Friday, April 2, 2010

Online Resources

So, today we talked about different resources that we will be able to use for children in the classroom. There were many different websites that we were able to look at.

For Social Studies, I found a fun website that goes through the Underground Railroad - http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/index.htm. The children go through each step and listen to a slave as he goes through how he came to escape slavery. This would go well with 5th grade standard 1: Students will understand how the exploration and colonization of North America transformed human history, Objective 3: Distinguish between the rights and responsibilities held by different groups of people during the colonial period, and indicator a: Compare the varying degrees of freedom held by different groups (e.g. American Indians, landowners, women, indentured servants, enslaved people).

http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-5-place-values was a good review for students to use with place value. It goes through a series of questions, and the students have to figure out the number by using place value. This website had a lot of different resources and I think that there are many different ways that it will be able to be used in the future. This link would be good for 5th Grade Math Standard 1: Students will expand number sense to include integers and perform operations with whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals, Objective 1: Represent whole numbers and decimals from thousandths to one billion, fractions, percents, integers, Indicator a: Read and write numbers in standard and expanded form.

There are a lot of websites out there. Sometimes it is hard to know which ones to use, but I feel like they give the students more practice and can be a lot of fun in the process.


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