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ONLINE FIELD TRIP 1 ONLINE FIELD TRIP Michelle A. Towles School of Education, Liberty University Author Note Michelle A. Towles I have no known conflict of interest to disclose. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Michelle A. Towles Email: more1@liberty.edu

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 2 Online Field Trip With all the technology advances in today’s society you no longer need to go on a field trip in person. Now a days you can do them virtually. You can go to any website for the topic you are learning and explore the site to find information and what it has to offer. For this assignment I will be visiting 20 different websites and provide a brief description of each. Afterwards, I will choose my top five favorite sites and explain how I plan to incorporate the websites or programs into my classroom. Illuminations A project created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Illuminations serves others by offering an increased amount of access to quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics. This also includes various interactive tools for students along with instructional support for teachers (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, n.d.). Illuminations offers over 700 lesson plans for all grades Kindergarten through 12 th grade, along with over 50 activities including virtual manipulatives, apps, and games. These all align with the Common Core State Standards and the NCTM’s Principles and Standards. This is a great resource site for teachers who are just starting in their teaching career along with veteran teachers to make lessons fun and helpful. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics As the worlds largest mathematics education organization, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) was founded in 1920 and advocates for the use of high-quality mathematics teaching for all students along with learning (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2023). This website provides guidance for teachers for the implementation of research-informed and high-quality teacher that supports the learning of each and every student for their learning environments. It also community and resources to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. On this site, you can

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 3 find and view articles, news reports, job opportunities, along with more if you purchase a paid membership. Figure This! This website was created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Widmeyer Communications, and the Learning First Alliance, and was made to offer challenges in mathematics for middle school students and emphasizes the importance of high-quality math education for all students (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2004). Figure This! Helps families become more involved and enjoy mathematics with their children outside of school. This website includes a teacher’s corner, family corner, along with information and activities that include Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Numbers, and Statistics and Probability. This is a great all-around website to keep everyone involved and having fun. It seems to make learning math interesting. Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAD) is an award-winning education non- profit organization with a mission to improve mathematics education with an emphasis on increasing student proficiency in mathematical modeling (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, 2023). COMAD develops curricular materials and professional development programs for students and teachers that are both academically rigorous and engaging. They also offer modeling contest opportunity for middle and high school students along with undergraduate college students to solve problems and earn recognition. COMAD also partners with other companies and organizations to participate in national and international conferences in hopes to encourage educators to use applied mathematics and modeling in their classrooms (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, 2023).

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ONLINE FIELD TRIP 4 PBS Learning Media PBS partnered with WGBH to create PBS Learning Media. PBS Learning Media provides free educational and classroom resources for PreK-12, which includes access to thousands of lesson plans, videos, interactives, and curated content collections to help create one-of-a-kind learning experiences for all students (PBS Learning Media, 2023). In this site, you will find a collection of standards-aligned content including lesson plans, etc. The content provided by PBS Learning Media has six core principles: independence, accuracy, fairness, transparency, inclusiveness, and accountability. On this site, you can sign up for free, and it has a teacher site along with a student site. This would be a great aspect to include for all teachers and students. Cool Math Games Cool Math Games is a website that consists of a large variety of other sites and games that began all the way back in 1997 to teach math and make learning fun for people of all ages. Cool Math Games is a brain-training site where logic and thinking meet fun and games. There are thousands of games from strategy and logic to trivia and numbers. All have been carefully chosen to be both fun and mentally stimulating to all (Coolmath Games, 2023). A great thing about this site is it is free from violence but is very challenging so keeps students thinking and interested. This is very easy for a parent or teacher to navigate and find great resources and games to help students learn math in a fun way while improving their math skills. Association of Teachers of Mathematics The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) was created in 1952 and was made to encourage the teaching and learning of mathematics by relating the needs of the learners more closely. The ATM offers both free resources that are available for members and non-members along with paid membership options. This website allows you to also make donations to the organization as well as

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 5 learning about trainings, events, read journals, and make purchase of learning materials for teachers (Association of Teachers of Mathematics, n.d.) ABC Education ABC Education is a great organization that offers high-quality educational resources to use both at home and in the classroom. The sites resources are free made for an Australian Curriculum covering all subjects from English, Math, Science, Geography, History, to Arts and Technologies, including STEM (ABC Education, 2023). ABC Education offers a big variety of games and activities catered to all ages. The games and activities are separated by ages, which makes it easy for parents or teachers to find games and activities in the specific age group that is needed. Being separated by age groups is a good idea so you can be sure that those games are age appropriate. Math Playground Math Playground is a kidSAFE COPPA CERTIFIED program that was created by Colleen King in 2002 for students in her class as a fun way to learn and practice math facts (King, 2002). The site includes topics from problem solving to and mathematical art activities to real world math and thinking games. Math Playground is split into categories: add and subtract, multiply and divide, fractions, shapes and graphs, pre-algebra, money and time. I feel this is great and very helpful when trying to find a game of a certain type. You can also narrow your game choices by grade level, this is helpful making it easy to know the game or activity is appropriate for what you are currently learning. This seems like a very helpful site for teachers, parents, and students. Arithmetic Four Arithmetic Four is a site where you can choose from a large variety of lessons and games.

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 6 With that, you can set a time limit to play, choose how hard you want the levels to be, as well as choose the type of problems you want to work out. It seems to be a site that may be fun, and teachers could use to help with their students learning. A great resource to use to prepare students for the SOL’s (Shodor, 2023). Jefferson Lab – Games and Puzzles This site is full of great things. Jefferson Lab offers practice tests for the Virginia SOL’s along with the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments. They also have games for multiple subjects of Math, Science, Elements, Word games, and games just for fun. This would be an amazing resource to use for students to ensure they are ready for their yearly testing (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, n.d.). National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Created in 1999 the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is a library containing uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or tutorials, mostly in the form of java apps, for mathematics instruction for all grades Kindergarten through 12 th grade (Utah State University, 2023). This website is a great resource for teachers to use to enrich their mathematics lessons in their classrooms. The NLVM includes items for Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, along with Data Analysis and Probability. This is a great tool to keep Math interesting and fun. Seeing Theory Created by Daniel Kunin during his undergraduate studies at Brown University, this website was made to make statistics more accessible through interactive visualizations (Kunin, n.d.). Seeing theory is a great tool for the older students to learn in more detail about probability and statistics. A book is currently in the process of being made. It is not finished yet; however, you are able to download a draft

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ONLINE FIELD TRIP 7 of the book to view and provide feedback. This is great for students and teachers so anything the book may be missing can be added according to the feedback that was left. Interactive Interactive is a great website for learners and instructors. It contains activities, dictionaries, and tools for students and lessons, discussions, and standards for instructors. You can browse activities by subjects, topics, audience, or resource type. The goals of the Interactive site are the creation, evaluation, collection, and dissemination of interactive courseware for exploration in science and mathematics (Shodor, 2022b). Estimation – Hundreds Created by the Quintessential Instructional Archive (Quia) as a kidSAFE and COPPA CERTIFIED program, this site provides so many amazing tools. Quia offers hundreds of template where you can create your own content or activities, along with a complete online testing system with automatic grading, online surveys to gather student and teacher feedback, a class webpage creator, and access to millions of shared activities and quizzes in over 300 categories (Blair, 2022). The Estimation – Hundreds page is made for practicing how to estimate and round to the nearest hundreds. It is a matching game with 16 different numbers that are either three or four digits. Half of the numbers are standard numbers, and the other half of the numbers are rounded numbers. You must choose the standard number and match it with the rounded version of the number. This is a great game to practice this skill until you are comfortable and confident in the ability for this skill. Random Services – Apps The apps on this site were designed to demonstrate the mathematical theory in a dynamic and interactive way (Random Services, n.d.). On this site you can view the app specifications needed to

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 8 download the app along with the different categories and types of apps available. Apps are offered probability, geometric models, Bernoulli trials, finite sampling models, dice, games of chance, renewal processes, interactive particle systems, special distributions, random samples, point estimation, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, Markov chains, and Brownian motion. (Random Services, n.d.). This site is full of some amazing tools that would be very beneficial to teachers and students. Defeat the Fraction Monster – Play Fraction Games This site looks to be a very helpful tool for students to learn more about fractions and was created to help students see the fun and creative side of math. Just some of the fun games on the site are a card activity on equivalent fractions, a fraction wall game, fraction bingo, fraction magic squares, fraction puzzles, a fraction circle race, fraction number line concentration, fraction rectangles that include multiplication, fraction strips, and more. The fraction monster also includes games for elementary and middle school grades (Learn With Math Games, 2021). You can practice anything that is math related. This looks like so much fun. Maze Game This game was also created by Interactive and looks fun, but a little confusing. The website itself offers a lot of resources for students and teachers. The thing I feel this game is missing is some instructions on how to play the game. I sat and played it for a couple of minutes, and it seems you input a coordinate on the x-axis, and one on the y-axis. It seems you must try to work around the mines and make it to the bullseye symbol without landing on a mine, but I have been unable to find any set instructions on how to play (Shodor, 2022c). If it had some set instruction attached to the game, I feel it would be a better game. The way it is seems it would be more confusing to the smaller students, or any student for that matter.

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 9 IXL Math IXL Math is a great site. The entire IXL site offers so much to help students in every subject, not just math. This site offers activities and testing for all grades from Pre-K through 12 th grade, and includes Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, Precalculus, Calculus, Integrated 1, 2 and 3, all very helpful to assist students in improving their math skills and knowledge (IXL Learning, 2023). It offers over a thousand different skills. You begin by choosing what grade you want to work in, then choose which skill. For example, 1rst grade has 273 skills that can be practiced. All skills are split into different categories. If you are working, and you get an answer wrong, the percentage of correct answers decreases, and it gives you more questions. You keep answering questions until you get to 100%. You can earn badges for completing skills and you are able to keep track on what skills you have completed. If you do not fully complete a task to 100% and leave, your percentage you have is saved and you can see that percentage on the page. Kahoot! Kahoot! Is a great site and fun for students. As a global learning platform company, Kahoot! wants to empower everyone, including students and employees to unlock their full learning potential. The platform makes it easy for any individual or corporation to create, share, and host different learning sessions that drive others to learn (Kahoot!, 2023). You have a lot of choices for Kahoot! It can be used for teachers, other professionals, students, or family and friends. It is a purchased membership; however, so you must purchase to use. They do not seem to have a free version. Within the site, no matter the membership, you can create a game, host a live game, or simply play games yourself once created. It seems like a neat way to keep students interested and having fun at the same time as learning important skills. My Favorites Visiting all 20 of the websites was really fun and informational. I learned a lot about each that I

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ONLINE FIELD TRIP 10 did not know before. Not all of them were for playing games, some were catered more towards just teachers or students, but all were educational. Of all the websites visited, there were five that I want to point out. These five were my favorite, and sites I plan to use in my future and current classrooms. The first one I chose was PBS Learning Media. I chose this one because the entire PBS platform is an amazing company that offers so many things. Being a new teacher PBS Learning Media will be very helpful because it offers the wide collection of lesson plans that are aligned with the current standards of testing. This helps teachers know what needs to be taught but can also make it fun by using other parts of PBS Learning Media to help keep students interested. The other great thing I like about this choice is that it has six core principles I feel are very good to have in a classroom. As mentioned earlier, those principles are independence, accuracy, transparency, inclusiveness, and accountability. These things I feel are very important for students to learn. Second, Cool Math Games is a great site. A lot of children in my experience (my son included) get bored easily or struggle to learn new mathematical concepts. I honestly get bored myself just sitting and writing on a piece of paper over and over learning something. As stated earlier, this site offers thousands of games for all grades from strategy and logic to trivia and numbers. I like that it is violence free. So many games out there today, not matter what kind has some type of violence and we need to keep our children away from that. This site offers violence free games that make learning math fun and exciting. It will keep students interested and help them retain the knowledge of new concepts. My third choice would be the Estimation – Hundreds site. Being a new teacher myself and doing some long-term substituting and teaching Math, I saw how my students struggled learning how to estimate and round numbers. The smaller numbers were easier for them, but when they got to the hundreds, they would struggle, sometimes greatly. Trying out this site for myself to see what it was all about, I felt it would be a perfect tool to help students practice this skill. As a teacher, we can teach the

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 11 students the concepts, but they have to practice and practice to understand the concept and retain the information. This seemed like a good tool to keep students practicing their skills, get stronger, stay interested, and have fun. I also like that you are able to create your own activities so you could adjust the game to be any amount of numbers. Fourth, I chose Defeat the Fraction Monster – Play Fraction Games. I chose this one because fractions can be a very frustrating and overwhelming concept for students. This site offers a large variety of activities to help practice and get stronger with the fraction concept. It is geared more towards elementary and middle school student, but I feel those are the most important grades that would need help. When students are beginning to learn this concept. My son struggled greatly learning fractions, especially conversion of fractions to percents and decimals along with adding and subtracting decimals. I can be very hard and frustrating. My son has used this, and he said it was fun and he did not get bored. It helped him improve his skill while keeping him interested. Lastly, IXL Math would be my all-time favorite. The IXL site in general (not just the Math portion) is amazing and so helpful. All of the teachers I know use this daily for practice with every subject. IXL Math offers so many different skills, and they are all categorized into groups. I love that it does not have a set amount of questions to answer before you are done with that skill, you simply have to reach 100%. If you get an answer wrong, your percentage decreases. Another thing I like is when you do get an answer wrong, there is a detailed explanation and steps as to the correct answer, and the way to get it. My son loves IXL and asks to do it at home too, not just at school. You can earn badges by mastering skills (reaching 100%), which helps you reach closer to playing a fun game. This is so fun, interesting, and it catches the student’s attention along with proving encouragement and help to get further into a skill to master it.

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 12 Of all the sites I visited, as stated above, my favorites were PBS Learning Media, Cool Math Games, Estimation – Hundreds site, Defeat the Fraction Monster – Fraction games, and IXL Math. These I felt were the best ones to keep students interested and engaged. I plan to continue to utilize some in my classroom and begin utilizing others. I am also excited to see how my students enjoy the ones I have not used yet.

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ONLINE FIELD TRIP 13 References ABC Education. (2023). Maths . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from abc.net.au: https://www.abc.net.au/education/subjects-and-topics/maths Association of Teachers of Mathematics. (n.d.). ATM . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from atm.org.uk: https://www.atm.org.uk/Association-of-Teachers-of-Mathematics Blair, M. (2022). Estimation - Hundreds . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from Quia: https://www.quia.com/mc/65924.html Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications. (2023). COMAP . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from comap: https://www.comap.com/about Coolmath Games. (2023). Coolmathgames . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from https://www.coolmathgames.com/about-us IXL Learning. (2023). IXL Math . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from IXL: https://www.ixl.com/math Kahoot! (2023). Retrieved September 15, 2023, from K!: https://kahoot.com/ King, C. (2002). Math Playground . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from mathplayground.com: https://www.mathplayground.com/about.html Kunin, D. (n.d.). Seeing theory . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from seeing-theory.brown.edu: https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html#firstPage Learn With Math Games. (2021). Defeat the Fraction Monster Play Fraction Games . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from learn-with-math-games: https://www.learn-with-math-games.com/fraction- games.html

ONLINE FIELD TRIP 14 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2004). Figure This! Retrieved September 14, 2023, from figurethis.nctm: https://figurethis.nctm.org/about_ft.htm National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2023). Homepage . Retrieved September 13, 2023, from NCTM: https://www.nctm.org/About/ National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (n.d.). Illuminations . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from illuminations.mctm.org: https://illuminations.nctm.org/Content.aspx?id=58 PBS Learning Media. (2023). PBS Learning Media . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from pbslearningmedia.org: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/about/our-mission/ Random Services. (n.d.). Apps . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from randomservices.org: https://www.randomservices.org/random/apps/index.html Shodor. (2022b). Interactive Homepage . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from shodor.org: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/ Shodor. (2022c). Maze Game . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from Interactive: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/MazeGame/ Shodor. (2023). Arithmetic Four . Retrieved September 14, 2023, from shodor.org: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ArithmeticFour/ Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. (n.d.). Games and Puzzles . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from JLab Science Education: https://education.jlab.org/indexpages/elementgames.html Utah State University. (2023). National Library of Virtual Manipulatives . Retrieved September 15, 2023, from nlvm.usu.edu: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/siteinfo.html

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