Grade: 3rd
Subject Area: Math
Platform: Both mac and pc it looks like
Purpose: The purpose of this site seems to be to give kids a place to go to practice their math skills, telling them if their answers are correct or incorrect, as well as giving them some lessons to work on. It is awesome!
This website is cool. It is actually set up in a way that parents or teachers can use the website for any content are for grades K-8. On the site it has information about how they try to use the most popular learning styles, a think-and-learn-module, a work book module, and project modules.
I believe that for 3 grade and up it could be used independently one they children have been taught were to go or the page was bookmarked and the expectations of the students were set out clearly as well as the actions that will be taken if the students don't use the site appropriately.
The website does not require personal information nor does it need you to register. However, there are adds, although not distracting, that the kids could click on. That could cause a problem, but like I said, I think that this is a problem that could be limited.
The website is not a download and can be used on any computer and does not need special equipment.
I enjoyed looking at this website and am excited to try it with my kindergartner as well as my preschool children.
Title: Starfall
Grade: K
Subject area: Reading
Purpose: The purpose of this site is to teach children how to read. There are four levels to choose from: Lets get ready to read, Learn to read, It is fun to read, and I am reading.
I saw this site to be very appropriate for kindergarten. It can be used independently once the children get the hang of maneuvering to where they need to go or once the teacher takes them to where they are going.
This website does not require registration nor does it need any personal info. You can use it on your own computer and doesn't have any distracting adds.
This website was so cool. I played it for a while and even had my daughter check it out. We both got excited because it teaches the calendar, alphabet, and how to make words out of "an", such as C "an", F "an", M "an", etc. Tis an extremely good resource for the classroom.
Title: FOSSweb
Grade:K
Area: Science
Purpose: The purpose of this website is to get kids connected with different facts of science and the ways things around them work or why they happen. It talks about weather, animals, balance, insects, plants, etc.
This website seems to be appropriate although I am not sure that it could be used independently. You could use it on a projector and use it for the entire class at once or you could have an aid work with the kids on the computers.
This website does not require registration or personal information. It doesn't have distracting adds and can be used on any computer.
This website has interesting games and fun visuals for the kids to learn about science. It is very good for the kindergarten classroom as for any other grade level it says it supports.
1 comment:
Kidport was new to me so I took a look at that one first. I agree with your assessment that there are a lot of interesting and useful activities available. They seem to be mostly assessment activities and not learning activities, so you'd need to keep this in mind when using the site. In the math section on Rounding, for example, there are many questions about rounding with lots of feedback for correct or incorrect answers, but very little in the way of explaining how to round numbers. This is not a bad thing--you'd just need to keep in mind that this site tests knowledge rather than teaches it.
I also liked the variety of information on the Fossweb website. Thanks for pointing this out, and for the nice reviews.
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