Friday, April 2, 2010

Web Applications

As an early childhood educator I had a more difficult time trying to find web applications that would work for the younger grades I want to teach. After searching the different links I decided to just go to google and see what I could find. I first tried to search for this eManipulatives site that I used in Math 2020. As I was searching for this site I found another one that would be great for first grade!
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_k.html
This site is very child-friendly and covers the core curriculum for first grade math. I really like the interaction were the students can work with money because it allows them to use a tool that will flip the money over. I like this feature because it's important for students to recognize both sides of coins and bills.
As I continued my search I also found another site that would be good for kindergarten.
http://www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/alphastart.swf
The students can see the entire alphabet and click on the letters to hear their name. It also shows a picture that starts with the letter. It's a good site, but I might use something else in my classroom because it's not as interactive. The site would be better if students could also click on the picture and see other things happen. One place I've been to before that I know is an excellent site is starfall.com. I would use their interactive site for learning the alphabet before I chose to use this other one I found.

1 comment:

  1. I really liked your thoughts about these websites and how you really want to help these little kids as much as you can

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