Technology
Shelton View has many mobile carts available for student use. This includes an iPad cart, Macbook carts, and Chromebook carts. Teachers sign up for carts on a weekly basis. Some classrooms also have iMacs available. Students are assigned a unique username and password by the district.
Websites
Typing Club
Math Websites
Telling time - matching digital to analog clocks
Khan Academy - practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard
Literacy
WordArt - online word cloud art creator
Raz-Kids - subscription database of leveled books
Starfall - teaching children to read with phonics
Storyline - celebrated actors reading children’s books
Grammar Blast - short quizzes on parts of speech
Wacky Web Tales - fill in the blanks to create a wacky story
Wordle - generate “word clouds” from text that you provide
Tagxedo - turns words into a visually stunning word cloud
Puzzlemaker - create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more
Magnetic Poetry - create poems
Educational Games
Preschool and Kindergarten games
Make a Flake (needs Flash)
Mr. Nussbaum - fun interactive games that hone math, science, language arts, and social studies skills
Sheppard - hundreds of games, articles, activities and articles
Research
Kiddle - Search engine for kids
FactMonster - Tons of fun info on topics from math to history to sports
King County Library - Various databases, encyclopedias and dictionaries available with active library account
Social Studies
Culturegrams - reliable and up-to-date cultural content