Website Wednesday

• The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa
  Collection of sites from Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
  tags: christmas holidays

• A Wonderful Poster on Failure
  Famous Failures poster that you could post in your classroom to inspire all students and yourself.
  tags: failure education Motivation

• The Best List of Reading Response Questions Ever. | The Caffeinated Librarian
  Teacher explains using these response questions with daily reading response journals. This would be great to put into a format where students could either quickly flip through the list or where you could post a specific question each day - maybe a Google Slide.
  tags: reading reader's workshop reading response questions literacy

• The Complete List of 80 Teacher Discounts
  Check out this list of stores where you can get teacher discounts on your purchases. Note that some discounts are based on location or only offered specific times of the year. Most require a school ID to verify you are an educator.
  tags: teacher discounts Shopping school

• 10 Best TED Talks of 2014 for Educators
  An interesting collection of TED Talks for educators.
  tags: ted educators talks

• 8 Uplifting Quotes For Discouraged Students
  Inspirational quotes for struggling learners
  tags: quotes Motivation Mindset inspiration

• Lights Project_Made with Code
  Create the code that will light up the holiday tree outside the White House. Enter your code and state, then receive the date and time your code will display on the White House holiday tree. This is a basic drag and drop process to introduce students to coding.
  tags: code lights White House Hour of Code

• The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources
  A roundup of grants, contests, awards and classroom resources shared by Edutopia.
  tags: grants resources edutopia contests awards

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Website Wednesday

• Digital Citizenship
  Provides essential information for students, teacher and parents about digital citizenship and being safe on the Internet. Contains games, learning activities, videos and teacher resources for both primary and secondary students.
  tags: digital Citizenship cyberbullying cybersafety internet safety
  
• 13 Strategies to Improve Student Classroom Discussions
  This article presents time-tested strategies to engage students in discussions as well as evidence anchor charts.
  tags: strategies discussions
  
• Hour of Coding
  Introduce students to computer coding with the Hour of Coding. Site provides resources and tips to assist educators.
  tags: coding programming hour of code tutorials howto
  
• 500 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing
  Great collection of writing prompts you can use with students for narrative and personal writing. This would be a useful list if you are having students blog.  Get a pdf version of these prompts at http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/learning/pdf/2014/500PromptsNarrativeAndPersonalWriting.pdf
  tags: prompts narrative personal writing
  
• National Park Service: B-Roll Video Archive
  Watch and download video footage from various national parks. These videos are part of the
  

  

  public domain, so you can use them without the concern of breaking copyright.
  tags: national parks publicdomain
  
• Delivering Differentiated Instruction in Your Classroom
  Article from Edudemic providing the basic premise of differentiated instruction and implementation in the classroom.
  tags: differentiated instruction instruction

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Website Wednesday

• Digital Citizenship
  
  
  
  Great presentation created with Haiku Deck on Digital Citizenship for students. There is a transcript you could utilize.
  tags: digital citizenship presentation haiku deck

• Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids
  A great list of apps and websites to introduce students of all ages to programming.
  tags: coding apps programming technology websites

• 1914-1918-online
  Over the course of three years, the international joint research project "1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” is developing an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War. Planned to be released in October 2014, the online encyclopedia will be the result of an international collaborative project to make available a multi-perspective, public-access knowledge base on the First World War
  tags: WWI history First World War

• Gettysburg By The Numbers
  Look at the impact of the Gettysburg Battle based on the numbers involved. For example, you can see a graph comparing the number of men killed per day between the different wars and this one battle.
  tags: Gettysburg Civil_War history real world math

• Journal Prompts
  Freewriting prompts broken into question types - What do you think..., What if..., How...., I wish..., Describe..., Which..., Who...
  tags: prompts writing journal writing prompts

• Write Source - Writing Topics
  Topics are grouped by grade level and could be used for freewriting.
  
  tags: writing prompts writing prompts topics Journal

• 180 Journal Writing Prompts: Enough for Every Day of the School Year
  Prompts are broken into 4 quarters, but you can use the prompts whenever you would like. Great for the beginning or ending of class.
  tags: writing prompts journal writing prompts

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