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Scratch is a tool created by the MIT Media Lab that allows students to learn about coding while creating interactive stories, games and other activities. I was excited to learn that Scratch is now available as an online tool, so it can be used on a variety of devices. Scratch has been around for a […]
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Your Life On Earth is a fun site in which you enter your birth date to find out how the world has changed since you were born. In addition to reporting the number of times your heart has beaten and how far you’ve traveled through space, you can also find out how many earthquakes have […]
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ReadWorks is a site created to help support reading comprehension. The hundreds of lessons available on the site are Common Core aligned. In addition, the site offers over 2,000 leveled non-fiction and literary passages. There are search tools to help you find what you need. An account login is required to access the passages but […]
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Just Books Read Aloud is just like the title implies — a site through which users can have books read to them. The books on the site are read by a variety of readers. Books are categorized by length, author, narrator, reading level and topic. Just Books Read Aloud also includes books read in Spanish, […]
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Vocabulary.co.il is a site that contains over 100 games designed to expand vocabulary. There are a variety of games available for a range of ages and skill level. The site also includes games for learning some foreign languages.
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Newseum Digital Classroom is a site created for middle school, high school and college students. It offers a variety of cross-curricular activities including interactive timelines, videos and primary sources. In addition to covering events in history, there are also lessons that center on bias and journalism.
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NASA Kid’s Club is a site created for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. It is designed to spark interest in the areas of science, engineering, math, technology, and exploration. It contains games and other fun activities through which students can develop their thinking and problem solving skills.
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BrainRush is a website that allows teachers to create interactive activities for their students. Activities are created using built-in templates: Cards Template, Buckets Template, Sequences Template, and Hotspots Template. The Cards and Buckets games allow you to add images and audio. Teachers can create classes and add their students to assign activities. To get a […]
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The Online Etymology Dictionary is a site through which users can find the origins of English-language words. In addition to searching for entire words, users can search for roots, prefixes and suffixes.
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The Digital Public Library of America is a one-stop-shop for over 7 million images, books, primary documents, audio files, artifacts, maps and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the country. These resources are freely available to the public. You can search for resources by keyword, date or location of where the artifact is located. […]
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