Welcome to my blog!! Please post the sites you have chosen, why you chose those sites, and please list the web addresses for those sites. I hope you enjoyed the activity!! Have fun!!
Mrs. Bradley
Monday, August 4, 2008
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Hello!!
Since there is not Art listed as a specific content area with websites I will list ones that I usually use.
Artcyclopedia.com
princeonol.com
getty.edu/education
alifetimeofcolor.com
artsedge.org
They offer resources for students and teachers for art information, projects, lessons, and webquests.
Caitlin Rogers
Great first day activities for all.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson074.shtml
Make flash cards that are an excellent resource for sp.ed.
http://drill.edu4kids.com/
Great Sp.Ed. newspaper for lower level readers http://www.news-2-you.com/index.aspx
Lower level math manipulatives http://www.aplusmath.com/
1.Great site for quizzes on similes and metaphors that kids take online: http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/literature/similemetaphor.htm
We chose this because it is aligned with 6th GPS, and it gives kids independent practice on the computer for station time.
2. Great site for teachers to find resources to help strugglinhttp://www.thinkport.org/CAREER/STRATEGIES/READING/default.tpg readers:
This seems to be a growing problem, and teachers would be provided tools and suggestions to help when they do not know what else to do with a child who is not at grade level.
3.Great site for graphic organizers for new ideas and web based organizers:
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
We picked this because we love graphic organizers but we get tired of using the same old ones. This has numerous examples of innovative ideas.
4. We chose this site to make competitions among cooperative groups when reviewing for benchmarks: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/quizzes/index.html
5. Proofreading is a weakness...this is a great site for proofing practice: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
The following sites have been chosen as helpful resources for 8th grade Social Studies:
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
This site is helpful in finding onformation on famous people form the past and the role they played in the history of the United States.
History Net
www.historynet.com
This website includes world news, features of past and historical events, as well as daily quizzes that can be used with students. There are timelines that can be used to help explain important historical events.
Smithsonian Education
www.smithsonianeducation.org
This website includes lesson plans on many historical events that can be used with the 8th grade curriculum. The lesson plans include important background information that is important for students to understand the historical time period.
I liked the following websites for 7th grade social studies:
(1) CIA Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
(2) UN world Issues
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/cur.html
(3) History Net
http://www.historynet.com
(4) Smithsonian
http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/history_culture.html
(5)Women in World History
http://www.cofc.edu/~seay/womenhis.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
This is an excellent site for proofreading skills! Students earn points as they get assistance in proofreading! THEY LOVE IT!
For Mr. Reedy's band and music classes, these sites will prove to be both helpful and entertaining. They all have ways of studying and exercising student's musical knowledge and understanding. They're also just fun to mess with.
http://courses.wcupa.edu/frichmon/usetech/musicalflashcards/aaaindex.html
http://www.emusictheory.com/
http://www.musictheory.net/
http://www.creatingmusic.com/
This site provides a free downloadable version of Finale called Notepad. This program allows students to create and print their own musical creations.
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/
Enjoy!
-Mr. Reedy
7th Language Arts
1)Point of View
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/maintainpointp2.cfm
2)Metaphors
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/lessonideas/ChasingMetaphors.html
3)Transition Words
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/lessons/606/lesson3.pdf
4)Writing
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/TrailblazingIntroductions/default.htm
5)Proofreading
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
Darlene Morgan and I (David Thacker) chose the following websites for 8th-grade language arts:
(1) www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm
(2) www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?=reading&num=2&act=3&que=1
(3) www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=11&act=2&que=1
(4) www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=4&act=3&que=1
(5) www.vocabulary.com/
Website one reviews vocabulary in context concentrating on similar words that can be used with various connotations (multiple meanings).
Website two focuses on headlines and requires analyzing inference along with context clues to answer various questions about the headlines (assumptions, etc.).
Website three is about inferences from short readings.
Website four teaches elements of persuasion through advertisements and propaganda.
Website five is vocabulary university, which uses a puzzle concept and incorporates roots, prefixes, and suffixes to aid in vocabulay develepment.
Mult. Grid, Cyber chase, A plus math, Fun Math Lessons, Ed helper
These are some web sites I felt useful!!!!!
www.pbskids.org/cyberchase/games.html I love the games on this site that are math related. They are a little elementary, but my 6th graders don't complain.
www.brainormous.com This has a variety of math activities to work on multiplication facts and other basic skills.
www.pifactory.net This site deals with my favorite day of the year (after Christmas)...PI DAY!
mathsnet.net This is a great site for many math concepts, but I have found it most useful when dealing with solids. It shows the different views of solids and can be manipulated easily.
Barnett's websites that will be helpful for 8th grade Physical Science.
Chem4kids
Periodic Table of Elements
Active Science
Web Elements
All of these are great when teaching the periodic table. They would be useful when doing research on specific elements.
Sloan says.....
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/fish.html
This one is great to use as a web quest with probability to reinforce the idea and allow them to come up with their own problems.
2. http://www.fi.uu.nl/toepassingen/02018/toepassing_wisweb.en.html
This one is a great website to use to practice balancing equations that the students can do on their own because it checks it for them.
3. http://figurethis.org/challenges/challenge_index.htm
This is a great problem solving website for the students to decide how to weed through useful information when solving problems.
4.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/front.shtml
This is a good website to reinforce the ideas that we've learned that they can use at school and at home.
5. http://www.coolmath.com/home.htm
This is a great website for the students to use at home to remind them of skills that they should have learned and shows them great examples.
I found a few websites that I can use in Technology, but had to mainly find them through other sources other than the county website...
www.makebeliefscomix.com/
(Can be used to tell a story of the students choice.)
www.thinkquest.org
(A variety of information for teachers and students in all subject areas)
www.scratch.mit.edu
(An easy programming language to use with students for animation)
www.eduplace.com
(This is a good site for students to be able to evaluate websites)
www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm
(this is a jeopardy game creator for students and teachers to use.)
Stephen Vess
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