EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES

Scholastic
homework hub
This gives students help with their homework. It includes articles that teach about memorization devices, where to obtain research, note-taking tips, taking multiple choice tests, and more. These articles are short and simple so that students can easily understand the information provided. There is a flashcard creator that help students to create their own flashcards for math, history, or vocabulary. Students can use the flashcards on the computer or print them out. There is practice quizzes, but they are a little too generic to be very useful. A grammar guide is also available presented in a simple layout. I might use this resource when teaching about research papers because it talks about different types of resources, a grammar guide, information on plagiarism, final draft tips and much more that would useful in helping kids to create a professional paper(for their age!).

Book Central
I thought that this was awesome! Kids can choose their favorite book series and play games, take quizzes, download videos and pod casts, and write their own reviews of the book. The only downfall to this is that some books have many more activities than others. I think that this site could get kids really excited about reading. If we were reading one of the books together as a class I think that it this would be a fun follow-up activity.

Games
This section included a lot of the games in the book central station. But this makes specifically games easily accessible to students. Kids can also join clubs, usually related to books. I went to theU-Solve-it mysteries club and thought that is seemed really cool. But unfortunately purchase was necessary. Also from this site, you can connect to the magic school bus, I spy, Goosebumps, and other popular series books.