Techno Constructivism
Redefining/designing an Urban Educator in a 21st Century World through the Habits of Mind.
Webliography
One of the greatest resources we have around us is the Web. There are an endless number of resources and websites for we as educators to take advantage of. This blog is available for the participants of the Differentiating Instruction with Technology for the 21st Century Classroom Session 2 members to blog about the available web resources you have found helpful! Use this space to identify a resource but remember to share your likes and dislikes. It will serve as a great resource for others to edit and share!
Think you have searched to the end of the WWW? Think again! Stay up-to-date on the newest web applications by visiting www.GO2WEB20.net For two years running, this online index is one of the largest sites bookmarking recent applications that hit the web! Check it out early and often to be on the cutting edge! You may just stumbleupon something new.
This site is designed for the math student that loves the idea of online practice. It is a link between math topics and the use of gaming to reinforce topics focused on in class. Check it out… lots of activities for all levels
The bases of this website is to share and upload photographs. People accessing the site upon joining can upload photos, as well as comment on others photos. Students can comment upon each others photos in regards to the given assignment. This is a great resourse to have students/educators collectively share ideas, research a geographical area, culture, or idea.
Has helpful information from fractions to trigonometry. From beginners to advanced.
This site incorporates interactive and educational games for preschoolers through the popular children’s television show of the pbs network (i.e. Barney, Clifford, Sesame St., etc.). Children are introduced to prereadiness skills through games and songs with their favorite characters.
Excellent website to find activities that go along with the elementary reading program Scott Foresman Reading Street. There are modified activites for the above, at, and below grade level learner. It’s great to have everything right at hand.
students can look up colleges?
Love this Website! It has a collection of math concepts to reinforce what you are teaching in the classroom and gives students the practice they need on basic math skills.
This website is a direct connection to the Connected Math Program used by BPS at the middlie school level. This site has homework help, practice problems and online quizzes with immediate feedback. Great tool to use within the calssroom for formal assessment after the completion of an investigation.
Introducing a new way to play flash games; Scumlabs is a repository of the Internet’s best online games. Need to pass some time? Click ‘Random Game’ to jump into the fun.
Council for Exceptional Children
This website is a website for the largest special education professional organization. It has all kinds of resources for professional development, classroom resources, law resources, and anything else you might need
I use this site to play the game “Who wants to be a Math Millionaire?” as a class. I give my students white boards, markers and erasers to play the game as a class during enrichment on Fridays. This is a great way to focus on basic math topics while being able to assess the abilities of the students. It also has other games that students tend to enjoy.
3-D virtual world for kids 3-10 years old
story patterns related to favorite literature
I discovered this website a few years ago when I was teaching alternative high school. All of the games are designed by teachers. Even though it’s supposedly meant for primary and elementary students, some of the games are quite appropriate for skill building across the curriculum with middle schoolers and high schoolers, too. Our Brockton computers can handle downloading the shockwave player. If the user clicks play timed game – It’s free. Check out Fowl Words under the Language Arts tab. It’s addicting and a great stress reliever at the end of a long day. (Oh did I mention I like to play, too?) A great whole class application is to bring it up on your computer and then display it on your smart board – let the students take turns keying in the responses, create Teams, challenge the teacher, it’s fun and a great vocab. skill builder. I often asks kids (especially the ones who have a tough time being involved with people but who feel safe with a computer) to do me a “big favor” and explore the site to find new and interesting games. This makes them feel like they are contributing to everyone’s learning experience; they check out the game, become an “expert” and then share it with the class.
Preschool activities, games and songs using the popular characters from the Nick Jr. network
Useful Website! I know you will notice it has lessons up to Fifth Grade that go along with Reading Street but it has USEFUL POWERPOINTS and INTERNET SITES that will help you teach concepts that students will understand and the work is already done for you. Please browse through the different levels and maybe you will find a concept that you are trying to teach and want your students to understand. They give Powerpoints on Grammar, Writing, ELA concepts, and much more. ENJOY!
Masshachusetts Historical Society
This website is a catalogue of online resources provided by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Topics include but are not limited to: John Adams: The Letters Behind the HBO Miniseries, Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, Maps of Massachusetts and the French and Indian War, Abraham Lincoln and Phillis Wheatley. These include photographs and documents.
Are you struggling to help your ESL students with everyday vocabulary? You should visit this site and search the various flashcards available to you. You can use these to make flashcards, centers and or games. Best of all they are all FREE. Currently there are 968 total images and 2904 total flashcards
lots of theme related activities
This is a great interactive site for the beginning reader using a phonics based approach. The graphics are bright and cheery, and definitely engaging!!
Sparklebox is a site out of the UK. It has excellent teacher resources free to download and print out. It has great posters, signs, and labels for every subject area.
Printable educational activities for preschool, kindergarten and school-aged children. What’s even better is the ability to make bingo cards, classroom coupons, and certificates.
Great pre-literacy activities for preschoolers
Activities for the classroom and at home activities for families to build early literacy skills in preschoolers
Developmentally appropriate theme related activities for teaching toddlers.
Preschool Express by Jean Warren
Preschool Express – early childhood education site for preschool themes, curriculum ideas, and toddler activities – language, art, games, songs, crafts, …
Online and play based curriculum resource
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This site allows students to create music through the keyboard. Students can have fun with the creative process as well as build upon their concepts of spatial and sound relationships.
This site explores different time periods, such as Middle Ages, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc…offering info. on world events, literary figures, artists, philosophers, scientific achievements and inventions, as well as notable musical composer and their works, and the typical characteristics and genre/form of each period. Linear historical timelines, as well as literary figures, artists, scientists, philosophers, musicians of all different time periods.
This site is useful to K-3 teachers. There are themed lesson plans and activities, great monthly journal entries, and some useful classroom management suggestions.
Great site for word games, phonics/reading games, comprehension strategies, and phonics posters. This is a great website if you are looking for centers for reading. I have found so many activates that my students love on this website and they help them reinforce what I am teaching in the classroom. This website has games, content areas, posters, center activities, blogs, and etc. Check it out! You may find something your students love or need extra practice in.
I love this site for monthly task cards. These are great mini activities that I use as extra assignments for those who finish centers. They are based on monthly themes, and she also gives the monthly word wall words to help out.
This site has great games to support math concepts. Many of them incorporate the manipulatives that we all have and yet don’t know what to do with.
This section of Joanne Griffin’s site has open ended task cards for reading skills such as: cause and effect, fact and opinion, and higher level thinking. They are great to use at guided reading, or even at a center
It’s a free site created by two staff teachers to help other teachers including parents find everything they need as resources, ideas, subject matters, and technology tutorial for an effective classroom experience.
This site has many interactive games and different suggestions for classroom games involving multiplication skills.
Time for Kids is a weekly news magazine for students in grades 1-6 that is focused on motivating kids to read. Issues cover interesting topics and current events.
If you are ever looking for a good graphic organizer to help organize students thoughts in writing then this is the website for you. It offers a variety of graphic organizers for all types of writing. I have found this website to be very useful in my classroom and I hope you do too.
Great Website if you have students who are weak in learning their sight words. This website gives you word lists according to grade level, powerpoints, a Dolch word book and Sight words in a story.
You actually have to pay for this website but it is FULL of leveled readers and activities for your students. My school actually got an account that we can all use. It offers you leveled readers that print out with activities, phonic skills, vocabulary, fluency, poetry, alphabet, and assessments. I went on this website once and now I cant get enough of it. It’s great to go and find a leveled book that I can print out and use for guided reading. It offers you more of a variety especially if your school does not have access to a lot of guided reading books.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Awesome website for making center activities for your students of the skills you are working on in your classroom. It offers you center activities on Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency and Comprehension.
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If you are looking for reading activities on a specific skills than this website is for you. It offers card games, concentration games, file folder and board games and etc. The topics include: Prefixes and Suffixes, Homophones, Synonyms, Antonyms, Similes, Compound words, Recognizing Sentences, 4 Kinds of Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Apostrophes, Fact and Opinion, Inference, and Context Clues.
If you are looking for your students to improve their skills in math K-6 than this is a great website for students to assess their skills. This website is also aligned to the MA state frameworks. This website lets students take a quiz on the computer on various strand that they choose. If they get the problem wrong they can actually see the explanation for the correct answer. I really like this website.
This is the one and olny paid web site I use. You can get everything you need for each individual unit you are working on. it breaks the unit in many different ways, by the month, thematically, math, language. literary unit etc. the list is ongoing. I am able to get materials that support students at all levels K-12.
This is a teacher gradebook site that makes progress monitoring, fluid learning groups, and parental connections all possible! On this site alone, you can upload class list, set up a gradebook by percentage, and generate weekly progress notes to send home for parents. The weekly homework and assigned classwork can also be posted on the “student” section of this site.
This is a website filled with boardmaker files for a variety of activities/themes and age levels. Great site!
Now, I know many people think that I may be crazy putting this up as a “suggested” site, but if you look closely there are some great interactive activities especially if you have a smart board or projector available in your classroom. My partner recently got observed and did an interactive measuring lesson (measuring to the nearest 1/4 inch). The kids loved it and gained a lot, and it integrated technology nicely.
This website is great because all you do is type in a word or a topic, press sift, and it sifts through the internet to find any and all websites that mention the topic you typed. I have found it helpful to help students in my study lab class find resources.
This is a site with a plethora of math based websites for students at all grade levels. Anything you are looking for is here within this link. I can’t believe how many age appropriate games and activities are centered around Math.
Here’s a cool website where kids can make their own comic strips! It’s a nice way to provide support and context prior to a writing assignment, or to differentiate writing, or even to have in a center!
One the best research tools on the internet. Time Magazine has a full free archive of stories and issue covers that goes back to 1923. It is a great window into America’s past. Stories from Time and quotes from the magazine are also great discussion starters.
Literally thousands of reproducable power point presentations many of them generated by teachers themselves. Every subject imaginable is covered.
Family oriented site with music, art, animation through Library of Congress.
Music sketch pads, singing in rounds and singalongs, pertaining to all subjects, for early preschool-lower elementary.
Great tool for keeping student grades. You can customize the settings for the percentages of each assignment. You can customize to drop the lowest grade and so forth. I use this daily.
I’ve found multiple clips of math related videos that I have shown to my classes to clarify topics, introduce lessons and conclude my units. The clips are short, so you are not losing a lot of instructional time.
First School Activities and Crafts
Although this site claims to serve mainly preschool, there are many themed ideas for K-2
I find this web site to be helpful when trying to enhance a students understanding. This works great during post-reading of the novel. There are great quotes to use, as well as key elements regarding tone, mood, and theme. It’s also good to refresh one’s knowledge regarding the key elements.
Great site for students when creating graphs. This site has automatic graph making where the students input data, select the graph they desire and the graph will be made for them. I have helped students doing science fair projects and each had used this site to record their data to post on their boards.
This website streams content from WGBH. It includes current events and has hundreds of interviews about a myriad of topics. I encourage people to scroll through it and see if there is anything that they can use. Caution Most of the inteviews are geared for older students.
Even though I teach English, this web site is an amazing history site that has live video feeds, event calendars, web cams, and valuable resources. It’s based around the farming history of America from the 20′s-the 60′s. I have the students do research regarding the Great Depression, The Dust Bowl Years, and other crucial elements to build up prior knowledge before reading Of Mice and Men.
I haven’t used this site yet, however, upon inspection it looks to be a great tool for teachers to use for worksheet making. It contains tabs for worksheets and flash cards for the educator. Looks pretty good.
This site is about teaching students how to be students and it has free tutoring, worksheets, and quizzes for Algebra I.
This is a great bio website for any age. I use it for my study lab class (resource room) at the high school because it puts bio in easy to understand language for the kids.
This is a nice website for language arts to find resources on many novels.
Shakespeare Virtual Field Trip
Before reading Shakespeare I have the students visit this site and another that escapes me now (will post when back in school) and again build up their prior knowledge of the author, history, and background of setting. I have the students record information I call a “Passport” and with the information they then have to make a travel brochure.
This website allows you to easily create rubrics for project based learning activities. Create your own rubrics for new assignments using a template. Even has 6+1 Writing Trait Writing templates.
Mr. Martin’s Internet Scavenger Hunts
I do not know Brockton High School’s Mr. Martin, but his American History II internet scavenger hunts are excellent. They are fact filled and the topics do connect to a diverse community.
This is a great 2.0 site for conversations and presentations. It is an interactive way to blog via digital voice!
OA History Department Historical Docs
This site is linked through Oliver Ames High School’s History department. It provides the texts of several historical documents. An excellent primary source resource for historical research.
I found this site, while searching for a component for an after school program I am involved with. There are some fun grammar and math skill games available. They also have similar skill based games avialable to work with the Wii! This could be a great reward for kids, and a kinesthetic way to hone math and conventional skills!
The official National Archives website. This site is an excellent resource for historical research. It has primary and secondary sources related to almost every aspect of American History.
The this website has several presentations on economic concepts. The presentations include basic and more advanced topics however, their are no descriptions to the links, to you must point and click through them.
this is a great site to help a teacher create a webquest, research webquest, or find one that will help enhance a lesson. This site has helped me create them years ago. I tried finding my old webquest, however I think it’s down.
I knew and have used wikipedia and wikispaces, but I had no idea that there was so much more to these wiki’s. If you go to this site, it shows you all the wiki pages that are available. The wikibooks looks cool. You can search for text books on this site. Maybe some of you knew this, but I didn’t.
This site you have to be a member of, but it contains math videos, that show on the computer.
Holy Neon Gases Batman – Is this the table of Elements? -what a blast this site is it’s a great way to hook reluctant scientists/readers into chemistry. I spent about an hour looking around- lots of time went into this project that’s for sure! I’m thinking best for high schoolers – some cartoons are better suited for older kids – but even if you don’t show them the whole site – you can pick and choose from the resource to come up with a creative visual spin to start off a lesson of your own! And the link to the “real” table is pretty amazing too.
This site has been good to go back from time to time and a great source to get ideas. It ranges from math to science to social studies to English and writing. I find the elementary level teachers will prosper most here.
Madras College Mathematics Home Learning
This is a very good site for any level beginning use of protractors.
This site is a comprehensive K-12 site dedicated to Mathematics teaching and learning. Interactive applications, worksheets, videos, state standards, and more!
This website is a designed website where teachers can surf for lessons plans that covers all kind of subjects and teaching strategies. There even samples and ideas for developing differentiated instruction.
Tumble Readables: Your Online Read-a-long Collection
Tumblebooks is an online collection of read-along titles for elementary, middle school, and high school students which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlited as they are being read and the pages turn automatically. The collection features chapter books, early readers, YA/Teen Novels, high interest/low level books for both middle school and high school students, plus classics of American and English literature.
Read-Alongs are great for emergent, struggling, and reluctant readers, as well as being an excellent tool for ESL. They are also well received by strong and accomplished readers who are excited to follow along to the narration of their favorite books. Children, who are now growing up with e-mail, instant messaging, IPODs, and text messaging are early and willing adopters to this innovative online reading experience.
Educator Pages: Website Builder for Teachers
is a free service which allows you to build your own free teacher website. Fill a free account then press get start and follow the instruction on the page.
ELL Assessment for Linguistic Differences vs. Learning Disabili…
This website offers educational assessors valuable information throughout the process of differentiating between learning disabilities and linguistic/cultural differences for ELL from the following languages and countries of origin: Portuguese – Brazil and Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira); Spanish – Puerto Rico; and Khmer – Kingdom of Cambodia.
ReadWriteThink website offers quality practices and free materials for educators, parents, and afterschool professionals in the area of reading and language arts instruction.
Amazing Handwriting Worksheet Maker
This website allows you to make handwriting worksheets with student’s name, letters, or sentences.
I found it useful for teaching pre-calc about functions and their domain/range because it provides a visual for the function as well as a table of x, y values. Now that we have the projectors it may be useful for others to show graphing/functions to kids without having to draw it out ourselves.
Amazing Handwriting Worksheet Maker
This website allows you to make handwriting worksheets with student’s name, letters, or sentences.
This site has some awesome pre-made webquests for math to use in elementary and middle school classes. I have had a blast looking into some of them.
Reading, Math, & Writing Interventions from MSU
“… intervention ideas to improve reading comprehension, writing, and math skills on this site. It is sponsored by the School Psychology Program at Michigan State University.”
“The Math Worksheet Generator is an on-line application that allows you to create an endless series of Curriculum-Based Measurement math computation worksheets for the basic math operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.”
This website offers articles, publications, and other website suggestions about IDEA 2004, including new ways to identify specific learning disabilities through Response to Intervention (RTI).
Curriculum-Based Measurement Warehouse
This website features Curriculum-Based online resources.
This website is great for beginner readers. It has a variety of stories, games and practice for them to “play” with while they are learning. It includes work on blending, word families etc
This site has a bunch of different activities for many of the content areas. They play learning games to discover facts, details and some just for fun information. Best of all it list the top sites in education in one of their sections. have fun and check it out
offers resources for parents, teachers and students . It is presented by Harcourt and supports all their academic materials
A ready-to-go online translation service that localizes your website and content applications, like search tools, in real-time!
This is a great homework rsources for parents. With todays math forever changing this site gives paretns the definition and examples of all different math terms. This is a great help to those who may need a refresher or are just learning a topic in math
This site is sponsored by Verizon and provides access to lesson plans, educational resources and literacy networks. it also has a section for parents, students, teachers as well as a section for afterschool programs.
This is an excellent site to use when planning a menue. It allows you to see by using a bar graph if what you have eaten for the day is meeting all your nutritional needs along with showing you how you are doing with your coloric count. Excellent visual for kids as well as adults.
This website offers free downloading, games, quizzes, podcast, photos and most important excellent information on getting the real facts about drugs, why people take them, and how do you know if you are addicted. My students are very engaged when using this site.
This is an excellent site to use when planning a menu. It allows you to see by using a bar graph if what you have eaten for the day is meeting all your nutritional needs along with showing you how you are doing with your caloric count. Excellent visual for kids as well as adults.
KidsGamer.com is the safe place for kids of all ages to play online games. This website offers children a safe way to spend a portion of their free / reward time.
This site has a lot of resources and information ‘about women’s history in the world. ‘It includes lessons, essays, biographies, curriculum materials, and more. The site also includes plenty of free materials.
Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish. If you are researching butterflies, it provides excellent illustrations, information 2013 even an illustrated dictionary. It also provides information about products that you can purchase to complete a lesson. Classroom activities are suggested as well.
This site is about flags of countries. This site is an excellent site for finding the origins of flags and what the different flags of the countries look like.
Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc.
Over 7000 poems – arranged by author, subject, fist lines, etc – great resource for poetry projects.
This is pretty user friendly – a free webquest making tool for teachers – keeps it on the web for a year and you can find many cool ready-made ones to fit your needs, too.
I love to pull up current events science videos from here for the students- they compete to see who is using their listening and observing skills the best and they are exposed to some really neat science content – in about three minutes a clip. I usually choose (and preview) about three clips and then let the student who is the most accurate recorder of the day pick the last one. Twenty minutes on a dreary day goes by quickly with this activity.
This is where you go for a free download of a text to speech software program that works with word, pdf, and webtext and more- you can import just about any text – for instance the study guide for that big unit test – and then your lower reading level students can “hear” what they are missing visually. Lots of really practical and creative applications. Try it out.
This useful site provides free lesson plans and unit plans for K-12
Free printable math and ELA worksheets are always welcome for elementary grades.
The Teacher’s Corner: Lesson Plans
Thematic units and theme related resources are available here…including technology lesson plans.
Find free online lesson plans and teaching resources here.
Lesson plans for grades one through eight include daily events, weekly freebies, and monthly calendar activities.
Free lesson plans, worksheets, tests, and ideas for focusing mainly around core subjects.
This is a fun learning site featuring thousands of free educational games.
Teachers.net: Lesson Plans, Ideas, Teaching Toolbox
Daily lesson plans are offered at this site featuring over 4,000 free lesson plans sorted by subject and grade level.
Links to elementary school webquests, teaching tools for webquests.
Webquests for All Languages: CARLA Center for Advanced Research & Language Acquisition
Webquests for all Languages.
Thematic Pathfinders for All Ages
Definitions, Activities, and Good starting points with links and resources to a variety of thematic topics.
Jefferson Lab: Research Lab dedicated to Science Education
Activities for teachers to use, including handouts, worksheets, games, puzzles Especially for math and science
This Link is a good link to use to get students to understand how math can connect with them,by a math genius.
This is a great place to gather info.for any age student.
Health Promotion Wave: Lesson Plans
hands on skill based lesson plans designed to increase the knowledge and skills needed to make healthy decisions for a lifetime
Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearing House
offers free health promotion materials for massachusettes residents, health and social services in the Commonwealth
The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
May 5th is the day – this site provide statistics and an on line quiz for students to take
prepares fact sheets to diseminate new research quickly in a usable, reader-friendly format in areas of child well being, poverty, youth development, pregnancy, marriage
During my research for my paper I stumbled on this website. It is about podcast and its many benefits for classroom teachers.
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