Archive for the 'Wellness' Category
ThingLink is a site that allows users to create interactive images. After uploading an image, the user creates hot spots on the image that link to text, video and audio content or to other websites. ThingLink for Education allows teachers to set up and manage accounts for their students, which is a great feature for […]
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OpenEd is a repository of online educational materials that are aligned to the Common Core standards. It contains a searchable database of videos, games, courses and assessments. The resources can be browsed by topic, grade level and standard. In addition to the resources, OpenEd has a practice assessment generator which allows teachers to add multimedia […]
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Arthur Family Health is a site created through PBS Kids to help young students learn about health and nutrition. The site contains basic information along with videos, games and activities related to Asthma, Peanut Allergy, Nutrition, Resilience and Fitness. There is also a section for teachers with activities that can be used in the classroom.
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Boolify is a visual search engine that I found out about from Kristen Novotny. The site is designed to help students learn Boolean searching through a drag-and-drop, visual interface. To use Boolify, start by dragging the green Word or Phrase rectangle into the workspace and enter a search topic. Then drag the other rectangles as […]
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Rewordify is a free website that helps users read difficult passages. To use Rewordify, the user just copies and pastes the passage into the box on the Rewordify website, then clicks on the Rewordify text button. What appears on the screen is the same passage with simpler words. The easiest way to see how this […]
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Spree Learning Games hosts a collection of learning games from around the web for students in kindergarten through high school. The games are organized either by subject area and by age/grade level. Students do not need to sign up to play most of the games. As with any kind of site like this, some of […]
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Lingro is an amazing tool that helps readers easily look up word definitions when reading a web page. It works like this — you find a page that you want to read, copy the URL, then paste it in the box at the top of the Lingro page. Click on the arrow, and you will […]
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Photo Prompts is a site that can be used to support creative writing. The site offers many different writing starters that include a picture and a writing prompt. These can be used or altered to use with students of all ages, and in different subject areas. If you click on the “i” icon on the […]
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Printing Press offers interactive, online templates for creating newspapers, flyers and brochures. Printing Press is part of the many wonderful offerings available on the ReadWriteThink website. It’s user-friendly interface allows students to choose from several templates, then add images and text. Another nice thing about this site is that it allows students to save their […]
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Teaching Kids News is a site created by a mom and her son’s teacher to help elementary aged students access and understand the news. The articles/stories on the site, written in kid-friendly language, are designed for students in grades 2-8. Each day a new article is added that relates to some news story of the […]
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