Module H Exercise

I found an awesome website that is great for everybody!! Students, teachers, administrators, family, friends, coworkers, and many, many more could enjoy this website. Under chapter 8 integration corner, I found a website called Kaboose.

Kaboose has many activities to do. For students, there are games, coloring activities, and learning sections. For teachers, there are lessons plans and daily worksheet activities. These activities are ordered by most popular, featured blogs, crafts, holidays, and much more. There is also a cool health section that has many different things for children and parents, and sometimes even teachers. The health section has food tips, fruit calculator, and much more!

For parents, the website has parenting tips, crafts, and section labeled “just for mom.” These things offer tips, help, encouragement, and fun for parents and their children.

Also, I found that this website has slideshows, resources, and even Kaboose TV, which is where everyone can watch movie clips about all the same things the website has to offer.

All of these things can be useful for students, teachers, parents, and any other adults with children who are eager to learn. I found this website colorful and extremely user friendly for all ages.

Click here to go to the website!

Module G Exercise

                What do all kids like to do? Play games? Use a computer? Learn new things? So, why not do all three at once? In the Integration corner under chapter seven I found a great website to satisfy all three things that children like to do most, now-a-days. This website is called PrimaryGames.com. This website is colorful and user friendly. Also, I really liked how the website is themed. For example, right now it has turkeys on it, representing Thanksgiving.

                On the top of the page there are boxes with all kinds of subjects to choose from. Each subject has different kinds of games to choose from to play. Each game, however, is geared toward that particular subject. So, these children are learning by playing games on the computer. It’s like having your cake, eating it, and taking home a piece too! The website is so easy to use the children are capable of doing it themselves. However, it is the internet so all precautions for children being on the world wide web still have to be put into consideration. No matter how great or user friendly a webpage is, children should never be left alone while on the internet.

                This website is great for students to learn knew things while using their skills on the computer. I have included the website here for anyone who would like to see this cool stuff on their own.

http://www.primarygames.com/

Module F Exercise

                In chapter 1 integration corner, I found a website that called, Teachers With The Web!, helps teachers with using the internet within their classroom. On the first page of the website, there are four options of either kindergarten all the way up to 12^th grade. After clicking on one of those four options, the website gives you a list of possible lessons to teach in the classroom. Then after picking that topic, the website gives you more options of either informational websites, coloring and painting websites, and theme pages for printing out the activity. For example, I clicked on K-2, and then clicked on the topic bears; and I got many websites with information on bears, coloring pages to do, and pages to print for even more fun in the classroom. All the information and resources are available via the internet. This website is extremely useful for teachers who need an easy website activity for the classroom. The options for lesson topics are easy to find and colorful (which a teacher doesn’t really need, but if the students are navigating to the websites themselves.) This website is also perfect for any teacher since it is useful for all grades. I know this website is great because I have already used it for the class that I volunteer in every Thursday.

                I have included the website here for anyone who would like to visit on their own. I hope you all enjoy it like I did. Tell your teacher friends…

Module E Exercise

In chapter 5, under the integration exercise, I found a website that has a variety of fun learning games and activities for children from preschool to 7^th grade and up. The website is called LearningPlanet. On the website’s home page there are daily word searches and sudokus and even an interaction playground. Also on the website, you can click on the student tab and there are options for which grade you are in and then let the earning begin! There are colorful exercises, animation games and much more! Each game option is full of color and sound. The colors and sounds are what keep the students interested in learning, probably without even knowing it. And that’s not it; there is even a teacher tab to click on available for the educators. Under this tab, there is a learning game overview. This helps teachers learn how to use the website and helps educators to know exactly what the games are teaching the students. Overall, this website is easy to use and fun to look at. The students and teachers both will be able to navigate easily on this website, along with learning and having fun all at the same time. Here is the website URL if anyone would like to go for some fun-learning of their own.

Welcome to LearningPlanet!

Module D Exercise

In the integration corner under chapter 4, I found an awesome website. This website is called C.O.O.L. Classroom created by the Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences and stands for Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory. The website has many different kinds of activities that explain certain issues about the sea. On the home page there is a list of things to click on, each taking you to a different area of the page to learn something different about the ocean. This website is for students and educators, students can learn and teachers can get fresh and fun things to tech to the students.  Under the student section there are PowerPoint’s, pictures, videos, and projects for the student to engage in, either by themselves or with family and friends. The projects actually have the students do hands-on activities then come back to the website and compare their findings. Under the teachers section, the website explains the importance and fun of using COOL Classroom activities. The projects that the students engage in have corresponding activities for the teachers to include in the lesson, which is pretty COOL. Get it? Anyway, the website is cute, creative, and informative for students and educators.

Here is the website if you want to visit it for yourself. Have fun!

http://www.coolclassroom.org/teachers_guide/teachersguide.html

Module C Exercise

In chapter three there are some good ways to integrate technology in the classroom. In the integration corner, under Preschool Express I found some very interesting websites. However, these websites are not for the students to use, it’s for the teachers/educators. These websites have many different activities that the teachers can use to get ideas for lessons in the classroom. Some activities are based on holidays or seasons. Other activities use objects to base their learning on. For example, some categories are crayon learning, pencil learning, or computer learning. Other activities are readings, poems, and songs to sing. Under each category are lessons that are based on learning with that object. I think teachers using this website will find it very helpful and fun to use within the classroom. The students are learning based on certain objects, including technology and computers. I also think this website is good for the teacher because it is categorized neatly and easy to navigate through. The teacher can easily look up a lesson based on a certain learning object. Some of the computer lessons require the students to use the computer also. The different themes and activities make this website useful within a classroom, including calendars for the teacher to save and continue different lessons throughout the month.

Module B Exercise

        In Chapter 2 Integration Corner under Internet for Kids, I found a great website that teaches children how to actually use the internet and the computer. The beginning part of this website explains how to use a mouse and other various things associated with a computer. These things are important to learn especially when trying to add internet and computer based lessons in the classroom.

        However, a down fall to this website is that all the instructions are a little hard to read for students in younger grade. So, what do you do? Just have the older students use this website. But, this poses the issue that some or maybe even most students who are old enough to read and comprehend the instructions are probably already capable of using a mouse to point and click on things, since these types of activities are being done at home. This just means that if the teacher wants to use this website for younger children who do not yet know how to use the computer or anything associated with it, will have to read the instructions out loud to the children. This could be a positive thing though, so that the teacher can be there if student has trouble and needs help or if a student does well and deserves appraise.