Resources



Below you will find a list of resource for teachers and parents and a brief description of what can be found on each of them. These sites include games and activities, lesson ideas, and assessments for students.

[] -- This website is full of many different online activities spaning a range of subjects. In the math section or "Mr. Nussbaum's Math Lab" there are many online math activities/practice. Some of the activities deal with fraction help another with adding and carrying numbers. Other topics include: adding, subtracting, multiplication, division, measurment, placevalue and graphing. These activities would be a great addition or expantion on lessons.

[|www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/563158] -- Newground has a game that requires the player to think logically and spatially. The object of the game is to move block to disconnect them and free them. You can rotate the figure and slide blocks invarious angles until they can be removed from the shape all together.

[] - Kidsites.com contains a list of additional math sites to inhance math skills from brain basheers to games designed for k-8 skill levels. There are animated games, cites for homework help and cite that links math to daily life.

[] - At the mathplayground you will find games geared towards elementary and middle school students. These games claim to "give your brain a workout". This is done by inhancing their math skills through logic games and activities. The website also has math videos, logic puzzles, word problems math games and resources. There is a section for thinking blocks, computation, math worksheets and manipulatives.

[] - Although a bit distracting, this website provides help lessons for math ranging from prealgebra to calculus. It also has puzzles, math tips and sections for kids, parents, teachers. The teacher section includes lesson plans and tips, continuing education ideas and tips, and classroom resources.

@http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ - This website provides practice math facts with online games providing the opportunity to challenge other players. A nice aspect of Arcademic Skill Builders is that it provides free research-based and standards-aligned educational games. This means that the students' abilities and improvements can be tracked. The skills to work on include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integers, decimals, fractions and time.

[] - This website has several different links including parents, educators, teens, tweens, and kids. It's mission statment is "NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. The program is designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations, NetSmartz entertains while it educates." The skills taught are not all academic but strive to educate students on the potential risks and when using the internet. With article on blogging, cellphones, cyberbullying, games, predators, revealing too much, and social networking the goal is to prevent students from becoming victims. There is even a section that includes educational standards, safety pledges and teaching materials.  [] - Google is going farther beyond beig a simple search engine. There is now Google for educators! Google has recognized that todays students use the internet to explore human knowledge and provide the tools to steatch the avalible knowledge. This site included guides to [|Google Tools for Your Classroom] and possible classroom uses. There is also a newsletter for a Google-sponsored educators blog called the "[|Infinite Thinking Machine]". There are even [|discussion groups].