Classroom Resources
A Big Button Calculator
Came across this calculator, which would be handy for whole class demonstration. It has big buttons and a simple layout – just the essentials. Nice and big too.
Star of the Week Chair
I have spent some time during this last week cleaning up my new classroom. I had a staff lounge chair in the classroom which was looking a bit tacky with the corners torn and the padding showing through. A quick trip to Spotlight and I found some lovely star material. I was planning to make [...]
Weather Chart Icons
I came across these Free Weather Icons the other day – could be good for use on a weather chart, or maybe even an IWB version?? I might even try to come up with something like that a little later on. Let me know if you’ve seen a good IWB chart for [...]
Student Goals
Mrs McNamara has come up with a good idea. She has used student photos to illustrate students’ goals for the rest of the year. These have been presented in the “motivational poster” style though, using FD’s Flickr Toys. One of the toys is a motivational poster creator – simply upload the photo, type in a [...]
An Online Stopwatch
Everybody needs a stopwatch at some point — and there’s never one around!
Well… Now there is! Online Stopwatch!
A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it.
Including not only a Stopwatch and a CountDown feature, but also available are a Split Lap Timer, an Egg Timer version, a Bomb [...]
Online Graph/Grid Paper Resource
I needed some graph paper for an activity I was planning on doing with the class today. Of course, I couldn’t find a pad of the stuff already printed out, so I turned to my friend Google and came across Incompetech.com’s site which allows me to generate exactly what I needed then download it as [...]