Archive for the 'Math' Category
Smithsonian Education – Lesson Plans is a site that contains inquiry-based lesson plans in a variety of grade levels and subject areas. The Lesson Plans site is part of a larger educational site created by The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. The site is very nicely organized. You can search for lesson plans […]
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A Different Place is a website that has a variety of activities and resources for gifted students, parents of gifted students, and teachers. If you click on the “Teachers” button on the home page, you are taken to a welcome page for teachers. About halfway down the Teachers page, in the paragraph that starts with […]
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Math Playground is a site created by a teacher to help her students sharpen their math skills. The site contains interactive games, videos, puzzles and other activities related to a variety of math concepts such as fractions, decimals, number sense, geometry, algebra, measurement, and more.
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Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature is a website through which you can search for award winning books for children. The database contains over 7,000 books that can be searched by a wide variety of options — keyword, author, title, setting, historical period, ethnicity, language, genre, age of reader,etc. — which makes this a great site […]
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Mathtrain.TV is a website created by Mr. Marcos, a very ambitious middle school math teacher in Santa Monica, CA. This site contains several short videos, created by middle school students, that describe how to solve common middle school math problems. You can search the site for videos related to a specific topic. This is a […]
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Interesting Ways to Use Audio in Your Classroom is the result of a collaborative effort from teachers with tips and hints for using audio in the classroom. At the time of this posting, there were 22 Interesting Ways…; more ideas are added as teachers come up with them. What I like about this site is […]
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Kitzu is a site that offers digital kits that relate to a variety of topics that teachers and students can download for use in creating PhotoStory and other projects. The digital kits contain images and a summary of the topic. Some kits also include audio files. Teachers are encouraged to include their own kits for […]
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Tap Into the World of Comics is a slide show that offers several good suggestions for using student-created comics in the classroom. In addition to offering teaching strategies it also gives an extensive list of online tools for creating comics. Comics can be great motivators for students. Is there an activity that you’ve used in […]
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Cost of Living Comparison is a CNN Money is an online calculator that allows you to easily compare the cost of living in cities around the country. Just enter a salary and two US cities to compare the cost of groceries, housing, utilities, transportation and health care between those two cities.
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Visual Math Learning, provides a variety of visual and interactive lessons, activities and games that reinforce math concepts taught in the elementary and middle grades. Some of the animations in the activities and games move a little too slowly, but overall I think students will enjoy using this site to help them learn math facts […]
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