Fun With Letters

This site is awesome for young students just learning how to write, and form words and letters. It is a website that assists students in writing through fun games and activities. The site provides basic education such as learning how to write letters, through a tutorial taught by a spider, then as the students learn, they can begin to do more and more. The site offers things such as activities to help start writing stories and making scrapbooks.

I believe this site overall covers all three e's. It enhances learning by making it fun for students, through games and activities, this there for makes it more effective because they are having fun and engaging in the activities therefore getting much more out of it than if they were bored, and it also increases the efficiency because since it is done on the Internet, it is easily accessible and saves the teacher a lot of time.

Here' s the LINK! http://www.meddybemps.com/letterary/index.html

International Children's Digital Library

This is a website for an online children's library. It contains thousands of children's books, that are free and accessible online. I found this website to be very easy to find things on. It has an amazing array and variety of all kinds of children's book, for every reading level. There are also books available in multiple languages. Almost every book on the site provides illustrations, this is a sure shot for getting kids to have fun while reading.

This site really increases the effectiveness of teaching students how to read and also in getting students to enjoy reading. The site lets the students browse around and enter different search criteria to find a book, the suits exactly what they like or want to learn about. This is a great way to let the students have fun and because they are having fun they are more likely to retain more of what they are reading and learning.

Here's a link! http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Discovery Lesson Plans

The Discovery Channel website that provides lesson plans for elementary school teachers, I found to be very beneficial. This website, is full of fun and interesting lesson plans to do with students in the K-6 classroom. The site is well organized and easy to navigate around in. I provides lessons plans for everything from Ancient History to the Human Body, not to mention there are several different lesson plans for each topic, so you can pick the one that fits your agenda best!

The lesson plans found on this site really increase the efficiency of learning, and enhance the experience as a whole. They are so much fun, and very creative, students are guaranteed to love these, and really gain a lot of knowledge.

I would 100% use any number of these lesson plans in my classroom, especially one of the ones on weather, it's really interesting!

Here's a link to the site...http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/k-5.html ....Check it out!

Education World

Education World (http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#assessments) is an amazing website for elementary education templates. This website contains a template for almost anything you can imagine. Everything from assessments, to classroom activities, to calendars, to organizers, to flyers.

I think this website enhances education, because it provides a wide variety of different ways to provide and display information to your students. There are so many different templates, and resources, that there is bound to be something for every classroom or lesson. All the templates provided on this website are very detailed and effective if you ask me.

I would use any of these templates in my own classroom for sure!!

Brain Pop

Brain Pop is an outstanding website. It contains countless resources for teachers of all grade levels. There are templates, games, fun classroom activities, free educational movies to show to students, and much much more. Its colorful layout and east to navigate layout, will definitely have you coming back for more!

This website improves the effectiveness of learning because, there are countless fun and engaging resources for teachers and students, and when students are intrigued and engaged in what they are doing they tend to retain information much better. This website definitely contains things that will hold your students attention!

I could use brain pop in my classroom in many ways. There are lessons, and information in social studies, science, health, math, technology and English. I would definitely have my students browse this website, for information for a project, just for fun, or as a class activity.


Here's the link!...http://www.brainpop.com/