Science and history fairs have been held across the United States (and maybe other countries?) for years. Having grown up in Germany and Argentina, the first time I encountered these events was with my oldest daughter at her elementary school in the 1990s. According to Wikipedia, Science fairs have been held across the USA [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about my Thoughts on Setting up a Student Created Wiki.
I chose to use wikispaces education wiki as the platform of the Math wiki. The set up of student accounts was very easy and fast, no email was required for the students.
I also pre-created a page [...]
2nd Graders have moved on from their Maps and Globes unit to learning about communities. Their investigation started out with looking at a map of our planet Earth at night.
We zoomed in to look at urban and rural areas and compared cities, like Jacksonville and Buenos Aires. the teacher then guided the students to come [...]
Elementary Learning Sites
Learning your Alphabet
Help a monkey shake coconuts out of the tree
Count Us in Games
Games designed to help children understand basic number concepts
Between the Lions
Get Wild about Reading
English & Math & Science
from BBC
Early Reading Skills
Educational Games
Spelling City
Enter your own spelling words, then select: Test me, Teach me or Play a Game
Reading Website for emerging [...]
Having written a few days ago about What is in a Field Trip?, it was time to put the theory to practice.
Gail Lovely ‘ s quote about “framing a field trip” resonated with me
framing the event in learning before and after – & give them something to do while there!
Our third graders go on an [...]
What if we asked our students to become the teachers? What if we asked our students to articulate the process of something that they have learned? The SmartBoard, that we have installed in TechConnect also has a special software that is available on all of the computers at school. That software includes the capability of [...]
The Tech Patrol is learning many new skills. They are becoming familiar with our computer equipment in the Tech Connect . When needed they will help out with minor troubleshooting issues in the classroom. In the first three weeks of Tech Club, we have taken a keyboard and a mouse apart, made sure everyone knew [...]
What have you learned? That has been an essential question during this week in TechCamp. What have you learned and what can you teach others?
Mrs. Tolisano
I have learned that each one of my TechCampers CAN learn on their own. We don’t need to have step- by- step instructions all the time. They are learning NOT [...]
