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Article focusing on non-fiction text structures in relation to the Common Core Standards. Provides an understanding of the text structure and resources for teaching text structures to students.
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Provides an article with several close-up photos and video you could use in the classroom. Also has a coloring pages for students.
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Create customized one-page maps of the world, continents and countries. Maps can be downloaded, emailed or printed. This beta site was created by National Geographic Education.
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Students can practice their work on measure and estimate with angles through this sailing gaming. It gives them practice in placing and reading a protractor. Appropriate for elementary students.
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Create you own Jeopardy game from a template or by creating your own template.
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Practice your spelling and audio skills with this resource from Oxford English Dictionary. Listen to words and try to spell them from one of 3 difficulty levels. Choose between British and American English. Appropriate for 6-12 grade students.
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Listen and follow along as author's read their children's poems. Search poems by themes, forms or poets OR checkout the "Ask the Poet" section to learn more about poetry writing.
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Select your topic and chart name. Then print a poster of that chart to display in the classroom OR save it as a pdf & display the chart via your computer project for a class lesson. You could even link this site to your webpage or wiki as a reference tools for parents and students at home.
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A YouTube channel featuring over 400 science experiments that you can use in class. Instructions are easy to follow.
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Free sound clips that can be imported into Garageband to ehance your project. When you find the sound you want, click the MP3 file for downloading. You can simply drag and drop the file into Garageband; however, don't through the download away until you have finalized your project and shared it with iTunes.
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This BBC site offers 200,000 digitized paintings from various artists including Degas, Warhol, Bacon, Picasso and more. When completed, the site will show the enter UK national collection of oil paintings and the stories behind the paintings. If you scroll down on the main page, you will find a section for teachers which offers lesson plans and ideas for utilizing these paintings in art, history and more.
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Encourage digital storytelling with the Zimmer Twins movie making site for kids (suitable for elementary students). The site is monitored on a daily basis for content appropriateness. Students will need to create a free account if they want to save their movies. (A parent or guardian email is required for creating an account, but students could use their school email address if they have one.)
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Article listing and describing some tools for helping tech with the Common Core Standards.
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A collection of over 100 play scripts for elementary children. A great resource for engaging students in reading. The plays are short and may be used and performed, but you may not modify or adapt the plays without written consent.
Showing posts with label common core standards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common core standards. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Website Wednesday
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Website Wednesdays
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Help students learn note names, intervals and notes on the piano and guitar. Good for both beginners and advanced music students.
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This is a site dedicated to making the Common Core Standards practical. It has some great blog articles relating to making the change over to the Common Core. You can subscribe to receive the newest articles sent to your email.
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Ideas for engaging students in reading. Contains a wide range of multiple intelligence options. They easily tie-in to the common core standards and some of them would be great for integrating technology.
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Elementary math games - some are available without a membership
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Project ideas for making and reading maps - grades K-12
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A YouTube channel with cool physics in brief explanations. Students will not be able to access these videos at school.
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Rotate images and zoom in for a closer look. If you don't have a left mouse click, hold your command key on the keyboard as you use the mouse to rotate the image.
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Great interactives of World War I & II, the Iraq War, and Darfur.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Website Wednesdays
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Access a variety of tech lesson plans for grades K-12. You receive the full lesson plan including instructions, templates and standards.
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Ideas for writing with students. These would be great for a writing station in the classroom at the elementary level or a quick journal writing to start out the class period.
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Online digital story creator geared toward elementary students. Teachers can sign-up themselves and their class. Finished products can be save, printed and emailed.
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Developing an understanding of the Common Core Standards from Essdack
- Animate Shakespeare - Some of the images are not showing up on the site, but you should still be able to view all the videos. Students will not be able to access this site at school.Watch the Cliff's Notes version of Shakespeare plays. Mixes modern and original text in a fun, fresh way. Videos end with a good class debate question.
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Provides interactive math and science games, activities, games and more for elementary students, teachers and parents. Spanish translations of parental instructions and resources available.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Pin It
Pinterest allows you to visually "bookmark" all those great articles, ideas and thoughts you find out on the Internet. Users create pinboards that help them organize their collection for ease of searching and sharing. You do have to receive an invitation to join Pinterest.Once you start using Pinterest, you can create you own boards, follow other people's boards and even collaborate on a board with other Pinterest users. Educators have started using this new to collect bulletin board ideas, classroom decor and organization, lesson plans, virtual field trips and more.
There have been some copyright issues recently connected with Pinterest, so make sure you read this blog post - Do You Have Permission to Pin? - before you start pinning and sharing.Here are some additional resources to get you started and give ideas on how educators are and should be using Pinterest:
Pinterest 4 Education
37 Ways Teachers Should Use Pinterest
30 Inspiring Pinterest Pins for Teachers
Here are some Pinterest boards that you might want to check out:
Common Core Standards Board
iPads
First Grade Common Core Math
Classroom
Education
Technology - How it Relates to Education
Teaching Ideas and Apps
iPad Apps for Administrators
*I have been told that Pinterest is a "girly" site. There is a more masculine site that works similar to Pinterest called ScoopIt! You do not need to be invited to join this site.
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