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 * **Use the Randomizer widget in Easiteach to randomly select students to answer questions. Also, if you do 2 columns you can have it select partners for you.**
 * **﻿The students can use your Avermedia Document camera with its software as a center to video record themselves doing a retelling.**
 * **﻿Use the Randomizer widget in Easiteach to create flashcards, or even have multiple columns and use it to have the students create random words (word families possibly)**
 * **Using your document camera take snapshots of growth each day:**
 * **Tadpole to a frog**
 * **Caterpillar to a butterfly**

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 * Access an online weather forecast. UM Weather, The Weather Channel, or USA Today Weather
 * Include URLs in your monthly calendar. The [|September calendar], for example, might offer links to sites about Labor Day, Grandparents' Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Challenge students with online mathematics problems. The Math Forums Math Problem of the Week offers word problems in five categories -- math fundamentals, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus. The AIMS Puzzle Corner provides more than 100 math-related puzzles appropriate for students in upper elementary grades and middle school.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Provide a URL in place of a quote. Do you write a quote on the chalkboard each day, for students to reflect on and discuss? Instead of writing out the quote, provide students with the URL and have them locate the days quote themselves. [|Quote of the Day], Quotes of the Day, and Quote A Dayare all excellent sources of funny, inspirational, or thought-provoking quotes.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Introduce a word of the day. The Daily Buzzword at Word Central provides a word of the day and related activity appropriate for upper elementary students. Vocabulary Builder offers words and definitions for students in grades 4-6 and grades 6-9. The words and definitions at A Word a Day and Word of the Dayare best for students in middle and high school.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Make history real. Personalize history lessons for those students by beginning each history lesson with a quick visit to Today in History.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Utilize online work sheets.Are you worn out from trying to come up with new and creative seatwork assignments day after day after day? Make life easier on yourself by including a few online worksheets. Each week, Education World provides an original printable [|Scavenger Hunt] and a [|Writing Bug]creative writing activity. In addition, TeAchnologyoffers lots of work sheets in a variety of curriculum areas.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Provide online reading comprehension practice.Add a fun reading comprehension activity to your students language arts curriculum with the Comenius Group's Fluency Through Fableslesson. Designed for students of English as a second language, the activity is appropriate for English-speaking students in elementary and middle school as well. The lesson includes a brief fable and four categories of related activities; vocabulary matching exercises, vocabulary completion exercises, multiple choice comprehension exercises, and written discussion exercises.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Incorporate online news sources into discussions of current events.Dont limit students current events contributions to print newspapers; encourage them to search online media as well. CNN and MSNBC are excellent places to start looking for national and international news. Or, check out Online Newspapers to find your local newspaper online. The Internet Public Libraryalso provides links to local news sources by country and, for the United States, by state.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Make the news a learning tool.Help students better understand current events and connect todays news to their own lives by encouraging them to further explore the issues of the day. The Why Files, for example, uses news and current events as the basis for science, health, and technology lessons. What caused the tornado that devastated the Midwest or the hurricane that hit Florida? How does war affect those living in battle zones? What vote-counting technique is most accurate? The Why Files will explain it all. How Stuff Works also is an extensive site with information on a vast number of topics. Today's students, for example, might want to learn How Stinger Missiles Work, How Stem Cells Work, or How Hybrid Cars Work.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Make science a daily event.With the current emphasis on reading and math in schools, getting in a daily -- or even weekly -- science lesson can be difficult. If youre having trouble finding time for a more formal science lesson, take a minute to discuss NASAs Astronomy Picture of the Day or Goddard Space Centers Earth Science Picture of the Day, both of which include a brief explanation of the days photo. You might also briefly discuss a scientist or a scientific event from Today in Science History.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Sign up for a science experiment of the week.If you have the time for the science lesson, but not enough time to research and find a steady supply of really engaging science experiments, sign up for Steve Spangler's Science Experiment of the Week. Each week, a new science experiment will be e-mailed to you.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Make geography a daily event.For most kids, geography has something to do with maps -- and maps are boring! Extend students geography awareness by challenging them to answer the five daily questions posed at GeoBee Challenge. The questions are taken from the National Geographic Geography Bee. Maybe your students will get good enough to compete in this years event! Looking for a quicker lesson? Find the distance between any two cities in the world at How Far Is It? By the way, National Geographics Map Machinecan even make maps fun!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Keep 'em guessing!Its Friday afternoon and most students have their eyes on the clock and their minds on a weekend of freedom. If you have access to enough computers that students can work individually or in small groups, try to keep the learning going with some stimulating online games. Solving the problems at Mystery Net generally demands more logic than Math. That sites features include Get-a-Clue, a daily mystery appropriate for younger students; See-n-Solve, a weekly mystery featuring USA TV's Detective Monk; and Solve-it!, a monthly mystery in which students read a mystery and then solve the crime. The latter two activities are best for older students. Or, simply reward students for a week of hard work by allowing them a few minutes to play some of the online Logic Games at SuperKids. Games include Battleship, checkers, tic-tac-toe, BreakOut, and more.