Tosha+Skilling

1.) [|www.brainpop.com] – This website is great for interaction with students from grades k-8. There is something for the science, math, social studies, English, health, arts and crafts. There is a link for the state standards and also a link for filmmaking. The students are able to watch a short movie featuring Toby and his friend for different kinds of content areas. After the movie is over, the students may take the short quiz to show what they had learned. It is a great opening for any new concept or for practice after teaching the content. I have personally used this website and thoroughly enjoy it. This is an interactive website. 2.) [|www.starfall.com] – This website is an informational website that allows students in the kindergarten level to learn their letters and sounds associated with the letter. It is also good for first grade as it allows for students to read stories with specific sounds in them. Example: short a – Zac the Rat. It sings the alphabet song. It allows students to work with consonant blends, chunking, long and short vowels, and silent ‘e’. It would be a great instructional tool for students to do maybe at a center or as whole group learning. The students could read the stories to each other or to themselves. 3.) [|www.gameclassroom.com] – This website has interactive games for children from grades k-12. These games allow students to broaden their knowledge about the things that they already know. It is an expansion. However, there is some instruction taking place. For example, the website has a lesson on perimeter and area and then allows students to find the different perimeters and areas of many different rectangles using an interactive ruler. This would be another great center for math centers and can be differentiated to help those that need additional help or those that need a little challenge. 4.) [|www.neok12.com] – This website is both informational. This website allows students to watch videos through YouTube about various subjects. The video I watched was about the African Bullfrog. It helps to enhance what you might already know about the subject as well as teach things that you do not know. This site also enables students to write a slideshow presentation about their various content. You can select photos, read an article, and edit and create a presentation about the bullfrog or whatever you may be researching. This would be a great project for students to do for science and present to the class what they might have learned. This website would be good for students 4th grade and higher. 5.) [|www.mathmovesu.com] – This website is interactive. Students travel around with a robot and solve problems in order to build things. This website is for 4th and above. I didn’t like this one as much as some of the others because the questions were somewhat hard and there is no explanation when the answer is incorrect. I think it would be better if they would explain why the answer is incorrect or give some type of instructional lesson prior to the game beginning. 6.) [|www.primarygames.com] – This website is informational. It allows kids to go to pbskidsplay.org and play games with their favorite characters. These games are used for math, science, language arts; there are puzzles and games for anything. This website is more suitable for k-2, because it is somewhat childish and may not be challenging enough for any higher grades. This could be used as a center or as whole group learning depending on what you were using it for. 7.) [|www.ecodazoo.com] – This website is informational. It allows teachers to show kids how to be more environmentally friendly. It has information on using electricity and recycling. It is a good website for k-12, however may be a little childish the higher the grade gets. In this time of our society, it is important to teach the young generation about being more environmentally friendly. This would be a good lesson to teach during science or Earth Day week. 8.) [] – This website is great for learning from the periodic table. It brings up a periodic table and when you click on an element, it brings up the Wikipedia definition for that element. This is a great learning tool for those just learning what the different elements do. It also is good for those of us who need to brush up on certain elements. It is a good learning tool for upper middle school kids and high school. However, can be used to teach elementary school children a couple of things as well. 9.) [|www.factmonster.com] – This website is informational and can be used for k-12. It can be used to find out different things about science, math, the United States, and people. It also has a dictionary and an encyclopedia along with a homework center to help answer basic questions about any given subject. This is good to use a teacher and as a parent. It could be used to teach a lesson or to have students try to find the answers to their own questions. 10.) [|www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com] – This website is informational as well. It is a dictionary for all the math terms that are out there. It explains to students what the terms mean and how to use them. It also allows them to try the term or formula out on the computer to help to teach the idea. This is a great tool for k-12 as it has terms for all ages and all math questions from sum to angles to scientific notation. This would be a good website to use for those that struggle with math terms and math in general. This is good to use as a teacher and a parent. -