The tool I used for this activity is called Kidspiration. Kidspiration is tool that can be used for many activities. You can use this tool to make hand outs for your students or even work sheets. This tool can also be used directly by the student, for example instead of printing off a work sheet the student can go directly on to Kidspiration and fill out the the activity and submit it to you online or however you choose.

The content eploration used in this activity is open-ended because it is helping the student problem solve. In this acitivity say the student is having trouble writing a short poem this tool helps them to explore their options and guide them to a short poem idea. This activity also can help the student to explore and understand different poem structures. This tool is also covering the content area of poem writing.

This tool is great tool for elementary education students for many reasons. This tool can help kids stay interactive in their learning by keeping them interested. If the students are directly filling out or playing with Kidspiration they are going to be more excited to learn rather than just doing it on paper or reading it from a text book. This tool is also a plus for elementary education students because the page is very eye catching. Younger students often get bored with lots of words or plain black and white, but with this tool is different. In Kidspiration there is lots of color and few words making it more eye cathing to them and making them more curious to learn.

Engaging Our Youngest Minds- Angela Maiers
This podcast is about how technology does not intrigue our students, but how passion does. Young students have to passion to be intrigued it what they are learning. Technology will help them to learn more about their passion, but there has to be an interest first. Technology can also help them proceed with their passion. In this podcast there is a great example of passion and how a very young girl used technology to express her passion for animals particularly panda bears. This podcast is trying to get teachers to realize that there has to be passion in the classroom in order for the students to learn. Teachers need to work on bringing passion back into the classroom and be willing to let the students express to you what there passion is. This podcast also expresses that teachers need to be more willing to let their students express to you how they believe the world around them is living. This is a great podcast and really opened my eyes!

Elementary Math is a wonderful website to find many activities for teaching elementary students basic math skills. In this website you will find many activities and games. This covers a lot of the mathematical skills taught in elementary. This website even has activities pages that you can print out for your students. The games that you will find on this website are very elementary based and are easy to play.

Often times teachers spend a lot of time trying to figure out fun activities for their students. Well this website is perfect for finding fun math activities. This website will also take you to other very good websites that you can use to teach your students. The games on this website are games that a student would play on a computer so they will be working on their computer skills too!

PowerPoint Games is a wonderful website for teachers because it has games that can be played in the classroom! Not only can you play these games in the classroom, but you can make these games your own. You can put your own information into the game so that your students can play with the materials you are teaching. This website has many different types of games that you can you choose from and use.
After going to the website all you have to do is download which game you want and then put in the information that you wish to use. Elementary children love to play games. This is a great way to keep your student intrigued while learning important materials! I know many teachers make their own games and this website will eliminate the time you spend on making these games yourself. Its a wonderful resource for teachers!

Videos safe for kids.

Kideos is a good website because you can actually pick the age group of students you are looking to the show the videos to and it will show you the videos appropriate for that age group. Sometimes its hard to find videos that can be shown in an elementary classroom and this website helps to eliminate all the searching. When you go to this website you will find many cute and fun videos to show to young students.

This website also has certain categories that you can search from making the searching even easier. In this website you can also type it something that you maybe looking for. This website also gives a brief description of each video so that you can read what the video is about before actually watching it. This website can even be downloaded as an app for the iPhone users!