Monday, January 25, 2010

Growth of a Nation

Animatedatlas.com has an interactive atlas that allows you to explore how the nation grew from 1790 to the year 2000. This history spans from the development of the 13 colonies to 50 states. The site hosts a 10 minute video that can be played all the way through, or paused when needed. Also during the video any state can be clicked on to show details of the state's history.


This site can be used to teach about the 13 colonies, the civil war, the revolutionary war, or just to give an overall summary of how the United States developed through history.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Order Of Operations - Math

Solving equations can be confusing if students do not understand order of operations.

Amby.com has a web-based interactive tutorial that can help students remember and practice order of operations.Funbrain.com also has an interactive game to help students learn the importance of order of operations. There are 3 levels of games for Order of Operations. There is an Easy level that only uses addition and subtraction. The Medium level uses addition, subtraction, and multiplications, and the Hard level uses all operations.