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Math Mysteries, Maps, & More!

July 23rd, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, July 23, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
NAACE:  Math Activities

Age Range:  6-14 (and fun for all ages with parental supervision/assistance)

This website, sponsored by an association of educators, offers an amazing array of free, innovative math activities and resources that engage people of all ages.  

When you get to the site, don’t be fooled. It may not look like much, but explore the menu to find games, downloadable activities, and terrific resources that will boost your children’s knowledge of math while challenging their logic and reasoning skills. They”ll even reinforce language arts, and learn some history along the way!  Here are a few menu items that will help hone math skills:

*Bounce – This game requires you to flex your problem solving skills while exploring factors and ratios.

*Find the Pairs – Match fraction symbols with fraction illustrations.

*Number Board – This game is similar to Bingo, except you have to do math equations on a calculator to find number answers that are on your game card.

*Sorting Games – Enjoy a delightful assortment of games that teach sorting skills.

*Where to Site a Nesting Box of Owls – Use your geography skills to study a map and determine the best place to build a nesting box for owls.  This activity teaches about owls and the environment too!

*Whodunnit?  (Playing Detective) – Follow the clues to solve crimes.

Click on any one and a new window opens with complete instructions (although some of the games require a little more intuitiveness to navigate). Many of the activities have multiple levels of difficulty making them challenging for a wide age/ability range.

 

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Virtual Tour of Sherlock Holmes Museum

May 11th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Friday, May 11, 2012 and time for a Virtual FieldTrip at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Sherlock Holmes Museum

Age Range: 10 and up (approximately, with parental supervision)

According to the books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, detective Sherlock Holmes lived in a Victorian house at 221b Baker Street in London, England. The house is real and still exists today. It was built in 1815 and is now a museum dedicated to the life and times of Sherlock Holmes.

At this website, you can take a quick virtual tour of Sherlock Holmes’ study that has been faithfully maintained for posterity exactly as described in the published stories. See his armchair by the fireplace and his trademark calabash pipe, along with his magnifying glass, violin, chemistry equipment, and  notebook.

When you get to the site, look for the menu on the left side of the home page. Click on the first item that says, “Museum Tour.”  A new page opens with an introduction to the tour. Just click on the arrows to see the entire presentation. 

This is a virtual tour that is sure to intrigue fans of the Sherlock Holmes mystery series!

 

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Getty Museum Art Games!

February 18th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Saturday, February 18, 2012 and time for Art at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Getty.edu

Age Range: 9 and up (with parental supervision)

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles sponsors this website that teaches kids about art through fun online games and activities.

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of games including:

*Detail Detective – Pay attention to the detail in various works of art. Then, try to match random images to the correct piece of art.

*Match Madness – Use the power of your memory in a variety of artistic games of concentration.

*Switch – Look at two images of one painting. Can you find what’s different about them?

*Jigsaw Puzzles – Put the scrambled pieces together to assemble a work of art.

*Make Art at Home – Download free printable instructions on how to make a bookmark, mask, or your own version of Claude Monet’s Wheatstacks.

Some of these games take some time to load but it’s worth the wait. 

 

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Art Appreciation Activities for Kids

May 14th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Saturday, May 14, 2011 and time for Art at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
SmART Kids

Age Range: 7-12 (with parental guidance)

This website was created by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago to help kids “look at, think about, and respond creatively to art” through structured and open-ended art activities.

When you get to the site you’ll watch a brief introduction and then see four animated children. Place your cursor over them to find out what activities they will guide you to that include:

  • Artist Studio – Virtually visit an artist’s studio – meet the artist, look at their artwork, and watch the artist at work.
  • Look & Share – Learn about photographs, explore sculpture and pottery, see an oil painting demo, and more.
  • Art Detective – In this game you read clues to figure out the correct titles of various artworks.
  • Art Speak – This glossary explains art terminology that is used throughout the SmART Kids presentation.

You can also click on “Artwork of the Month” to learn about a particular piece of art and access the archives of other featured works too.

 

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Puzzling, Challenging & Fun MathMUSEments

April 18th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Monday, April 18, 2011 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

MatheMUSEments

Age Range: 8-16 (approximately, with parental guidance)

This website offers engaging articles for kids with activities to explain different aspects of math in everyday life. The articles were written by author Ivars Peterson, editor of the website Science News for Kids. He wrote many of the articles for Muse magazine as well.

When you get to the site you will see a menu of intriguing article titles that will capture your student’s attention. There are over 75 to choose from that include:

  • The Simpsons and Mathematics — Several of the TV show’s writers studied math or computer science and occasionally sneak in a mathematical joke such as the ones explained here.
  • The Beauty of the Bag — Find out why the brown-paper bag that you use to carry groceries is actually a technological masterpiece.
  • Sudoku Mania — Are you a Sudoku puzzle fan? Learn more about these fun logic puzzles and why you don’t need math to solve them.
  • Math Music — Find out how mathmusicians turn numbers, number sequences, or mathematical functions into mysterious and haunting melodies.
  • One-Cut Angelfish — Fold a piece of paper and make only one cut to produce an angelfish!
  • Monopoly Cheat Sheet — find out how mathematicians figured out strategies for how to win a Monopoly game.
  • Decoding Bar Codes — Learn what each number in a bar code means.
  • Ant Math — discover how ants calculate space.
  • Solve It or Die Hard — In the movie Die Hard with a Vengeance, detective John McClane and his sidekick Zeus have seconds to defuse a time bomb by solving a mathematical puzzle. Do you know how to solve it?

The articles include activities that your kids can do to demonstrate or prove the theory or idea presented. There are also illustrations and links to further resources.

Bookmark this site because there’s plenty of material here. Plus, once you’ve exhausted the matheMUSEments, poke around Science News for Kids to discover terrific information and activities on every aspect of science.

Enjoy!

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Art Appreciation Activities for Kids

April 2nd, 2011

Hi!  It’s Saturday, April 2, 2011 and time for Art at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
SmART Kids

Age Range: 7-12 (with parental guidance)

This website was created by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and provides both structured and open-ended art activities to help kids “look at, think about, and respond creatively to art.”

When you get to the site you’ll watch a brief introduction and then see four animated children. Place your cursor over them to find out what activities they will guide you to that include:

*Look & Share – Learn about photographs, explore sculpture and pottery, see an oil painting demo, and more.

*Art Detective – In this game you read clues to figure out the correct titles of various artworks.

*Artist Studio – Virtually visit an artist’s studio – meet the artist, look at their artwork, and watch the artist at work.

*Art Speak – This glossary explains art terminology that is used throughout the SmART Kids presentation.

You can also click on “Artwork of the Month” to learn about a particular piece of art and access the archives of other featured works too.

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