You ought to be in pictures….
We know that most of our learners are visual learners and in the 20th century PowerPoint enabled us to migrate static overhead/chalkboard images to much more sophisticated and visually stimulating presentations. Today teachers have an incredible plethoria of on-line easy and quick visual tools available to them. There is a growing body of research that is confirming [...]
Top 20 books for your student
The Web site Twenty by Jenny is dedicated to giving teachers and parents the top 20 list of books, by age range for students.
There is a synopsis of each book located underneath the book. There is also choices as where to purchase the book. Here is an example.
The only downfall to the site is that [...]
Ants, flys, mosquitos, oh my!
With summer just around the corner, it might come in handy to learn about different kinds of bugs.
PestWorld is a Web site catered to kids to learn more about all different types of bugs and “pests”. Some “pests” include bees, gophers,stink bugs, ticks, etc.
The site has basic yet important information featured on the site. There [...]
More tools for teachers on the web
I was thinking about the tools we have available for teachers and students to use for editing audio files, whether they be for a podcast, presentation or something fun. I discovered the easy web 2.0 utility called CutMP3. It is so easy and it is free. You simply select the MP3 file you want to [...]
The official kids Web site for the U.S. Government
Kids.gov is an educational Web site for kids which offers a numerous amount of links to other educational Web sites based on specific subjects.
There is a grades k-5 tab which has Arts, Careers, Computers, Government, Health and Fitness, etc. tabs to a list of Web sites with that information. For example, if you were to [...]