Research Tools for K-2

http://oslis.org/

http://onlinelibrary.uen.org/

Glogster

How do students cite their sources?

The Common Core Standards say that in text citation is all they need in elementary. I do have my 6th grade students fully cite their sources when we do our research reports. It’s a good way to practice  the formatting to prepare for high school and college!

Research in the Primary Grades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCvuwhDh8ao–

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

https://www.kiddle.co/

https://www.kidzsearch.com/

https://www.juniorsafesearch.com/

https://wonderopolis.org/

https://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?v=2.1&u=pioneer&pg=BasicSearch&it=static&sw=w&p=ITKE&password=pioneer

Research Tools for 3-5

How to teach kids to research- 4 short videos to cover:

Brainstorming, Making a Plan, Researching, Writing, Revising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HM8GjQwP8

Google Scholar

Google Explorer

Sound bytes

Research Tools

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

https://www.kiddle.co/

https://www.kidzsearch.com/

https://www.juniorsafesearch.com/

https://wonderopolis.org/

https://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?v=2.1&u=pioneer&pg=BasicSearch&it=static&sw=w&p=ITKE&password=pioneer

Edutainment site—requires subscription www.brainpop.com

Internet research sites for kids http://ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html

Kids search engine for the internet kids.yahoo.com

Math, reading, arcade edutainment www.funbrain.com

National Geographic for kids kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Nova video programs www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs.html

Research for kids www.factmonster.com/

Research—by grade level www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=LabelMaps

Research—chapters on subjects http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/

Videos on so many topics www.woopid.com/

Research—for kids libraryspot.com/

Research—history www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html

School Tube—learning videos from YouTube. Organized by topics http://sqooltube.com/

Science headlines—audio science.nasa.gov/headlines

Search the internet www.google.com

Thesaurus—a great one www.thesaurus.com

World Book Online (subscription required) www.worldbookonline.com/kids

Man do I love Google!
I just learned that you can add appointment slots to your Google Calendar! Now you can have parents sign up for Parent teacher Conferences with EASE!

OR WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO HERE! (it is only 3:15 minutes long….so easy!)

This is so cool!
Here are the steps:
1. Using your school Google account, open Google Calendar
2. Make sure you are in WEEK or DAY view. 



3. Click anywhere on the calendar. In the event box that pops up, Click Appointment Slots. 

4. Enter the details, including title, and pick the calendar where you want the event to show up, as well as change the time slot amount


5. To add more information, like a location, description, or to make the appointment block repeat, click edit details. 

Now add your details:
Then you will copy this link and add it to your blog. Your parents can click on that, then just sign up! 
You can then open up your Google Calendar and see who has scheduled with you. Amazing right!??

Hope this helps! Everything is easier with Google!

Here is a 90 sec tutorial on how to enter your composite scores for Dibels. Please do this by September 20, 2017.

Here is a simple tutorial to help you get started with Smilebox. It will teach you how to save videos on your blog and as a video file. Take some time to get to know Smilebox, you will LOVE it!
For those of you that have Smilebox and need to renew it for FREE, here is the website: http://media.smilebox.com/teachers/renew

For those of you that would like to get your FREE activation code, select the following link: http://media.smilebox.com/teachers/welcome

 Smilebox lets you makes fun videos to display on your blogs. It is super user friendly, it’s my favorite!

We have a new way for parents to subscribe to our blogs! Since Google Feedburner is not updating and working, we are going to try this. I have created a step-by-step video tutorial to walk you through the process.

Don’t forget to subscribe to my blog for email updates!
Here is the link to Nourish, then watch the video below. 

http://www.nouri.sh/

We have a new way for parents to subscribe to our blogs! Since Google Feedburner is not updating and working, we are going to try this. I have created a step-by-step video tutorial to walk you through the process.

Don’t forget to subscribe to my blog for email updates!
Here is the link to Nourish, then watch the video below. 

http://www.nouri.sh/

It is going to be a great year! I am excited to train you on many of the technology teaching tools available to you and your students. 

I have a lot of things that I have to share with you, but I’ll let you get through your first few weeks of school. In the meantime, I do want to be available to help if and when you need me. I have a schedule set up on this blog where you can book a time to meet with me. Go to the “schedule with me”  in order to book a time with me. 

So if you feel like you need help ASAP, take a look at it and book a time to meet with me. I want to be available and help as much as I can as we transition into this new school year.