Archive for the 'Wellness' Category
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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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Scientific American 60-Second Podcasts are available on the Scientific American website. The podcasts are categorized as follows: 60-Second Science, 60-Second 60-Second Earth, 60-Second Space, 60-Second Health and 60-Second Tech. A new podcast for each category is added weekly.
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My American Farm is a website created by the American Farm Bureau Foundation to help elementary students learn about agriculture. The site uses games to teach students about where their food comes from, and how it gets from the farm to their plate. The site also provides resources for educators which contains lesson ideas and […]
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