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This month
April 2008
Kids Math Games
Great page of math games focusing on math facts, counting,patterns, geometry,measuring,and more. Teachers look for the link "Click Here" see see activity descriptions.
Addition and Subtraction Games
Double Digit Math Addition : This program will make a new double digit worksheet (with no carrying or regrouping) each time you enter the page. Type in your answers and the computer will mark your work when you press the check work button.
Learn How to Carry: Practice carrying numbers as you add. This games will come with audio that instructs you on your mistakes.
Timed Math Drills Practice carrying numbers How many questions can you do in 60 seconds. Choose the difficulty of the questions and have your work marked by a computer.
Add Them UP: Practise adding three numbers at once in this fun interactive game. Takes awhile to load on slow lines but well worth waiting!
Equal Math Sentence: Practise adding single digits and visually see how to regroup the numbers.
Visual Double Digit Adding and Subtracting: Practise adding and subtracting double digits and visually see how to regroup the numbers.
Addition Drills Game: Practise adding and subtracting with math drills. Your choose the number range. The computer will mark your work with cool sound effects.
Math Worksheet Generator: Make your own math addition worksheets. Teachers, this program will make the sheets with the numbers you want.
Single to Triple Digit Adding: Try some adding drills with audio comments to cue you on mistakes.
Visual Simple Fractions Adding and Subtracting: Try some adding and subtracting simple fractions with visual pictures to help you understand.
Addition Game: Try making 3 numbers add vertically and horizontally. Good problem solving.
Pick the card: Pick the right card that equals the adding question. Questions cover addition of numbers 1 to 20.
Addition and Subtraction Game: This game will give you an addition or subtraction questions and mark your work, even talk to you. Uses the range of 1-20.
Doubles Adding Game: A great way to memorize addition facts is to do it with doubles such as 1 + 1, 2 + 2 etc. Turn the cards in this fun game to match the math sentence with the answer. eg 3 +3 matches 6 . Lots of cool animations!
Minute Math Game: Can you do these kids math worksheets in a minute? This program gives lots of math worksheets of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division math worksheets and marks all your work. A great tool for teachers. This program will mark work as either right or wrong but unfortunately it sometimes makes errors. Great for giving kids worksheets online to do with a specific number range.
Periodic Table Printmaking Project
Ninety-six printmakers of all experience levels, have joined together to produce 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. The end result is a periodic table of elements intended to promote both science and the arts.
Putting the Pieces Together
Integrating technology with Marzano's Instructional Strategies to improve student learning.
Sponsorised links
March 2008
ReadHowYouWant.com - Easy Read Books and formats, Large Print Books and formats, Biographies
► We markup books quickly and cost effectively into XML from PDF, HTML, scanned images and other electronic formats
► We automatically generate a large number of different formats from this XML file: Standard print, Large print, Specialized print, Braille, DAISY, Audio books and e-Books
To give people with reading disabilities access to information in books in the formats of their choice at an affordable price as soon as the book is published
BAM! Body and Mind |
From the CDC, a great interactive site for health topics: diseases, food and nutrition, physical activity, your safety, your life, your body. Resources for teachers here as well.
February 2008
Interactives: Geometry 3D Shapes
This website offers motivational and interactive class activities to learn more about 3D shapes. It also shows how to calculate surface area and volume, as well as other mathematical properties about the 3D shapes. Specific topics include surface area and volume, platonic solids, Euler's Theorem, and several others. The Test Your Skills link provides an interactive quiz complete with photos, illustrations, and animations. The About This Interactive link provides standards, goals, lesson ideas, and more.
Harcourt Math
Interactive sites for math practice at all grade levels.
The following textbook titles have activities
HSP Math, Think Math, and Math Advantage
Grades K-8
January 2008
Ancient Greece - FREE presentations in PowerPoint format, interactive activities, lessons for K-12
A variety of powerpoints for downloading and modifiying as needed.
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for Kids
Interactive activities for ancient civiizlations:timeline and art activities
Ancient Greece for Kids - Index of Topics
Resources for Grade 6 study of Ancient Greece
Resource: Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices
Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages
lingro: multilingual dictionary and language learning site
lingro is an on-line environment for people learning languages. lingro's dictionaries remember all your translations and help you learn the vocabulary most important to you easier and faster
Wikijunior:Languages - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
The target age of this title is 8-12 years old. This is intended to be a basic introduction for kids to learn about different languages around the world. As a general survey, this project is more oriented to covering a large variety of languages rather than studying any particular language in depth. The goal of this project is to provide some basic language skills for younger children and introduce the idea of other languages, especially in areas where children are not exposed to some of these other languages.
Spanish Vocabulary and Expressions Audio
The format is mostly the following: the word or expression spoken in English, then repeated twice in Spanish.
Please note that the audio files are up to 7 Mb in size, so the built-in player may need a bit of time after clicking "play" to load the one you'd like to listen to.
Cosmic Zoom
This visual representation is to help give you an idea of the size and scale of the universe.(similar to the Powers of Ten site) Each image is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one that comes before it or after it. The numbers are written using exponential notation. This is a convenient way scientists use to write very large or very small numbers.
December 2007
BBC - History - Viking Quest
Play the game of 'Viking Quest', which takes you back to AD 793. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to respond.
Turn up your sound for the full Viking experience.
Historic Tale Construction Kit
Online writing tool with picture and text tools to complement the study of medieval themes
Activities and learning resources to accompany the Bayeux Tapestry
Create your own Bayeux Tapestry with the online interactive. Complete the missing final stages of the tapestry or recreate your favourite scenes. There are further fun activities for all, build a Norman ship and make the helmet of a Norman Soldier, alongside more teacher orientated material like the topic web.
LoudLit.org
LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio.
Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player.
