Website of the Week: Storyline Online (Gr. K-8)

Storyline Online – Virtual story readers in your classroom! Storyline Online is an absolutely wonderful literacy resource to get students excited about reading, writing, and the telling of stories. A program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, this site contains 24 animated stories on such books as A Bad Case of Strips and Romeow & [...]

Mathnet & Mathman (Gr. 1-8)

Mathnet/Mathman – Show segments on YouTube If you don’t follow Richard Byrne’s blog Free Technology for Teachers then I strongly recommend you do so. In a recent post, Richard shared his discovery of episodes of Mathnet and Mathman, popular segments from the PBS television show Square One. For those who don’t know: Mathnet is a [...]

This American Life Episode #449: Middle School

I just finished listening to an episode of This American Life from NPR on the topic of “Middle School.” The topic was requested by who else, a middle school student who listens to the podcast. The entire podcast is available online as well as the individual segments. I just thought it was interesting to here [...]

Website of the Week: Mission US

Mission US – A Revolutionary Way to Learn History (Gr. 4-8) Mission US is an interactive online experience for students to learn about US history. Students start with Mission #1, “For Crown or Colony?” about the steps leading up to the Revolutionary War. More missions are forthcoming, so check out the ABOUT section for updates [...]

App of the Week Review: Verbally

This week Hillary Brumer over at Techno Bytes reviews the App Verbally, a free App. that gives users the power of speech even when they have difficulty speaking themselves. Read the Review Get the App. iPad

App of the Week Review: The Monster at the End of This Book

This week Hillary Brumer over at Techno Bytes reviews an interactive storybook App called The Monster at the End of This Book. This was so my favorite book when I was a kid; I think my parents had to actually buy the book twice because I wore out the first one. And come on, who [...]

BONUS Website #1: MeeGenius!

MeeGenius! – Enhanced online books for kids (Gr. K-6) A wonderful literacy resources that has a library full of online audio books. While the site does list books that require purchasing before being accessed, the site still has an impressive library of classic titles which are completely FREE. Stories can be listened to or read [...]

Exploring The Far East

Exploring The Far East: Myers & Dalton Teams Each year 7th grade students at MSK immerse themselves in the diverse cultures, people and customs that exist in countries and how they compare to life here in Kennebunk, Maine. So please join us as we journey to China, Japan and other countries to learn about what [...]

Website of the Week: Changing the Balance

Changing the Balance – Digital assets investigating climate change (Gr. 6-12) Changing the Balance dives into the debates around climate change by investigating the story of some unlikely players in this game: blood-thirsty parasites. As students progress through the story they will learn about mosquitoes, Malaria, the West Nile virus and how climate change has [...]

Kid Politics – from TAL & NPR

From This American Life and NPR (National Public Radio), their January 14 episode entitled “Kid Politics“  investigates what happens when we turn over responsibility for governing and making the big decisions to kids. When a group of 5th graders take over the White House to re-enact the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada in 1983, will they [...]