RSS Feed - A Kindergarten Blog. On this blog some new content that I found was this voice recorder that you can use to put stories or other things on blogs or internet, It is called Vocaroo. She used it as a story of a leprechaun coming into the classroom. I thought this was cute!
"My students love it! It really challenges them to master the concepts. I told one of my students to change to another topic so she could practice for the upcoming tests, and she said, 'No, wait! I want to get to 100% first!' I have never seen her more motivated to succeed!"
This website site can help me gets students to write a better biography of historical figures as we learn about them in class. It goes step by step through the process which should make the idea of writing a biography less overwhelming.
Enter the world of Science Bob to try lots of home experiments, watch experiment videos, and get science fair ideas.
I found this through my Resources for Teacher's blog. A neat site to help with teaching science. There are questions kids ask that Bob answers, such as how are Pop Rocks candies made. It will also take you to other science websites to learn about other topics such as volcanoes.
I love the scholastic website, especially for elementary teaching. It offers so many great ideas, activities, and worksheets for nearly everything I teach! Some things are free, while others are subscribed to/paid for. And you can't forget the Book Clubs!
Story Jumper is a website where teachers, parents or even children can publish their own children's book. The process is simple, fast and fun. If your students have a hard time creating a story, they can use the Story Starter, a tool that will help them write a story in just seven steps.
One of my favorite sites is DisccoveryEducation.com that I use daily in the classroom. Discovery Education provides a wealth of classroom resources for all grade levels on various subject areas. I use this website daily in high school when teaching Reading, Science, and U.S. History classes.
Every year, I have 4th grade students compare handwriting speed to keyboarding speed. We run it like an experiment. we discuss the evidence-pros and cons we develop a hypothesis we test the hypothesis (with a series of four tests) we revise if necessary I wanted to test some of the reasons students come up with ...
The students will employ higher-order thinking skills, design, critical thinking, collaboration, and feedback through the creation of on-line gaming platforms with the website sploder (www.sploder.com). Students will design a multi-leveled game of their own.