WEBSITES:

Highlights Kids

https://www.highlightskids.com/

• Highlights Kids has been around for more than 60 years also offers online ways to play, read, and craft with your students and child at home. The site includes matching games, art activities, animated stories and science experiments to help kids learn while having fun

• Teachers can use this in the classroom for students to independently work on their reading and math skills. Each group can explore an interesting topic such as, "Why do our stomachs growl?" They can work as a team and teach their classmates what they learned.

Mystery Science

https://mysteryscience.com/

• Mystery Science is hands-on that engage students in videos about natural phenomena with activities to go along with the lesson.

• Teachers can use Mystery Science as whole group instruction to fully explain and discuss a science topic that might be difficult to understand. After, teachers can have their students work individually to further their exploration. The students can work in small groups and all discuss their understandings which can lead to knew understandings.

MOBILE APPS:

1. TABI Learning

2. Spelling Bee Lists

3. Adventure Academy

4. 2nd Grade Math Learning Games

​STRATEGIES:

1. SAMR Model

• SAMR Model provides us with a critical framework for assessing the richness of the technology tasks we use for learning. It allows teachers to work technology into a lesson and use it in ways they wouldn't be able to do without the technology. SAMR stands for substitution, argumentation, modification and redefinition.

• How to use it- SAMR is like a ladder and each step builds off of each other. Teachers can use the model to substitute reading a book to having the students read it on a computer. The model allows you to replace everyday materials by using technology.

Reference- SAMR & TPACK - Design for Learning: A Discovery Guide for Librarians. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/bythebrooksdesignforlearning/samr

2. TPACK Model

• TPACK Model provides a framework for identifying the teacher knowledge required to integrate technology effectively within their teaching. In TPACK, Technological Knowledge – TK, is most effective when it is combined with deep Content Knowledge – CK (curriculum subject matter) and Pedagogical Knowledge – PK (teaching strategies and knowledge of the learner).

• How to use it- Teachers need to understand the technology, content and teaching strategies they are using in a lesson. They should break these areas into the TPACK model and assure they are meeting each one to the fullest. Teachers could use an app to help further content areas such as reading and writing for an ELL.

Reference- SAMR & TPACK - Design for Learning: A Discovery Guide for Librarians. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/bythebrooksdesignforlearning/samr