UWBtechclass

This is Nasa's website on Earth Science. It is excellent for researching different topics in Earth Science. It is also full of fun games and activities for the students to do.

Interactive resources that go along with the FOSS kits. leveled and lots of good ideas for teaching science.

Wow! That is really cool! I'm going to have to come up with a better system for finding these great tools again when I need them.

I went to show one of my students where a location in the US was on a map the other day and guess what we only had the globe. I found this great map site, how could you go wrong with National Geographic. "Locate nearly any place on Earth, search and print historical, weather, and population maps, and more with our dynamic atlas."

Although this websites title is Family Education, it a great place to find creative and fun ideas for classroom activities and parties.

A lovely tool or making books.

tech resources for primary grades

Ways that many students are being left behind in how they use new technologies

Videos clips made and narrated by students about their home cities on the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America. The videos I watched were about 4 minutes long. Free.

Using this free tool students can make their own flashcards to print, including images and even phonemic script. There is a phonemic typewriter so students can hear the phonemes as they type them. An iPod app is available at this site (not free) that includes the ability for students to record their own pronunciation and compare it with the formal pronunciation.

Love and Logic provides simple and practical techniques to help parents and teachers have less stress and more fun while raising responsible kids.

Using this technology, students can experience literature by building the geographical journey that takes place in a story. They can work with this platform that integrates Google Earth in a way that can enhance literature learning engagement.

This site provides a great amount of technology-based resources for mathematical learning with a social justice consciousness. There are links to data sets related to social justice issues, links to various math standards sites, and sites to mathematical learning reform websites.

Store website full of great things to use in the classroom.

At this site a person can take part in filling-in song lyrics to chosen music videos as they play. It can be done at different levels, depending on the level of challenge the player wants. This could be an engaging language learning tool, especially for English language learning students.

A teacher resource site that provides information for each subject and has educational games for students to play.

Here is a variety of Google Gadgets that offer a great amount of potential in motivating students to interact with one another using text. For example, using the ConceptDraw MindWave gadget, students can collaborate creating visual representations of new and expanding understandings. The can share video comments with one another using the WaveTube gadget. There is even a Magnetic Fridge Poetry gadget, in which students can create poetry by moving the individual words around themselves.

This website is a great place to look for additional online resource for a particular topics e.g.classroom management, daily writing prompts, Collaboration projects, lesson plans, etc.

According to the authors, "this guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling." I haven't read it yet, but it looks like it is interesting and I look forward to reading it. The book costs $8.50, but can be downloaded for free.

Educational, interactive movies covering many subjects for students in K-8. They include games and quizzes. Each movie has a list of the key concepts it covers. The movies I previewed were animated and narrated by a choppy sounding voice like it was computer generated. Free.