This website consists of numerous hands on activities that students could do both at home and in class. The website provides teachers with resources to help make this a great lesson when teaching students about the colors of the rainbow.
Strength of the website is that it consist of many activities to help students better understand the concept. It includes lots of hands-on activities like, making a milk rainbow, rainbow cake, and rainbow Jello. There are also printable games/worksheets. Also, it has videos which could benefit ELLs as well as any other student. Through all of these interactive activities, the students would be able to enjoy learning about the colors of the rainbow.
On the other hand, there are some limitations to the website. Though I really enjoy the hands on activities listed, the website should have more activities pinpointing at the various learning styles. For example, it could be a little more geared toward the audio learners or the learners who really learn by reading, not by activities. Having a variety of these is always the best.
The website has a lot of room for critical thinking. It allows the students to learn about the rainbows, and then actually apply the colors to their daily life. For example, one activity has them sort out their goldfish and fruit loops into the different colors. When these students learn through activities relevant to them, it is more beneficial.
There are different ways in which this website could be helpful both in the classroom and at home. For the classroom, the teacher could have a rainbow activity during lunch time. The students could divide up into different groups and each group could make a different rainbow food (Jello, cake, milk). Since this concept is geared more toward younger kids, a parent could volunteer to help out each group. At home, the kids could search for something they have that represents the rainbow, or has the colors of the rainbow, and then they could bring it to school for show and tell.
Overall, this website has room for improvement; however, it provides teachers with plenty of activities to help teach the lesson better
2) http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/rainbows/index.htm
This website is so useful! If I were to create a lesson on rainbows for my students, I would definitely use this website.
The website is geared toward all the learning styles. It includes hands on activities, as well as, books about rainbows at the end. It is not limited to just worksheets, but includes science experiments as well. The only limitation I can see in this website is that it could inform teachers more about how to come about teaching the lesson. Yes, it provides for after the teacher has introduced the lesson, but does not have activities to start the lesson.
It would allow students to think critically when they do the science experiment. Now, they are not only seeing colors of the rainbow, but they see them mixed up, and what they cool aspects it has to it. The video would help students, including ELLs, to visualize the experiment and colors before performing the activity themselves.
The activities could be used in the classroom. For example, the teacher could mix the concept of rainbows with their science lesson by doing the experiment. At home, the kids could find objects with different colors and see what they can make/build out of it. This would also lead to their creativity and critical thinking.
Overall, this website is a great basis for a teacher when teaching his/her students about the colors of the rainbow.
This website is geared toward using the colors of the rainbow considering food. It is actually useful because everyone eats food, so it is something that everyone can relate to.
The website has strengths when looking into colors of different foods; however, it does not include any pictures or videos. Having pictures and videos attracts and helps students understand the concept better.
The students use their critical thinking skills when doing the activities on this website. An activity listed is for them to pack their own lunch with specific colors. For example, it could be red day, so they pack foods that are red, like ketchup, an apple, and fruit punch. At home, the students could tell their parents the colors of the foods they have in their fridge.
All in all, this website is great for teaching kids about the colors through food, but it could include more activities the teachers could do in the classroom to further the children’s knowledge about the topic.
This website is great as it combines previous learned material with the new material of colors of the rainbow. The teachers and students would both benefit from this website.
A great strength of this website is that it includes activities that students could make, and then display around the classroom. For example, it teaches students how to make streamers, handprints, and a rainbow mobile. However, the website has a limitation. It does not have material which could benefit audio learners, or students who like to read.
A great asset to this website is its linking to previous knowledge. An activity on the website re-itterates the letter rainbow starts with, “r,” and the sound the letter makes. Now, the students have to use their critical thinking skills to combine what they previously learned when learning the alphabet, to what they are learning in the present, the colors of the rainbow.
The activites could be used at both home and the classroom. In the classroom, the students could divide up into groups or stations, and make cool things to display around the classroom. In the end, the classroom would be very colorful and would be filled with things the students made themselves. At home, the students could work on the printable worksheets to further their knowledge and summarize what they have learned.
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