Below is a curated list of Halloween activities that can be done on any PC, laptop, or Chromebook. I broke them down into four different categories to make it easier to find an activity that is right for your classroom!
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DustBin is a great resource from Classtools.net that allows you to create an interactive educational game. You can customize it for any subject and/or topic. It is also easy enough for students from young and old to create their own. This game can also be used on Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS devices.
Another bonus feature of this web based game is that it can be embedded on your own website. You can see an example of this above, well, unless you are on an iPad, because unfortunately it does not work on iPads. To see how easy it is to create a DustBin game, check out the brief tutorial below. Do you have that special person in your life who always takes that simplest task and makes it ten times more complicated than it needs to be? Well if so, they may be great at creating Rube Goldberg machines. A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine that takes a simple process and makes it a multi-step process. Why? Because it is fun! Here are two great websites to introduce Rube Goldberg machines to your students. Goldburger to Go is a PBS Kids activity that challenges students to move a hamburger from point A to point B. Students will have to learn via cause and effect to solve this Golberg puzzle. Burglar Catcher is another Golberg type puzzle, but this one adds a nice layer of physics to the mix. Students have to adjust several simple machines to accomplish their goal. After challenging students to solve these puzzles, enjoy the below music video featuring a very complex Rube Goldberg machine. ![]() Often we view yelling at a computer a bad thing, but with Backpack Practice hollering at your computer can be a good thing. Backpack Practice allows students to test their ability in Science, Math, History, Foreign Languages, and more. Students have to verbally respond to each question in these fields and Backpack Practice can tell them if they are wrong or right. ![]() The interactive image above was made using a awesome website called Thinglink. Thinglink allows you or your students to create interactive images that contain links, facts, and even video! Imagine using a Thinglink to create your entire lesson plan for the week! Students and parents alike could actually interact with your lesson plans. Watch the video below on how easy it can be to create a Thinglink project. ![]() When I was a student, I was that kid who could spend hours looking at the posters on the wall. To this day I am pretty sure the poster of Garfield holding a coffee cup is burned into my retina. Well, using Canva, you can spruce up your room by creating some amazing posters, graphics, and more with just a few clicks. These same publications and graphics could also be used to add some awesome flare to your class website, Edmodo page, or even Facebook. Canva could also used by students to create rocking presentations! For example, students could be given the task of creating a poster about Earth Day, wait, you want an example, boom, Earth Day 2014! Canva is one of those great free resources that can be adapted into any lesson, subject, or grade. Check out the brief tutorial below to see how Canva works for yourself. ![]() Rarely do you come across a website that can be used in multiple subjects by multiple grades, but PublishYourDesign.com fits that bill. PublishYourDesign allows you are your students to have a gigantic bucket of Legos and an endless table to build with. Imagine, you and your students just finish reading the book "Holes," you know give them the task of creating the three different settings using PublishYourDesign. Not only do you get to see how they pictured each scene, but you also get an idea of how well students grasped the authors descriptions of each time period. Let's say you are one of those math folk who understand the great complexity of the math world. You could create your math problems for area, perimeter, volume, and all kinds of other geometry in a 3D world for students to solve. Or, have some fun and have the students create the problems in PublishYourDesign and have them share them with each other! The possibilities on how to use PublishYourDesign is endless and is only limited by your imagination! And, just in case your imagination needs a little work, here are two links with some pre-made lesson plans, 'Oodles of lesson plans and more for every grade and subject,' and 'Using LEGO to Build Math Concepts.' ![]() I just came across this outstanding math resource and I couldn't wait until the end of the week to share it with everyone. Desmos is a free graphic calculator website that not only works on a Windows machine, but also on a Mac, and on an iPad even without having to download the app! This website can easily replace the good old TI-83 calculator for many people. I mean, come on, imagine a world where a math teacher doesn't have to budget $537 for batteries for their classroom set of calculators! Another great part of Desmos is that it has many of the formulas pre-made so that students can use them to see how numbers interact within a formula and experiment. Before I started checking out this website I could not remember how changing the 5 in y=5x+9 would change anything, but now I am a Slope Intercept formula master! What to see more on how to use Desmos? Check out my brief tutorial below. Hint, if you pay close attention at the end you can see what I am having for dinner tonight. Spongelab is a awesome resource for science lessons, image, interactives, and lesson plans. Using Spongelab you can create a class that students can join by creating accounts (which can be done using their Google Apps accounts) and then entering in your class code. All of this is demoed in the tutorial above.
All in all, Spongelab is a great free, that's right, free website that can be a great supplement to your science curriculum. According to Georgia Tech 105 AD is the year most people say paper was invented, but it may have been around as much as 200 years before that! So in honor of paper, lets look at a website that has awesome student interactives just asking to be printed.
ReadWriteThink (http://www.readwritethink.org/) has student interactives that can be used for any subject and grade level. Students could create crossword puzzles, K-W-Ls, story cubes, flip books (my favorite), and more! To give you a jumping off point, please view the link below for a series of projects any student and teacher would love: http://www.one-tab.com/page/SyFXhZGTTU2aAjES6w74bA Please note that I used the OneTab Chrome Extension to share these wonderful links with you. Also, be sure to explore the entire ReadWriteThink website; not only do they have these great projects, but also the lesson plans to go with them! |
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