Florida teacher, Yvonne Akers, came across this site the other day for teaching students about the Olympics. The printables have charts, graphs and tables for students to read and answers questions. The site is appropriate for most elementary and middle school grade levels.
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The URL: http://bit.ly/1h4zmS1
Reading Bear is a vocabulary building activity that introduces and reinforces main phonics rules. There are 50 presentations for students, all offered at no cost, thanks to an anonymous benefactor of the program. The activities are supported by video clips and interactive slide shows that can be covered at an individual’s pace.
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The URL: http://www.readingbear.org/
My pal, Janice Sundar, told me about @ABCyaGames’ “Word Clouds For Kids.” One problem with other tag or word cloud sites is that it is difficult for students to save their work as an image that can be placed in another project. Word Clouds For Kids makes it very easy for students to print or save their results as a jpg. There are some basic controls like a slider to adjust the number of words used and the results can be edited for color, font, layout, etc.
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The URL: http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
There’s not a lot of information out there for preschoolers and technology. 2Learn.ca has put together a page of resources that may assist those who work with (or have at home) the wee ones. In fact, there is a monthly newsletter that you can sign up for called TekTok. Look for the sign up button on the page.
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The URL: http://www.2learn.ca/2el/
My pal, Andy Lummis, passed this site on. KidsKonnect.com is the work of a Chicago-area teacher who reviewed and gathered information relevant to her curriculum and shared it all with through this site. It would appear that the author is now retired but she continues to add to the collection. I found it most helpful to go right to the subject index and browse. There are also some other resources about Internet safety that has some good common-sense advice.
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The URL: http://www.kidskonnect.com/
Here’s a collection of simple online number pattern interactives. Choose from a range of simple to challenging patterning activities and a student can fill in their answer and click on “Check” to see if they made a correct entry or not. The only thing I found a bit confusing is that once you choose an activity, you have to scroll down on the page in order to see the activity.
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The URL: http://www.aaamath.com/B/pat.htm