Found these while surfing the net...
K-2 Interactives
http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/my_world.shtml
3-6 Interactives
http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/social_studies.shtml
7-12 Interactives
http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/social_studies.shtml
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Librarian 2.0 - Keep Informed
I have been following a blog called "School Library Media Activities Monthly" since we started looking at blogs. As I have been exploring previous posts I have discovered some great links to sites I would never had the time to find otherwise. Activities like the one found at National Geographic where kids (or adults!) can make their own wildlife film. (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/filmmaker.html )
You can find the blog at:
http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com
You can find the blog at:
http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com
Read Books Online
Where can I send the kids to read books online? This is one of my biggest requests from teachers and I usually have the old stanby's like tumblebooks.com and lookybooks (which just closed up shop), but today I have found a new one called Big Universe. It can be found at http://www.biguniverse.com/
It has both paid and free membership access. They have many current fiction and non-fiction books online that you can access with both memberships, but the free access limits you to about 3/4 of the book. Not ideal if reading fiction, but I found some really great non-fiction titles that I was able to read almost all of. Another great feature that is accessible with the free membership is the ability to create your own books online. They also have a library of the books created by other members, some of which are very good!
Another great site for primary students is Storyline Online(www.storylineonline.net) which is put together by the Screen Actors Guild. Here children can see the pictures and listen to some quite famous actors read the story to them. I have always had great feedback about this site.
It has both paid and free membership access. They have many current fiction and non-fiction books online that you can access with both memberships, but the free access limits you to about 3/4 of the book. Not ideal if reading fiction, but I found some really great non-fiction titles that I was able to read almost all of. Another great feature that is accessible with the free membership is the ability to create your own books online. They also have a library of the books created by other members, some of which are very good!
Another great site for primary students is Storyline Online(www.storylineonline.net) which is put together by the Screen Actors Guild. Here children can see the pictures and listen to some quite famous actors read the story to them. I have always had great feedback about this site.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Be The Change - Webquests
This year our school has become extremely envolved in the "Me to We" campaign started by Craig Kielburger's Free the Children organization. As part of that we are looking for ways to educate the students of our school on the issues surrounding this important cause. OSLA has started its own educational organization called "Be the Change" and has included a number of great webquests.
They can be found at:
http://www.accessola.com/osla/bethechange/webquests.html
They can be found at:
http://www.accessola.com/osla/bethechange/webquests.html
Friday, March 13, 2009
More webquests!
After a couple of weeks struggling to recover from the worst flu I've ever experienced... I am finally back online exploring the world of webquests. I came across this site that posts links to webquests under four different headings: ages 5-8, 9-12, 13-15, and 15-18. There are some great ones here! One that peaked my interest first was a Halloween Safety webquest. In the culminating task students are required to create a powerpoint point to be shown to other students. What a great idea!
Here is the link:
http://www.nelliemuller.com/WebQuests_Up_to_Grade_three.htm
Here is the link:
http://www.nelliemuller.com/WebQuests_Up_to_Grade_three.htm
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Webquests
Right now we are examining webquests in my Part 3 library course. I consider myself pretty techie, but I have yet to fully explore this type of resource. Last year I ran a class of Grade 3's through an amazing pioneer webquest which can be found at:
http://www.projects.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/pioneer/home_eng.htm
I had every intention of exploring them more, but somehow it just fell to the wayside. Now that I am at a new school I hope to have more students go through them. They can be difficult to convince teachers to use as they can be time consuming, but the students really enjoy them.
I have stumbled upon another collection of webquests from the Yukon that seem to be pretty good. The one about Bears (aimed at Grade One) even has student project examples at the end using Kidspiration. I know our Grade ones do a research project in May, and this gave me an idea about approaching the teachers about a different way to present. Here is the link:
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquest_collection.html
http://www.projects.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/pioneer/home_eng.htm
I had every intention of exploring them more, but somehow it just fell to the wayside. Now that I am at a new school I hope to have more students go through them. They can be difficult to convince teachers to use as they can be time consuming, but the students really enjoy them.
I have stumbled upon another collection of webquests from the Yukon that seem to be pretty good. The one about Bears (aimed at Grade One) even has student project examples at the end using Kidspiration. I know our Grade ones do a research project in May, and this gave me an idea about approaching the teachers about a different way to present. Here is the link:
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquest_collection.html
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