Linksapahlooza

If you're not using edmodo.com yet, you don't know what you're missing!


First Five (or Ten) Activities:


Brain Breaks (Thank you GreatExpectations.org's Joy Osborne)
I have built an entire tab, it just wont fit here!  To many ideas crowding out the web links in my pahlooza!

Student Engagement with Cell Phones, IPad, or Web Devices:

Recommended Free Websites (in no particular order)

  • buzzmath.com is a great website for middle school math, Common Core and NCTM referenced with engaging
  • Math Place Value Millionaire Game at Math-Play.com
  • Jeopardy-Multiplication
  • SheppardSoftware.com has math, geography, some language arts, and science games and tutorials appropriate for Middle Schoolers.
  • Spin the Wheel for a Computer Lab Activity-All subjects 
  • http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html (sentence structure & type quiz)
  • www.eduplace.com/kids/hmc/6_8/quizzes.index.html (parts of speech, sentence structure, comprehensive quiz)
  • Interactive Essay Map from ReadWriteThink.com is an excellent online interactivity that walks students through creating an outline for an essay. This extremely familiar--you may notice a striking similarity to the Write by Design templates from a recent inservice.
  • Quizlet.com is a fun interactive study site that teachers and students alike can make their own study guides, flashcards and cloud matching activities.
  • BrainPop.com 
  • EdHeads.com has 15 interactives using science technology, engineering, and math concpets for students in grades 2-12.
  • Science for Kids offers 150 hands-on activities, puzzles, and games for students and teachers in grades 2-6. Activities cover chemical & physical change, states of matter, motion & energy, Earth, human body, art & toys, and interviews with chemists. Each heading includes a test your knowledge section. Every activity is in PDF format. Many activities are available in Spanish.
  • ArtsEdge is the Kennedy Center’s educational media arm providing arts and cross-curricular materials for K-12 students and educators. The website’s free digital resources include lesson plans, audio stories, video clips, and interactive online modules.
  • Me, Myself and Math is a six-part series that looks at us and our place in the cosmos mathematically. The author, Steven Strogatz, is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. No specialized knowledge or background is required to appreciate the discussions. Each essay includes notes and citations and links for further investigation. If adjusted, the concepts can be explored by students in grades K-12.
  • Ad Decoder uses interactive magazines to analyze advertising. Turn the pages of two magazines typically aimed at boys and girls and study the ads, and then mouse over to read interpretations of techniques used.
  • Visionlearning offers science learning modules in English and Spanish for teachers and students in grades 6-12
  •  http://www.math-aids.com/ has a large resource of worksheets that are easily adapted to IWB's
  • http://eduplace.com/activity/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing online activities.
  • http://eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ reproducible, clean copy, graphic organizers.


Subscribed Sites-see your department chair or Title 1 contact for log in information 

  • ThinkThroughMath.com
  • BrainPop.com
  • More soon!  If you have a ELA/math site to share that we have paid for, please share it so I can add it to the student's lists also!


Be Creative:
ToonDoo.com create graphic novels online.  Custimizable.  It's really a great way to get students to write, sneaky!
Xtranormal.com allows you to create videos using templates.  There is a free version which I have used.
Wordle.com
Voki.com gives you the ability to make a digital character talk.
Blabber.com  is a simpler way to get a talking character.  Students could use it to give a report or share a poem...limitless applications.
http://www.educationalrap.com/ is awesome, play the sample songs during activities and see if you can get someone to buy you the set!

Shares Stuff:
http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/
http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/
Microsoft Mouse Mischief -no IWB?  Engage students through PowerPoint using multiple mouses.  Very handy, and Free!

Reference Section:
http://ninjawords.com/ Is excellent online dictionary, ad and clutter free.  Yay!
Wikipedia.com
http://classzone.com/
http://studyisland.com/
Quia.com
Quizlet.com
http://todaysmeet.com/ allows easy creation of a backchannel chat, no registration or email required, just the room address, which expires according to parameters you set when creating the room.
Typewith.me

TubeChop.com

ViewPure.com – simplify YouTube videos (cut the ads and comments)
Vocaroo.com
Dropbox.com
Morguefile.com
Pics4Learning.com
Fotopedia.com – collaborative photo encyclopedia – educational public images– public image search engine – file sharer – voice recorder – file converter – cut online videos – online collaboration tool
pen.iomnh.si.edu
Tiki-toki.com
Picnik.com
docs.google.com – student feedback and assessment – file sharer – web-based timline – Smithsonian National museum of natural history- virtual tour – online publishing – simplify YouTube videos  Fotopedia.com – collaborative photo encyclopedia – educational public images– public image search engine – file sharer – voice recorder – file converter – cut online videos – online collaboration tool


Computer Skills


Teacher Tools and Ideas

  • 10 Free Things from NEA.org Here are the best websites to find printables, your favorite books, instructional videos for you and your students, lesson plans, and other FREE stuff for your classroom.  They release 10 new sites each month, and this is archived and searchable.  If you aren't an NEA member, you should be!
  • http://www.howtolearn.com/ awesome list of websites.  I use this to compile some of my links, omitting all pay sites that I see.
  • http://rubistar.4teachers.org/  is a free online Rubric database.
  • http://literacytoolbelt.tripod.com/  a collection of resources for all content area teachers. Create unit lesson plans using the Understanding by Design backward lesson plan model by Wiggins and McTighe focusing on the big ideas we want our students to know. this website provides various links to resources, infecting educators at every level in all content azres to integrate thinking strategies and develop literacy skills (phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension) into all units of study.
  • http://www.taw.org.uk/lic/itp/index.html Interactive Teaching Programs, 32 different manipulatives.
  • Reading First Lessons Breakdown  


Does Stuff:

screencastify.com

NOT FREE BUT WORTH IT:



Lesson Planning has really taken off online!  Send me your favorites.

CommonCurriculum.com 
I've been using this for about a month now, and have been very impressed with it's high functionality.  I'll post a tutorial someday on the tips and tricks I am catching on to as I gain experience. It creates a website just for your class, mine is here http://commoncurriculum.com/6jts  That's pretty cool!

ReadWorks.org
The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students.
ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.
The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension.

http://www.thinkfinity.org/state-standards-search
Search by Grade and Topic for a list of lessons AND the results are listed by STANDARD!  Very cool.  And it's a complete lesson plan, not just one of those amorphous "You could talk about..." These Thinkfinity lessons are comprehensive, well thought out with timelines for sessions, rubrics, resources, options, and commented on by our peers.  Very, very cool.

threeacts.mrmeyer.com Dan Myers Three Act Math lessons.  Awesome, really great, cant say enough positive about it!  It almost makes me want to teach math!

Math-Drills.com  Math-Drills.com includes thousands of printable math worksheets for teachers, parents and other educators. Millions of math worksheets are downloaded every month on topics such as multiplication, fractions, addition, subtraction, division, number sense, and more. Get something for nothing today!

Intro to ICT LogoBrainPopJr.com    BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement.

http://openbookproject.net/courses/intro2ict/index.html  Introduction to information and Communication Technology by Will Brady and Jeffrey Elkner

Enjoy!
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