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Education.com - Game of the Week: Stop the Clock

 

Game of the Week Check out this week’s featured game and watch your child build new skills, all while having a blast! Stop the Clock! In this crazy clock game, students will practice telling time to the nearest five minutes. Click below to play the game Play now Want to see more? Click the links below 😊 Worksheets Games

Math Snacks: A Couple of Examples - Number Rights and Scale Ella

 Whole numbers are no better than any others!

Practice plotting values on the number line as a passionate activist rises up and demands equity for all numbers, including fractions and decimals. Number Rights addresses number and operations standards as well as the process standard, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It supports students in: - Comparing and ordering fractions, decimals, and percentages

- Efficiently and finding their approximate locations on a number line. - Building new mathematical knowledge through problem solving. - Solving problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.

Math Snacks are short animations and mini-games designed to present mathematics in a very different way. In fact, we hope these snacks don't look like traditional math at all. Math Snacks give students, especially those who don't particularly like math, another way to look at math concepts.

Math Snacks are short animations and mini-games designed to do things a little differently - try them out! Bizarre to some, yet effectively fun for kids and worth a look if you're a teacher.

Courtesy of Jonathan@NU

Math Snacks Website

What are Math Snacks?

Smart educational animations, games, and interactive tools that help mid-school learners better understand math concepts

https://www.mathsnacks.com

This website offers a number of different online games to help students with math concepts such as decimals, fractions, graphing, algebraic expressions and variables, and even measurement and promotions of objects and shapes.

This can make math units fun and engaging for all different kinds of learners.

Brought to you by: Keegan@NU (OTECC)

EDUCATION.COM - Another Great bunch of Things to Do for Grade 2

 Again, a great little site ... check it out. Grade 2 samples are provided here.

WEEKLY BOOST Your Weekly Boost gives you week-by-week resources that sync with the school year. You get a sneak peek into your kid’s classroom, and your child gets a boost with new skills they’re learning. Get the Weekly Boost                                                  Math                                                Elapsed Time Stop the Clock! Game Calculate Elapsed Time Worksheet If you want to see more, click here >>>>>>>>>> See more activities For more fun, click the links below: Worksheets Games

Jamboard - The Digital Whiteboard

I am sure by now most teachers have used or at least heard about Jamboard. This is a Google tool that allows the user to:

• Add sticky notes, drawings, images, text and more.

• Search Google and insert images or webpages.

• Move images, texts, notes and drawings around on the screen easily.

• Drag and resize text and images with your fingers.

• Share your "jams" with others and let them collaborate. 

It is a really useful tool for students to be able to interact with worksheets and projects (i.e. posters) as a digital whiteboard. As all Google Suite tools it saves automatically and teachers and students can work at the same time. Teachers can easily set up a Jamboard slide for each student to complete work on. This is much easier to keep an eye on students progress for one page tasks rather accessing their Google Slide work through Google Classroom.

From my experience, my students love being able to search google images right in the app to find pictures to illustrate their writing tasks. It also works really well during brainstorming sessions that would typically be written up on anchor charts to be hung up in the classroom. Students can use Jamboard to autonomy to present their work similarly to how a teacher would with text, pictures, drawings, and sticky notes.

Jamboard's are also manufactured to be brought into a classroom similarly to SMARTBoards and can be a physical smart board. While this is a pricey option, if your school uses Google Suite as your online learning platform, teachers should try Jamboard as an online version of a white board or black board that everyone can collaborate on. 

Lauren (OTECC) @NU

Class Ace

Class Ace has been an integral tool throughout my teaching virtual journey. This website, like many others, has been designed with so much creativity and genuine support which is demonstrated in their layout and content. It welcomes all learning needs / styles as it is easily accessible for everyone to use and the lessons, assignments as well as activities. It is considered to be a fairly new learning platform for students in K-6. There are so many highly effective, self-paced math and english lessons that have been created for students so that they reach their greatest potential. 

Throughout each lesson, students are engaged through the videos, diagrams, breakdown, and practice that is available. There is the option for students to get a Step-by-Step Read aloud, there are abundant questions that are tailored to all learning styles and it's not time consuming. Rather, students learn at their own pace but in a quick, effective manner. Meditation. Meditation is so important, especially with what we're all experiencing at the moment. We must remember to allot time to our mental-health and well-being and we can do just so on Class Ace as there are meditation lessons, music and affirmations that are shared.

Overall, I've found this website incredible and many of my students have enjoyed using it!

https://classace.io/

Paola@NU

SMART Exchange - Free Resources for Teachers

FREE Resources for Teacher

Free Classroom Resources: Get activities, games, and Smart Notebook lessons created by teachers for teachers. Yes, they are also connected to Ontario Curriculum Expectations - and many other districts around the world too. 

Click here for the SMART Exchange >>>>> FREE RESOURCES

Remember, this is FREE with thousands and thousands of great pre-made activities, games, and lessons.  Enjoy!