Animoto is an astonishing tool for student creations. There are a few easy steps to create classroom accounts for your students. With this method, all the finished videos will then be sent to one email account. This works well for younger students (who are too young for an email account) and also provides some oversight. [...]
Entries from July 30th, 2009
Looking for Reading Units???
July 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts
Seeking resources for middle school novels? This site has vocabulary words, chapter questions, and other activities for a host of elementary school novels. Special thanks for Kathy James for this suggestion.
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Eliminate Elementary School Research Trauma
July 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts, Content- Cross Discipline
Using this site for an elementary research project would surely reduce stress (for teachers and students) and improve student learning. From the Kentucky Virtual Library, How to do research is a kid friendly visual approach including planning, searching for information, note taking, sharing (the sharing page is packed with 21st Century learning options) and evaluation. [...]
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The best yardstick ever!
July 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Content - Math, Content - Science
Micrometers or light years- Universcale compares them all. Compare the DNA with an atom (DNA is larger) to a nanoparticle (DNA is smaller). This is a fascinating approach to investigate scale- especially with those items too tiny (or huge) to be viewed in the classroom.
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