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Seussville Seussville

http://www.seussville.com/seussville

  • Great interactive games for students
  • This site supports more reading activities than any other content area
  • There is a biography about Dr. Seuss on the site, there is a playground where all the games and activities are at, there are updated events listed, and there are catalogs for books, games and toys, music and videos, and much more.
  • There are games such as elephant ball, create a story for children to create their own stories, and others such as the cat in the hat concentration game
  • This site requires Adobe Acrobat to see some of the activities
  • This site is pretty much for children; there are no pop up ads or anything that is inappropriate for children visiting this site
  • Language Art classes can use activities on this site to learn how to read or to differentiate between different objects. For example, the matching games in the site require that the students read before they do the activities.
  • My favorite thing about this site is that it is totally for kids. There are games that kids can play and do not have to worry about inappropriate things.
Scholastic Scholastic

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities

  • This site is mainly for teachers
  • This site supports content areas such as Math, Language Art, Social Studies, Science, and Spanish
  • There are teachers' lesson plans and strategies on the site for teachers. There are also activities for teachers to use in class that are listed by grades, learning activity, and curricular area.
  • There are interactive features such as Dinosaurs!, Math Hunt, Lesson Plans for teacher, etc.
  • I do not think that there should be any precautions because there seems to be nothing inappropriate
  • This site can be use for students to go and find out more about the class they are in. There are interactive activities that can help students be more involve and learn more.
  • There is a teacher resource guide attached to the site
  • My favorite thing about this site is that it contains all the content area that the teacher needs to know. Teachers can incorporate all the activities and do not have to go look around at many sites in order to find what they want.
Count On count on

http://www.mathsyear2000.org

  • This site can be used both for students and teachers
  • This site mainly supports Math
  • In this site, there are games for students, resources for teachers, a matrix that has interactive pictures with information for the students, explorer where students can go to find out about things they never know before, numberland for students to read about events that are related to the a certain number, and others
  • It contains interactive features such as Pictures Interactive, Numberland, Maths Magnet, and others
  • This site require Shockwave Player and Flash Player
  • This site does not need any precautions
  • This sites contain great activities for Math teachers. They can have their kids find out special things about a certain number or go into the interactive pictures and learn about the objects in it.
  • There is a teacher resource guide attached to the site
  • My favorite thing about this site would be it contains many Math activities for Math teachers.
Education Place Edu Place

http://www.eduplace.com/

  • This site is for students and parents
  • This site supports content areas Math, Language Art, Social Studies, and Science
  • This site contains games for kids to play, wallpapers for kids to download, monthly themes, maps for children to get their hands on, and many more
  • The games on the site are interactive.
  • This site requires Adobe Acrobat to read .pdf
  • Children should visit this site with their parents because the site also contains information that is for parents only. Parents and teachers could tell their kids to click on the Kid's Place link only.
  • My favorite thing about this site is that it involves the parents to work along with their children
Brainpop  

http://www.brainpop.com/

 

  • This site is for teachers, students, and parents
  • The site contains Math problems and math clips to view
  • Great to use when introducing a new concept to the students
FunBrain FunBrain

http://www.funbrain.com/

  • This site is for students, parents, and teachers
  • It contains areas such as Math, Art, Geography, History, Languages, Music, Science, and Technology
  • There are Math games for students to play, Parent and Kid challenges that have games for both the parents and the kids, and many features for teachers such as links to free lesson plans and activities for teachers to use
  • There are interactive games for all such as Math Baseball, Math Brain, and many other games
  • The site does not require special plug-ins
  • There is information on this site specifically for parents or teachers; therefore, students should be directed to visit the site for children only.
  • My favorite thing about this site is that it is for everyone.

 

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