UPDATED February 21, 2013
Welcome to Mrs. Freed's website. This site is for teachers and parents of grades k-8, public school or homeschooled. Students can click on the "student links" above for things for them
including Study Island for Holt.
To navigate any of the links, just click on the pictures including the logo's for
Holt and Holt Junior High.
WONDERFUL TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION LINKS!
Or
Just something fun to do!
Everyday Math Online Game Links
Toon Books - Easy to Read Comics
Book Reviews - Common Sense Media
Writing Fix - Interactive Writing Prompts
Interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms. This is an amazing site. Even has prompts for left brain and right brain options.
I Know That!!
How Stuff Works Video Center
First School Years
School Tube
Comprehension Strategies
Photo Show Creator - Roxio
NEW! Kids Know It Network
Teachers! This is a great site!!
Check out this site to find things on rock classification, dinosaurs, math, longtitude and latitude, history, the human body and much more!!
Active Science from Glaxo Smith Kline
FOSS Web
Explore Learning --- WOW eLearning site
Math and science "gizmo simulations" that power inquiry and understanding. This site is fabulous and will take you some time to check over. Math and science are both included. Check it out!
University of Illinois - Just For Kids
This is an amazing site put out by the University of Illinois on a variety of topics. The pictures are great and there is a narrator for most of them. For example, I went to Shake Rattle and Roll and it was all about Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Glaciers/Plate Tectonics. The pictures were wonderful cutaways and 3D and the narrator was very interesting. These would be great to use on your DIP to go along with your topic. Nice like technology integratoin. Other topics include weather, food, ecosystems, worms, rivers, and more.
EDHead
This site is amazing. Use caution with some of the virtual activities as they are VERY VERY realistic! I did the brain surgery and felt like I was almost right there in it. Very cool, very real, but could bother some student's. It is cartoon but still quite real. Check it out first. The simple machines activities are great, whether to allow students to do alone in the computer lab or together on your DIP. Weather activity is nice but not quite as cool as the other activities. The students get to be a weather man and predict the weather with known information on a map. The virtual crash scene is also amazing and there is a ton of math and observation involved in figuring out what happened.
Discovery Streaming - United Streaming
Just ran across this site today. It is a must have for the K-3 grades for sure. There are several stories on here, like Stellaluna and Polar Express that are read to you by the Screen Actors Guide actors. The book's pages are also shown during the reading. Each story comes with lesson plans and printable worksheets/activities. I just watched the Polar Express and it was very well done. The actor even caught me up in their enthusiasm. Be sure to check this out. Side note, it seems to be having funding difficulties and the first page you come to says as much, just click through, you can still get there. Click on the picture to get there!
Cyber Bee Learning
Math Playground
This is a great site that would go well with most math curriculums and levels in elementary and middle school. It has several different kinds of manipulatives that are interactive. You could use this on your DIP to show students something or have them use the interactive manipulatives themselves when you go to the computer lab. Included are: fraction bars, equivalent fractions, percentages, function machine, circle graphs, angles, math bars, probability, pattern blocks, geometry board and more. This is a must see!
Arthur- Facts and Opinions!
This site is full of different macro media games to have students play or teachers show to a classroom on their DIP's. The one I have linked above is to teach children about facts and opinions. Go to their home page while there to check out the rest! CLICK THE PICTURE TO GET THERE!
Growing with Technology
This is an amazing site all about technology itself. There are levels for K through 5 that will each go through the parts of the computer, and then lesson plans complete with links for learning how to use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint and MUCH MUCH MORE!! CLICK THE PICTURE TO GET THERE!
BBC Schools
BBC schools is a site you should have saved in your favorites. It will take you an entire school year to check out all there is to offer there. What they have is movie clips with characters and interactive educational activities. These are NOT games. They are interactive activities. A good example is the solids, liquids, and gases activity. A child can take different items and heat them up or cool them down. Chocolate for example can be changed from a solid to a liquid. CLICK PICTURE TO GET THERE!
Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr.
Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr. are both subscription sites but do have a free freebies. This site is worth it to subscribe to. What they have are two characters who talk about tons of topics that you are teaching on. For example there is a movie clip about electricity and the two of them show students all the things there are to konw about electricity. CLICK PICTURE TO GET THERE!
Teacher Tube - Movie Clips - For Teachers
This site is full of wonderful short clips on MANY subjects. Very searchable! For example, I found a cool science guy, complete with crazy wig and lab coat, who tells the students in short 3 or 4 minute clips all about science things. WARNING - Always watch videos first just in case something slips through thier filter! CLICK ON PICTURE TO GET THERE.
Channel One
This is recommended for 4th grade and up. In a short, 8 to 10 minute daily clip, students will get world and national news in a way they can understand. You can also get quizzes and discussion sheets for after the viewing. Every day is new and up to date on events. This is a must see!! CLICK PICTURE TO GET THERE!
Pete's Powerpoint Station - For Teachers
Do you have a DIP (Digital Image Projector)??? Then you want to check this site out. He has powerpoints created for almost every subject under the sun!! And they are editable so if you pick out his solar system powerpoint but it is missing two of the vocabulary words you want you can add them in! He also has game templates in here including JEOPARDY! CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO GET THERE!
HUGE Powerpoint Site - For Teachers
Looking for powerpoint presentations??? Look no further. They are all here! (Well, some are up at Pete's too but TONS are here!) Enjoy looking through them to help integrate technology into your lessons! CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO GET THERE!
Printable Coloring Book All About Regions of the United States
This is a wonderful PDF that you can print out for students to learn about the regions of the United States. CLICK PICTURE TO GET THERE.
Primary Games For Kids! Educational
This site is full of subject specific java games. Students can play these at home or a teacher could assign one for a computer lab time. Some of these games need to be downloaded but a lot of them are ready to go. STUDENTS - GET PERMISSION FIRST!! CLICK ON PICTURE TO GET THERE!
READ WRITE THINK - FOR TEACHERS
When you get in here click on student materials. This site is full of wonderful ways to integrate technology into your classroom. An example is the TIME LINE MAKER. I had my students do a Michigan time line on here. They got to enter the dates and a paragraph about that date. When they were finished they could click print and a very nice time line came out. I then had them mount it on construction paper for display. NEW EXAMPLE FOR THIS SITE I JUST FOUND - the classroom newspaper maker. There is a template and all you do is plug in the stories and bylines and print it out. This is really fun and a great idea for teaching how to write to INFORM. These are only two cool things on this site. Look around! CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO GET THERE! Another NEW example I found today (December 15) is the note taking practice. Go to Fact Fragment Frenzy. Students get a page of information and then can actually just drag important words over to a notebook to take notes. These can be printed off as well if you are looking for a way to assess.