Monday, November 9, 2009

Websites for Fun!

Coupon Shopping (grocery, clothes, magazines, etc)

Reference

Music/Radio



Websites for Teachers

IEP


PRE-MADE WORKSHEETS



PLUG AND CHUG WORKSHEETS

ARTICLES


  • Brain Connection http://brainconnection.positscience.com/ A website with articles concerning how learning effects our brain (reading, writing, math, dyslexia, etc.)
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  • Martha Stuart Crafts
    Marthastewart.com/crafts has lots of ideas of crafts you can do with your students.


WORK




Websites for Kids

READING

  • STARFALL www.starfall.com "Learn to Read with Phonics" This website has ABC's, seasonal and other activities as well as short stories that will read the words to you if clicked on.

  • www.Tumblebooks.com

  • www.Booksonline.org

WRITING




MATH


SCIENCE

  • Lab Lessons www.tryscience.org "find fun, safe experiments that illustrate scientific principles with ousehold items like forks and thread. 
  • Google Earth www.earth.google.com kids can travel to Istanbul, explore the sea floor in 3-D, and even hourney back in time to see areas before and after disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
  • Planet Forward www.planetforward.org lets kids view videos uploaded by users world-wide about climate change, alternative energy and ways to reduce their carbon footprints.

SOCIAL


ADAPTIVE
 




OTHER
  • Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/ It's essentially You Tube that only has educational videos and can be accessed at school through our filters!

  • PBS Kids http://pbskids.org/ it mostly has games and activities for the students.  Not really educational.






General Information

Ok all! Here's the space to add to the Website Links. You may want to open up this page and have the same page open in another window or tab so that you can refer back to this. Just click on edit post when you log in and add your website under the appropriate section. Make sure you click the orange button in the bottom left labeled "PUBLISH POST" When you're done to save and share your work.

Check first: is it a website that the kids can use for their learning? Then use "
Websites for Kids." Is it a website that we as educators can use as a reference? Use "Websites for Teachers."

Under each there will be subheadings, like for instance: "Websites for Kids" will have
reading, writing, math, social, and adaptive sections. Feel free to add more sections if there isn't one that covers your topic. Under "Websites for Teachers" there will be an IEP, worksheet creator, pre-made worksheets sections.

Please include 3 things: the
Title, URL (you're going to have to add the hyperlink if you want just to click and have it take you there. To do this, click the button that says "link" and it will either automatically add the URL or you will have to type in the URL when you are editing the post) and a general information description that's about a sentence long.

To view: click on what you want to see (i.e. "Websites for Kids") and select it from the left hand menu.

Alright friends! Happy Blogging!

--Renae

P.S. We can continue to use this space to add other resources, I just figured that it would be easy to access this at work or home, cut down on paper usage and the loss of information due to having so much paper floating around already!