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Helps students practice and master their grammar and writing. Students can learn on their own or teachers can set-up a class and assign lessons & quizzes. You must create an account, but they are free.
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Create interactive 3-D pop-up books with sound. It has limited stock photos, but you can upload your own. You can also use a webcam to make your students part of the story.
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Resources for teaching various biology concepts so they can be understood by a high school Freshman. Includes videos that could be used to enhance your class lessons.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Website Wednesdays
Monday, March 26, 2012
Free Tech 4 Teachers
Free Technology for Teachers
This blog contains a plethora of resources that can be used by teachers in the classroom. Each daily post provides a summary of the resource, links and/or videos, and applications in education. At the end of each post you will also find suggests for other resource posts similar to the one you are reading that you might like.
In addition to the daily posts, you will find free downloadable eBooks full of technology ideas to help teachers out in the classroom. Some of the titles included are: The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators, How to Do 11 Techy Things in the New School Year and Google for Teachers. The site also includes pages full of Google tutorials, helpers for creating blogs and websites, resources for developing a personal learning network, and more.
In addition to the daily posts, you will find free downloadable eBooks full of technology ideas to help teachers out in the classroom. Some of the titles included are: The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators, How to Do 11 Techy Things in the New School Year and Google for Teachers. The site also includes pages full of Google tutorials, helpers for creating blogs and websites, resources for developing a personal learning network, and more.
Don't miss out on these awesome resources!
YouTube Playlists
Do you ever find the perfect video on YouTube to use in your class and then have trouble finding it when you get to school? Did you know that your school email account is connected to YouTube? If you go to YouTube and log in with your school email username and password, you can take advantage of creating a Channel and developing playlists for grouping those videos you want to use in the class over and over again. You can create as many playlists as you like, write notes on the videos when you assign them to a list, and move videos from one playlist to another.
Once you have created a playlist, you can share it by:
emailing the URL link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE362C317A3E797BB - OR
copying & pasting the embed code onto your website, wiki or blog.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Website Wednesdays
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Watch the various programs available on C-SPAN including author interviews, political rallies, newsmakers and more. Many of the videos can be embedded on web pages, blogs and wikis.
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More than 60,000 digitized maps that you can search by keyword, dates or map. Contains David Ramsey map collection - including the Kansas territory - British map library and more.
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Collection of more than 20,000 open access images that you can download for use.
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Videos that use current events, sports and everyday issues to explain science, history and more.
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Explore history through video & audio clips, reading selections and more. This would be a great resource tool to impact a history lesson or student presentation.
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Take a virtual tour of the Museum of Natural History with author Brian Selznick and he highlights the path of his characters from the book Wonderstruck.
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Explore 10 Science WebQuests focusing on density. The WebQuests range in grade from 3-12.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Website Wednesdays
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List and Biographies of Most Famous Scientists and Inventors in History
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Provides math video lessons from basic to advanced math skills. Most videos are available in Spanish. This would be a great supplemental resource for students to refresh their skills and move ahead in their learning.
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World hstory and timeline reference resource for students. Some content may not be appropriate for young children.
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Story Starters appropriate for kids. Great tool to start those short creative writing projects.
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Fun games to learn various math concepts.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Website Wednesdays
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Over 3,000 free videos covering math, science, finance and more. Learn how to get started and how to use this site with your students.
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Through practice tests, flash cards, learning activities and games, students can learn new spelling and vocabulary words generated by the teacher or from their own reading. An overview video is available on the home page right under the mission statement. This site seems geared more for elementary students.
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These online animated timers give you a variety of timer options including a bomb countdown, an egg timer and a metronome.
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Some thought provoking videos that would be great to view on your own or with a group.
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All the resources and materials for a research project. Students have a variety of assessment opportunities. They learn about the importance of verifying their sources and explore some additional activities.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Enter before March 23rd
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| Source: "Doodle 4 Google รข Doodle 4 Google." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html>. |
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| Source: "Burning Man Festival." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.google.com/doodles/burning-man-festival>. |
and advancing to more complex doodles.
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| Source: "Jules Verne's 183rd Birthday."Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.google.com/doodles/jules-vernes-183rd-birthday>. |
The doodles have focused on historical celebrations, science, innovation, cultural celebrations and more. This marks the 5th year Google has held the Doodle 4 Google competition.
Any K-12 student may enter this competition. Their doodle must center around the theme "If I could travel in time, I'd visit..." Students must complete an entry form, signed by their parent or guardian, with their doodle and may only submit one doodle. The national winner receives a $30,000 scholarship for college and a $50,000 technology grant for their school.
For more details, visit the Doodle 4 Google website.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Website Wednesdays
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Government resource with primary documents, lesson plans, Constitution Day resources and more.
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Cleaver way to create poetry for those non-poetic students.
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Practice your fractions, decimals, whole numbers and measurements with this online battleship game. Great for elementary students. It might even be enjoyed by the older crowd.
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Useful charts and diagrams that illustrate history, science, English and more.
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Resources for writers and teachers of writing at all grades. Provides writing tips, ideas ready for classroom use, and thought-provoking articles on writing in school. There are 5 pages - just go to the bottom of the screen to click to a new page.
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