5-C-1+Exploration+of+Web+Resources+by+Discipline+and+Grade+Level

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 * Instructions:**
 * 1) Scan the list of resources listed in the Key Information for Topic 5-C. Review the general links and then discipline links that are appropriate to you or that you find interesting.
 * 2) Bookmark the resources that you find valuable.
 * 3) Find two examples of lesson applications or educational resources that you found most helpful.
 * 4) Post these examples in the **table below**.


 * **Student name** || **Grade or Discipline** || **Links (include two)** || **Notes or Comments - Why did you find this useful?** ||
 * Mary || English Teacher/Grad class facilitator || [|Chalkdust] || Blog for Web English Teacher ||
 * Justin H || Student || [|National library of Vitual Manipulatives]

[|Scienceteachers.com] || I used virtual manipulatives on the smart board while teaching a math lesson. Students enjoy using the technology and it makes for a memorable experience for them.

As a future middle school science teacher, they have a lot of valuable resources that are well organized by subject. Would make a great secondary source for classroom materials. ||
 * JoelF || Computer Applications || Google docs

Freemind || Students can collaborate on documents using applications that they're familiar with, but they don't need to necessarily do this in class or need shared storage. This creates many more opportunities for students to create on their own.

This concept mapping software allows students to visually demonstrate how they connect various ideas together. Early concept mapping software was expensive, but the open source versions that have come out offer many more possibilities for more students to deepen their conceptual understanding in all subjects. ||
 * Travis N || High School Mathematics || [|PBS Teachers: resources, 9-12 math]

[|Thinkfinity] || this site has a lot of great lesson plans and interactive lessons that are mostly project based and relevant. It is sortable by subject, topic, and grade level.

Another great database of project-based and relevant lesson plans. Using NCTM's Illuminations database and cross references with some other core subjects websites. Also contains many interactives and sortable by subject, grade level and specific topics. || Math || [|Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles]
 * Susan D || Grades 3 to 5

[|National Library of Virtual Manipulatives] || This site gives many different choices of interactive lessons to review math skills.

There are many different math games to play from working with money to elapsed time. NCTM standards are available for each lesson. || Chemistry || [|Chemicool]
 * Jo Ann N || High School

[|It's Elemental] || Interactive periodic table website. Click on any element and obtain a wealth of information about that element.

Learning Experience/Unit: 4 day lesson plan geared toward 11th grade students in which they research an element and create a poster on the element relates to the world around us. ||
 * Steven Baker || Grade 4 || [|Social Studies Educational Resource]

[|Everything Science Fairs!] || This link has some awesome lesson plans that i have used and will continue to use during social studies class!

This link has been great in our class as we have had an amazing jump start on our science fair projects with some wonderful ideas from this site. ||
 * Kristin Wilson || Kindergarten || [|Gliffy]

[|PBS Teachers]

[|Math Playground] || I LOVED this site! I have a classroom ActivBoard (like a SmartBoard) and I like the templates Glify has for Venn Diagrams. We conduct literature studies and comparisons almost on a daily basis. For example we compare the "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" book by Bill Martin, Jr. to the various other versions. I also liked how it offered various versions of their graphic organizers (Venn Diagram, Food Facts, and Villian Venn). This website is amazing---flow chart templates, floor plan templates, the list goes on and on. Currently we are adding a new addition to our building with seven new classrooms. How neat would it be for the students to create floor plans for the teachers who will be occupying those classrooms!

I thought PBS.org was a great way to form a relationship with our students. This site offers games and lesson plans that correspond with what our students watch on TV; after all they do spend about sixteen and a half hours a week watching TV. In addition, it is broken down into grade levels.

I conducted an additional search on the web and came across this website. It has many interactions available to both the students and the teacher as it offers games, word problems, logic puzzles, and math videos. Math is one area that I feel I could teach better. This website offers additional ways to deliver the same information. Under the math videos there are videos for the following standards: numbers and their properties, artithmetic, fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and proportions, measurement and data, algebra and prealgebra, and geometry. ||
 * Bethany Hartman || High School Business || [|Classroom Wall Street Journal]

[|Discovery Education] || The Business Education field uses more real-world resources than maybe other content areas because it is so easily "grabbed" and the content is more rapidly changing. To get current material kids can relate to it is best to use that latest resources. The Wall Street Journal Classroom edition is an awesome resource for linking students knowledge with educational content, and anytime to can get a student to read a top-notch newspaper that is a bonus too!

Discovery Education is an amazing place to connect to all curriculums, but it is one of the few "general education" sites that does have business topics covered in depth. || PBS for Teachers || I love Google Docs and use this tool to collaborate on planning professional development workshops.
 * DDF || Teacher Professional Developer || Google Docs

When I was in the classroom as a HS Language Arts teacher, I often resourced PBS for Teachers and would project the page for students to provide social-studies enrichment in American Literature classes. Upon visiting this site now, I am impressed at how the resources have grown. ||
 * Courtney H. || 3rd Grade || [|TVo Kids]

[|How Stuff Works] || TVo Kids is a website with a lot of interactive games where the students can play math and reading/language games. I have to admit that I even get caught up in the excitement, and the kids enjoy it more than I do! They cover a lot of topics, along with offering homework help and video clips for academic examples.

This website is associated with the Discovery Channel. They have a variety of videos where they demostrate and show how things are made and how they work. From an automobile factory to space shuttle missions, this website offers a bunch of concepts that standard curriculm covers in textbooks. Having these videos are a great way to support the book. ||
 * Angela T || Kindergarten || [|Dinosaur Tracks - Patterns] || I found this game on the PBS Teachers site. This is PERFECT for my class right now. This will make a great center activity using our ActivBoard or computer center. I can also use it right before lunch or at the end of the day when we have a few extra minutes. ||
 * Angela T || Kindergarten || [|Letter Match - Phonemic Awareness] || This is just one activity on the ABCya link I found when searching for letter games. The students play a memory game to match the letter to the correct animal with the same beginning sound. This will be another great addition to our center time activities. ||
 * Traci S || Language Arts || [|Basic Grammar Review]

[|FunBrain] || The "Basic Grammar Review" is a lesson plan for using the poem of "Jabberwocky" to expose students to and assess their knowledge of parts of speech. By examining Lewis Carroll's syntax and use of suffixes, students can identify the part of speech of the made-up words and then rewrite the poem. FunBrain is a spelling quiz that asks students to identify the mis-spelled word and then spell it correctly. The program keeps score for the student. This would be a great anchor activity. ||