Dun-dun-DUN!!! Yes, one of my top sites is featured today! I wish I had known more about this site when I was in my own classroom. It would have helped with differentiation so much. It is Khan Academy. This entirely FREE website was started by a man, Salman Khan, that wanted to help his cousin with her education. He then started creating videos on YouTube, and this took off so quickly that he was able to turn it into a full website. Students, teachers, and parents can access his FREE videos via YouTube or the website. Subjects offered include:
Students can work through a course, doing questions, watching videos when needed, and completing courses. This is ideal when you have students who need lower level work, reinforcement, or enrichment. Here is an example of one of the videos If you want to have assistance with using these videos in your classroom, let me know! I would love to help!
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These options can always be changed by the owner at ANY time. Education.com is geared towards K-5 students. I recommend sending this page to parents that want additional support at home. On the main page there is a box that asks what you are searching for (games, activities, science fair, or worksheets) and the grade level (K-5). It then directs the user to a page where they can choose the item for which they are looking. There are resources for middle school and high school as well! Worksheets: These are wonderful! Teachers, you could use these as additional practice in class, as well. I appreciated the quality of them and how there were a wide variety, including science, social studies, and the arts! Activities: For Kindergarten it includes hands-on activities like creating patterns with M&Ms, making a sock bunny, and becoming a dirt expert. The fifth grade activities include a fortune cookie recipe, making glue fossils, and an adverb acting game. So much variety and so many great ideas! Games: This section is only for PreK-1st. These include phonemic awareness, spelling, rhyming, and math. The games have a couple of cute little characters, are easy to play, and are very engaging. Overall, this is a GREAT resource for teachers, parents, and students! The Zinn Education Project is ideal for middle school to high school classrooms. There are over 100 free lessons and articles that you can search by theme, time period, AND reading level (Pre-K to adult)! Their goal is to give a better understanding of history than is found in textbooks. They want to push the importance of how people's choices and actions shape history, which in turn, helps them learn about how their own actions and choices matter. Some of the resources you can find on this site include websites, audio, video, picture books, nonfiction reading, and articles. There is an interactive timeline along the top of the site where you can zoom in on a century and time period. To access some of the materials, you must register with their site. Good news! You can use your Google account to register. It is FREE to register. I highly recommend checking this site out NOW. Click on the image to the right to go to the registration page! There are some great Black History Month resources you won't find in textbooks. Get your students excited and engaged with history. Check the comments on each lesson because many teachers write about the projects they do with their students.
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