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In Debra Bolinger’s Januray blog post, “Assessment Sites”, she pointed 5th grade teachers to games to play in class. Well, our middle school teachers will like Internet4classrooms.com’s 6th, 7th, and 8th grade skills builders interactive sites in math, reading, and language mechanics.

• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_original.htm
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_6th_original.htm
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_7th_original.htm
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_8th_original.htm

Assessing Projects helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provides strategies to make assessment an integral part of their teaching and help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners. The folks at Intel Education have a site I have been exploring this weekend. On this site, teachers can develop checklists, rubrics, and open-text assessments from scratch. The site has a database of hundreds of high-quality, ready-made assessments on products and performances, processes, and thinking skills. Teacher can modify them to meet their needs. Their teacher workspace feature provides a place to share assessment products. Links are provided to facilitate more about the research and theory behind successful assessment. I have already shared a this site with our teacher and encouraged them to investigate the assessment strategies included on the site.

Calling all new fifth grade teachers!!! This is my first year teaching the North Carolina fifth grade curriculum. (With sixteen years of service teaching every grade from pre-k to 4th) I now have a better understanding of the concept for the television game show “Are You Smarter than A Fifth Grader?”

The amount of material to be covered in fifth grade is astonishing. Web surfing has therefore become my newest hobby. All of us are looking for new ideas and with EOG’s over the horizon we all are looking for a neat ways to access what we have taught. Below are a couple neat assessment sites. I have linked the sites to my class blog so that students can use them at home. These would also be great games to play in class.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_original.htm

this is an interactive site for Math and Language Arts

http://mail.clevelandcountyschools.org/~ccselem/?OpenItemURL=S029E8B7

A fantastic EOG assessment resources ( thanks to Gina Bumgarner for sharing great find.)

 I invite you share any great sites that you have found, and be sure to share these with the 3rd and 4th grade teachers ( there are links by grade levels)