I have really enjoyed finding math resources to use in future planning and teaching and was excited to find another great one! PBS Learning Media gives lesson plans, videos, and interactive thinking and teaching for parents, students, and teachers to access for free. This resource is specifically for 5th-8th grade. It gives excellent resources to help parents better understand what is being taught, allows students to interact with games, quizzes, and more to help grasp and master a concept, and gives teachers a resource to reference for lesson plans. I think teachers could also assign various interactive assessments to add variety to a student's homework. The website is divided up by topic and grade making it easy to navigate and distinguish between topics. The topics are based upon the common core curriculum ensuring that students are learning and developing skills that complement the concepts that are discussed in the classroom. Additionally, each of the concepts provide support materials and list the various standards that are met throughout the lessons and videos.
While this website and resource is specific to math, the PBS Learning Media website covers all subject areas and also includes arts, physical education, world languages, and professional development. I think this is an excellent resource that we can all access and use within our classrooms and lesson plans. Each of the content areas have multiple sub topics to choose from and are each framed around specific grades, including the middle grades. This is a resource that can be used for all content area teachers, a tool for a parents, and another resource for students!
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This website looks so useful! I like how it is 5th through 8th grade. Even though I am not math I think it could still be a great resource to me one day in the future. I like how it divides the topics, this makes it very easy to navigate.
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