4-12
Classroom Connection: Glogster would be a great introduction activity at the beginning of the school year. Students could create an interactive poster about themselves, as an introduction to their new classmates.
Grades K-12
Collection of lesson plans, thematic units and activities for teachers to use in the classroom.
This site offers many user friendly lesson plans and activities for all subjects and grade levels.
Purpose of the Website: Internet searches can be difficult for young students. This search engine helps students use searching strategies to help them find specific information on topics they are looking for. Websites yielded in search are elementary appropriate.
Grade Level: K-12
Classroom Connection: This website is a great introduction to searching for children. It helps students understand how to combine search terms to search for information they are looking for.
Grade K-2
A research based, comprehensive reading intervention program that helps improve reading proficiency, reading skills, and reading devlopment.
This site can be used int he classroom as a reading center for students to help practice reading skills.
Purpose of the Website: This website lists the ISTE standards for educators and students.
Grade Level: K-12
Classroom Connection: Educators should refer to this site when planning technology related lessons, so they can familiarize themselves with the national ISTE standards.
Grades K-12
A resource for lesson plans, interactive games and activiities, tools and professional development for all subjects.
This site can be used to help deliver engaging and interacive lessons. teachers can find great professional development hours.
Grades K-12
A resource for teachers and students to receive practice and resources for reading and language arts instrucion.
A great tool for teachers to use to assess students reading and language art skills.