What it is: Science Toy Maker is a teacher-created website with fantastic instructions and ideas for science toys and projects. These are mysterious, kinetic, noisy, do-it-yourself science projects that spur scientific investigation. The science toys and projects are inexpensive (seriously so cheap that anyone can make them!) and don’t require special skills, tools, materials, or work space. Each toy or project has a “more about” page that includes explanations, historical context, related activities, and high-quality links for more research. Each toy/project also has a clear step-by-step video directions or text instructions with helpful pictures. This is a GREAT resource for the…
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What it is: Kidopo is an online coloring application where kids can color online coloring books. The application simulates a real coloring experience (in other words you can color outside the lines and the more you color over a spot, the darker it gets.). There are a lot of coloring pages to choose from with categories like animals, cars and transportation, cartoons, food, toys, holidays, learning, circus, sports, music, nature, occupation, seasons, and more. Kidopo has fun printables for the classroom including coloring sheets, bookmarks, birthday printables, awards and certificates, mazes, writing paper, connect the dots, room decorations, and stickers. …
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iLearn Technology is coming up on birthday number 4!! It is hard to remember a time when I didn’t blog, the 4 year journey has been amazing! I have grown as a teacher, a user of technology, and (I hope) as a blogger. As I reflected on iLearn Technology, I couldn’t help but remember my first steps into the blogging world. It was the summer of 2007 and I had been teaching in the computer lab for 2 years. At the time, I spent my summers searching the web for resources I could use in my classroom. When I stumbled…