Posts Tagged ‘online activities’

Awesome art links

I have creativity on the mind so I googled art appreciation for kids, which linked me to an excellent website.  The Incredible Art Department is sponsored by Princeton and moderated by Ken Rohrer, an elementary school art teacher from Indianapolis.  It would take me way too long to describe everything on this site, so I’ll [...]

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Writing Games

Scholastic has some great online writing games in their student social networking community called The Stacks.  Each of the 13 games relates to a book offered by Scholastic.  Students who like dogs will like the opportunity to write an adventure for one of the characters in A Dog’s Life.  Aspiring newspaper journalists might enjoy the [...]

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I love the graphics in BrainPOP

I can’t believe BrainPOP.com has been around for 10 years and this is the first time I have found it.  BrainPOP creates short educational animated cartoons that are tied to state standards.  The graphics and style are really current, similar to popular cartoons on TV.  The range of material is extensive.  BrainPOP itself is geared [...]

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