Keep your brain working over the winter holiday by participating in the Greg Tang Winter Challenge! Just print off the game board (choose your grade level)
http://winterchallenge.gregtangmath.com/ and visit his regular website http://gregtangmath.com/ to play the games. Have fun!
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Explain a Website is one of my new favorites! It is student centered (although I can see it being used by teachers for demonstration) and easy to use. This is a screencasting app that records on top of any open website. (Remember not all websites play nicely with the iPad.) You can annotate, highlight, record a voice over, etc. The video can be easily saved to your camera roll, uploaded to YouTube, or saved in Dropbox! Currently $0.99 See in iTunes Suggestions for Student Use: 1. Scavenger Hunt: Go to any website to search for and highlight verbs, nouns, adjectives, word wall words, science or math vocabulary words, non-negotiable words, similes, puns, figurative language, etc. You can take it as low or high as you want, based on your TEKS. Why is this better than circling a noun on a worksheet? With the voice recorder the students can EXPLAIN their thinking and SHOW their understanding! 2. Summarization: Go to any website and READ the information. Highlight important parts, cross out extraneous information, record a summary of the article/site. 3. Research: Go to any research website or database for information. Take notes in real time as you are reading. Send the video to your class Dropbox or Youtube account for further reference, or save to camera roll/ 4. Online Quizzes: Open a site such as Time for Kids, read an article, and take the accompanying quiz using the annotation tools and voice recorder. Show TEXT EVIDENCE in choosing your answers. DEFEND your answer and/or PROVE why certain answers are wrong with your recording. 5. Watch Videos: Watch a video from Brainpop, Safari Montage, etc. Pause the video and record your thinking and processing, share a new fact learned, ask a question, etc. Share these on Moodle or in a face-to-face class discussion. |
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