Curriculum-Based+Website

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Dixie Kirkham

Click here to see a screencast tutorial for Discovery Education!

Discovery Education has many valuable resources for the classroom. One useful tool Dixie demonstrates is the free puzzle creator. Users can create word searches, crosswords, or various other types of puzzles for class activities. These puzzles could be used in any subject area, from Earth Science to the Library Media Center. Students could practice vocabulary words or answer short answer questions to apply knowledge.

Jessica Uding

Click here to see a screencast tutorial for Scholastic's Share What You're Reading

Share what you're reading is a website that allows students to write their own book reviews, or to read book reviews written by their peers. In this tutorial, Jessica goes through the basic process of writing a book review, or finding a review for a book a student would be interested in. This website would be a great supplement to a Language Arts class, and would be especially good for replacing a traditional book report. Instead of--or in addition to--doing a traditional presentation, students can publish their opinions of a book to the internet for other students across the country to see. This process takes kids beyond the basic recall level to evaluation, which stimulates their critical thinking skills.