TeachersFirst - Featured Sites: Week of Jan 3, 2016
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Inquiry Maths - Andrew Blair
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): angles (51), area (52), equations (119), fractions (159), geometric shapes (136), mean (19), median (16), mode (13), number sense (70), perimeter (20)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lessons and materials found on this site for teaching math. Collaborate with colleagues and use this site for professional development as you implement inquiry math into your curriculum. Use prompts and problems from this site for group learning activities and in your math centers. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos demonstrating their learning and share them on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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OmniLibros - Carthage College Center for Children's Literature
Grades
K to 12tag(s): book lists (161), cross cultural understanding (157), literacy (107), maps (209)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for finding reading material with settings from all over the world. Encourage students to choose a place that interests them, and then find books set in that location. Use this tool as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard about setting or geography. Be sure to share a link to this tool on your class website or blog for students to use at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Perfect Pitch - Kennedy Center Artsedge
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): music theory (45), musical instruments (46)
In the Classroom
Share this interactive on a projector or interactive whiteboard as you learn about orchestras together. Create a link on classroom computers for students to explore on their own. Share with your school's music teacher as an interesting activity for music class. This site would be excellent for use before a field trip or a school assembly featuring an orchestra! Have students create an annotated image of musical instruments including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Image Annotator, reviewed here. Image Antatorno can be used for a variety of assignments in any classroom that is integrating technology as a modification.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Histography - Timeline of History - Matan Stauber
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): timelines (49)
In the Classroom
Explore different time periods together on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Discover different events included on similar dates to help students understand an overall view of events during any period. Share with students as a resource for finding information and events to include with multimedia projects for any event such as the American Revolution, the Iron Age, or events leading up to World Wars.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Washington NatureMapping Program - NatureMapping Foundation
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): animal homes (56), animals (280), data (147), environment (240)
In the Classroom
If you don't live in a state included in the NatureMapping Program, use this site as a model to begin collecting data on wildlife in your area. You may want to share the video Leapin Lizards! found on the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector to inspire students to do their own field research. Have students create online posters individually or together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here, or PicLits, reviewed here, to show different animals and habitats in your region.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ocenaudio - ocenaudio
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use Ocenaudio in early grades to promote literacy by recording your students and creating an audio portfolio record of their reading. Use this tool with ESL/ELL students to practice fluency and hear themselves speak. Use Ocenaudio to record parents, principals, lunch ladies, librarians, relatives, and bus drivers all telling a favorite class story. During writing time, allow students freedom from the pencil to express their true creative voices. Also, dabble into digital storytelling to create a lesson in adding voice, emotion, and characterization. Record audio interviews at local nursing homes, fire stations, or museums to recollect times such as wars, the Great Depression, Civil Rights Movements, or as a primary source during memorable events. Record world language conversations as a student project. Make music class or the school band a gold recording!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Human Eye - Vision Direct
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Compare the parts of the human eye anatomy to other animal eye anatomy. Embed this visual, or put a link to it on your class website. You and your students may also be interested in Seeing, reviewed here, about how we see optical illusions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science Fair Project World - Science Fair Projects
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): experiments (52), science fairs (19)
In the Classroom
Introduce this tool to students on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Create a link on your class website for students and parents to access at home. Assign a science experiment for students to try at home on a bi-weekly basis; this will help students and parents to be prepared when science fair time comes around. Allow older students to work together in small groups to investigate and complete the experiments. They could physically work together, or do the projects on their own and report the results and findings back to their group. Use a tool such as Simply Circle, reviewed here, to help students keep their group organized and communicating. For younger students use Simply Circle and include their parents to keep them informed about which project is due and when.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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