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Content and Lesson Plans

=media type="custom" key="15408192"= toc = = =Search= [|Sweet Search] a large, safe, search engine geared for educators and student of all ages. It is divided for different subject areas, librarians, and a special section for young learners. All the sites have been check. [|RefSeek] is aimed at providing academic sites without ads. The sponsor links on Google will not appear on the first page here. [|Famhoo] is aimed at family safe filtering. They don't look at each of the sites, but there's a stricter filter involved so young children can use this search engine more safely. [|Ask Kids] has three main categories: questions, movies, and games. There's an age filter and it will bring out decent resources for kids to use regardless of age. [|Wolfram] is a great place to look for steps to doing a math problem/checking a math problem. It's basically a web based calculator. [|Google Scholar]brings up scholarly journals, and there are various ways to limit the search or bring up certain parts of the article. [|KidRex] is a Google custom search engine with strong filters so that young kids can use it. If parents or teachers think a site is questionable, then it can be brought to question and possible removed. Wikipedia is included, but personal and blogs look like they've been filtered out. Sites to make blogs come up as well as educational blogs. =Lesson Plan: Hunger Games part 1=

-Characters
[|Which are you]? This give a chance to personally relate students to the characters in the novel to help them visualize the characters.

-Character descriptions
[|Character compare]. This site has a brief biography and photo listed. I would like to have the students name and describe some key traits about them, then use the site to enhance what they already know and give them a chance to see what was described.

-What are the Hunger Games
[|Glossary of terms] This sums up all the Hunger Games terms described on two pages to help students grasp the idea of arenas. So the readers can see it and review.

-Events of the 74th Reaping
[|24Tributes]. This provides all twenty four tributes pictures and side links for the students to explore. They can learn more about each of the other districts as well as the capitol and district twelve. [|Open-ended Discussion]I believe that getting student responses, and participation throughout the novel will help encourage students read the novel along with the class, if not read ahead because hearing their classmates' interest will encourage them to take an interest.

-District 12
[|Mine Explosions]. This is a science article talking about mining and the chance of accidents. It's science tied to the novel to give kids a better understand of a real world occurrence.

-What happens to the tributes after the reaping (up to this point)
[|The real version.] This site talks about a modern day place where people would be training for the games if the Hunger Games were real.

-Why is the main character so upset about the other tribute chosen?(the back story)
[|Chapter Sum-Up] This site sums up the major points of the entire book. As a teacher, I can reference quickly exactly where a major even happened without having the book in front of me. For students, if they miss a day, they can read over the events for the pages missed so they're not behind. =Blogs=

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This site has come great seasonal craft for young children. =Wikis=

[|Main Page]
will return to the first page of the Moodle site. =Teacher Tools=

[|Animoto]
videos

[|Creative Common]
public pictures for noncommercial use.

[|Glogster]
Posters come to life.

[|Logos!]
Adds decorative words.

[|Math]
These have help for math lesson plans and worksheets for all ages. There are also some critical thinking games.

[|Prezi]
Make and study for

[|Reading]
Scholastic has interactive stories, games, and even some teacher lesson plans and ideas. [|onlevelreading]

[|Shorten_Links]
with this website!

[|Videos]
an array of odd and unusual topics

[|ViewPure]
is a website that transforms a YouTube link into a clutter free video!

[|UpLoad]
Documents. =Student Tools= [|Animoto] videos [|Creative Common] public pictures for noncommercial use. [|Glogster] Posters come to life. [|Pretzi]

=VoiceThread/Videos= [|4th grade reading] Here is a collaborative student project where they got to make a paper version of a quilt they read about. Then, they made this Voice Thread to reinforce the purpose of the craft and touch on the important ideas from the book. By talking about their craft, it reinforced the important facts and associates the craft to the facts to avoid memorization. [|4th grade writing activity] A teacher has filmed different crafts the students did to help improve some difficult language problems. They learned about syndromes, which expanded the words they would write with, and they used booklets to review their parts of speech. Another writing craft was picking a word and then finding all the different meanings and matching a picture. The students probably took more care with their crafts knowing that they would be filmed and they learned and reviewed important writing ideas. [|4th grade Social Studies] This teacher put book pictures and his lessons online to give students the opportunity to comment, ask questions, and to have access at all times. I really like this idea. It feel very one-on-one and can be done at the student's pace. [|4th grade art] Voice thread provided excellent picture representations and a vocal description to help students understand various ideas of art involving the color wheel.

[|How humans learn] it is an interesting video posted by scholastic for teachers.