GET SMARTER MATH!

Get Smarter!

Grade: 4
Subject: Math
Strand: Estimation/Number Sense

What is this site all about?
This site is adaptable for any grade from 3-12 and covers a variety of subjects. It offers an interactive quiz for students to take on their own (or could do in pairs) and offers suggestions when they answer incorrectly and then gives affirmation when they get a question correct.
A great thing about this site is that it adapts to what country the student is from. So in Canada, when dealing with measurement, it uses the metric system.

How would I use this in a classroom?
I would use this for students who needed extra support in estimating as a different medium to learn from. The use of technology and being able to do a test on the internet would be motivating and encouraging to complete. I would use this at the end of my measurement: estimation unit as a wrap up and extra practice.

Curriculum Connection?
Math: Number Sense: Foundational Objectives
Math: Measurement: Length

Healthy vs Unhealthy

Catapult Game



Grade 2-3
Subject: Health (A healthy body) or Science (grade 2 optional unit: food and nutrition)

What is this site about?
This is not only a "game" for students to play while learning what foods are good and what aren't so good... but it also fills in information about nutrition as they go along (getting the answers correct or incorrect)

Curriculum Connection?

Health (A healthy body)
Science (grade 2 optional unit: food and nutrition)

Cloze Reading

Cloze Reading

Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Strand: Reading and Writing

What is this site?
This site is interactive and incorporates both reading and writing. It has students read and create a story by filling in the blanks to a cloze activity.

How would I use it in my classroom?
I don't know if I would use this as its own lesson, but it would be a great "what do I do when I am done" activity that I would have on a hotlist for my students to be able to access when they are done assignments.

Curriculum Connection?
Grade 7 ELA Foundational Objectives

Essay Punch

ESSAY PUNCH

Grade 8-9
Subject: English Language Arts
Strand: Writing

What is this site all about?

This interactive writing site would be great to motivate students to write using the internet. Students plug in their own ideas and are able to create their own story right from typing... no outline, no draft, just a final copy, which is sometimes okay for students to just dive into!

How would I use this in my classroom?
This would be a great site to use to motivate students to just write out their ideas and not worry about too much technical "stuff" until after they print it out and then they could edit their writing product afterwards.

Curriculum Connection?

ELA Grade 9 Foundational Objectives

GET SMARTER SCIENCE

GET SMARTER!

Grade: 3
Subject: Science
Unit: Eartch
Topic: Environment

What is this site all about?
This site is designed for students to be used as an interactive quiz. The student is given the grade option as well as the topic option, so direct instructions would need to be given so they could navigate the quiz on their own as extra practice or as a end of the unit quiz. The other topics offered for science are life sciences and natural sciences.

Curriculum Connection?
Grade 3 core unit on Earth and this can be used when studying the environment


How would I use this in my classroom?
I would use it for an end of the unit quiz or possible a pre-quiz at the beginning that we would all take together on a projection computer. I would be careful to make sure to set my students up for success in doing some pre-teaching. Some of the questions are not "common sense" or can be figured out, but they do require prior knowledge and I wouldn't want to discourage them from the unit right off the bat by giving too hard of questions.

Tangrams

Subject: Math
Topic: Geometry
Strand: Planes (tangrams)
Grade: 3-5

How would I use this in my classroom:
This site would be great for a SMARTBoard (but could also be used on computers for individual work). The students would be able to actually move and manipulate the shapes to form another shape from the geometric figures. With the use of the SMARTBoard, the students would be able to do the activities with the pens or their fingers to be active in their learning. As a supplement to this site I would use actual manipulatives.

Curriculum Connection:
Math: Geometry: Planes: G-16 combine two-dimensional geometric figures to make other figures



Information from the site:

Tangrams is an ancient game that originated in China. There are literally hundreds of recognizable shapes that have been made by combining the seven smaller pieces (called "tans"). Our tans can be dragged and rotated, snap together when placed close enough, and when selected, the color of a piece can be changed. There are fourteen shape buttons below the workspace, some of which are provided with hints. Young children may profit from simply moving pieces around and fitting them together in various color combinations. After some initial experience, they may want to activate all the hints to get an outline for each piece in the desired construction. Making the pieces fit the outline, using the Flip button if needed, is a useful exercise in control and manipulation. As students gain confidence and experience they can tackle more substantial challenges from the shapes given.

Animal Classification

Animal Classification
Subject: Science
Grade: 2-3

WHAT IS IT?
~This interactive site gives students the background knowledge in "kid-friendly" language and provides them with the information they need in order to play the game.
~The Animal Classification game gives the students the options of what category to put each animal in. If the student is incorrect, they are given more information about the animal in order to correctly determine it's type.
~There is sound! As the animal comes out on the screen, a sound associate with that animal plays as possibly a hint and as a hook as well.

WHY/HOW USE IT?
~This site is a great teaching tool for students to be able to go at their own pace and self-evaluate along the way.
~A great way to sum up a unit on animals as a self-quiz before formal assessment is done at at the end.
~Shows students first hand which animals are similar in the type of animal they are (as they answer the questions, the animal goes under that list of type so they can see what other animals the new one is like).

CURRICULUM CONNECTION??
Grade 1 Animals (used as a group possibly)
Grade 2 Habitats
Grade 3 Animals