E for EXPLORE!

E! for Explore is a great curated website of ideas and resource for teachers and parents. They have selected unique learning activities, and searched the internet to compile ideas from other sources around the internet.

Their index helps you find what you may be looking for in activities in math, science, even Language Arts. They provide easy links to those websites. All E is for Explore activities conform to state common core curriculum standards.

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12 Educational and Productive Websites

12 Educational and Productive Websites  (for use in the classroom or at home)

1. www.popplet.com             A classroom version of Pinterest®

2. www.pics4learning.com A site of royalty free and non-copyrighted photos for use in presentations by teachers and students.

3. www.betterlesson.com   A collection of lesson plans by grade level, by technology device which all follow the Common Core Standards.

4. www.socrative.com         Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

5. www.ClassDojo.com       A personal favorite for attendance and behavior. The site produces great reporting as well as parental logins and views.

6. www.joine.me                  A method of sharing what is on the laptops in the classroom.

7. www.symbaloo.com        A listing of the iPad and iPhone apps that are available for educators and parents arranged by subject and importance.

8. www.teded.com               TED is a great set of curated videos and the TEDed set are just for educators. Especially helpful if you need inspiration, professional improvement or development in a certain area as well as a great site for watching how others do things in their classrooms.

9. www.evernote.com         This site is still free (with Login) and is a great cloud location to place notes from meetings, notes from research as well as to place pictures, graphs, etc. for use by the students as they conduct their research. Evernote® is available on your laptop, computer and iPad, iPhone and Android app for continuous access and updating.

10. www.mathplayground.com     A math site by grade level.  Includes math games, logic puzzles and word problems.

11. www.Math-play.com     This site hosts multiplication table matching games along with a great collection of other math games including money, fractions, decimals and geometry games.  A great site for parents to help students at home.

12. www.ixl.com                   IXL Math is a subscription based site, but it is free for a few times each day. This is a great site by grade level and offers several methods of solving math, math sentences, problem solving, etc. A great site for students to do at home.

iPad Apps (from the App Store)

Multipliation+                                 The Apps Gate Inc (Free)   This helps with learning multiplication tables.

Math-Multiplication table             This is another free ap  from Online Science classroom 

                                                            available at the AppStore for iPads and iPhones.

Prezi                                       A great presentation application which is similar to in functionality to power point, but has an easier user interface.

Slideshare                             (Free) another great presentation alternative to power point.

Thanks to my friends from the Middle Tennessee Education Technology Association – Instructional Technology Academy for sharing some of these ideas, apps and websites.

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Interactive Resource for Math Standards

    

       A Professional Learning Module from the Leadership In Mathematics Education which includes their goal to: Network, Communicate, Support, & Motivate offers the following interactive module for “Illustrating the Standards for Mathematical Practice.”

          This is a great resource for understanding math education in the implementation of Common Core Math Standards. 

Click on the link for the interactive site: http://www.mathedleadership.org/ccss/itp/index.html

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PARCC Prototype!

Mathematics Core Tool Box  for Common Core Standards has a resource for a set of PARCC multipart prototype tasks which represents the initial release from a larger set of prototype tasks developed as part of a collaborative project between PARCC and the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, the City University of New York, Agile Mind, Inc., and a select group of experts.  

Click on the link: http://www.ccsstoolbox.com/  then select the drop down “Resources for Implementation,” then on the sidebar click on “PARCC Prototyping Project.” This site offers samples for elementary, middle and high schools. 

Thanks to my district for sending out this link to the resources from CCSS Tool Box. 

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Unpacking & Understanding the Common Core Standards

This website is an excellent resource for grades K-6 unpacking the standards with understanding and implementing math skills.

http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/math/problemsolving.php

The NC Department of Public instruction has created a set of documents for grade level called "Unpacking the Standards." One extremely helpful part of each document is the chart of Mathematical Practices that specifies how those standards look at that particular grade level. The Standards for Mathematical Practice can be found starting on page 3 of each document below:

• Unpacking the Math Common Core - Kindergarten
• Unpacking the Math Common Core - First Grade
• Unpacking the Math Common Core - Second Grade
• Unpacking the Math Common Core - Third Grade
• Unpacking the Math Common Core - Fourth Grade
• Unpacking the Math Common Core - Fifth Grade
• Unpacking the Math Common Core - Sixth Grade
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http://mathwire.com/index.html Mathwire.com is another good resource for lots of games, activities, worksheets etc. 

(Lots of great pumpkin activities etc.) http://mathwire.com/seasonal/fall05.html#pumpkins

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Six Great CCSS Math Websites...

Six Common Core Math Websites for Teachers, Students & Parents

1. Common Core Math Standards (pdf) Just in case you haven't seen them or read them yet. Important for every teacher and parent to understand the standards and their expectations. 

2. Inside mathematics Problems of the Month

Providing math problems in the various CCSS strands each month along with an archive to help with teaching students, student practice, parent understanding and learning. 

3. Inside Mathematics' Listing of the Math Eight Standards:

           Standard 1: Make Sense of problems and persevere in solving them 

           Standard 2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively 

           Standard 3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
           Standard 4: Model with mathematics

           Standard 5: Use appropriate tools strategically

           Standard 6: Attend to precision 

           Standard 7: Look for and make use of structure 

           Standard 8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning 

4. PARCC prototype sample questions  With the PARCC around the corner it would be a great idea to help our students understand the question structure. Remember that we don't all structure language the same and we need to teach our students to find the key words in each word problem for proper resolution and to understand what the author is asking. 

Navigation Tip--: Click on Resources for Implementation

     ----> Click on PARCC Prototyping Project
           -----> Click on tasks by school level

5. Illustrativemathematics.org provides drill down lessons by standard and grade level. Great resource for any level.

6. Illustrating the Standards for Mathematical Practice
From the great people at NCSSM-Leadership in Mathematics Education, this link provides ways to illustrate each of the math standards by grade level. Click on the hyper linked graphics to drill down into lessons and helpful resources. 

Track Your Common Core Lessons

Need to track when you taught the common core domain and strands?  Here is a great website that has forms  you can download and use or if you are a Google Docs user you can save in Google Docs and edit them there.

Here's a brief summary from the website:
"you need to help you keep track of the standards taught in your classroom.  Use these to make sure you are addressing all that you need to teach throughout the course of the school year.   Keep track of when you have introduced, retaught and assessed each indicator."

Here's the link:
http://www.thecurriculumcorner.com/2012/08/18/common-core-checklists/

The website has other great information and resources, too. This one just was so great I had to share.

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Student Center Activities & CCSS

Great activities and information aligned to the Common Core Standards can be found at the http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/SCA_CCSS_index.shtm  link.   They have them by grade level and the student activities are not only fun, but aligned to the CCSS!   Check them out today!!