Monday, March 9, 2009

Links to Fun Learning Activities

Hello students.
Part of a teachers' challenge today is making learning fun and engaging for students. After all, we learn best when we have fun with what we are doing.
Aplausmath provides a great site for you to explore different mathematics games of varying degrees of difficulty. I recommend trying the algebra meteor shooter; this game will help you to brush-up on solving algebraic equations.
As we are moving into creating our alphabiographies, a good idea might be to familiarize yourself with the different aspects of speech (i.e. nouns, verbs, prepositions), as we will be using many of these in the various writings of our alphabiographies. A simple and fun site to visit is the
Grammar Gorillas. This site allows you to play games related to aspects of speech at either a beginner or advanced level. It may not be necessary to attribute a great amount of time on this site; however it is fun to visit for a review. Have fun!
To review what instruments are represented in an orchestra, you can play the game
Stay Afloat. This game is similar to hangman; however it only deals with instruments. Watch out, when you guess a wrong letter or instrument your boat begins to fill with more and more materials and begins to sink. This is a great way to review the musical instruments we have been discussing in music.
Students, please give these games a try, they are great fun and a great review for what we have been covering in class or will be covering in the future.
Enjoy.

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