Student Response Network Ice Breakers (Icebreakers) from ResidentAssistant.com GamesRA Contributor2014-09-18T09:47:09+00:00 Whether you need an activity for a staff meeting or a teambuilder for your floor, this section of the site provides you with ideas and instructions to help energize groups and bring people together! Do you have a favorite icebreaker or teambuilder? Please share it today! Ice Blocking Posted by: RA Contributor Category: Ice Breakers, Program Ideas, Reviewed, Social/Community Building, Team Builders Submitted by Name: Michael School: University of Idaho Description: This program is a way for you just to get a bunch of residents together at the beginning of the year… Continue reading » Brainteasers Posted by: RA Contributor Category: Ice Breakers, Passive Programs, Problem Solving Activities, Reviewed Brainteasers I went online and pulled out 15 riddles, some easy, some nearly impossible. Continue reading » Last Minute Date Ideas Posted by: RA Contributor Category: Ice Breakers Continue reading » Purity test Continue reading » Tag Team Chariot Racing
6 Good Kids-Safe Sites for Educational Games Games are important if not essential elements in the learning of our kids. They provide a strong drive for learners to get engaged in what they are learning. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has compiled a wide resource section that comprises interesting graphics, gaming apps and tools and several other materials that teachers might probably need to leverage the power of gaming in education. I invite you to check it and browse through the stuff we have there. In today's post I am adding some good resource sites where teachers can have access to a plethora of educational games to share with their students. 1- Smart Kit The Smart Kit is a platform that provides school-safe games and puzzles that kids & adults just love to play! 2- Room Recess RoomRecess is focused on providing children with free educational games. Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy.
New Teacher Boot Camp with Lisa M. Dabbs M.Ed. Hands-on practice with five powerful Web 2.0 tools. Lisa M Dabbs M Ed. is the facilitator of Edutopia's New Teacher Connections group; she is also the founder of the weekly #ntchat for new teachers on Twitter, and one of the organizers of #edcampOC. She's been all over the country -- virtually and in real life -- in her mission to support new and pre-service teachers. As part of our Summer Professional Development Series, we're excited to offer a free workshop on Web 2.0 tools for new teachers. The boot camp happens virtually, via the blogs archived on this page. July 5, 2011: Using Wordle in the Classroom July 12, 2011: Using VoiceThread in the Classroom July 19, 2011: Using Storybird in the Classroom July 26, 2011: Using Wetoku in the Classroom Aug 2, 2011: Using Blogs in the Classroom Each week, Lisa will discuss a new tool in a blog post, and offer some innovative ideas for use in the classroom. Preview the New Teacher Boot Camp Wiki for upcoming activities.
Kids Games - Play Educational and Fun Online Kids Games! Play Kids Games. - Icebreaker games collection - 40 Sites for Educational Games With the start of school right around the corner, I decided to revisit a post I've done on sites for educational games. This list, presented in alphabetical order, has a nice mix of subjects and grade levels that teachers can use with their students. 40 Sites for Educational Games ABCya - A great site for games and mobile apps for elementary students. For my Pinterest board on educational games click here. David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment.
Six Steps to Wonderful Graphs Mr. Guch's rules for Good Graph Making: 1. Let's say that you're doing a graph where you're studying the effect of temperature on the speed of a reaction. 2. For the graph described above, temperature would be on the x-axis (the one on the bottom of the graph), and the reaction rate would be on the y-axis (the one on the side of the graph) 3. Putting numbers on the x and y-axes is something that everybody always remembers to do (after all, how could you graph without showing the numbers?). 4. Never, ever make a bar graph when doing science stuff. 5. Hey, if you're working with your little sister on one of those placemats at Denny's, you can connect the dots. Why? To show that you're a clever young scientist, your best bet is to show that you KNOW your data is sometimes lousy. 6. Let's face it, you don't like looking at little tiny graphs. So, those are the steps you need to follow if you're going to make a good graph in your chemistry class.
Flash learning objects. Free demo objects These activities allow you to create true multimedia activities without having to download any specialised software. The simple (completely text based) activities can be modified with any plain text editor (Windows Notepad, BB Edit etc), while the more advanced versions need you to supply your own jpeg images and mp3 files. This version of the classic activity allows you to set two additional options, the number of "tries" before the man is hanged and also whether they can have a clue. Example activity Download template Just type in a list of words for this show, cover, test activity. Example activity Download template A very simple whiteboard team activity. View Download Make a list of up to 12 words with their associated definitions. View Download
Breakout EDU Games Plant a Question, Grow Answers Topic (required) Type the topic of your new AnswerGarden. This can be a question or a topic, such as: "What do you think of my website?" More options (optional) For your convenience, you can change the following settings for your new AnswerGarden. If you're using AnswerGarden in the classroom, we recommend that you provide a password, so that you can moderate the contents during the session. AnswerGarden Mode In Classroom Mode respondents can submit an unlimited number of answers, but may only submit each answer once. Answer Length (New!) You can set the answer length to 20 or 40 characters. Admin Password You can enter a password that enables you to edit this AnswerGarden (such as the topic, unwanted answers and mode) afterwards. Show password Reminder Email Enter an email address and you'll receive an email containing the AnswerGarden link and admin password. It's ok to send me very occasional news about AnswerGarden. Spam Filter Broadcast on your current local network
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