Whiteboard.Fi is a free tool that you can use to generate a room of individual whiteboards for your students that you can monitor in a grid view. If you don’t have the pro version of PearDeck, which allows students to draw on slides, this is an alternative you may want to consider. There is no … Read more
Creator of ClassTools.net, @RusselTarr, tweeted this site the other day. My 1st graders have been studying countries around the world, and we have recently been discussing foods. They really enjoyed “Don’t Gross Out the World,” from FunBrain because they thought many of the cultural traditions were unbelievable. For example, how can it be true that some … Read more
This week I am going to dedicate my posts to sharing resources I learned about at TCEA in Austin last week. I think packing too much info into a blog post is overwhelming, so if you are craving more, feel free to check out my notes (which are not finished yet!) here. At her “Fabulous … Read more
Technically this should be a Phun Phriday post. Because it’s seriously, addictively P.H.U.N. However, my Friday posts in November and December are devoted to my “Gifts for the Gifted” series. So, we’re going to break the mold and make it a Phun Thursday. And even though that’s not quite as alliterative, it’s still fun. I … Read more
Don’t be mislead by the title of this site. You are not required to download any software, and the math resources here are fun and free. Although primarily designed for middle and high school students, there seem to be a lot of activities that could be used in upper elementary – and it would be a … Read more