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SOL:  Measurement - Meet Jack the builder.  He lives in a country that only uses the Metric System.  Can your students help Jack?  He gets terribly confused with measuring.  Begin with a discussion on the metric "Unit of Measurement" to help students understand the terminology.  When this is complete, students help Jack read the actual measurements in the activity.   Be careful though, this site uses the French language spelling since it is from Canada. 

Shared by parent- for teachers to make accounts with thier students. I may suggest it for the new Curriculum in Home studies htat includes the internet.

Virtual base ten blocks; Students are given a target number and drag base 10 blocks onto the paper to represent that number. As students add blocks, a counter at the bottom of the page shows how many blocks are currently on the paper. This is a great way for students to digitally practice place value, counting by hundreds, tens and ones.

Love the concept of inteleaving. I think it really supports guide-on-the-side/inquiry and letting the students find the info on their own, first: "When students can't tell in advance what kind of knowledge or problem-solving strategy will be required to answer a question, their brains have to work harder to come up with the solution, and the result is that students learn the material more thoroughly."

Graph Master is a one-of-a-kind program that allows students to create four different interacive, printable graphs on one screen based on data collected in a survey or poll of their classmates. What makes Graph Master so useful, however, is the fact that after students make their graphs, the program asks them eight multiple choice questions about their graphs using the inputted data and checks them for accuracy.

This is a site for teachers and students that allows them to create a digital scrapbook which promotes creativity, self-expression, and imagination.

Social Science 2.1, 2.4 ThinkQuest's site "Ancient World" won the Gold in the ThinkQuest Competition for Students.  This site, created by students, includes factual information, craft ideas, recipes, and online activities for Ancient Egypt.  The "Fact Page" contains information on every aspect of Ancient Egypt and is a great online resource.  "Online Activities" is the place for interactive maps, an Egyptian calculator, hieroglyphic name translator, rules for the popular Egyptian board game of "Senet" and much more.   Finish off this unit by sharing the recipes.  They sound delicious!

Thinkercad is a free open source web-based tool that allows users to learn to design the products of their life. Students will be able to easily design in 3D what they have always dreamed of, but never thought possible. Until now. This is a fantastic tool to introduce real-world fabrication skills that teach student that that they can learn by doing. Tinkercad also has a growing community that helps users learn how to create their first real things in just a few minutes. A great tool!

An online whiteboard to paint chat with others using your mouse or tablet. Create your chat room to communicate using an unique writing style. Interactive Illimitably could be used by students to collaborate on the creation of story webs. Students could also use the service to collaborate on the creation of diagrams to use in presentations that they give to their classmates. No registration required, but there is an option to register!

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