Practice questions and state standards are organized by grade level and easy to find.
IXL features a themed game board for each grade so that students can win prizes as they practice.
To activate the Wonder Wheel, enter a search term into Google (as you normally would) and click “Search.” When you get to the results page, click on “Show options.” Under the bold heading of “Standard View,” choose “Wonder Wheel.” Your results will then be displayed as a concept map. New search results will be displayed as branches of that map.
Clicking on any of the new branches will break down that subcategory even further. Listed results will appear next to your Wonder Wheel.
Give it a shot! We’re sure your students will think this is pretty cool!
If you want to collect our blog feed with a desktop application that will download the latest posts, you can download Feed Reader.
There are plenty of websites out there that will collect blog feeds. We use Bloglines, a free site that gives you quick access to all of your feeds from any computer. You’ll need to create an account, but then it’s easy to add different feeds.
If you use Facebook, you can get all of our updates by becoming a fan. If you’re already checking for updates from friends and family, this is the easiest way to keep track of new posts, videos, and events.
We send all of our blog posts to Twitter too, and you can subscribe to our monthly email newsletter, where we feature blog posts and lessons from our ERC.
Hope this helps you get our updates even faster!
In the past, many teachers have provided their students the opportunity to become pen-pals with other classrooms across a city, state or even a nation using hand-written letters. But in today’s world where email and media communication are capturing the attention of students, we, as educators, need to look to the future of communication. That is exactly what ePals.com is doing.
ePals boasts itself as a safe learning and collaborating platform for teachers and students to communicate all across the world. With ePals you can connect to many different types of projects and, subsequently, with other classes. Additionally, ePals provides different learning experiences, including; unit specific content, teaching resources, translation services and projects arranged by topic, and all of ePal’s projects include key objectives:
So check out the ePals website at www.epals.com and get in on the forefront of what is certain to be a global phenomenon.
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