Mrs. Freed's Website Full of Goodies!

UPDATED August 25, 2010
Welcome Back Students and Teachers!
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.

Holt Junior High School

WONDERFUL TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION LINKS!
Or
Just something fun to do!

Everyday Math Online Game Links

Online games that go with the Everyday Math curriculum. Choose the grade you want and find the curriculum map with game links. There are also links to amazing math manipulatives for teachers to use with their digital image projectors.

Toon Books - Easy to Read Comics

This is a great site with easy to read comics, a comic maker, paper puppets and more! When the students, or you, use the readers, the sound can be on or off, your choice.

Book Reviews - Common Sense Media

Do you need to find out more about a book you would like to share with your students or have them read in a book club? Then this site is the place. I have entered several books and they have all been in their review que. Will give disclaimers of things that might be inappropriate and also tells the age level that it should be read at. You can also read reviews on books that I have read under the tab at the top of this web page titled Children's Book Review.

Writing Fix - Interactive Writing Prompts

For Teachers, Students & Writers
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!!

This site covers all subjects and has amazing online activites/manipulatives. Worth checking out!

How Stuff Works Video Center

Ever watch the show "How Is That Made?" Well this is the same sort of thing with professionally made videos. There are also videos that tell how to do all kinds of math operations from simple addition up!

First School Years

Free worksheets, flashcards and resources found here. Great site for teachers.

School Tube

This is another great site like Teacher Tube but as always, with videos, watch the whole thing first before showing to your students. If used carefully can really enhance a lesson!

Comprehension Strategies

This is a wonderful teacher resource site full of great printables on reading comprehension.

Photo Show Creator - Roxio

Turn your photos into a dazzling photo show complete with music and transitions!

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

There are a range of different science modules to choose from that are suitable for younger students to high school students. Many of the modules have worksheets you can download (PDF) and print out to assess student learning or for take home work. Check out this wonderful site to compliment your science curriculum.

FOSS Web

Another amazing site! This place is loaded with science activites both for online and off. There are movies and pictures for all science topics as well grades k-middle school. You will definitely be glad you checked this site out! Click the picture to get there.

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

This site is well known but thought I put the link in here for convience. If you do not know the district password and username contact me or your building tech person.

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.

Guess The Google

This higher order thinking game is a great way to get the morning started in your class. It shows a group of pictures that were returned from a google search and the students have to look them over and analyze what word they think was searched to get the results shown. Very fun and a great way to get the creative juices flowing in the morning.

Wordle

This site has a daily wordle, like the one here, where students will need to guess the topic by the words or phrases in the wordle. The more important the word or phrase is to the topic, the larger it shows up. Very fun and a great way to start your morning in the classroom if you need a transition piece.

Intel Visual Ranking Tool and Collaborator

Wonderful site where students can collaborate and use analyzing and evaluating higher order skills. It is a bit difficult to figure out how to set it up for your class at first but very much worth it.

Math Helpers!

Wonderful math manipulatives and online activities arraged by grade.

More Math Helpers!

Arranged by grade, these are great helpers for math.