Student Resources

  • Student Resources
    Resources for Students

    		 World Book Online
    This is a great place to start, especially if you don't know much about a topic and want a general overview before beginning your in-depth research. It's also great for narrowing a topic.
    Go to: http://www.worldbookonline.com
    User Name and password required. Click Here.

    Teen Health and Wellness
    This database, aimed at secondary (7-12) students, is useful for writing reports as well as for answering students' questions about their own health and wellness.
    Go to: http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com
    User Name and password required. Click Here.

    Gale

    Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, this portal provides a premium selection of reference material including thousands of full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, e-books, video and audio clips as well as podcasts. Through an intuitive, easy to use interface, students have immediate access to a wide range of materials twenty-four hours a day.

    Go to: http://galesites.com/k12/buffalocs/

    Sums Stacker

    An interactive game that reinforces addition concepts with multiple models. 

    The game can be differentiated by using different counting tools such as dot cubes, numbers,

    and coins. 

    Focus grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

    Fluency: Addition within 20/100

    Go to:http://www.carstensstudios.com/mathdoodles/sumsstacker.html

    What’s My Angle?

    An interactive game that provides instruction and practice using a protractor to measure angles.  The game allows the students to manipulate a virtual protractor or an angle to fine the measurement.

    Focus grade level: 4, 5, 6, and 7

    Go to:http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html

    The Ruler Game

    An interactive game that allows the students to practice reading a standard ruler within multiple increment levels.  The game assesses student fluency and proficiency with ruler use and can be differentiated according to increment level of whole, halves, quarters, eights, and sixteenths.

    Focus grade level: K-8

    Go to: http://www.rickyspears.com/rulergame/

    Operation Fluency

    This Oswego City School allows the student to focus on fact fluency in one of the four operations; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division.  The level of difficulty can be varied according to practice need and the fluency rounds are timed and scored for speed and accuracy.

    Focus grade level: 1-5

    Fluency: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division

    Go to:http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html

    Investigations Online

    Grades K and 1:

     http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_K1.cfm

     

    Grades 2 and 3:

    http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_23.cfm

    Grades 4 and 5:

    http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_45.cfm

    These sites hold many online activities for the students to engage in.  The math focus of the activity can be selected according to domain and skill.  These sites hold multiple games per skill and are fun and interactive for the students.




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