The websites:
Classroom Applications:
Introduce students to non-standard measuring tools with this online video. After the first student on the video has measured the given distance in footsteps, pause the video and ask your students what result they would expect if another student were to measure the same distance in footsteps. What would happen to the measurement if the second student’s foot size was larger? What would happen if their foot size was smaller?
Posted on : 18-12-2009 | By : InteractiveEducator | In : Making Words
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Classroom Applications:
Partner Activity: Use the above website as an individual or partner activity. As a partner activity, have students blast the letters that create the word they hear read aloud.
Posted on : 09-12-2009 | By : InteractiveEducator | In : Basic Facts
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Whole Class Activities: Add variety and a new challenge to basic multiplication facts practice by asking your students to find missing factors in multiplication problems. Use the first three websites to demonstrate finding missing factors and for whole class practice with the skill.
Posted on : 03-11-2009 | By : InteractiveEducator | In : General
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The websites:
These two websites have many versatile uses sure to spice up your next classroom project. Voki.com allows students to create their own character and then record a message for the character to deliver. Blabberize.com allows students to upload a photo, outline the mouth, and then record a message so it appears as if the photo is speaking.
Classroom applications:
1. Oral reports and presentations are the two most obvious uses for these websites. If you have assigned reports on historical figures, consider having your students find a picture of their subject and record their report so the historical figure can tell the class about himself/herself.
With the appearance of quality online virtual manipulatives, many traditionally paper and pencil activities have become opportunities to engage students with technology, as is the case with the following website.
Classroom Integration Ideas:
Students can create a printable flip book to demonstrate their understanding of multiple concepts. Here are a few examples:
Cause and Effect
Direct your students to create a flip book with alternating pages of causes and effects. Have them share their books with each other and turn the sharing into a prediction exercise. Have the student being presented to brainstorm potential effects from each cause in their partner’s book before flipping the page to see their partner’s chosen effect.
