Interactivity TEACH Academy – June 2009 Karen Streeter

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media2 Interactivity The interactive classroom is one in which students participate as equal partners in an ongoing discovery process. Interactivity in the classroom: – promotes a more active learning environment facilitates the building of learning communities provides greater feedback for students and/or teachers increases student motivation The interactive classroom involves real-time, dynamic give-and-take between the classroom environment and the learner.

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media3 Thinkfinity Website containing thousands of free lesson plans and student materials for every subject, designed by the leading educational organizations in the US. It is designed to improve learning in traditional settings and beyond the classroom by providing the high-caliber content needed to improve student achievement anytime, anywhere, at no cost. Our focus will be the interactive resources on Thinkfinity for remediation, acceleration, front of class instruction, and learning centers.

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media5

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media6 Social Studies Subject Resource Type Grade Content Partners Search Thinkfinity

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media7 Thinkfinity’s Content Partners The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsArts National Council on Economic EducationEconomics National Endowment for the HumanitiesHumanities National Council of Teachers of MathematicsMathematics International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English Reading/English Language Arts American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScience National Geographic SocietyGeography National Museum of American HistoryAmerican History National Center for Family Literacy & ProLiteracy Worldwide Adult & Family Literacy

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media8 Interactives on Thinkfinity Content Area GradeDescription Science Elem All Systems GoAll Systems Go – Lesson plan and Interactive Applet for Human Systems studies. Science Elem The Cycle of Life 1 from Science NetlinksThe Cycle of Life 1 from Science Netlinks – Lesson plan and Interactive(s) Mathematics EL/MS Box and WhiskerBox and Whisker – This applet allows the user to investigate the mean, median, and box-and- whisker plot for a set of data that they create Language Arts K-1 Construct a WordConstruct a Word – Results can be printed out with student name Language Arts PreK-1 Picture MatchPicture Match – Results can be printed out with student name Language Arts PreK-1 Word Family SortWord Family Sort - Results can be printed out with student name Language Arts PreK-1 ABC MatchABC Match – Can also be done as hard copy

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media9 Interactives on Thinkfinity Content Area GradeDescription Science 4 Lunar Cycle Lunar Cycle – Lesson plan and interactive Language Arts 5-6 Flip A Chip Flip A Chip - The activity provides hands-on practice with affixes and roots, and also promotes comprehension through structural analysis and vocabulary in context. Music/Science Stormy WeatherStormy Weather - Get a new view on weather as you listen to these storm-inspired works! Music ?? Perfect PitchPerfect Pitch– Baseball themed approach to learning about orchestra instruments English 2-12 Crossword Puzzles English & Social Studies 8-12 Analyzing a WWII PosterAnalyzing a WWII Poster - students visit various Web sites and then select a World War II poster to analyze. They determine if the poster fits the genre of argument, persuasion or propaganda.

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media10 Interactives on Thinkfinity Content Area GradeDescription Social Studies Multimedia Map and Timeline - Pearl Harbor Social Studies Interactive WWII Map - Pacific Social Studies Interactive Quiz EconEdLink - Why South SecededInteractive Quiz EconEdLink - Why South Seceded – results can be ed to teacher English CD/DVD Cover CreatorCD/DVD Cover Creator – In lieu of a book report ndex.htmlhttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/i ndex.html - Library of Congress’ The Learning Page

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media11 QUIA

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media12

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media13 Interactive PowerPoints – Directions on websiteInteractive PowerPoints Self-Correcting Excel CLOZE Thinkfinity –Phases of the MoonPhases of the Moon –All Systems GoAll Systems Go Virtual Manipulatives –Box and WhiskersBox and Whiskers Into the Book Starfall BBC PBSKids Shodor Foundation –Coin TossCoin Toss VoiceThreads Math Dictionary Writing Fun Typing with own passage Slates Wireless Keyboards Headphone/Microphones Student Response Systems –Polleverywhere.comPolleverywhere.com Use Trackstar, PortaPortal, I Keep Bookmarks, Filamentality as a means to organize your interactive Websites.TrackstarPortaPortalI Keep BookmarksFilamentality

8/18/08Office of Instructional Technology and Media14