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My Culture Quest is a game where you combine geography with an opportunity to explore artistic objects from different cultures. Your task is to fill a museum exhibition with examples of various kinds of art from different countries. You’ll be choosing objects that are centered around a certain theme, as well as objects that are of a similar type, but from different cultures. The game is timed and moves along quickly. As you choose your items, you find out some information about them. The museum curator asks you questions about your choices, and if you answer incorrectly, you cannot take the item. At the end of the game you can see how your objects are displayed in the exhibition. A few of the cultures explored in this journey include China, Egypt, Africa, Greece, and Italy. Interactive Sites for Education -- All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place! These activities work great with your SMART Board or interactive whiteboard for whole group or small group instruction or use in the computer lab or at home for individual learning. Nearpod is a free iOS app that teachers can use to create quizzes, polls, and multimedia presentations. Those materials can be shared directly to students who have the Nearpod student app installed. Teachers can view students' responses individually or as a whole class. Nearpod could be a good tool for teachers to create and deliver customized content to their students. The feedback mechanisms may allow you to quickly get a sense of your students' comprehension of the lessons that you deliver. LearnZillion is a learning platform that combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting. Each lesson highlights a Common Core standard, starting with math in grades 3-9. We started LearnZillion at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. because we wanted to solve a problem. We knew what lessons our students needed but we didn’t have enough time to teach each student the right lesson. To create more time, and to share best practices across classrooms, E.L. Haynes’ teachers began to capture their expertise on screencasts. We posted them on a homemade website and coupled them with a short quiz to help us track student progress. 2,000+ high quality lessons by top teachers - all built from the Common Core State Standards. This site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar). You can also use it to make your worksheets look more interesting, especially when Google Images fails to provide you with appropriate image Textivate ticks all the boxes. It allows you to automatically generate a range of interactive browser-based activities based on any text of up to 500 words. Simply type or paste a text into the box and click 'textivate now' button to see the available exercises (gapfills / sentence arrange / paragraph arrange / punctuation / splitting words). Great for exam classes or any other reading-based lessons. Batalugu is a fabulous site for creating and finding online children's books. Design your 'bestseller' by uploading images and using the bank of media to drag and drop your story to perfection. Clear interface with easy navigation and instructions. Students can add pictures, drawings and text and create their own books. Then share with a link. Site removed as of 02/01/14 ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. StoryJumper is a website that allows kids to build their own books. You can easily create cover pages, add text, upload drawings or photos to illustrate your story, and you can use the StoryJumper clipart gallery, too. When you‘re done, you can order your own professionally published hardback book |
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