Website Wednesday

Fantasy Geopolitics

Think "fantasy football for social studies, literacy standards, and world news. Great way to get students engaged in learning!

ePals
ePals is an ideal way to collaborate with other classrooms around the world. You can set-up communication through Skype or emails between students. Teachers can search for a class to connect with by age range, language and regions.

PenPal Schools

Geared toward middle and high school age students. Great way for students and teachers to learn about the world they live in.

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Canva

Canva is a tool that makes design simple for everyone. Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations,
Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more.

Canva EDU Lesson Plans on Pinterest

Collection of lesson plans for using the tool Canva with students.
tags: canva technology lesson plans lesson

Website Wednesday

How Light Bulbs Work and Activities for Learning About Electricity

From Free Technology For Teachers - This blog post features a short video created by Minute Physics on how modern light bulbs work and how the design has changed over the last 100+ years. it also provides applications for classroom use.
tags: light bulbs electricity activities teaching videos

Bloom's Taxonomy Teacher Planning Kit

Great resource for teachers - provides definition, key words, actions, outcomes and questions for the thinking skill levels in Bloom's Taxonomy.
tags: teaching instruction bloom's taxonomy assessment

50 Story Starters on Pinterest

Collection of story starter ideas for writing assignments or digital storytelling activities.
tags: writing prompts storytelling digital storytelling resources

Single Women Homesteaders

From PBS Learning Media, this 5 minute video relates the history behind single women homesteaders and the 1862 Homesteading Act. You can opt to stream or download the video. You can also see the standards tied to this content.
tags: social studies classroom resources pbs videos

SHOW®/WORLD - A New Way To Look At The World

As you explore the various demographical information available, the country size will shift to indicate the data being depicted. This is a great for visual learners! With one quick glance you can see which country has the highest number in a specific area. When you hover your mouse over a country, you will get the country name and actual numbers.
tags: maps demographics geography interactive web2.0 resources technology

Website Wednesday

• What's it like where you live
  Students can learn about the various biomes and ecosystems around the world. Great for elementary students.
  tags: biomes science ecosystems environment Habitats ecology elementary
  
  
• Free Printables :: SEN Teacher :: Free Teaching Resources
  This website offers a range of resources which are free to download, including printable worksheets, handouts and teaching aids, most of which can be customized to suit a range of learners of several subjects.
  tags: resources printables math socialstudies Science language_arts
  
  
  
  
  
• 10 Online Activities and Resources for Geography Awareness Week
  Collection of online Geography activities and resources to help students sharpen their geography skills.
  tags: geography activities online resources web2.0 education technology
  
  
• National Geographic Young Explorer
  
  
  
  Find a magazine topic of interest and click on the 'Listen & Read' button. The book will open up and students can listen and read the book individually or you could projected it to read as a class.
  tags: reading NationalGeographic ebooks science non-fiction
  
  

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Website Wednesday

• Google News Archive Search
  Find old newspaper articles in Google News Archive - search by newspaper or topic; newspaper listing gives the number of issues and date range available; great for primary sources
  tags: google newspaper reference archives primary sources
• 360 Degree Aerial Panorama

  

  Hockey Arena at the Sochi Olympic Games - 360 Degree Aerial Panorama

  Explore the world with these great panorama 3D virtual tours.
  tags: geography panorama photography 360 Landmarks
• WritingFix: Writing Prompts
  Fourteen interactive writing prompts for writers of any age.
  tags: writing language_arts english writingprompts
• Lightning Bug
  Provides resources and tools to help students write a story from beginning to end. Teacher resources are also included.
  tags: writing english language_arts
• Create a PicLit
  Inspired picture writing - choose a picture, then drag and drop words from the bottom to create your writing related to the picture.  When you are finished you can save it to your computer, email it, blog it or share through social media.
  tags: writing photos web2.0 poetry english

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Website Wednesday

• earth wind map
  Gives a close look at the wind movement. Great for your visual learners and to talk about currents.
  tags: earth wind map science current

  

  Earth Wind Map

• The 34 Most Beautiful Google Street View Sightings
  This slideshow gives some great ways you could bring the world to students in the classroom. You could find images yourself related to your topic in geography or literature. You could have students find images showing specific math angles or architecture. Street views also go inside buildings for museum tours and underwater for science exploration.
  tags: geography earth underwater science literature real world math math
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Site provides titles with full-text for online reading or download as a pdf. You can also use the interactive map to view the various galleries.
  tags: art history books ebooks education
• 40 more maps that explain the world
  Great collection of maps that could be used in Geography, History, Social Studies or Current Events. Maps include economic dispersal, world invasions, religion and more.
  tags: maps world geography history economics
• STEM Resources from PBS
  Pdf listing of STEM resources available through the PBS kids website.
  tags: stem pbs resources technology
• STEM Sims
  Over 100 interactive, research-based STEM simulations for Grades 4-12. Click one of the STEM word in the left column to see the simulations. Also includes lessons ready to use for the classroom.
  tags: science STEM math technology engineering resources
• Interactive Exhibits - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
  Gain access to primary resources centering around the hot topics of Kennedy's presidency - Civil Rights, Cuban Missile Crisis, Race to the Moon and more. By entering the various interactive timelines, students and educators can view primary documents and videos of the events as they unfolded.
  tags: JFK museum interactive history socialstudies resources

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Website Wednesday

• Non-Fiction Text Structures!
  Article focusing on non-fiction text structures in relation to the Common Core Standards. Provides an understanding of the text structure and resources for teaching text structures to students.
  tags: reading text structures nonfiction commoncore
• Butterfly Life Cycle
  Provides an article with several close-up photos and video you could use in the classroom. Also has a coloring pages for students.
  tags: science life_cycles butterfly
• MapMaker Page Maps
  Create customized one-page maps of the world, continents and countries. Maps can be downloaded, emailed or printed. This beta site was created by National Geographic Education.
  tags: maps geography interactive SocialStudies
• Sailing Challenge
  Students can practice their work on measure and estimate with angles through this sailing gaming. It gives them practice in placing and reading a protractor. Appropriate for elementary students.
  tags: Interactive math web2.0 angles measurement
• JeopardyLabs
  Create you own Jeopardy game from a template or by creating your own template.
  tags: Interactive web2.0
• Oxford Dictionaries Spelling Challenge
  Practice your spelling and audio skills with this resource from Oxford English Dictionary. Listen to words and try to spell them from one of 3 difficulty levels. Choose between British and American English. Appropriate for 6-12 grade students.
  tags: spelling interactive game
• Children's Poetry Archive
  Listen and follow along as author's read their children's poems. Search poems by themes, forms or poets OR checkout the "Ask the Poet" section to learn more about poetry writing.
  tags: poetry audio literacy reading
• Maths Charts
  Select your topic and chart name. Then print a poster of that chart to display in the classroom OR save it as a pdf & display the chart via your computer project for a class lesson. You could even link this site to your webpage or wiki as a reference tools for parents and students at home.
  tags: math charts
• SteveSpanglerScience
  A YouTube channel featuring over 400 science experiments that you can use in class. Instructions are easy to follow.
  tags: science Video experiments lessons
• SoundBible.com
  Free sound clips that can be imported into Garageband to ehance your project. When you find the sound you want, click the MP3 file for downloading. You can simply drag and drop the file into Garageband; however, don't through the download away until you have finalized your project and shared it with iTunes.
  tags: audio sound effects music
• Your Paintings
  This BBC site offers 200,000 digitized paintings from various artists including Degas, Warhol, Bacon, Picasso and more. When completed, the site will show the enter UK national collection of oil paintings and the stories behind the paintings. If you scroll down on the main page, you will find a section for teachers which offers lesson plans and ideas for utilizing these paintings in art, history and more.
  tags: paintings artists
• Zimmer Twins
  Encourage digital storytelling with the Zimmer Twins movie making site for kids (suitable for elementary students). The site is monitored on a daily basis for content appropriateness. Students will need to create a free account if they want to save their movies. (A parent or guardian email is required for creating an account, but students could use their school email address if they have one.)
  tags: animation digitalstorytelling web2.0
• 11 Tech Tools to Teach the Common Core Standards | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher
  Article listing and describing some tools for helping tech with the Common Core Standards.
  tags: common core technology tools
• K I D S I N C O Free Playscripts for Kids!
  A collection of over 100 play scripts for elementary children. A great resource for engaging students in reading. The plays are short and may be used and performed, but you may not modify or adapt the plays without written consent.
  tags: scripts drama plays

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Website Wednesdays

• Online Music Theory Flash Cards
  Help students learn note names, intervals and notes on the piano and guitar. Good for both beginners and advanced music students.
  tags: Music flashcards education
• Common Core Standards
  This is a site dedicated to making the Common Core Standards practical.  It has some great blog articles relating to making the change over to the Common Core.  You can subscribe to receive the newest articles sent to your email.
  tags: core standards
• 103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading
  Ideas for engaging students in reading. Contains a wide range of multiple intelligence options. They easily tie-in to the common core standards and some of them would be great for integrating technology.
  tags: reading literacy interactive English
• ToonUniversity - Online Games: Math Dept.
  Elementary math games - some are available without a membership
  tags: online games math
• Making and reading maps in the 21st century
  Project ideas for making and reading maps - grades K-12
  tags: maps geography mapping history
• minutephysics
  A YouTube channel with cool physics in brief explanations. Students will not be able to access these videos at school.
  tags: Physics science Videos
• 3D 360 interactive education images
  Rotate images and zoom in for a closer look.  If you don't have a left mouse click, hold your command key on the keyboard as you use the mouse to rotate the image.
  tags: science interactive anatomy chemistry
• Maps of War
  Great interactives of World War I & II, the Iraq War, and Darfur.
  tags: maps History interactive

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Website Wednesdays

• Famous Scientists
  List and Biographies of Most Famous Scientists and Inventors in History
  tags: scientists biography research
• 15 Awesome Interactive Virtual Field Trips
  tags: virtual field trips history interactive
• MathTV
  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.
  tags: math education tutorials videos
• HistoryWorld
  World hstory and timeline reference resource for students. Some content may not be appropriate for young children.
  tags: history timeline encyclopedia research world
• Story Starters for Kids
  Story Starters appropriate for kids. Great tool to start those short creative writing projects.
  tags: writing digitalstorytelling literacy
• Fuel the Brain
  Fun games to learn various math concepts.
  tags: math elementary education

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