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Password Bird

What it is: Password Bird is an extremelly simple website, but one that I love to use with my elementary students. Password Bird helps students create a password using a few easy to answer questions. Students enter a name that is special to them, a word that is special to them, and date that is special to them. Password Bird takes these and turns it into a randomly generated password. The ideas is that the password generated will be something easy for students to remember but hard for others to guess. How to integrate Password Bird into the classroom: In my computer classroom I hear the words “I don’t know what my password should be” a lot. Password Bird is the perfect place to send these kids. It helps them create a password quickly that should be fairly easy for them to remember. Sometimes Password Bird generates great passwords, and sometimes the passwords are not as strong. I have used Password Bird to generate passwords that we then dissect and decide if it is a strong password or not. Tips: Not every password generated on Password Bird will be a strong password, usually this is due to the words that the students chose that make it a weak password. Use the opportunity to discuss what makes it a particularly strong or weak password. Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Password Bird in your classroom.

BBC Primary History World War 2

Posted by admin | Posted in Character Education, History, Interactive Whiteboard, Primary Elementary, Secondary Elementary, Social Studies, Teacher Resources, Websites | Posted on 05-11-2009

Tags: bbc, bbc primary history, History, primary, war, world war 2, world war II

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What it is: The BBC has so many incredible technology resources and websites for students. Today I learned about the BBC Primary History World War 2 website. I am really impressed with the wealth of information on this site, but also the age group it is targeted at: primary students. So much of the time, history websites (especially on WWII) are geared toward older students. This site is very kid friendly in its verbiage, images, and content. This is a great site to explore with your class to learn more about World War II. Students will learn about the world at war, evacuations, wartime homes, food and shopping, the war time efforts, children at war, air raids, daily life, growing up during wartime, and the end of the war. Each section has easy-to-understand information and pictures. Students can also be a historical detective with a World War II time capsule game. The teacher section has an amazing collection of related worksheets, activities, and links that can be used with the site.

How to integrate BBC Primary History World War 2 into the classroom: I am so impressed with the content presented on this site. It is easy enough for young students to gain an understanding of World War II. This would be an excellent website to share and explore with your whole class with a projector or interactive whiteboard. Read the facts and discuss the stories together while browsing through the primary resource photographs. Encourage students to imagine what it would have been like to be a student during the war. After you have viewed the site as a class, students can explore more on their own in a computer lab setting or on classroom computers. Allow the students to play the time capsule game to reinforce the skills they are learning.

Tips: This site could take several class periods or days to explore. The additional activities are wonderful, students can do everything from exploring a war time shelter to learning about rationing by shopping for a meal in 1943. I so wish that I had learned history this way!!

Leave a comment and tell us how you are using BBC Primary History World War 2 in your classroom.