I’m sitting here in my hotel room at the end of my first ever ISTE conference. I thoroughly enjoyed the sessions I attended, as well as the networking I did through Twitter and in person while in Denver. Before I head back to Alabama tomorrow, I thought I’d share with you my thoughts about my [...]
Learning about plants, food, or farming? Check out The Potato Story. This site contains four interactive modules, including quizzes and animations, as well as information for parents and teachers. I’d like to highlight the Growing Plants Game. Students must sequence the stages of plant growth as quickly as possible. Please make sure you check out the Lifecycles section too. The entire site is worth a look!
Hope you are having a great Monday morning!
Now your students can learn all about shapes by using Shape Facts from Innovations Learning. Find out how many sides and corners a shape has, as well as determine the lines of symmetry by folding the shape. Very handy!
Check out this little gem: Ball to Drive you Crazy by Tom Phillips. One of my 3rd grade classes had a BLAST with this today. It works sort of like a yo yo. Touch the screen and the string moves and bounces the ball. Touch the actual ball and it changes colors and sizes. Enjoy!
MyMaths.co.uk is a website that offers revision pages, games, puzzles, offline activities and ready-made Maths lessons for using on an interactive whiteboard. There are many free sample lessons and games that are fantastic, but some do require entry using a keyboard, however. I’d like to highlight the Angler game. Just draw the correct angle to win points. This works fine on the SMART Board using the pen to draw the angle. Give it a try!
