Archive for the 'Math' Category
Wordsmyth is an online dictionary designed for use by students of all levels. Wordsmyth offers three levels of dictionary: Beginner’s, Children’s and Advanced. Wordsmyth provides definitions, audio pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, similar words and image.
Read More...
The Free Online Dictionary is an online dictionary and thesaurus. In addition, you can search for and look up the meanings of popular idioms. You can also search for the meaning of frequently-used acronyms.
Read More...
Great Ways to Teach Any Day’s Times is a post on the New York Times’ Learning Network blog. I’ve mentioned The Learning Network blog before in this blog. It’s one of my favorite educational blogs. I just discovered that they have a number of interactive graphic organizers (e.g. Venn Diagram, KWL Chart, Cause and Effect […]
Read More...
Fuel the Brain is a site that offers free games and interactive activities for students in grades K-3. The games are currently all math-related, but they say that they plan to expand to include other subject areas.
Read More...
Academic Skill Builders is a site that offers a variety of arcade-style games designed to strengthen students’ academic skills. The games are designed for students in grades 1-6, and center around math, language arts, geography and typing. Some of the games are single-user games, but some are designed for more than one player to play […]
Read More...
Sheppard Software is a site that hosts hundreds of online games, quizzes, information and other activities for students from Pre-K through college, on a wide variety of topics. The activities are organized by subject, or you can use their search feature to search for an activity on a particular topic. The free site does contain […]
Read More...
Kubbu is a site that allows a teacher to create interactive quizzes, games and other activities. What’s nice about Kubbu is that you can enter up to 30 students into your free teacher Kubbu account without having to enter their personal information. Students can then login and use the activities you created. There are some […]
Read More...
Writing 25 Word Stories is a blog post written by a 6th grade teacher describing the process of writing a 25 word story. The site contains a handout that you can download, as well as some examples of 25 word stories. UPDATE: I just found a great blog post (ELA Lesson Sequence for the Common […]
Read More...
Math K-2 is a collection of online math resources for students in the primary grades. Math K-2 is maintained by Westbrook Elementary School in Glenview, IL. The resources are organized by strands (geometry, fractions, word problems, place value, etc.) For each strand, there are links to interactive activities that reinforce the strand. I did notice […]
Read More...
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need is a site provided by Noodle Tools that lists a variety of search engines and sites to help the user find information. While Noodle Tools is a paid subscription, Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need is available to everyone. What I like about this page […]
Read More...