Ancient Civilization Webquest.......Student Work

I assigned an independent study unit where the students investigated and learned about an Ancient civilization of their choice. My students completed a Webquest. The students were given the opportunity to decide on how to present their findings to the class. They could have chosen any method of presentation, such as moviemaker, photostory, brochure, powerpoint, web based timeline, time capsule and scrapbooking. I taught the students how to use all these tools prior to this assignment. I decided to showcase the scrapbooking project. The following image is  from a scrapbook that two of my girls decided to produce for their Ancient China project.

Click on the image and it will take to the full published work using a program called Page Flip Flap.

Book Trailer

Below is a canvas that demonstrates what a Book Trailer is and steps to creating a Book Trailer.  Follow each slide of the canvas, then create your own.

Game Goo....... Literacy

Language Learning games.
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome.html

Word It Out

Just like Wordle an online tool that allows you to randomly arrange words, you will like Word It Out.

www.worditout.com

Grammarly

An online tool that checks for grammar, spelling, word choice, and it also helps to "avoid plagiarism by checking your texts against over 2 billion documents".
Good for both teachers and students.
http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&gclid=CJboteHq1LMCFetDMgodIWgAsg

Grammar Ninja

I'm always posting math games.... now here is one on grammar.

http://www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html

PBS Kids.......Raising Readers

This site focuses on building reading skills.  Children practice basic reading skills through online games and activities.  Children, with adult assistance, sign up for free or teachers can sign up.  In the QA section it states: 'Teachers can add as many students as they want to their accounts. They can even organize their students into “classes” to help keep things organized."http://pbskids.org/island/

Shakespeare

Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project is an online resource on everything about Shakespeare.
http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/rjfolio.cfm

Free Rice

I was searching for an interactive literacy site for my students.  I stumbled upon Freerice. This site is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme. Their goal is to provide education for free and to end world hunger by providing free rice.  The object of the games are for every right answer you get they will donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger.
Subjects included are:
Humanities, English, Math, Chemistry, Language Learning, Geography and Sciences.
I mentioned this site to my daughter and she began playing the games to see how much rice she can have donated. This site keeps a daily total on how much rice has been donated.  What an amazing idea!!!!!!!
http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1477

Spelling City

I needed some resource help for my new class, ESL and Special Ed.  One evening I Googled words and phrases that had to do with Language arts and I got many hits that involved this topic.  I saved many links in order to review them when I had time. This is one of the links that I saved.  This site is a vocabulary and spelling builder.
http://www.spellingcity.com/

Game Quarium

Game and activities, Videos, eBooks, Printables, Teacher Resources and cross curricular subjects.

http://www.gamequarium.org/

Crash Course Videos

The author John Green created a series of 42 videos called World History by Crash  Course.  They teach you the History of the world.   There is also another author,  Hank Green by Crash Course that has a series of 40 videos that teach you Biology. 

These Crash Course Videos are found on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 

Math is Fun

http://www.mathsisfun.com/money/money-master.html
This game site has a section called Money Master. Within this page you can select the currency you wish to work with. Select the level of difficulty and match the coins to the amount it asks. The skill game is timed.
There are other pages that cover Algebra, Geometry, Data, Measurement and Numeration that test the students’ skills. You can also find Math and logic puzzles.

Bitstrips

Reflections of School Year

I asked my students to go home and write about 3 memorable things from this year.  They did not have a chance to edit nor revise what they wrote and they created this video based on their first draft.  I did not want their thoughts to have been rehearsed nor changed.....