Children’s Web sites may combine educational and entertaining information and activities
with interactive advertising and direct selling. Because children may have difficulty
differentiating between advertising and programming content, this situation is a(n)
A. exciting opportunity to change society.
B. potentially negative impact of the Internet on children.
C. reason to bar children from the Internet entirely.
D. educationally defensible position.

i think B but It might be wrong

I’ve been looking for new ideas for games, crafts, activities, etc. for my 3 year old daughter and my one year old son. maybe something that can keep both their attention at the same time. Know any good websites?

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What type of educational/nutritional actives can I do from my class of 18-24 month old children? I work at a day care and would like new ideas to change up the activities we currently do. any and all ideas are greatly ;appreciated.

You mentioned nutritional…meaning healthy eating etc???? If so some ideas include……make fruit salad (get every child to bring in a piece of fruit from home to slice up), bake some fruit muffins, have them look through magazines for healthy fruit/vege and food pictures and make a montage, Sing songs about healthy food "fruit salad" by the wiggles is a goodie! Get them to collage huge templates of fruit/veges with the appropriate colours of paper scraps (these look awesome on the wall)

Just some ideas
p.s Im a preschool teacher workign with the age group also.

I work for an afterschool program and am creating some educational games/activities for the children to work on when they either do not have any homework or they already finished it.
I am making them on card stock and laminating. They will then use either wet/dry erase markers, sticky note arrows, dice, etc. to play the games. This is sort of like file folder games. I work with PreK-K mostly, but having a few ideas for odler children won’t hurt.

I am in need of some more ideas though.

I currently have the following:
5 Tic Tac Toe Sheets
5 Sudoku Puzzles (4×4 Grid)
Counting 1-20 Fill in the missing blanks
Matching Uppercase-Lowercase
Matching Number Words to Numerals
Matching Beginning Letter Sounds to their picture (ie. A is for…Apple)
A board-game like sheet where they will spin a spinner and then move to the space chosen by the color the spinner landed on if they correctly answer an addition/subtraction problem
A rhyming word game

I also have alpha dice.
Ideas?
Thanks. I will try to run with some of those ideas. However, I am still looking for more ideas.

I just decided to add:
The Dot Game
Connect the Dot Worksheets

I still have some left over game spinners that I want to try to use and a whole bunch of dice.

I am looking for games that I can make with one sheet of cardstock (which will be laminated). Additional materials usually aren’t a problem. However, I want the materials to be useful for multiple games.

I am working on games for PreK-K now, but I am actually considering making games that will work up to 8th (a few games already will work). I just don’t know if it is worth it because I don’t know how others will treat my materials.

Boggle would be awesome! Or Yahtzee too. I think you could pretty easily make up a Yahtzee board and just use regular dice. With the AlphaDice, you can do a different version too.

What about a plain old deck of cards? You could do so much with that to reinforce place value and number sense. For example, you could have a place value mat (with a box for 1, 10, 100 and even 1000) and the kids could take turns flipping a card and placing it on the board. They can try and make the biggest number, smallest number, biggest even/odd, smallest even/odd, etc.

There is also War, but with a twist - flip down 2 cards per person and add them together. The biggest sum wins.

You can set up a hangman board with ready made words on little cards.

There is also a great book called "Take it to your seat" centers. The centers are all ready to go, you just need to cut and laminate. They have them for PreK through 6th grade in both math and literacy areas. Check out amazon.com for them.

Good luck and have fun!

I’m teaching Entry level ICT & am willing share resources I’ve created… just wondering if there’s any kind teachers or computer/multimedia buffs out there who don’t mind sharing some fun things to do that have an educational element in them. I’m not really a buff-just picked up things in the last couple of years.

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Am preparing my home to take in a young girl that I don’t know very well and want to make her feel as comfortable as possible and get some goodies and fun stuff and things to do so she isn’t bored. Any ideas?

My 5 year old loves the traffic jam puzzle game. It’s got a lot of different levels. She could play it all day! It’s a great problem solving game.

HEY! i’m going over to visit my sister and her family in the states and while over there i’m looking after my sisters 2 and a 1/2 year old baby girl!! (soo cute!!) anywhoo she wants me to do some activities with her some fun, some educational etc etc.. can anyone give any advice on what i could do, or link some sites where i could look?? thanks for your time =) xx

Verbalize everything.

From snack to clean up to bath time.

Any activity can be educational, even making lunch (ie.. Ask her What shape a slice of bread is, cut it diagonally, ask her what shapes they are now.. Ect)

Kids love moter activities as well, finger paints, play dough play, sand play, water play, excercise, singing and dancing aloud, silly songs, silly ideas, shaving cream on a clean table, just covered, its messy but definately a favorite, write her name in the foam and have her "trace" the letters, have food coloring in different glasses of water, ask her the colors, have her "make lunch" put out a simple lunch like pb&j with a plastic spoon to spread it and some bread, have her assemble it her own way.. Etc.
So many easy things kids love good luck

I have to organise an activity related to racism for foreigner students who are learning English. They are between 14 and 17 years old and the activity has to be about the film "Crash" because they are going to watch it.
I would like to do something more original than just answering questions on the film. I hope you have some interesting tips and advice to give me.
This activity can not take longer than 20/30 minutes.

Thank you for your help!

Maybe before each event that would seem racist the students can write down what they think will happen and why. For example, when the Mexican Locksmith is fixing the door, you can ask your class, would you let him fix it? why or why not? Would you trust him? Or you can stop the movie when the police chase down the film director and they can write down what they think will happen and why? What about in the beginning, when Sandra Bullock is walking and she gets closer to her husband, was she justified, why or why not? How did it make you feel. After they write down your answer you show them what happens and see if what they expected to happen did actually happen. Maybe you can just pick one specific event and have a discussion afterwards.

We have a horse 4-H club meeting coming up and I’m drawing a blank for an activity to do, I’ve been at this for several years so I’m starting to run out of new ideas! I’m looking for something educational but fun for a group of twenty 9-16 year olds for a time frame of 20 - 40 minutes. Any fresh ideas?

By the way, the members WILL NOT have their horses with them at this meeting, however, there will be a couple horses on the property if needed.

You should buy horse paint and have the kids paint the skeleton on a horse. And go over the proper names of the bones and muscles.
Tempra paint or most kids safe paint will work too.

Here is some safe horse paint.

http://www.raraequus.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=21&idproduct=298

I would use a black horse, and use white (bones) and red (muscles)paint.

If you can’t do that, buy extra big sheets of paper have them draw a life size horse and do the same activity.

Or you can get old horse shoes, paint, glitter and decorate them. They make really cute picture frames too.

I’m a Stay At Home Mom. What are things we can do together throughout the day?

start a mommy group. invite people you know who have kids around your child’s age to play. i stay at home to and a bunch of us from church got together to let the kids play. with summer coming you can meet at a park. it helps them out socially.