Curriculum & Instruction

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Description

Grade Levels

How to Access

i-Ready

i-Ready instruction provides students with lessons based on their individual strengths and areas for growth. These lessons are interactive and provide strategic supports to keep your child engaged as they learn.

*We recommend students use i-Ready for 45 minutes per subject each week in 15-20 minute increments.

You can also learn more about i-Ready by visiting i-ReadyCentral.com/FamilyCente

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Kindergarten- 8th Grade

This free resource is available to students through the Clever app on their district laptop.

Vocabulary.com

Vocabulary.com is a website (and Chrome app) that helps kids improve their vocab skills using quick quizzes that adapt to their skill level over time. A word appears on the screen; from four definitions, students choose the one they think is correct. The site will then tailor future questions based on their strengths and areas for growth. Many terms are commonly used in academic and business environments, but the site also works to identify terms unfamiliar to the user. If kids answer a question incorrectly, Vocabulary.com schedules extra exercises to help them learn it. Students get points for each correct answer and earn badges as they reach different goals.

All Grade Levels

Students create a free account using their district gmail address.

Duolingo

Duolingo packs full-sentence learning and sixty-four (plus) multiple-lesson themes into an easy-to-grasp mind map layout. After email registration and a quick but detailed level selection, English-speaking kids can select any of five languages -- Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, and French -- while speakers of these languages (plus Romanian, Turkish, and Polish) can select English (though instructions are still partially in English).

All Grade Levels

Students create a free account using their district gmail address.

DreamBox

This site provides interactive math lessons that are adapted to each student, providing the ultimate personalized learning experience.  The program recommends that students complete at least 3 lessons a week.  Please see below for some helpful videos on using DreamBox at home. 

DreamBox at Home – What is DreamBox Math?

DreamBox at Home – Role of the Parent or Learning Guardian

DreamBox at Home – Creating a Family Account

DreamBox at Home – Supporting Your Child

DreamBox at Home – Monitoring Student Progress

DreamBox at Home – Celebrating Student Progress and Success

Kindergarten - 5th grades

This free resource is available to students through the Clever app on their district laptop.

Sheppard Software

This site has lots of fun and educational online math games, from basic operations to algebra and geometry.

All Grade Levels

Students can click the link to go directly to the site.  No email is required to access the games. 

Gizmos

Gizmos are interactive math and science simulations for grades 3-12. Over 400 Gizmos aligned to the latest standards help educators bring powerful new learning experiences to the classroom.

All Grade Levels

This free resource is available to students through the Clever app on their district laptop. 

Phet Interactive Simulations

To help students engage in science and mathematics through inquiry, PhET simulations are developed using the following design principles:

●          Encourage scientific inquiry

●          Provide interactivity

●          Make the invisible visible

●          Show visual mental models

●          Include multiple representations (e.g., object motion, graphs, numbers, etc.)

●          Use real-world connections

●          Give users implicit guidance (e.g., by limiting controls) in productive exploration

●          Create a simulation that can be flexibly used in many educational situations

All Grade Levels

Students set up a free account using their district gmail address.

Math Nation

Students complete the Start-Up diagnostic assessment and are placed on their personalized learning path, allowing for flexible remediation and acceleration opportunities available anywhere at any time.

5th Grade - Algebra II

Go to District Bookmarks.

Choose Instruction Hub and then Math Nation.

Select the grade level in the upper left corner, and the On-Ramp button is in the upper right corner.