Website Wednesday

• Brain breaks kids love - GoNoodle
  Interesting site offers short "brain breaks" in the form of videos incorporating colorful
  

  

  characters, subject content, and yoga-like elements such as stretching, breathing, mild exercise. Goes along with research into exercise/activity and the brain. Recommended for elementary students.
  tags: brain breaks health interactive web2.0 exercise
  
  
• PixiClip
  Nice tool that is like Educreation or ScreenChomp apps but for your computer browser. Good resource for teachers of flipped classrooms! Great way to check for understanding with students.
  tags: whiteboard collaboration web2.0 interactive audio
  
  
• Close Reading Relief: Re-engage Students with Digital Microstories | MiddleWeb
  Great article on using digital microstories to draw students back into literature and teach skills from the standards. The authors address the purpose behind this strategy, links to digital microstories, and ideas for digital presentations from students. They also touch on citation of images.
  tags: close reading digital microstories ELA digital storytelling
  
  
  
  
Six Word Stories: Hemingway


• Poetry Teachers
  A site dedicated poetry fun. Learn how to inspire students to write poetry in class. Read and
  

  

  rate poems written by others. Explore various poetry activities that will engage your students.
  tags: poetry writing reading literacy education

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Website Wednesday

• National Gallery of Aart Kids Art Zone
  
  
  
  NGAkids Art Zone interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history. Featuring a variety of art-making tools that encourage exploration and creativity, these activities are suitable for all ages. Simply select a thumbnail image at the left or click one of the colorful banners above to learn more about each program. Great for elementary students.
  tags: art artists interactive creativity art history

• 3M Science of Everyday Life - Discovery Education
  Is there chemistry in the kitchen? Is there physics at the park? Videos and interactives will help students discover the real-world science around them and make connections to what they are learning in school. There is something for everyone!
  tags: science discovery videos teaching resources chemistry biology physics

• The Anne Frank Center
  Contains diary excerpts, teacher resources and more about Anne Frank.
  tags: Anne Frank primary sources holocaust historical figures resources

• Anne Frank Timeline
  The story of Anne's life told through photos, audio and video clips. Contains some great historical photos of the time period that could be used in history class or in discussing the Holocaust.
  tags: timeline Anne Frank historical figures world history WWI WWII audioclips videoclips

• Click2Stream
  Live video from Bald Eagle Nest - great look of an actual eagle's nest
  tags: video eagle nest live cams science watching

• Cornell Lab Bird Cams
  Live cams of various in their natural habitat. Great for discussing animal habitats with students.
  tags: bird cams watching live cams science

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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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