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Website Wednesday
Welcome to Website Wednesday, bringing you some of the best websites I’ve looked at recently that you can really use!
Math Maven’s Mysteries, from Scholastic, is all about problem solving in math. Engaging scenarios, focused on different skills and difficulty levels, are presented to the students. A question at the end requires them to use the presented information to find their answer. One of the things I particularly like about this site is that it has text to speech capability, eliminating readability issues.
iBoard Player, a site out of the U.K., has a variety of interactive activities for math, language arts, science, and social studies. They’re great for teacher guided activities on the SmartBoard, but can also be used for individual or small group practice in the classroom. Once you click the link for the site you’ll need to click the library link at the top of the page. From there, select the content area on the left side of the page. If you want students to complete an activity on their own, we can add links to their K-2 (or 3-5) start page.
Literacy Leader is a treasure trove of resources for teaching reading and writing. You can find downloadable teacher sourcebooks, intervention strategies, handouts to use with students, links to interactive websites, and more.
Increase Vocabulary…Digitally is actually a blog entry by Dodie Ainslie, a teacher trainer from NY. In this blog entry Dodie outlines a variety of fabulous online resources that can be used to help your students improve their vocabulary. She has some great ideas, so please take a look, and try out some of the tools she links to.
If you like these sites post a comment and share your thoughts with other teachers. How do you think they helped you and/or your students?
If you find a resource that should be highlighted here, be sure to let me know!
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Love this website Wednesday collection!
I know that iBoard activities were created for the interactive whiteboard but I have found that they make excellent center activities on classroom computers. Students can complete the activities in pairs.
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I also like Vocab sushi at http://vocabsushi.com/
and vocabulary video flashcards at http://vocabahead.com/
February 4th, 2010 at 5:48 am
These are great sites! I especially like the literacy website that has so many links of its own. Thanks for sharing!
February 5th, 2010 at 6:54 am
Love the Math Mysteries one. Problem solving is so important and a teacher can really see a lot about what student does and doesn’t understand by watching the way they solve and explain a problem.
February 8th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Even though you can’t move to WI to be our technology guru, I’m going to keep up with all the exciting sites and material you have to offer. Thanks for all your wonderful insight.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:26 am
Love your site. Great information. I may be stealing some of your ideas.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Love the iBoard player site! Thanks!