My first experience with Thinkfinity.org was to try and find information on Life skills curriculum. As with so many of my life skills investigations I was unsucessful.
I then searched for specific lessons such as time, money, and measurement. I found quit a few ideas for these lessons but nothing for life skills training.
Next, I tried vocational education. Again, nothing came up. I understand that this is a fairly new educational path, but I was hopeful to find some information.
Thinkfinity could be a useful tool for teachers who's curriculum is standard and is not specialized. Personally, I don't feel that Thinkfinity is more useful than Google Search.
I found that for World Language Google search was giving me more options and a wider variety of resources but I thought it was because of my subject. It seem to be more oriented towards Math, Science, English and Social Studies.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been finding much useful for my health class, which surprised me. I found some things on hippocampus for algebra. I thought there would be lots for health, since it covers almost every topic.
ReplyDeleteI also teach special education / special day class and am constantly on the hunt for "high interest for low readers" kinds of materials / activities... I am building a unit on the American Civil War & had some luck finding through Thinkfinity some good 'interactive' sites to which I can steer my students when we get computerlab time. I will continue to use it to search for ELA, math & science resources as well...
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