Think Central: Students may access homework pages and textbook pages via this site. Students will need their ThinkCentral username and password.
Scholastic Online To register: 1. click the "Don't have an account? Register now" link 2. register for your own user name and password 3. When prompted enter the one-time Class Activation Code GKHFJ. This will ensure your order is sent to me. 4. Select your books 5. Make sure the order is in by the due date
Common Core Standards This site provides parents with the new expectations for English Language Arts for the Common Core State Standards.
Socrative Socrative is a great app for teachers who want to incorporate technology into the classroom. This is a free student response system that can be used with smart phones, iPads or laptops! Teachers can take polls, give quizzes, play with space races or end the lesson with an exit ticket. Results of quizzes can be exported into an excel sheet to make grading infinitely easier! Room: Houston6
Google Drive Google Docs is a great way for students to collaborate with others on a single document online. Students can work together on one document from their own devices. It is also a great way for teachers to comment on student writing electronically. Majority of all major assignments will be turned into Google Classroom. This is where assignments will be graded and returned. No hard copies need to be turned in for writing pieces. Each student will have a google drive account, if they go to more they will be able to add Mrs. Houston's Classroom. Class code: on407u
Grammerly Grammarly is a great website for both students and teachers. This resource is both a proofreader and plagiarism checker.
Owl Writing Lab The Online Writing Lab at Purdue provides a ton of writing resources and instructional materials to assist students and teachers. This is a great place for students to check out MLA guidelines.
Science and Social Studies Text online go to http://my.hrw.com Username: student [email protected] Password: school (same as logging on to google)