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Twenty-one+ tools for a 21st Century Education

 * Presenter:** Gail Braddock, Google Certified Educator, Discovery STAR Educator
 * Description: “**What’s out there on the web to support 21st century education? How can I engage my students?” Come discover some wonderful interactive sites for the K-6 classroom and see how you can use these with your students in math, science, language arts, social studies, and more!
 * Intended Audience**: Grades K-6 Computer-using Educators

a.[|E-manipulatives] - choose your grade b. [|Connecting cubes, counters]-choose on the e-manipulatives site for your grade c. [|Online money-]Choose COINS and BILLS and use workmat to make amounts 2 ways-see word handouts on handout page that go with this activity d. [|Geoboards]-Click "List activities" on the right to see a list of activitites available. They also have activities for older grades e. [|Create-a-Graph] f. [|Google Earth] for measurement and direction-download free, use TOOLS menu and Measure to measure in different units g.[|Virtual manipulatives]-National Library of Virtual Manipulatives-find your grade and topic and enjoy! h. [|Interactivate]-Some excellent online activities here-a bit more difficult
 * 1.** **__Math__**

a. [|Foss Web-]choose your grade, each topic has online activity, web sites, ask and expert and more b. [|Let's Talk About Insects]-online in English and Spanish-interactive and has quiz and activity at end-make own bug and post online c. [|BBC Science clips]-choose an age, these activites have audio instructions and a quiz for assessment
 * 2.** **__Science__**

a. [|Online Stories]-Try links 1, 5, and 7 to see stories read online with text highlighting b. [|BBC Language Activities-Making Words-Whirly Word]-use teacher control panel to choose which vowels you want to use and what level to try. You can choose other activities on the left with similar controls c. [|AOL School-Word Builder]-choose sounds you want to use to build words-audio d. [|Audacity]-free recording software to record students responses, export in wav or mp3 format e. [|Read Please]-Copy and paste text or type text and it will read it. f. [|GCAST]-Record audio by phone to post to web-easy podcasting
 * 3.** **__Language Arts__**

a. [|Google Earth Placemarks] -after downloading this free program, watch this webcast to learn how to create a placemark tour (password for webcast is "discovery"-students could watch and learn as well b. [|Scholastic News]Current events or [|online content reading-]scroll down, choose your grade level and CONTENT AREA READING c. [|Ben's Guide to Government]
 * 4.** **__Social Studies__**

a. [|Gaggle] student e-mail, filtered, text reader can read e-mails-school must sign up, free with advertising b. [|Scrapblog-]online scrapbook with comments, must have e-mail to sign up, could sign up teacher and let each child have a scrapbook or use gaggle e-mail accounts for each student-one warning, anyone can create a scrapblog so having students view other scrapblogs not created by your class may or may not be a good idea. [|Sample] c. [|Podcasts]-use GCAST-record audio by phone to post to web, or record on free program like Audacity d. [|Education Place] (lots of ideas here) e. [|AOL Jr]-pick a topic and you will find lots for K-2 f. [|BBC] pick a subject g. [|Internet 4 Classrooms]-Skill Builders-this is Kindergarten but just click the arrow by Kindergarten to move to another grade
 * 5.** **__Other__**

6. **__Projects__**: a. [|Kidpix make 10, 100 days]-use Kidpix stamps to have students show different ways to make ten or to make 100 b. [|Chicka Chicka]-could read book or show United Streaming video and then do this activity in Kidpix. If you do not have Kidpix, could do a similar activity using a free download of [|Tux Paint]. More Ideas including Chicka [|Here] c. [|More student activity ideas here]

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