Archive for the 'Math' Category
An Excellent Collection of Fermi Problems for Your Class is a collection of questions posted on the edgalaxy.com blog and written by Enrico Fermi that can be used in math classes. What I like about these questions is that they force students to apply deeper mathematical thinking. These questions help students to focus on the […]
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DocsTeach is a site maintained by the National Archives and the Foundation for the National Archives. In addition to allowing access to over 4,000 primary source documents, the site provides a tool for allowing teachers to combine documents into activities. These activities can be accessed by students through the DocsTeach website. What I like best […]
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Share My Lesson is a site created by the AFT and the TES (a worldwide network of teachers). The site allows you to use its over 200,000 lesson plans and other teaching resources at no cost (free registration is required to download lessons). It also allows you to upload lessons that you have created and […]
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Differentiation Meets Digital Technology is a blog post on the Literacy Beat blog that I just recently started to follow. Literacy Beat is a blog written by five teachers and researchers in the field of digital literacy. What I like about this particular post is how it uses the UBD model to plan for differentiation […]
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108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom is a blog post by the award-winning blogger Michael Gorman. As the title suggests, the post offers more than 100 ways to use work clouds in the classroom. What I like about this particular post is that the ideas are organized by subject area.
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Math Game Time is a site created by educators to help students in grades K-7 succeed in math. The site contains videos, worksheets and interactive games. Some of the games are played individually and some of them are designed to play against other players. Games can be set up as public, in which students play […]
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Math Interactives, as the name suggests, is a website that contains interactive math activities for students in middle or high school. The site is created and maintained by the government of Alberta, Canada. The activities are related to Numbers, Patterns and Relations, Shapes and Space, and Statistics and Probability. In addition to interactive activities, Math […]
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Simple English Wikipedia is an online wiki-style encyclopedia geared for students, children, and anyone trying to learn the English language. The articles are shorter than those you would find on the regular Wikipedia, and the articles are written in more basic English. Like Wikipedia, the articles available through Simple English Wikipedia are written and edited […]
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VocabGrabber is part of the Visual Thesaurus website. VocabGrabber creates a word cloud of vocabulary words from any text you copy and paste into their text box. Each of the words becomes a link that, when clicked on, displays the definition of the word in both written and web format.
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bubbabrain is a site that offers a variety of interactive activities for all grade levels. The activities are easy to use and are organized by grade level, then by subject. Teachers can create their own games, but they need to register. Students can play the games created by their teacher by entering the teacher’s ID.
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