Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/inside-white-house/interactive-tour

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About

Students would love to be able to go inside the White House, however, that might not be possible physically but virtually you can.  By click on the link above you can go to the White House website and take a tour.  Students would love that!  There are many videos you can watch on this tour, however, there are so many that it could not be done all in one day for our elementary students.  Therefore, it would be best to pick and chose which places your students are the most interested in.

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Standards:

Members of local communities have social and political responsibilities.- grade 3

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Educational Uses/Assessments

• Take virtual field trip.

• Have student create a journal piece about their experience using the tour.

• Have a class discussion on what the job of the President is.

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Source: http://www.storylineonline.net/

About:

As we know it is important for us to read to our students.  Students hear us read to them everyday.  Do you ever feel like you would like to have someone else read to your students?  Well guess what! Now you can! Storyline Online has well known actors and actresses read children’s books with graphically dramatic videos with just the click of a button!

Pros:

This site can help your students become excited about listening to stories.  This would be something that I think I could use during snack time or during a transition time.  I feel that I could create lessons around the books listed on the site.  

Cons:

There are not very many books listed on the website to listen to.  Students also might not know who the people are reading the story.  However, we could learn more about the actors and actresses before listening to the story. 

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Standards:

RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

RL. 3.3 Describe characters in a story (their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

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Educational Uses/Assessment

• While studying characters, students could pick a book listed on this website and create character webs about the characters in the story they chose to listen to.

• Students could write in their journal about what they feel the message or moral of the story was that they just listened to. 

• There are many more uses for this website in the classroom, however, I listed two different lesson ideas to go with the standards I chose. 

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Source: http://www.signupgenius.com/

About:

Do you want to make your life easier for classroom parties, parent volunteers, or any other classroom event. Well you have just not found Pbest friend!  SignUpGenius is so easy to use and now you no longer have to deal with all those papers.  SignUpGenius does all the work for you and makes signing more convenient for everyone.

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Educational Uses:

During student teaching we used this tool for parents to sign up for parent teacher conferences.  All of the parents were telling us how much better they liked scheduling their child’s conference online.  They could see which times were available right there instead of waiting to hear back from the teacher.  Also, if parents needed to cancel, SignUpGenius would notify the teacher.  The uses of this tool in the classroom are unlimited and everything can be kept private between the parents and teacher.  Each parent will not see everyone’s email address.

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Pros & Cons:

We used the free version, however, their are different versions that you can sign up for.  However, I did not find any reason to use the versions you had to pay for.  I can accomplish everything I need from the free version.

One of my favorite things about this tool is the ablity to set when you want to remind parents.  You can set up how many times you want to remind parents through email.

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