Reading Resources

Science articles for Students: https://www.snexplores.org/

Teaching Kids News: http://teachingkidsnews.com/

  • Has a section of Fake News

Readworks (Account required): https://www.readworks.org

Spintronics

Spintronics is a mechanical analogue of electronic components and circuits. Need further investigation to understand its usefulness in understanding the concepts.

Canada Learning Code

https://www.canadalearningcode.ca/about-us/

 Canada Learning Code brings accessible computer science to communities across Canada so everyone can create with technology. We do this by partnering with educators, designing resources, and delivering learning experiences.

Generation Genius math and Science curriculum lessons

https://www.generationgenius.com

Classkick

Students and teachers can annotate a PDF with text, audio, stickers, etc. Perhaps targeted at younger grades.

Blooket

Similar to Kahoot or Quizizz

Advantage: more diverse game types for greater engagement.

 

VideoAnt

Allows students to add comments to an on-line video such as those from YouTube.

Need to investigate whether teacher's can moderate the content posted by students.

Dotstorming

A collection of tools including

  • walls
  • voting boards
  • other

to facilitate student collaboration. Good for brainstorming and getting consensus on a topic.

Interesting Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbCHn6gE3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34NqCbAA1c

 

 

Breakout EDU

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21st Century Skills

Open Ed from Stanford University. Rubric for 21st century skills.

Peardeck and Google Slides - Be Internet Awesome

Peardeck and Google Slides - Be Internet Awesome

BOKS - Build our Kids Success

https://www.bokskids.org/

Physical fitness program for schools that provides a programming approach for gym and DPA.

Turing Tumble

This game creates a turing machine that can be configured to solve different logic puzzles. https://www.turingtumble.com/

Nutrition: Lessons in nutrition

Sponsored by Kellogs but seems to be a useful resource for tackling nutrition topics with grade-specific lessons:

http://www.missionnutrition.ca/eng/educators/4to5.html

Mel Chemistry - Home Chemistry

https://melscience.com/CA-en/

Looks like a subscription service to chemistry experiments

In-class DPA activities

DPA

https://whatmomslove.com/kids/active-indoor-games-activities-for-kids-to-burn-energy

https://www.gonoodle.com

 

Teachspeced.ca

This site is helpful for strategies to addressing accommodations. 

Ontario Math Resources to Investigate

https://ontariomath.support/

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The mission of Ontario Association for Mathematics Education/Association Ontarienne pour l'Enseignement de Mathematiques (OAME/AOEM) is to promote excellence in mathematics education throughout the Province of Ontario.

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Founded in 1920, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is the world’s largest mathematics education organization, with 60,000 members and more than 230 Affiliates throughout the United States and Canada. It is the public voice of mathematics education, supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for each and every student through vision, leadership, professional development, and research.

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Illuminations is a project designed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It includes a variety of virtual manipulatives, lessons, and resources for K-12.

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A site designed for Ontario K-12 students and parents; includes games, learning tools, activities, additional supports, and a parents link to resources they can use to support their child.

K to 2 Connections

This space provides an opportunity for individual and collaborative reflection based on academic and classroom research through guiding questions, video clips of early primary educators and children in Ontario.

Math Page for Teachers

A site that features manipulatives, strategies, and printouts for teaching elementary math. Based on Van de Walle and Everyday Mathematics.

Mathwire.com

A site that includes activities and appropriate worksheets that support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics and the NCTM Standards.

TinkerCAD

Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!

It is from AutoCAD.

Presentation Tool Beautifu.ai

Easy to use tool for making presentations.

Classroom Management App

Classroom management apps to be considered: ClassDojo.

ClassDojo

This looks to be an interesting application that could be useful. It's primary use is for assigning and tracking merit points for good and bad behaviour. It also has tools for messaging parents individually or as a group. I'm not sure whether parents have to be logged into the portal to get the messages or if they get pushed through some other message. 

There is a Web component that you access through the Browser and then a mobile app. The two are linked together and in some cases the app casts to the Web desktop which will be useful if the desktop is connected to a projector. 

The other features of the app and desktop include

  • attendance tracking
  • randomly selecting a student
  • Create random groups
  • Starting a timer
  • Displaying a sound meter (Interesting but would be much better if it gave a specific level.
  • Play some background music (only two choices)
  • Create and display some simple steps to follow
  • Put instructions for think-pair-share

The app appears to work well and should be fairly easy to use from a cell phone or tablet while working with the class away from the main computer.

 

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