PebbleGo
Tech Tool Talk
PebbleGo
PebbleGo is a website that is going to make your educational career easier. Using the username and password "avl" you are opened to a new world of educational resources for grades K-3. This website is packed with articles and ready-made activities at your fingertips. PebbleGo includes literary supports for students of all abilities. Using this resource in your classroom will give students the opportunity to explore research and allow them to use the option of listening to someone read the article to them, as well as videos for each topic. You, as a teacher, should use PebbleGo because it is a great learning tool that can be accessed by every student that supports and builds foundational online research skills. One way it might look in the classroom is as bellwork for when the students get into class in the mornings. There are games and questions of the day that students can access and complete.
Accessing the activities and using them via Kami is simple!
All you have to do it click the "Open with Kami" tab in the top right corner and let the computer do the rest.
PebbleGo
CLICK THIS TAB!
Kami
Frequently Asked Questions
- Teachers can use PebbleGo as a bellwork assignment as students come in and get settled in the mornings.
- Students have activities related to the articles they are reading at their finger tips
- Teachers can assign an article to a student and that student must (through Kami) complete the "Share What You Know" activity as well as one other activity.
Do the activities have to be printed out?
NO! Through the tool "Kami" students are able to receive the documents and complete them electronically!
Lesson Idea
Possible Topic: Polar Bears
First: Assign the students to watch the video at the bottom of the article and then write what they observed.
Next: As a whole class read through the tabs of information presented through PebbleGo.
After Reading Altogether: students have the accessibility to listen to the articles are reread them if they need to when completing the a worksheets assigned through Kami.