The Best Resources for Elementary Schools
Neo K12 (
http://neok12.com) Neo K12 is a comprehensive collection of educational videos, lessons, and games for students in grades k-12. Neo K12 believes that, “kids learn best by ‘seeing’ the real world.” They have created this site with that belief in mind.
Neo K12 has cataloged the best free online education videos from the Internet and
brings them together in one place. Each video is watched and reviewed by k-12 educators to ensure their accuracy and appropriateness for students. Subjects include physical science, life science, human body, earth and space, social studies, math, English (including phonics, stories, and grammar), and fun videos such as time lapse, slow motion, arts and crafts, learn magic, music lessons, and sports lessons. Along with videos, Neo K12 has web 2.0 tools. The School Presentation tool is a mashup of Flickr and Wikipedia, and allows students to create and share presentations online. To create a presentation, students choose pictures for their presentation from Flickr, read an article about the subject from Wikipedia, and then add text to their presentation. When the presentation is finished, it can be printed or viewed online as a slide show. Quizzes, games, and puzzles on Neo K12 are an interactive way to improve learning. Teachers can create and share video playlists complete with notes and instructions for their students.
Videos provide excellent opportunities for learning, they make it possible for kids to visualize and build a model in their minds. This helps them to better understand key concepts and can stimulate curiosity in a subject. When students or teachers search a subject, they are given a list of related videos, quizzes, games, and puzzles. When a teacher creates an account, they can create a complete assignment within Neo K12 that includes instructions and notes for the students. Students can complete the assignment by watching videos, playing related games, and creating a School Presentation that demonstrates understanding. The presentations are easy enough for even young students to create. Primary students can skip reading the wikipedia article and just choose pictures and add some captions about facts they learned from a video they viewed. These videos are a great way to introduce new learning, expand on previous learning, or spark creativity in a topic. Many of the education games and puzzles can be used whole class using an interactive whiteboard or completed individually in the computer lab or on classroom computers. The jigsaw puzzles can be used as teasers to introduce a new topic. The jigsaw puzzles use incredible images from Flickr. Have students take turns coming up to the interactive whiteboard or computer (connected to a projector) to put puzzle pieces together. Students waiting at their seats can take guesses about what new learning you will be doing in class.
Neo K12 requires an email address to sign up. Students don’t have to register to view your dashboard (that can be shared with a unique url) but they will have to register to save presentations. Students younger than 13 can have a parent or teacher sign up on their behalf, or create a class account and have students save their work with first name or number included in the title.
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