Website Creation with Wix.com- Iowa Cities/Towns ~ 5th/6th Grade

As a technology project for Iowa History, the students used Wix.com to create a free website of an Iowa city or town.  In addition to this technology assignment, the students also created a poster for their city and wrote a letter to the mayor of their city.  Take a look at some of the posters and websites!

Okoboji Website  

 LeMars Website

 Atlantic Website

 Waterloo Website

 Denison Website

 Fort Dodge Website

 Audubon Website

 Cedar Falls Website

Ames Website

 

Iowa City

Pella

Mason City

Gingerbread House Design- K-1st Grade

This cute virtual gingerbread house is just waiting for the Kindergartners and First Graders to decorate it for the Christmas season!  Go to Jenny B. Harris Illustrator- Decorate a Gingerbread House for a sneak peak of this online activity.

Brain Pop Website- All Grades

BrainPop.com appears to be a good educational site, and it has a computer/technology specific section.

Sympathy Word Clouds- 3rd &4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders created sympathy word clouds using tagxedo.com for their teacher, Mrs. Paulsen. Mrs. Paulsen's father passed away on Friday. With the help of Pastor Wagner, the students listed words, phrases and Biblical verses that pertain to going home to heaven, and then they used the words to create the word clouds. The kids saved their work on the server, I printed the word clouds using a color printer, and we worked together to create a collage of the word clouds on a poster. Here is some of their work!

Word Cloud-5th & 6th Grade

The Fifth and Sixth Graders created word clouds using Tagxedo.  The kids learned that if they wrote a word mulitple times, the word would appear larger than the other words in the final image.  They also learned to use the swiggly line ~ between two words that go together such as "First~Last name."  The kids downloaded and printed their word clouds.  Their work will be on display for the parent/teacher conferences on Wednesday and Thursday!

Online Interview with a Wifelife Expert - 5th & 6th Grade

For homework, the Fifth and Sixth Graders will think of at least 3 interview questions to ask a researcher from the NC Zoo Society.  On Monday we'll collaborate and compile a list of the most thoughtful interview questions.  We will go to the following link: http://www.fieldtripearth.org/ask_qa.xml to post the questions.

Johnny Appleseed Week- Kindergarten

This week in Kindergarten we are celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday. The kids will watch a youtube video of the original classic movie- the embedded video can be found on www.zsjstudents.blogspot.com.  The Kindergarteners will also play apple games on http://www.applejuice.org/fungames.html

ABCya.com | Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities

ABCya.com Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities
ABCya.com in Kindergarten? I think so! Check it out!

Tagxedo.com

I found the following website during my Summer vacation.  I plan to use it in my computer class :)

http://www.tagxedo.com/

I learned about a cool website called "The Stock Market Game" while watching PBS Biz Kids. 

 I look forward to using this awesome program with my upper elementary and junior high students!

"Welcome to the Iowa Stock Market Game™ Program - Celebrating Over 30 Years!


The Stock Market Game program has worked for over nine million students by appealing to their desire to gain financial independence and experience a little competition. It`s very easy to implement, reaches across the entire curriculum, and is fun to teach.

The Stock Market Game ™ program transports students into real world investing while learning academic concepts that relate to their entire core curriculum. Students (grades 4-12) buy into the entire process through active involvement. Students work in teams practicing leadership, organization, negotiation, and cooperation. As they work to grow their $100,000 virtual cash accounts into a top-performing portfolio, they develop strong interests in the daily events that shape our world and barely realize how much math, business, economics, language arts and social studies they’re learning. Students compete against their classmates as well as other schools so kids see the program as "fun."

No prior knowledge of the stock market is needed! The Stock Market Game program provides lesson plans that teachers weave into their existing plans, giving difficult concepts an easy-to-understand, real-life spin. For only an hour or so a week, or however long teachers choose, students retain more. On-line training materials are provided and teacher-training workshops are available.

Thanks to a generous grant from the SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education, the program is offered at no cost! Simply skip the billing information section on the registration page!"

I discovered Growing with Technology, 

Student Animations- 5th & 6th Grade

Bouncing Pig By: The Unknown :)

Score!  By Grant

Go Fish: By Anonymous

Jordan Rampage.  By Christian

Water- 3rd & 4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders will be using one of Scholastic web-sources to help them learn about the water cycle and properties of water. Both activities include a short video and five question online quiz.

Keyboarding- 5th and 6th Grade

One of our Sixth Graders scored a 69 WPM on Free Typing Game!  Mrs. Miller found a cool new WPM testing site: Speed Test

Puncation Paintball- 3rd & 4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders played Punctuation Paintball, which is an educational game provided by Discovery Education.  We are so fortunate to have access to Discovery Education; the AEA covers the subscription fee for our district.  This game supports grammar skills including punctuation and captolization.  The students were surprisingly engaged with this game.  Some of the kids reached the 20th level! 

When the students couldn't take the intensity anymore, they navigated to Free Typing Game to practice their typing skills.

Anatomy Arcade- 3rd & 4th Grade

On Monday and Tuesday, the 3rd and 4th Graders will play "Whack-A-Bone" and "Poke-A-Muscle" to help them learn the names and locations of the bones and muscles in the human body.  Check out the site!  It's a fun way to learn human anatomy!
Anatomy Arcade



Math Magician- 2nd Grade

The second graders have been completely enthralled with Math Magician where they have been working to improve their addition and subtraction fact memory!  They have requested to work on the website on Monday and Tuesday.  I am pleased with how much they improved their addition and subtraction skills.  When they began using Math Magician, they were finding it difficult to complete all of the 20 facts before the 1 minute expired.  By Tueday, the kids were breezing through the facts, completing the 20 facts in times as low as 40 seconds!  Practice DOES make perfect!

Ellis Island Web Tour and Power Point

The students from 3rd-6th grade learned about Ellis Island in computer class today.  We started with Google Earth, locating Ellis Island and exploring the surrounding landmarks including Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty stands, Wall Street, the harbor, etc.  Next, we went on the Ellis Island Web Tour at www2.Scholastic.com. 

We listened to the audio recordings and watched some of the videos.  Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to complete the web tour.

The 4th graders were so enthralled with the Google Earth exploration that we didn't quite make it to the Scholastic website for the Ellis Island Web Tour. 

The 2nd graders reviewed what they've learned in Power Point from the last two classes, and I set them free to do their first slideshow about their favorite things.  The 2nd graders will work on their slideshow for a couple more days before we can share them on this blog!