SPND475 2011

CNN Student News offers podcasts for students to subscribe to, blogs to respond to, and daily news quizzes and interactives.

Love Kidspiration, Inspiration.

Great graphic organizer program. Has the ability to view in graphic web or standard outline view. Exporting final copy to a word processing program also helpful.

Math for all levels, with practice linked to state standards. Students submit their work online. Data such as the time it takes to do a problem and accuracy are tracked. Print out award certificates. Subscription cost for this site. Helpful for followup and extra practice at home.

ReadWriteThink publishes free units of study linked to national curriculum standards. There are many interactive activities and websites which make this a good site to look at for all learners.

What really happened at the First Thanksgiving? Become a history detective and find out! In this fun, award-winning activity, kids take on the role of "history detectives" to investigate what really happened at the famous 1621 celebration. (Hint: It was a lot more than just a feast!)

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It's great when websites use actual pictures and videos to teach.

This website appears to be updated often, which is an important feature!

You can't go wrong with National Geographic! Multiple forms of representation and engagement for everyone.

current events and news

We use this all the time. One of the best accessible tools for current events around. you can grab the icons for communication boards. they even give you boards in the lesson area.

You can get a version that reads it outloud.

a digital form of an updated weekly reader.

This magazine is very accessible! I have seen the multiple reading levels used in the classroom setting. Students are getting the same information but the text is written with vocabulary and structure that is appropriate for their current reading level. Great Magazine for any classroom!

The school I work in uses this and everyone loves it!

This looks interesting. I like that it has a variety of subscriptions options for families, schools, libraries, and specifically mentioned Home Schoolers too. I was not able to get into the free trial paper at this time. It also offered lessons plans and supports. I would like to look at the free trail issue - will try again later to get it.

Didn't find much to look over to evaluate this site.

Has great news stories. The students would also love to look at the world records!!!!

Bright and colorful media rich news site in the UK. More Pop cutlery than time for kids.

Great site that offers teaching and learning materials based on CURRENT TOPICS in the NY Times. Students can post their opinions, take quizzes, take part in self tests, check out the word of the day,etc. Today's "fill in the blank article" is based on the story of a cat from Co that was lost for 5yrs and found in NYC!!! Read article, then try to fill in the blanks!

Great resource with interactive areas, Teacher tools, Current and relevant.

I thought that there was almost too many articles on each page!

For the kids who love sports, this site has opportunities to make cartoons, write stories, solve puzzles, watch videos, read, etc. Would be a good way to motivate the reluctant reader or writer.

I think this would be a great reinforcer for a student who loves sports!!!

I like this website for students who are interested in sports. However, the readability of a lot of the articles is quite high. This would be a difficult website for struggling readers to access as the language in the articles is advanced for lower elementary students.

Pictures with the stories are great-engage the reader.

New daily online jigsaw puzzles.

fun and engages children with games about social science, geography, etc.

not as visually appealing as time for kids but a good source for current events