Kimberly's+Web+Evaluation

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**__Title__**: Nasa Kids' Club


 * __Site URL__**: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

__**Comments**__: I believe this website to not only to be full of information but also full of fun. I would use in my classroom, maybe not for a lesson, but something available for the students to use in down time. I think it's useful because it incorporates learning and fun. I believe this to be very useful to help keep the children's interest and attention. Although there are a lot of bells and whistles, it also is informative on all aspects of space. It helps that it is from a widely recognized organization, NASA. The NASA Kids' Club is a great website to include for activities when learning about outer space. The website contains mainly space games and would be a good computer lab activity to incorporate the space theme lesson. The NASA Kids' Club supports teaching and learning through getting children excited, through games, about outer space. A limitation of the site is it holds games and not a lot of factual information. I would use the site in my classroom to introduce space and get children engaged and excited to learn .(CHB) I really liked the NASA Kid’s Club Website because it would be very easy to get your students interested in space. The website has many different games that seem like that would be very fun for younger students. The sight also has some very interesting information, such as how it introduces each of the members of the international space station to the students. This website is very useful for a teacher teaching their students about outer space. (DD) NASA Kids is a smart was to get students involved with science and the exploration of the universe. The idea of taking tasks and splitting them into skill levels is a good idea. Especially since the amount of reading and comprehension is so different for all of them. Games are always a wonderful way to get kids involved without them even knowing. They think they are playing games and having fun with the mazes and flashy colors, however they are retaining information about topics and learning things they never knew before. The website was easy to navigate and was well organized. It had bright and friendly colors that caught my attention. I would definatly use this website as an extr in my classroom when students had extra time. (NK)

__**Title**__: Cool Math 4 Kids


 * __Site URL__**: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/times-tables/index.html

**__Comments__**: Although it offers a lot of different lessons in all areas of math, the overall look of the website is over overwhelming. There are way to many bright colors and links to click on, it looks very disorganized to me. You really have to look around to find what you want. It does, however, offer lessons, step by step explanations, as well as games to help the student learn. Overall, not something I would use first to help my students with math.  The site, Cool Math 4 kids, is a fun learning website. The site is extremely colorful, with different buttons and learning tools to click on. I would not use this website when first introducing new math because I feel it would overwhelm and confuse the students. The site would be great for higher elementary students who know multiplication and dividing to review. A teacher could easily pull the website up to review in a teaching lesson or have students log onto in computer lab. The limitation of the site is the colorfulness and the abundance of links to click on. I would use this website, but not as a beginning teaching tool. (CHB) The Cool Math 4 Kids website is a very fun and interactive website for students to use and visit. The sight is a very good tool to have students use to review or gain extra help with their math problems. I believe that it is a fun website and students would be willing and able to use it after school for extra practice. (DD)

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