Thinkfinity.org is a site that I just learned this past week. I have not had the chance to use this web tool as of yet. I am looking forward to utilizing it for many many lessons. I have had the chance however to do some exploring on the site. I think this is one of the best tools available to educators.
This site is provided free of charge by the Verizon foundation. The site is user friendly to educators, students and parents. I have only explored the site as an educator.
Entering as an educator allows you access to hundreds of lessons that have been verified through the foundation and helps provide activities and interactives as lesson plan supplements.
Once I entered the site as an educator, I had the option of choosing the discipline I needed, I also had the option of narrowing my search for lessons that provided printables, gave an activity or was an interactive. I chose to search through all. The site also gives you an option to choose the lesson provider via several educational partners. Again, I chose to search through all.
The site not only gave me complete lessons on my topic, it also gave me the tool to choose my states appropriate teaching standards. Very helpful!
I plan on visiting this site for each new section to help supplement interactive lessons and include activities for sections that need something to help grab a little more attention towards the content.
I have already told teachers that I work with about this web 2.0 tool. It will definitely become an asset, I will use it to help build onto the activities that I already have. It is nice to mix things up here and there and having access to this site affords me several options.
Thinkfinity. (2009). Free lesson plans and educational resources. Retrieved on November 4, 2009 from http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Great find! I haven't seen this one yet but will visit it as soon as time permits. I want to tell you that choosing the black template with the pictures you are using gives your blog a professional and beautiful look.
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