PATINS UDL Project

Arcademic Skill Builders is a nonprofit web site that features free online educational games offering a new approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Inspired by arcade games and the intense engagement they foster between the game and player, the site’s programs stem from experience, systematic observations, and research in understanding student learning in school and social situations.

The site offers single-player and multi-player games in activities that include:

• Jet Ski Addition
• Island Chase Subtraction
• Grand Prix Multiplication
• Drag Race Division
• Word Frog
• Word Invasion
• Capital Penguin
• Coconut Vowels
• Verb Viper

Check it out at http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/

Free lesson plans help bring Google Earth into classrooms!

“Google Earth Lessons” is a free public resource created by teachers, for teachers, to give educators tools and ideas for using the free Google Earth software in their classrooms. Using the ideas and resources found on this site, teachers of all subjects and grade levels can incorporate Google Earth into their curriculum.

A section called “Google Earth How-tos” gives educators the basic skills they need to use the software, and a discussion section includes threads for exchanging ideas on a variety of topics.

Users also can search for lessons by content area (social studies, math, science, language arts, & cross curricular), share lessons with others, search through a library of screenshots, and more. All that is needed to use the lessons is a free download of Google Earth software.

http://www.gelessons.com/lessons