Thursday, April 21, 2011

Treasure Hunt!

This website has a neat little treasure hunt where you need to follow the clues to find the treasure!

Treasure Hunt

Character Trading Cards

Read Write Think has a great Character Trading Card creator that allows you to create 2-sided trading cards that print nicely.  You move through several questions to fully develop your character as you create the card.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Study Island High Score!

GCMS 5th grader Bailey Long made the Study Island state high score table today!  She scored 13 in Sodoku for Information/Text Features, placing her 3nd on the high score table.  Great job!

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Study Island High Score

GCMS 4th grader Danielle Eckerty made the Study Island state high score table today!  She scored 483 in the Swat game for ordering fractions, placing her 2nd on the high score table.  Great job!

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.

 

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

ABC Ya

ABC Ya has a great collection of online games in multiple subjects.  The games are divided into grade levels.  I haven't had a chance to explore a lot of the games yet so feel free to share any particular activities that you really enjoy!

Monday, April 11, 2011

A Google a Day

What if there were a trivia game that actually allowed and encouraged you to use Google?  A Google a Day is just that.  Each day a new question is posted.  Once the answer for the day is revealed it also provides search tips for finding that answer.  This could be a great way to generate warm-up or bellringer questions and teach search techniques at the same time!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Free Music Archive

Free Music Archive offers music tracks that are safe to use in podcasts and other productions.  You can search songs or browse by artist and genre.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

MorgueFile

MorgueFile is an online collection of royalty free photos.  They do not require attribution, or crediting their site for the photo, but they do provide url's for the image that I would use to cite the source just to be safe.

Pics4Learning

Pics4Learning.com is an image library specifically made with teachers and students in mind.  The images are free and safe to use and each image is accompanied with a short bibliography for proper citation.  You can also join the community by submitting your own pictures to share.

FreePhotos.com

FreePhotos.com provides royalty free stock photos for online use.  You can download high-resolution images and use  them in a project that is shared online.  Their one requirement is that you link back and give credit to their site whenever you use one of their pictures.