Q3 Interactive Study Tools
Introduction
Want to learn some amazing cool tools to help your grades improve and make your school-work easier? In this quest, you will be exploring study tools that can help you summarize wordy text, create flash cards, and learn new vocabulary. Some of these sites will let you play games and compete against friends! Throw away the index cards and the notepads and streamline your learning and practice time online. In this Quest, you will experience several different types of tools that you will be able to use to support your learning. Let’s get started!
Key Vocabulary:
Summary: a brief statement or paragraph of the main points of something
Annotating: adding notes or comments
Steps:
Open the Template below to provide evidence from this Thing.
Template T12Q3 Interactive Study Tools
Pick a topic you are studying, or are doing a report on, for one of your classes. Choose four or more (check with your teacher for exactly how many) of the six areas listed below to study and/or solve problems related to your topic.
I. Quizzes and Flashcards
1. Start by going to the website Quizlet .
2. Find a set of flashcards that go with one of the topics you are studying in school (English, math, science, or social studies). Select one with a minimum of 15-20 terms to try out.
3. In Quizlet use the different options of Cards, Learn, Speller, Test, Scatter, and Race to learn or review vocabulary for your topic. Take a screenshot of each activity---6 screen shots in total.
II. Vocabulary & Spelling
1. Go to Vocabulary Spelling City and explore the resources available there for your topic.
2. On the home page, use the "To Start, Try This!" and enter 4 words from a couple of classes that you need to learn to spell correctly for class (math, science, social studies, language arts, or a specials class). Play a game to practice the spelling words.
Take a screenshot of your words and the spelling game after you complete.
III. Video Tutorials
Stuck on a problem, and your teacher isn't around to help you out?
1. Go to the Khan Academy and select the "Subjects" tab at the top.
2. Consider a topic you are studying or would like to learn, and watch/do the short instructional video or explore a resource. Take a screenshot of your search.
V. Knowledge and Problem Solver
Steps:
1. Wolfram Alpha will help you solve math and other curricular problems.
2. Go to Wolfram Alpha and start by clicking on examples.
3. Now locate some information that will help you with your topic.
Take a screenshot
V. Text Summarization Tools
Want to summarize articles quickly and easily to get the important idea?
1. Visit both Auto Text Summarizer and Summarize This.
2. Go to the Student News Articles site and select a current news article.
a. Copy the information into the summarization site and have the site generate a summary.
b. Think about when it is appropriate to use one of these tools and reflect how it will make a difference in your writing.
Take a screenshot of each activity
VI. Highlighting, Clipping, Annotating, & Sticky Notes
Here is an online highlighting/sticky note/web clipping tools that may be useful to help you interact with online text such as articles, research websites, etc. Some of them also have an iPad/Android app, and some require the addition of an extension to a toolbar (that has to be downloaded). Most require an account to save your work.
Evernote: (iPad app, Android app, website/desktop download)--includes audio notes, clipping and annotating, and highlighting website clips.
Pick something you would like as a gift. Put your first name, name of gift item, 1-2 pictures about the item, and information about the item.
Take a screenshot of your board.
Completing this Quest
T12Q3 Rubric
When finished provide the following information in your File Space.
a. Identify the topic that you chose to explore through these different tools. Give each tool a rating from one to five stars, where five is the highest rating. Use a few short sentences to explain why you rated them the way you did, and provide a summary of some of the types of information you found for your topic.
b. Think about your work in your other classes. Give three or more examples of specific ways you could use these interactives to help you with your school work (name the site/app, tell what subject area, and tell how you would use it).
Share these examples with your screenshots in your File Space.
Congratulations!
Flashcardlet
gFlash+Flashcards & Tests
Quizlet
AnkiDroid Flashcards
Flashcards
3. In Quizlet use the different options of Cards, Learn, Speller, Test, Scatter, and Race to learn or review vocabulary for your topic. Take a screenshot of each activity---6 screen shots in total.
II. Vocabulary & Spelling
1. Go to Vocabulary Spelling City and explore the resources available there for your topic.
2. On the home page, use the "To Start, Try This!" and enter 4 words from a couple of classes that you need to learn to spell correctly for class (math, science, social studies, language arts, or a specials class). Play a game to practice the spelling words.
Take a screenshot of your words and the spelling game after you complete.
III. Video Tutorials
Stuck on a problem, and your teacher isn't around to help you out?
1. Go to the Khan Academy and select the "Subjects" tab at the top.
2. Consider a topic you are studying or would like to learn, and watch/do the short instructional video or explore a resource. Take a screenshot of your search.
V. Knowledge and Problem Solver
Steps:
1. Wolfram Alpha will help you solve math and other curricular problems.
2. Go to Wolfram Alpha and start by clicking on examples.
3. Now locate some information that will help you with your topic.
Take a screenshot
V. Text Summarization Tools
Want to summarize articles quickly and easily to get the important idea?
1. Visit both Auto Text Summarizer and Summarize This.
2. Go to the Student News Articles site and select a current news article.
a. Copy the information into the summarization site and have the site generate a summary.
b. Think about when it is appropriate to use one of these tools and reflect how it will make a difference in your writing.
Take a screenshot of each activity
VI. Highlighting, Clipping, Annotating, & Sticky Notes
Here is an online highlighting/sticky note/web clipping tools that may be useful to help you interact with online text such as articles, research websites, etc. Some of them also have an iPad/Android app, and some require the addition of an extension to a toolbar (that has to be downloaded). Most require an account to save your work.
Evernote: (iPad app, Android app, website/desktop download)--includes audio notes, clipping and annotating, and highlighting website clips.
Pick something you would like as a gift. Put your first name, name of gift item, 1-2 pictures about the item, and information about the item.
Take a screenshot of your board.
Completing this Quest
T12Q3 Rubric
When finished provide the following information in your File Space.
a. Identify the topic that you chose to explore through these different tools. Give each tool a rating from one to five stars, where five is the highest rating. Use a few short sentences to explain why you rated them the way you did, and provide a summary of some of the types of information you found for your topic.
b. Think about your work in your other classes. Give three or more examples of specific ways you could use these interactives to help you with your school work (name the site/app, tell what subject area, and tell how you would use it).
Share these examples with your screenshots in your File Space.
Congratulations!
Flashcardlet
gFlash+Flashcards & Tests
Quizlet
AnkiDroid Flashcards
Flashcards
Filename should be lastname.firstname.T12Q3
The password for the quiz is interactives21
The password for the quiz is interactives21
NETS
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
A. Understand and use technology systems
B. Select and use applications effectively and productively
C. Troubleshoot systems and applications
D. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies
Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
A. Understand and use technology systems
B. Select and use applications effectively and productively
C. Troubleshoot systems and applications
D. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies
Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.