Michaela Ott app, elementary, english, high, history, literacy, math, middle

3/3/21 Wednesday Website: Blooket

This week’s Wednesday Website for March 3rd, 2021 was shared by Jenna Figliano, who shared out about Blooket. Blooket is an educational game website where students can compete with each other by answering questions based on teacher-created Blooket decks. The Blooket decks can be created from scratch or choose from several pre-created decks from other educators! After the game is finished Blooket even provides educators with a score summary with ability to see student’s scores and which questions were answers correctly/incorrectly.

A few other features:

  • Hundreds of pre-created decks!
  • Choose from any subject!
  • Choose from the different games that Blooket has created to assess student knowledge
  • Assign Blookets for homework
  • Fun and exciting for students of all ages!
  • Turn off/on student names for the game
Michaela Ott app, elementary, high, middle

10/28/20 Wednesday Website: Pixton

Wednesday’s Website for October 28th, 2020 was shared by Rachel Sechrist, who shared out about Pixton. Pixton is a website where students, educators, or parents can create comics or storyboards for a class or at home.

A few other features:

  • FREE
  • It lets users create their own comics.
  • It lets you give text and speech bubbles to characters.
  • It lets you edit the shape and position of each comic panel.
ama419 app, elementary, high, middle, website

Wednesday Website: The Budget Game & Be Well reminders

Lots going on at Centennial for this week’s Wednesday Websites!

Caitie Lyons, our very own Middle School Coordinator, reminded the staff of Lehigh’s Be Well program. This healthy habits program is geared toward Lehigh employees. You can earn points to save up for prizes, including a $20 wellness credit or even save up for larger appliances. Head to this link to get signed up now!

Conversely, Kristin Smith, an elementary lead teacher, shared out the website called The Budget Game. Although you may have to make your budget in Pounds (British currency), it’s a helpful tool in practicing making budgets for elementary schoolers who are learning about money or even high schoolers who have might have budgeting needs. (A transition grid activity?!)

sch309 app, elementary, high, March Madness, middle

Stop, Think & Breathe

Last week, we featured Calm as a tool to practice mindfulness with students. For students across grade levels, educators can apply for a free premium membership to Stop, Think & Breathe. There are hundreds of sessions grouped by topic and labeled with the amount of time for each activity. These sessions are only available through the app, there is not a web version. If you are using this with a group of students, consider projecting your mobile device so that all students can view the session. Be sure to checkout the educator guide on the Stop, Think & Breathe website for ideas of how you might incorporate mindfulness into your lessons.

Another mindfulness tools for students and adults is Mindyeti. The free version includes 15 sessions. While this beta version is designed for students in the elementary levels, the exercises can be modified and used with older learners.

Working with secondary students? This blog post highlights how to use mindfulness with older learners.