Activity Sites for TRCC Grant

Sites where one can find activities via searching

·         National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:  http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

·         Shodor Interactivate:  http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

·         Illuminations from NCTM:  http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx

·         Math Forum Search Page:  http://mathforum.org/mathtools/index.html

·         Johnnie's Math page:  http://jmathpage.com/

·         Math Open Reference (more HS Geometry):  http://www.mathopenref.com/index.html

·         Teachable.Net:  http://www.teachable.net/mathematics.aspx

·         Resources by strand:  http://www.hpedsb.on.ca/ec/services/cst/elementary/math/resources.html

·         List of links by strand:  http://wside.k12.il.us/pes/math.htm

·         Gizmos:  http://www.explorelearning.com/

·         http://coreacademy.usu.edu/Materials/ is from Utah.  They have handbooks by grade level (K-6) with a variety of math and science activities in them.  They also have materials from session presenters.

·          http://www.mrnussbaum.com/ is a site created by a teacher (I think) with links to all subject areas and further links to lists of sites within each subject area.

·         http://www.iknowthat.com/com is a site with links to all subject areas and further links to lists of sites within each subject area.

·         http://guest.portaportal.com/lnull is L. Null’s site for saving her bookmarks on www.portaportal.com (a site where you can save your bookmarks on the web, to always have them with you).  She has allowed us access for the workshop and has lots of math related bookmarks.

·         http://www.quia.com/findout.html gives a tour to a site where you can develop your own learning activities, and access those developed by others.  http://www.quia.com/shared/math/ gives the math activities already developed there. There is a fee to use it to develop your own learning activities, but you can do a 30 day free trial.

Teachers will pair up and search for sites for their grade level, on the measurement or geometry strand.  Find one site and study it in more depth.  After 30 minutes-1 hour, each pair will share about 5 minutes how they envision using such a site.  This will teach the teachers more "how to fish" rather than just giving them a fish.  It also gets them sharing ideas with each other rather than Dr. Hopkins providing all the ideas.

This page prepared August 2008 by Dr. Kevin Hopkins as part of the Connect 9 Grant through Three Rivers Community College.