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WordNet - Princeton University
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6 to 12
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Here's a handy tool from Princeton University that provides word usage information in a format that's, well, useful. Students can see the various "senses" or meanings of a word, and...more
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Here's a handy tool from Princeton University that provides word usage information in a format that's, well, useful. Students can see the various "senses" or meanings of a word, and can drill down for more information on specifics.
tag(s): thesaurus (21)
In the Classroom
Language arts teachers should spend a few minutes exploring the capabilities of this one, and even serious writers will find it useful.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Flashcard Maker - ProProfs.com
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K to 12
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ProProfs Flashcard Maker is a browser-based tool for creating and studying digital flashcards. Browse the library for ready-made sets or build your own with text, images, and web links....more
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ProProfs Flashcard Maker is a browser-based tool for creating and studying digital flashcards. Browse the library for ready-made sets or build your own with text, images, and web links. Customize the fonts and colors, choose whether to make your set public or private, and use Shuffle to practice the cards in a different order. Share a set with students or embed it on a class website. Use image-based cards to review map locations, identify plant parts, or match vocabulary words with visual examples. Preview community-created sets for accuracy before sharing them with students.
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tag(s): flash cards (44), test prep (68), study aid (171)
In the Classroom
Create flashcards for your classes using Flashcard Maker-- or have them make their own. Try using them as a introduction to a concept, then again in the practice of the concept, and again as a final review. It is a nice three for one creation deal! This would be great for teaching Latin prefixes and suffixes of words to students, use in science terms, or for standardized test preparation. Try having students create flashcards and share with each other to quiz themselves within their own groups. Teach students in higher grades how to create flash cards with multiple blanks to challenge their brain to remember more pieces of the puzzle. Show them how to carefully read through their classroom notes and underline the most important word or words in a sentence. Then have them leave out the most important words for their flashcards. Learning support teachers might want to have small groups create cards together to review together before tests. Have students create flashcard sets to "test" classmates on what they "teach" in oral reports.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - PBS
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6 to 12
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This is the companion site to a PBS program of the same name. It offers an introduction to the Jim Crow laws that effectively institutionalized segregation throughout the South. There...more
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This is the companion site to a PBS program of the same name. It offers an introduction to the Jim Crow laws that effectively institutionalized segregation throughout the South. There are also numerous images of African American life in the South during the early 1900s.This looks like a promising resource, especially as a backgrounder for the study of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
tag(s): 1900s (87), african american (129), civil rights (230), segregation (22)
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True to its claim, this is an educator's site; it contains lesson plans, simulations, narratives, and picture galleries and more. The site may be useful for both American History and American Literature classes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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English Club - Englishclub.com
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2 to 12
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English Club provides ESL and ELL resources and lessons for both students and teachers. There are also games, further resources, idioms, and even the "Learning English Video Project."...more
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English Club provides ESL and ELL resources and lessons for both students and teachers. There are also games, further resources, idioms, and even the "Learning English Video Project." Students can compare their English-learning experience with students from around the world; they can also create their own page to be hosted by the site. Lessons include the standard vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and reference tools. By providing both chat capability and an English question "hotline," the site would work for students learning in groups as well as individually. Games on the site are language based, educational, and designed to reinforce the language lessons. Other interactive features include a weekly news summary and activities and an opportunity to discuss via ESL forums. Free registration ensures students can take advantage of all the site offerings. Students may select their native language for website directions if needed; languages include standard European and Asian ones as well as Arabic.
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Check with administrators to be sure policy allows for students to create their own web pages attached to this site, to participate in chats with other students and teachers, and to be a member of a conversation forum. You should also obtain written parent permission. To fully register with the site you need a valid email address. Tip: rather than using your personal or work email, create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service. If you have a number of ESL/ELL students, make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers or share it on your class web page to use it as a center. This site's activities would work well for individual or pairs of students in a lab or on laptops.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wonder of Words - wordinfo.info
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8 to 12
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This word quiz is a great way to help students prepare for SAT's or other tests that require high level vocabulary. Students are given a definition and five possible "answers." ...more
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This word quiz is a great way to help students prepare for SAT's or other tests that require high level vocabulary. Students are given a definition and five possible "answers." Simply click on the word that is being defined and you get instant feedback if your answer was correct or you're your percentage correct, and the correct answer - if yours was incorrect. One recommendation is to click on Image Quizzes for quiz words with entertaining pictures that actually do help the student find the correct word. This site also features "category/subcategory" quizzes that concentrate on related word families. The site does include some unobtrusive advertisements.
tag(s): vocabulary (260), test prep (68)
In the Classroom
If individual computers aren't available, this site would work on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Make it a class challenge. Put this site in a PSAT, SAT, or ACT preparation pamphlet/web page to help students maximize their vocabulary knowledge. It is fast and easy to use. For the most advanced second language learners, this quiz would also be helpful for preparing for the TOEFL test. This is a site you want to list on your class website. As part of your regular vocabulary study, consider having student create their own "Image Quizzes" using their personal vocabulary words, then challenge their classmates! Use a simple tool such as Powerpoint to make the quiz slides (uploadable to Thinglink, reviewed here, or other slide sharing tools) or create them online on a class wiki.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Hatrack River- The Official Website of Orson Scott Card - Hatrack Enterprises
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8 to 12
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As official websites go, this one is comprehensive. The menus at the top of the page will take you to Card's biography, a "library" of his works -that allows you ...more
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As official websites go, this one is comprehensive. The menus at the top of the page will take you to Card's biography, a "library" of his works -that allows you to download one copy of any of his works, from novels to short stories, reviews, articles, plays, and a writer's workshop with an area just for teachers. This is a real find for anyone who teaches Card or is interested in getting students who do to write and research online.
tag(s): authors (116)
In the Classroom
There is plenty here to like. Card has made this site as user-friendly as possible and still include a wide variety of things. Clicking on the research area will give you the teacher links. Caution: there are ads on the left column and a store; however, you must register to purchase anything, so it's fairly safe at school. The site is too good to pass up because of ads, but you might want to just pull some of this yourself for your class. If you want to watch his version of "Romeo and Juliet," you must have Quicktime.You will definitely want to include this among your authors links if you have students doing research and reports.
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American Transcendentalism - Virginia Commonwealth University
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9 to 12
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American literature teachers will find much to like in this site on the transcendentalists from Virginia Commonwealth University. Users will find background information, author biographies,...more
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American literature teachers will find much to like in this site on the transcendentalists from Virginia Commonwealth University. Users will find background information, author biographies, full texts of many works, and criticism, both historical and contemporary. Abundant cross-references make the site a joy to explore.
tag(s): thoreau (3)
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Timelines: Sources from History - British Library
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4 to 12
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This site, created in the United Kingdom, offers many timelines with a simple click to launch an amazing 3-dimensional page. Timelines are organized by subject matter and include samplings...more
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This site, created in the United Kingdom, offers many timelines with a simple click to launch an amazing 3-dimensional page. Timelines are organized by subject matter and include samplings from literature, sociology, history, everyday life, science, technology, explorers, medicine, and more. With another click, you can zoom from one century to another. Start in the 1210s and work your way through the years. View the context of history using visual artifacts from DaVinci's contemporaries to shopping in the 1890s. Connect historical events or technological accomplishments by seeing them alongside simultaneous events, precursors, or results. An additional option allows you to save favorite timelines and/or events. Although the main timeline requires flash which is no longer supported, the century timelines remain viewable and provide valuable information.
tag(s): politics (119), literature (215), europe (83)
In the Classroom
This site is excellent for research projects or to provide visual context to your curriculum in social studies, world cultures, world history, literature, art, or western heritage classes. Offer this set of timelines as a research source for history, social studies, and literature classes. Show students these timelines on an interactive whiteboard. Or have students research various topics on their own using this fabulous tool. Pique their interest by letting them browse to find out what else happened at the same time as events in the standard history curriculum -- then ask WHY. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create online posters displaying their findings using an online poster creator, such as Padlet (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The World of Beverly Cleary - Beverly Cleary
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1 to 7
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Ramona fans will celebrate when they visit this site. Watch the Today video on Beverly Cleary Turning 100. Look for oodles of background information for the Beverly Cleary's books on...more
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Ramona fans will celebrate when they visit this site. Watch the Today video on Beverly Cleary Turning 100. Look for oodles of background information for the Beverly Cleary's books on your shelf. Take quizzes on how well you know the characters: access author info and character studies with a click. There is even a link for Fun and Games. Bring your Cleary unit to life with this site. There are printable "Reading Guides" and"Teaching Guides" that require Adobe Acrobat.
tag(s): authors (116)
In the Classroom
Your class may want to send Ms. Cleary an old-fashioned letter by snail mail, using the address at the bottom of her biography page. Instructions on how to have a successful Ramona party are at the bottom of the Fun and Games page. Have your students choose famous Cleary characters and compete by answering the Trivia questions also found at Fun and Games. Include this page as a link from your teacher's web page for students to access outside of class or when writing book reports.
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Giga Quotes
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6 to 12
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A useful, if slightly odd resource, Giga Quotes has quotes from hundreds of people and topics. Its search utility serves these up in unpredictable lumps, though. You get what you ...more
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A useful, if slightly odd resource, Giga Quotes has quotes from hundreds of people and topics. Its search utility serves these up in unpredictable lumps, though. You get what you asked for, but something else frequently comes along too. Careful searching can reduce this behavior somewhat. Use this one when you're after something really obscure; other resources will probably do a better job with routine requests.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing - Index - Capital Community College Foundation
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6 to 12
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Browse through this extensive collection of definitions, examples, and interactive quizzes (more than 170!) to find that perfect activity to reinforce your next grammar lesson. Get...more
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Browse through this extensive collection of definitions, examples, and interactive quizzes (more than 170!) to find that perfect activity to reinforce your next grammar lesson. Get to the quizzes by clicking on the linked word "Quizzes" in the top paragraph. Topics include parts of speech, sentence structure, and the writing process. An "Ask Grammar" feature allows visitors to submit questions concerning puzzling grammatical issues.
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MobyMax: Complete K-8 Curriculum - MobyMax.com
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K to 8
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Practice and improve student skills in the K-8 curriculum with MobyMax. Start with pre-testing students and assigning differentiated activities for reading, math, science, writing,...more
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Practice and improve student skills in the K-8 curriculum with MobyMax. Start with pre-testing students and assigning differentiated activities for reading, math, science, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Pre-tests target areas of struggle and assign curriculum based on need. Never again will students have to practice material they have already mastered. The progress tracking throughout is based on Common Core standards. Adjust assigned curriculum on your own if desired by reassigning a pre-test or assigning your own lessons. Register using your email and school information to begin. Add your student list. Once created students have their own individual login to begin placement testing. There is a PRO account that costs money; this review is only for the FREE portion.
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tag(s): study aid (171), classroom management (155), assessment (144), differentiation (105), game based learning (294), addition (136), subtraction (115), division (108), multiplication (131), vocabulary (260), vocabulary development (111), fluency (33)
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Create a classroom account. Use MobyMax during centers, for nightly homework, or computer lab time. Share with parents as an excellent resource for practicing math, reading, writing, grammar, science, and vocabulary skills at home. Use the pre-testing features at the beginning of the school year to get students started at the correct levels. Use this tool to differentiate for all students. Your gifted students can pretest out of material already learned and receive activities and instruction at their individual level. Be sure to bookmark this site to use with all levels of students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Educandy - Educandy
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K to 5
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Quickly create and share interactive learning games created from your vocabulary terms using Educandy. Activities include match-up games, memory matches, crossword puzzles, and more....more
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Quickly create and share interactive learning games created from your vocabulary terms using Educandy. Activities include match-up games, memory matches, crossword puzzles, and more. Go to the top right of your screen and click download the free app. After creating your account, follow the prompts to create a list of words, matching pairs, or quiz questions. When finished, edit or play the game using links found under your activities. Share using the link provided or copy the embed code to embed your game into a website.
tag(s): game making (58), vocabulary (260), game based learning (294), assessment (144), quizzes (83), preK (354), DAT device agnostic tool (135), study aid (171)
In the Classroom
Use Educandy to create games and practice activities to reinforce vocabulary for any subject. Embed your activities into your website or learning platform for students to use at home. Turn the quiz creation around and ask students to create a list of vocabulary terms and definitions to use within the games. Introduce new vocabulary using Educandy to assess student knowledge at the start of any new unit. Extend student learning after vocabulary practice by having them create infographics, posters, social media posts, or guides with tools found at Canva Edu, reviewed here, using the new vocabulary and your topic of study.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Random Name/Word Picker - Russel Tarr
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K to 12
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When it seems the same students always volunteer with answers and help, try the Random Name Picker. Get your entire class involved using this colorful "game-like" tool. This colorful...more
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When it seems the same students always volunteer with answers and help, try the Random Name Picker. Get your entire class involved using this colorful "game-like" tool. This colorful wheel clicks when you spin. It cheers when you land on a name. The site uses HTML5 so it will work on iPads as well as laptops and PCs. There is no registration required. Input the names, (enter each name or word on a different line, copy and paste from a spreadsheet or word document if available), save your lists with a password, and embed the Picker into your blog or website. You can even get a QR code. Choose the typewriter to view a scrambled word letter-by-letter. The fruit machine reveals a choice with a slot machine, choose the button Remove to delete used names/words from the list as you play. For safety, use first names only!
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tag(s): classroom management (155), Teacher Utilities (234), noregistration (74)
In the Classroom
The obvious use for this tool is for selecting students to answer a question or do an activity. Other uses could include forming groups/pairs or creating seating charts. Allow students to use it when it's time to choose the next student. Instead of names, enter activities for P.E., rainy day recess activities, the next book your class will read together, or anything where you need to make a choice. Use for vocabulary practice, too. You may want to save one wheel as a template when you know you'll be selecting several students. That way you can remove names from the list on the wheel you are using, but will have the original for the next time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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For the Teachers - For the Teachers
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K to 12
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For the Teachers is a large collection of free teaching resources, including lesson ideas, instructional strategies, differentiation supports, reading activities, classroom tools, and...more
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For the Teachers is a large collection of free teaching resources, including lesson ideas, instructional strategies, differentiation supports, reading activities, classroom tools, and printable materials for educators across grade levels and subject areas. Teachers can search for specific topics using the site's keyword search or browse the homepage to discover many of the site's most popular resources. Particularly valuable sections include "Reading Skills for Big Kids," which offers skill-based reading lessons paired with leveled articles, and the "Differentiation" section, which provides practical strategies and tools for adapting instruction, assessments, classroom activities, and learning materials to meet diverse student needs. The site contains a wide variety of helpful classroom content for teachers to explore. Teachers should note that links labeled "Download" may lead to advertisements or external programs rather than free classroom resources.
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tag(s): differentiation (105), reading comprehension (145), inferencing (9), sequencing (22), plot (14), characterization (17), charts and graphs (183), place value (42), patterns (79), multiplication (131), measurement (123), mean (18), median (16), mode (12), graphic organizers (64), constitution (111), rubrics (40)
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Be sure to bookmark this site to save as a favorite to find lesson ideas and activities throughout the school year. When planning for a substitute, look through the site to find useful ideas for lessons and planning organizers. There is so much material here to use, consider exploring the site with peers using techniques similar to a book study. Divide the site into sections to discuss at different times of your study. Organize your favorite materials from this site and your other resources using Padlet, reviewed here. Share your Padlet with peers to collaborate and create a useful time for organizing and sharing your favorite teaching materials. Supplement information included on report cards by using a site like Seesaw, reviewed here, to create portfolios for your students to demonstrate progress in reading, math, and other content areas. Include student-created projects based on activities found on For the Teachers.
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Literature Network - The Literature Network
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9 to 12
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This searchable resource offers an incredible collection of literary works, including hundreds of whole books, short stories, and poems, with related biographical information about...more
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This searchable resource offers an incredible collection of literary works, including hundreds of whole books, short stories, and poems, with related biographical information about the authors. Other features include a database of quotations and a carefully monitored literature forum - appropriate for teachers or serious high school literature students. Visitors can even sign up for a free "Sonnet a Day" newsletter that delivers Shakespearean enlightenment in daily emails.
tag(s): authors (116), literature (215), quotations (18), sonnets (6)
In the Classroom
Use the quizzes on this site to test what students already know or are learning amidst a unit. Quizzes can be found within each author's heading, and relate to each major piece of work of the author. If letting students complete the quizzes online, make sure to save the site as a favorite on classroom computers, making it easier for them to navigate there.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Historypin - We Are What We Do
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4 to 12
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This is a site created in partnership with Google as a project to help generations share and talk more through social networking. The concept is that young people ask older ...more
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This is a site created in partnership with Google as a project to help generations share and talk more through social networking. The concept is that young people ask older people to share their photos; these photos are then uploaded through Google maps to show the world as it once was. The older pictures can be compared to today's images through Google street view. In addition to uploading photos, stories can also be shared about the time period and the pictures.
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Use as an enhancement to research projects of family, historic events, and world cultures by finding and uploading pictures to the map. Use Historypin as a resource to compare and contrast different time periods in the same geographic area. Demonstrate on the interactive whiteboard or projector how different places have changed over time. Have individual students or cooperative learning groups create podcasts using PodOmatic (reviewed here) to go along with the maps. ESL students will appreciate the ability to upload pictures and/or learn about their country of original.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Online Egg Timer - SengaServ UG
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K to 12
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This handy website contains three egg timers that can be set to run individually or simultaneously. Simply click the arrows above or below the numbers to set the time, and ...more
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This handy website contains three egg timers that can be set to run individually or simultaneously. Simply click the arrows above or below the numbers to set the time, and click "start." All three timers have the same "ring tone."
tag(s): preK (354), experiments (66), classroom management (155)
In the Classroom
This site will be great to use with a projector or whiteboard to have a visual time reminder for students. Use the three timers to track science experiments. It is a great way to track intervals. Use the timers for clean up time, students have to be cleaned up by the time the third bell rings. Use for games or group work. Set all the timers to the same time, divide your class into three groups and give them a challenge problem. See who finishes in the fastest time. If you often use the same times, set the timers and add the page to your favorites. Now you have timers set up ready to go. Your students will probably have some creative ideas for using the timers, as well. Primary grade teachers introducing concepts of time and clocks can challenge students operate the timers themselves as a center, maybe timing how long it takes to tie a shoe or read a page, then reading the timer or writing the words for the time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ClassTools - Russel Tarr
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K to 12
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ClassTools.net is a versatile educational website offering a wide range of free online game generators, quiz creators, concept mapping tools, and interactive classroom templates for...more
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ClassTools.net is a versatile educational website offering a wide range of free online game generators, quiz creators, concept mapping tools, and interactive classroom templates for use across grade levels and subject areas. Teachers can quickly create engaging activities such as review games, timelines, fake social media pages, text message simulations, random name pickers, QR treasure hunts, fishbone diagrams, and essay organizers without needing to register for an account. The site includes easy-to-follow directions and shareable links that allow projects and games to be posted online or embedded into classroom websites and learning management systems. While some newer tools are marked as premium features requiring payment, many of the classic templates and interactive activities remain free for classroom use.
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tag(s): concept mapping (16), noregistration (74), quiz (57), essays (15), social networking (54), qr codes (15), vocabulary (260), spelling (96), word study (58), word choice (12), venn diagrams (14), mind map (31)
In the Classroom
The possibilities abound in nearly any subject area. Be sure to check out all of the free templates to use. Use the many tools yourself or have your students create a Fakebook page or use the Z (still called Tweet) Generator to present information in any subject area. Create a Fakebook page about a famous historical person or government figure in social studies or science class. Share the Burger Diagram for writing essays. Use the Arcade Game Maker to create practice activities for students who need the extra help. Create a random word generator with vocabulary from a science or social studies unit to review before testing. Allow students to create Venn diagrams to be posted on the class website using information from current lessons. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here. Save this site in your Favorites on your teacher computer! Use the embed code or URL created when saving your project to include with other items such as maps, videos, and images within class presentations made using Sway, reviewed here or Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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My Immigration Story - R. Ramos Y Sanchez
Grades
8 to 12
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This site shares real immigrants' personal tales of coming to America. It also shares helpful resources for immigrants. Read unique stories about the many immigrants. With a simple...more
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This site shares real immigrants' personal tales of coming to America. It also shares helpful resources for immigrants. Read unique stories about the many immigrants. With a simple click, a box opens to share a story in writing. Writers only need a name (even just a first name), address, and email address (optional) to register. Also included on the site is an NPR interview with the creator of the site, indicating the site is not political, just a vehicle for allowing immigrants to share their concerns and triumphs. Other features of the website include an interesting quote from Benjamin Franklin concerning the public view of immigrants of his time, and many compelling photos of immigrants from all around the world. This site does include some minor advertising.
tag(s): writing (301), migration (44), immigration (85)
In the Classroom
Have your ESL/ELL students share their stories here (with permission from parents) when doing a biography writing unit. Have all students search for stories of immigrants whose ethnic background resembles their own. Have each student choose one story to read about and share a quick multimedia project with the class, such as a simple online posters using PicLits (reviewed here). Use stories from this site as a writing prompt for a poem or essay about an aspect of immigrant life, asking students to put themselves in the immigrant's shoes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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