Problem-Attic - More than 80,000 questions available

You may remember that I introduced Problem-Attic at a faculty meeting earlier in October and also wrote a blog post about it.  Well, great news!  This past weekend Problem-Attic added more questions to their database.  Now it includes about 80,000 questions, grouped as follows:

•  22,000 released test questions from state assessments and curriculum documents. These cover Math, Science and Social Studies for grades 3–12.
• 3,200 questions from released NAEP/TIMSS tests.  These are for grades 3–12, mostly math and science and some ELA.
•  9,000 high school math contest questions.  These come from two prominent North Carolina state competitions.
• 45,000 NY Regents questions covering 11 core subjects.   These are mostly for grades 9–12, though middle school teachers will find many uses for them.

By late April, Problem-Attic expects to have questions from at least 25 states.

How to Use in Education:

I found it really easy to create worksheets based on the bank of questions in Problem-Attic.  This is a great tool to create review questions, challenge questions, or to differentiate instruction in your class.

Notes from HS Faculty Meeting 10 - 23

Below, please find a copy of the presentation from today's HS faculty meeting.  In the presentation are:

•  links to teacher created Voicethreads
•  instructions on how to log into Voicethread (for students and teachers)
•  information on how to create groups in Voicethread
•  Links to resources referenced, including PollEverywhere, Problem Attic and Wallwisher

Follow up notes from Blake Faculty Meeting

Thanks for letting us drop some 'tech knowledge' on you at the Faculty meeting this morning.  Please see important follow up information below:

Today's Presentation

Here is the presentation from this morning.  There are active hyperlinks on slide 6 (links to teacher and student created tech presentations that we viewed) and on slide 8 (webtools used by your colleagues in their classes).  All this info is now just 1 click away!

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Other Websites featured at today's meeting

Socrative - Excellent tool to quickly assess students in the class

Tagxedo - Like Wordle, but with many more options to create images for your word clouds

Problem-Attic - Excellent test question bank (Math, English, Science, Social Studies) for making worksheets for your students.  See blog post below for more details.

 

Google Image Search

Sorry we didn't have a chance to show you the Google Image trick, but please try it on your own.  Send me an email if you can figure out the answer to the questions below:

• Who is this?

• When was this person born?
• How old was he when he died?
  
  
  If you need help, here is what to do:
  

  1. Open up a new tab and go to http://images.google.com/
  2. Come back here and drag the image (or copy/paste) into the Google Image site

Must Use Website - Free Test Question Bank

Wouldn't it be great if you could search through an existing bank of multiple choice and open response questions to create your own personalized worksheets?  Well, now you can through this amazing website I just discovered.  It's called Problem-Attic and of course its free.

Problem-Attic gives you access to 30 years of Regents Exams for Math, Science, Social Studies and English.  Within those subjects you can drill down into specific topics (i.e. Jim Crow laws, Electron dot diagram, Square roots and Imaginary numbers).  Simply add any questions you want into your document, order them how you want and the formatting and numbering will all magically happen.  It's really that easy.  All you need to do is create a username and password to get started.

Applications for teaching:

• Create customized worksheets for students to use as an introduction to a lesson or for an exit ticket
• If a student needs more practice with a specific topic, you can create a customized worksheet just for them.
• Use this in conjunction with PollEverywhere or Socrative as a method to dipstick how the students are doing during class
• Use for additional SAT prep questions for students