summer resources for the k12 student 2010

Summer Resources

for the K-12 Student

ByKaren Brooks

Updated 5/12/10

Summer Resources

for the K-12 Student

Resources for Presentation

• http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/summer• http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks• http://en.calameo.com/accounts/285487 • http://www.karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com• http://www.karenbrooks.wikispaces.com

• This information session will look at educational and fun websites for students in K-12 education to help make their summer both fun and educational while on the computer. Websites will be discussed and broken down by grade levels and subjects. In addition, resources will be provided for both the parent and the teacher.

As Disney’s Phineas and Ferb

would say:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoV2adaRBWU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaXulDww2_w&NR=1 http://www.televisiontunes.com/Phineas_and_Ferb.html

• There's a hundred and four daysof summer vacation,And school comes along just toend it,so the annual problem of our generationis finding a good way to spend it,like maybe,

• Building a rocket, or fighting amummy, or climbing up the Eiffel tower

Discovering something that doesn'texist, or giving a monkey a shower

Surfing taller waves,creating nanobots, or locating Frankenstein's brain

Finding a Dodo bird,painting the continent, or driving their sisterensane

So as you can see, there's a who lotof stuff to do before school startsthis fall

So stick with us cause' Phineas andFerb are going to do it all,

So stick with us cause' Phineas andFerb are going to do it all.

Phineas and Ferb PSAhttp://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/commonsense/

Video

Digital Footprints – Your New First Impressionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZjmrJvL_eg&feature=player_embedded

Elementary GradesK-2

K-2 Summer Resources• Starfall – Phonemic

awareness, phonics and fluency

• Orson’s Farm: Phonemic Awareness

• GameGoo

• Building Language and Literacy from Scholastic

• Study Dog – Supports all 5 building blocks to reading

Arthur Games from PBS Kids Arthur Games – Letters To... Arthur Games – Poetry Club Arthur Games – Muffy’s Wardrobe Story Scramble

Unmatching Game

Between the Lions Games from PBS Kids

Digby Mole’s Word Games from BBC; end sounds, first sounds, and rhymes

ISpy from Scholastic

Literacy Center

Read and Write with Clifford from Scholastic

Construct A Word from ReadWriteThink

Word Wizard from ReadWriteThink

What’s in the Bag from ReadWriteThink

Picture Match from ReadWriteThink

Sound and Letter Time from Scholastic

• Scholastic News– Ask a Weather Watcher (Listen &

Read)– Here Come the Frogs! (Listen & Read)– Insect World Records (Listen & Read)– Growing Up Gater (Listen & Read)– Meet Mr. President (Listen & Read)– Welcome Back, Bald Eagles! (Listen &

Read)

• Dragonfly no longer maintained by University of Miami, but still available.

• Scholastic Special Reports

• National Geographic for Kids Stories from Around the World Includes Videos, Activites and Games.

• Moppet Games Fund educational games kids 3-12.

• PBS Sesame Games

• Brain Pop JrPaid site, but some free materials

Elementary Grades3-5

• Kids Lab http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/SRW3.htm

• KidsHealth

• PBS Raising Readers

• PBS Science Games Designed for Middle School grades.

• PBS Designed Squad Projects Designed for Middle School Grades

• ABC Teach Science Experiments Most are designed for Upper Elementary

• Picture Book Maker

• StoryBird

• I Know That This site is a supplement to education programs and has both online and offline activities.

• CAST UDL Book Builder

• Discovery Math Homework Help

• PBS Summer Post Cards

• Hands on Activities and Games 286 Pages of activities!

Middle School6-8

• It’s My Life PBS Site

• Scholastic Character Scrapbook

• BBC Bitesize

• Financial Lessons

• Kids Know It

• Pico Cricket

• Bright Horizons Summer Resources

• Food Detectives

• Interactive Math Games

High School

High Schoolhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

Magnetic Poetry http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/create.cfm?k=5

Jefferson Labshttp://education.jlab.org/indexpages/elementgames.php

All My Favs – Educational Tab http://edu.allmyfaves.com/

BBC World Historyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/worldhistory/

Playing Historyhttp://playinghistory.org/

More resources on Delicious.com• http://delicious.com/dembe01/Middle_School• http://delicious.com/dembe01/parent_resource• http://delicious.com/dembe01/ss• http://delicious.com/dembe01/art• http://delicious.com/dembe01/music• http://delicious.com/dembe01/science• http://delicious.com/dembe01/math• http://delicious.com/dembe01/ela• http://delicious.com/dembe01/languages • http://delicious.com/dembe01/internet_safety

Other

TELL http://tell.schoolwires.net/166210312143529697/blank/browse.

asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=55250

BBC Learninghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/

Discovery Education Summer Activitieshttp://school.discoveryeducation.com/parents/summer/

Recommended Reading Lists

Continued

Alice StoryTellinghttp://www.alice.org/

• Carnegie Mellon makes downloads of the Alice software available for free at www.alice.org.

• Eight textbooks on Alice have been written. Alice is used by 10 percent of U.S. colleges and in many high schools.

• Also available is a version for middle school children called "Storytelling Alice," which was designed by Caitlin Kelleher, Pausch's Ph.D. student, to appeal in particular to young girls with hopes of increasing female interest in computer science careers.

Mr. Nussbaumhttp://www.mrnussbaum.com/sal.htm

Scratchhttp://scratch.mit.edu/

Web2.0 http://dembe01.edu.glogster.com/web20intheclassroom/

http://school.familyeducation.com/

Check out the US Department of Educationhttp://www2.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml

http://www.education.com/

Don’t forget to check teacher websites & District Websites!

Examples: http://mrsfinn.weebly.com/ orhttp://teacherweb.com/NY/Arlington/MsBerner/apt1.aspx

The Community Guide.netUlster County Summer Day Programs and Camps

http://www.thecommunityguide.com/dayCamp.html

Enrichment Camps http://www.sunyulster.edu/continuing_ed/noncredit_programs/additional_programs/kids_teens/summer_camp.jsp

VideoDigital Dossier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA

Thanks for attending!

kbrooks@ulsterboces.org