First Grade

First grade

WEBSITES:

National Geographic Kids

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

  • National Geographic Kids provides users with animal web cams, interesting animal facts, allows you to see and share photos of nature, learn about different countries, try science experiments, play games and so much more. This website allows a wide variety of learning that is engaging and interesting.

  • Teachers can use this in their classrooms throughout the year. Teachers can create a unit on mammals, have the students pick a mammal, learn about it on the website and teach it to the class. Teachers can also use it for a science experiment, create a hypothesis and discuss how or why something is happening.

FunBrain

https://www.funbrain.com/

  • ​Fun Brain is a website that provides math, reading, online books and learning games. This website is very easy to navigate and it is set up by different grades and content knowledge.

  • Teachers can us this website in their classroom as an independent center. Teachers can use this website to have students explore something they want to learn about and then they can teach it to their classmates. This would involve individual work then small-group collaboration.


MOBILE APPS:

1. Montessori Numbers

2. BrainPOP Jr.

3. K-5 Science for Kids

4. First Grade Learning Games


STRATEGIES:

1. Individual Rotation

  • The Individual Rotation model allows students to rotate through stations, but on individual schedules set by a teacher. This model does not require students to go to every rotation.

  • How to use it- Teachers can use this strategy by figuring out where her students need the most help. This will create stations for all students in the class to work together and not be grouped by high and low. Some of these stations include, central learning lab (working with technology), group projects, direct instruction, intervention, group discussions.

​Reference- Models. (2020, June 3). Retrieved from https://www.blendedlearning.org/models/?gclid=CjwKCAjw26H3BRB2EiwAy32zhZs4-0YDf2Sf35SecKtZRIViqbR_rEh2yCeYyOQPh81mdK0PlwAQNhoCFfsQAvD_BwE#flip


2. Personalized Learning Plan

  • Personalized learning plan allows for each student in the classroom to be on their own individual plan but this does not replace and IEP. Personalized learning is a blended instruction to combine face-to-face teaching, technology-assisted instruction and student-to-student collaboration to leverage each student’s interests for deeper learning.

  • How to use it- Teachers can use this to really see their students strengths and weaknesses in the classroom. Students can work face to face with the teacher then go back to their seat and use and iPAD to complete instruction on their. This personalized learning plan would still be used as centers.

Reference- Turn your classroom into a personalized learning environment | ISTE. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/explore/Personalized-learning/Turn-your-classroom-into-a-personalized-learning-environment