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Kennedy Center Digital Resources - Formerly ArtsEdge - Kennedy Center
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Search this site for a topic that you are teaching in your class. Share the lesson on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Better yet, make the video or slideshow a learning station for students to watch in small groups. This site is so wonderful and HUGE, that after students are one with the resources you have for them, you may want to allow them to explore on independently or in small groups for a specific interest of theirs.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Hyperphysics - Georgia State University
Grades
10 to 12In the Classroom
Be sure to post a link to this site on your class page for reference or on a stand alone computer in your classroom for a resource center. Be sure to check out the Get Live Help section where students can post questions and receive or even give answers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math.com - Leap of Faith Financial Services, Inc
Grades
5 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Create a link to this site on your classroom website or blog to share with students and parents as a resource at home. Display portions of the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector when introducing a unit or lesson or when reviewing at the end of a unit. Use the calculators on your interactive whiteboard during whole class lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Geometry of the Ancients - Learning Wave
Grades
5 to 8In the Classroom
Create a link on classroom computers to use as a challenge activity for students. Individual activities can be printed and used for practice in finding area. Create a classroom bulletin board displaying each of the problems and post solutions as they are found, then use the solutions to solve the Riddle of the 7 Cups.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Enhanced Calorie Counter - Calories Count
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
This site is perfect for use during health and nutrition units. Ask students to create a daily food log then use the site to find daily fat and calorie totals. Have students estimate calorie and fat counts of common food items then search for them on the site to compare perception versus reality. Use this site for students to search for low calorie alternatives to common food items in their diets. Have students create simple online nutrition posters using PicLits (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MapStats for Kids - FEDSTATS
Grades
3 to 6In the Classroom
Introduce the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector and allow students to explore on their own. Allow students to try Paint the Map when working with mean and median or when learning locations of states. This is a fabulous site to correlate math with social studies! Have students work with a partner to try one of the activities. Then have the groups create multimedia presentations to share their activities with the class. Have students create a simple online posters using PicLits (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Baseball-Reference
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Watch the information video on the website on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) as an introduction to the site. Allow students time to explore the site on their own or with a partner. This site is perfect for students to practice working with statistics and graphing. Have students choose a player or team and graph statistics, then compare these statistics with other students' data. Challenge students to research statistics on the site to find unusual information and research what may have happened. Have students create a multimedia presentation to share with the class such as a simple online posters using PicLits (reviewed here). Or compare data from students' favorite teams and create a class graph.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Alphabet Origami - Fumiaki Shingu
Grades
K to 2In the Classroom
Create an collaborative ABC chart for the classroom with origami. This is a wonderful beginning of the year activity for the class. Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Take advantage of this moment to discuss strategies to follow directions. Ask students to discuss what style of directions work best for them. Photograph or scan the origami letters with the children and create an online poster using PicLits, reviewed here, or create an online book using a site such as Story Maker, reviewed here. Be sure to post or embed a link to your electronic ABC book on your class webpage for parents to enjoy.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dr. Mike's Math Games - Michael Hartley
Grades
K to 7This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Create a link on your classroom computer to appropriate activities for your students. Use the printable games for classroom math centers, such as BINGO for #1-10 (kindergarten.) Share a link to the site on your classroom website or blog for students to access at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Calculus - Mathway - Bagatrix
Grades
10 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Share the site with students as a resource for checking homework. At the beginning of a unit, display the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector showing the solution to a new problem, and then allow students to investigate and discover how to find the answer. This would also be a very effective way to illustrate why you continually ask students to "show your work"! after they experience the frustration of not knowing HOW the answer can be correct.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Biographies of Women Mathematicians - Agnes Scott College
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Share this site with students as a resource when writing biographies of famous mathematicians (or women's history.) Share one woman mathematician on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) each day as students arrive in class. Use this site in history class to locate and research famous mathematicians alive during the time period being studied. Challenge students to research one of these famous women and create a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Some activity and tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): PBWorks (wiki), Site123 (blog), Renderforest (newscast video), and Genial.ly (poster/bulletin board).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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101 Silly Math Jokes and Puns - for Math Teachers - Clem Falbo
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Share a joke a day with your classroom or encourage them to create their own jokes. Use a joke to introduce a new topic and explore what makes it funny. Share a joke a week on your class website or blog and encourage readers to add their own joke or spin on the joke. Add an entire math joke section to your class wiki and give extra credit to promote a multiple intelligence approach to math.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zoho Show - ZOHO Corporation
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
To use this site, you will need to create an account. You will need to navigate using onscreen instructions. There is a video tour of the features if you would like to view it, but it is just as fun and easy to play with the tool. Slide themes are limited, but the tools are simple and it is easy to publish to a URL that can be shared with everyone.Use this tool to create presentations when students will need more than class time to finish. Have students make individual presentations. Instead of presenting on projector, have them share to the class wiki or within their zoho group to promote discussion and peer review. Assign a round-robin peer review so everyone gets some feedback.
Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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How Things Fly - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Choose a type of flight to have students study and assign that part of the website as a web search with a question sheet. Or have students create their own journey by picking a learning path using Symbaloo Learning Paths, reviewed here, and then enhance learning by having students explain what they learn as they go through the activity in writing. Before writing, have students organize their thoughts about what they learn with a tool such as bubbl.us, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Analyze math - Abdelkader Dendane
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use to explain the rules of various problems or functions in Math. Have students look over the solutions to the problems and discuss the rules for solving similar problems. Provide time for students to teach the solutions to the class. Follow up with additional problems for practice. Consider using this idea to create your own homework help section of a blog, site, or wiki. Not comfortable with wikis? Check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through. Be sure to bookmark this on the class computer for easy reference and access.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ultimate Speed Math - MrNussbaum.com
Grades
1 to 6This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Individualize the game for students to practice skills needed. For example, if a student is having trouble with multiples of 7 choose to practice those facts only while decreasing the time allowed for completion. Create a link on your classroom computers to use as a center for fact practice. Provide this link on your classroom website or blog for use at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mathematical Imagery - American Mathematical Society
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Show galleries on your interactive whiteboard or projector and discuss mathematical properties used within images. Allow students to explore the site then create their own mathematical art along with a short journal about their creation. Be sure to take a picture of their art. Then, have students create a multimedia presentation using Thinklink, reviewed here. This site allows users to narrate a picture.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cardboard Cognition - San Diego State University Department of Education
Grades
K to 6In the Classroom
Create games to use for classroom centers, homework, or practice with classroom skills. Older students can be given directions and create their own card games. Use the card games on the site as inspiration for creating card games appropriate for your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What Does One Trillion Dollars Look Like? - PageTutor
Grades
4 to 8This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for demonstrating place value and exponents of 10 on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Ask students to draw each amount as they would visualize it before revealing the actual size from the site. Challenge students to change the representation used ($100 bill) to something different (popsicle sticks, bricks, etc.) to find how proportion changes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rainbow Lab - Steven Janke
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector when introducing this topic. Then assign different sections to students to explore then present to the rest of the class. Have students create multimedia presentations based on information learned through explorations in the site. Have students use one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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