URL: http://interactivesites.weebly.com/
What is Interactive Sites?
Interactive sites is full of interactive games that students can use to practice skills in certain subject areas. The games are categorized by content area and within each category there are subcategories so you can easily locate what you want to study. The website is very user friendly so the students can navigate the site with ease. All of the games are free and there are not any ads within the site! The games are not categorized by grade level but I would say the games are appropriate for students in k-3 and some games may be suitable to 4-5 graders as well. Within some of the games the students have the option to choose their grade level.
Educational Uses:
This website can be used to provide students with another source to practice their skills in a fun and interactive way. There are many different content areas to choose to study: math, science, social studies, typing, English, art, and much more. Some of the subcategories include for example, math- addition, algebra, money, time, patterns, place value, fractions, and much, much more! The students can practice a lot of different concept skills or enhance their understanding all in one place! These games can be used within centers on the computers or in small/whole group on the smart board!
Content Standards:
The content standards you address using this website will vary depending on the educational game that your students are using.
Math:
K: Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
1st: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
2nd: Number and Operations in Base Ten
3rd: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
Math standards: http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Academic-Content-Standards/Mathematics
Science:
K: This topic focuses on observing, exploring, describing and comparing weather changes, patterns in the sky and changing
seasons.
1st: This topic focuses on the sun as a source of energy and energy changes that occur to land, air and water.
2nd:This topic focuses on how ecosystems work by observations of simple interactions between the biotic/living and abiotic/nonliving parts of an ecosystem. Just as living things impact the environment in which they live, the environment impacts living things.
3rd: This topic explores life cycles of organisms and the relationship between the natural environment and an organism’s (physical and behavioral) traits, which affect its ability to survive and reproduce.
Science Standards: http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Academic-Content-Standards/Science
Assessment Tools:
There are not any assessment tools within this site. What you choose to use to assess student’s skills or understanding will depend on the educational game you choose to use and the standard you wish to assess. Lets say I wanted to assess this kindergarten standard: Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. I would determine an assessment that would be appropriate to determine the information I need. A simple counting chart would even work. You could ask the students to count to you and you can record their knowledge of numbers and counting to cardinality. I would do this before and after the students play the game any of the counting/numbers games included in the site.
