Resource Blog #5
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/
For my fifth resource, I found a website that offers interactive games for science, math, and English. Each topic within a subject has a facts sheet that shows the necessary information. Next, there are experiments that students can participate in either alone or as a group with videos provided to teach around problems that students face. If students go through these links on the website, then their understanding of a topic should be enough to do well on the quiz for a particular section. Teachers can either assign these quizzes as work to be done on the student's time where they can evaluate how well they understand a topic. Alternatively, having the correct answers to the questions missed allows students to see the concepts that they need to practice with more. I see this resource being beneficial for teachers of science, math, and English because of the amount of content each learning objective has. If a teacher is beginning a new standard, they can check to see if this website has resources for learning it. The interactive nature of the games, I believe, serves well in getting students involved with their learning. Using this as a middle schooler, I think the math section would benefit me the most because of being able to see all the steps that are needed to complete a problem.
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For my fifth resource, I found a website that offers interactive games for science, math, and English. Each topic within a subject has a facts sheet that shows the necessary information. Next, there are experiments that students can participate in either alone or as a group with videos provided to teach around problems that students face. If students go through these links on the website, then their understanding of a topic should be enough to do well on the quiz for a particular section. Teachers can either assign these quizzes as work to be done on the student's time where they can evaluate how well they understand a topic. Alternatively, having the correct answers to the questions missed allows students to see the concepts that they need to practice with more. I see this resource being beneficial for teachers of science, math, and English because of the amount of content each learning objective has. If a teacher is beginning a new standard, they can check to see if this website has resources for learning it. The interactive nature of the games, I believe, serves well in getting students involved with their learning. Using this as a middle schooler, I think the math section would benefit me the most because of being able to see all the steps that are needed to complete a problem.
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Tyler, I really like this resource and I think it would be a good supplemental tool for outside of class. I also think it would be good to use in a computer lab day. I'm curious what the literal aspect of the science and math games are, but maybe it takes literacy skills to be able to understand the rules of the game? Either way I like this source overall.
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I definitely understand what you mean about the helpfulness of this resource. I feel like being able to understand the individual steps that make up solving a problem not only helps student with learning and understanding a concept in class but it is so helpful for students outside of class when they don't have their teachers available to them. I think this would be a really good resource to assign homework through!
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