News Articles For Students

Smithsonian's TweenTribune is a free website with news articles for students. Each article includes comprehension- and vocabulary-based quizzes and adjustable Lexile levels. All past articles are available and can be filtered by grade level or keyword. There are also tech-related stories and articles in Spanish.  To see the website click here. 

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Quizlet

 

If you need to learn a set of words for say the SAT or Biology or French class you can either make up your own flashcards or use Quizlet.  With your word set or one you find on Quizlet you can then play a game of matching or quiz by true or false plus other options such as spelling.  To see the website click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Fling the teacher - review quiz generator

 

I hope you had a good weekend.  As always classtools has some great little "apps" for your classroom.  As a teacher you can easily build a 15 question multiple choice quiz.  If the students get it all correct they get to catapult the "Angry Bird" with your picture on it.  They have 60 seconds to try and launch you into a hole in the ground.  When you go to this app there is a default example.  If you want to build your own and you will, go to the link on the bottom left of the page.  To see the app click here.

Grammar Bytes

If you teach English this site be one to check out.  This site has handouts, exercises, power points and a weekly  workout on twitter  like the following:

To see the website click here.

Study Stack

 

I have posted about many different flash card sites such as Quizlet and Flippity.   With Study Stack you can make your own flash cards or use some that are already premade in many different  topics.  To see the website click here.

Creative Chemistry

From their UK website, "Whether you are a teacher, doing chemistry at school, or are simply just interested in chemistry, Creative Chemistry has lots for you.

There are full-colour worksheets and teaching notes for fun activities suitable for a chemistry club, and around three hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides for GCSE and A Level Chemistry.

You will also find fun chemistry puzzles, interactive revision quizzes and molecular models. Choose from the featured selection below, use the Search facility, or enjoy just browsing"

To see the website click here.

 

Making the most of Quizlet

 

On October 31 2020 I posted about Quizlet.  You can see the post by clicking here.  Today I read an excellent article, "Making the most of Quizlet" by Sandy Millin.  She goes into depth about using it for her class.  To see the article click here.

Seterra - Online Geography and Anatomy Self Quiz

 

This is from October 2018 but the site is still going strong.

Seterra offers Geography games but I am going to point out that they have Anatomy quizzes too.You can have your students point and click at the parts of the human anatomy or parts of the cell etc.To see the site click here.  I just did the bones quiz and mixed up tibia and fibula.  Oh well more practice needed.

wordgame

This site is a vocabulary quiz game.  You are given a definition and are asked to pick the correct word that is defined.  Very simple but could be used in an English class or maybe for studying for the SAT.  To see the website click here.

Flash Cards and Quizlet

I had a student ask me about making flashcards digitally.  I pointed out Quizlet  that I blogged about this a few years ago.  The site has some ready made flash cards or you can make your own.  Click here to see the post.  There are other flashcard sites I have blogged about.  See Flippity  by clicking here  and Memrise by clicking here.   After looking at Quizlet again I noticed you can do other ways of quizzing yourself instead of just flash cards.  For example you can do matching by  having your flash cards all on one screen and match the fronts and the backs.  See an example of this by clicking here.  You can see all the cards at the bottom and then select MATCH.  This is the last post for 2018.  Have a great holiday and I will post more in the 2019.  Be safe.

New York Times Country of the Week

According to the New York Times, "Our new “Country of the Week” feature celebrates this abundance to help build students’ geography skills. A weekly interactive quiz will first introduce students to a country via a recent video or photograph, then ask them to find that place on a map. Next, the quiz will focus on the demographics and culture of the country. Finally, we’ll include links to recent reporting from that place in case they, or you, would like to go further."

To see the website click here.

Memrise

Memrise is a tool to learn many different subjects.  It is part flash cards for review or learning.  It is part quiz.  I like this tool.  There a many premade categories with subtopics ranging from languages to science, math, history etc.  You can even make your own.  For example I looked under languages and found Ukrainian.  There are many science and math ones.

Memrise will give you one "term" with a definition  then when you are ready you will get a second "term" and its definition.  After that you will be quizzed.  More "terms" and more quizzing.  You get the picture.  I used "terms" in quotes as it could be a new word in Spanish, or a new word in Biology or a new graph in Functions etc.  Check it out by clicking here.

Proprofs

I saw a student studying for her Biology.  I had mentioned Purposegames in December on my blog before for this but this site looks pretty good too.  There are many different topics and the tests look fine.  Now you can pay and make your own tests but just to get your students a place to review this site will do fine.  To see the site click here.

Kahoot

Many of you have used Kahoot.  If you never have,  then read  about it by clicking here.  Now Kahoot has a team mode which allows you to enter a team name as well as individuals and you will have more time to answer so your group members can discuss before answering.  Check out their main site by clicking here.

The Ultimate Canadian Geography Quiz

If you think you are a Canadian Geographic Genius then try the 50 question quiz on the Canadian Geographic website by clicking here.  This might be a nice to have your students do in pairs at the beginning of the semester.

Quizalize

I know some of you use Kahoot to play quiz games with your class on their devices or for a formative evaluation on how your class is doing on different topics.   Quizalize awards points for answering questions correctly and quickly.  You can specify an amount of time on every question.  Of obvious interest to teachers  can be found on the results page where you can see which questions gave students the most trouble.  To see the website click here.

Dustbin

This is a nice little review quiz maker for your students to play.  You can find this by clicking here.

I have prepared a little video on how to use this tool.  I think this would be great to use on a classroom webpage or on your classroom blog.  Maybe students could make up their own as a review for the class as part of their evaluation.

Memrise

Memrise is a tool to learn many different subjects.  It is part flash cards for review or learning.  It is part quiz.  I like this tool.  There a many premade categories with subtopics ranging from languages to science, math, history etc.  You can even make your own.  For example I looked under languages and found Ukrainian.  There are many science ones.  For example there was one on parts of the cell which fits in nicely with grade 9 science.

Here are the terms the student can learn.  Then when you start it will give you one term with a definition then when you are ready you will get a second term and its definition.  After that you will be quizzed.  More terms and more quizzing.  You get the picture.

Some of the slides I saw included pictures, pronunciation and sound.  There are many uses for the class room educator.  First students can go on there own to review.  Even better there is Memrise for Teachers.  Memrise for Teachers allows you to add students to your account.  You can then assign review material for them and track their progress.  To go to the Memrise site click here.  To go to the Memrise for Teachers site click here.

Accounting Coach

Would you like a dictionary of accounting terms.  Maybe you would like crossword puzzles, word scrambles, quizzes and exams. If so take a look by clicking here and search around.

cell labelling interactive

This might be a quick ticket out the door item if you have a computer or smart board in your science class.
Click here to go to the website.