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SheHeroes - sheheroes.org
Grades
2 to 10tag(s): careers (139), women (94), womens suffrage (25)
In the Classroom
Use SheHeroes as part of your Career Day or career unit resources. Add a link on classroom computers for students (male and female) to explore on their own. Take advantage of the further discussion questions to encourage students to think about the obstacles faced by women in business and society. Ask a prominent local business woman to speak to your class and discuss obstacles she has faced and how she was able to overcome those issues. Although the site is dedicated to girls from ages 8-14, share with both boys and girls from ages 8 and up as part of any unit on gender inequalites.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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TechPrep - Facebook
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
TechPrep is an excellent resource for exploring careers in computer programming with students. Have students or groups collect ideas and findings using Padlet, reviewed here. The Padlet application creates free online bulletin boards. Explore the site together or share on your class website for students to explore on their own or with parents. Use TechPrep to find resources for classroom use such as websites and games. If your school has a computer club, share this site with the leader to use for finding tools for classroom use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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KidsThinkDesign - Kids Design Collaborative
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animation (63), architecture (85), design (88), fashion (10), graphic design (35)
In the Classroom
Share KidsThinkDesign with your school's art teacher as an excellent addition to art lessons or for ideas to use as a collaborative project. Share with students as part of career exploration activities to help them learn about the different areas of design and also try some designs on their own. After creating a design, have students upload a photo they have taken and add voice bubbles to explain what they learned using a tool such as Superlame, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Youth Radio - National Science Foundation
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (155), journalism (54), media literacy (65), podcasts (57), radio (25)
In the Classroom
Share student-created podcasts found on Youth Radio for use as a model during digital storytelling lessons. Take advantage of the free lessons offered on the site for use in your classroom. Share a link on your class website for students to explore and find podcasts that interest them. After listening to these student podcasts, have cooperative learning groups create podcasts of their own. Use a site such as podOmatic, reviewed here. Before creating their own podcast, have students create a storyboard using a tool like Amazon Storybuilder, reviewed here. They will also need to develop a script and practice. Try using Penflip, reviewed here, for students to write collaboratively. This tool allows groups of three or more to write together with complete version control.Comments
This is one of the best sites on the web for engaging teens in the world around them. The "Teacher Resources" are phenomenal.Patricia, NJ, Grades: 6 - 12
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Technology Student Association - Technology Student Association
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): careers (139), engineering (129), problem solving (294), robotics (29), STEM (174)
In the Classroom
Use information from this site to start a TSA chapter in your school. Share information on scholarship opportunities and career information with students interested in STEM careers. Even if your school doesn't have a TSA chapter, take advantage of the Competitive Events Overview to get ideas for your own classroom-created competition.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Radio Rookies - WNYC Public Radio
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): adolescence (12), behavior (46), emotions (36), radio (25), social skills (21)
In the Classroom
Be sure to include this site on your class webpage for students to access both in and outside of class as a resource for hearing how peers handle difficult teenage issues. Share a link with parents as a resource for them to use with their teen. Remind parents to PREVIEW! Be sure to share with your school's counselor as an excellent tool for use when working with students. Listen to episodes together with your class, and then have cooperative learning groups create podcasts discussing specific issues found in your school or classroom. Use a site such as podOmatic, reviewed here. Before beginning the podcast, have students create a storyboard using a tool like Amazon Storybuilder, reviewed here. They will also need to develop a script and practice. Try using Penflip, reviewed here, for students to write the script collaboratively. This tool allows groups of three or more to write together with complete version control.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Thrively - Thrively
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): back to school (62), differentiation (53), multiple intelligences (9)
In the Classroom
Begin your school year with a more personal touch, by knowing what your students' interests are. On the teacher dashboard, examine each student and match interest to activities to differentiate instruction. Students can explore careers, apps, and activities matching their profile. With interest and strengths targeted, you can sail smoothly into a highly engaged class of individualized learning. During career explorations, open up worlds of possibilities for students and families to begin planning a successful path. Add a link to this tool to your class website for possible enrichment activities for families. Offer suggestions to parents for enriching after school activities found around your area.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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FutureLearn for Schools - FutureLearn
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): advertising (33), business (58), computers (102), creative writing (165), cultures (109), dental health (22), environment (325), financial literacy (87), gifted (88), literature (272), photography (157), politics (97), professional development (164), psychology (66)
In the Classroom
Allow gifted students to enroll in courses that interest them or that provide enrichment beyond classroom content. Share with others in your building as a resource for professional development. Explore the topics yourself for some new, engaging material to round out your own expertise. Allow students to enroll in a course that would fit into their career goals as an exploratory opportunity in that field. With older students you may want to consider requiring them to take a course with the idea that it is a model. Challenge students to develop a course using a tool like Lore, reviewed here, about something in which they feel they are an expert.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Learn Engineering - Imajey
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): careers (139), engineering (129), STEM (174)
In the Classroom
Share information on the site during career lessons and activities. Share this site with parents as a resource for learning more about careers in engineering. During a unit in careers, divide students into small groups (their interest) to cover all engineering fields, and challenge them to create a multimedia presentation using Presentious, reviewed here, and present their findings about that field to their classmates. Presentious is a mix of the best parts of slide and video recordings, in one new format and is easy to use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Helpful Counselor - Heather Thomas
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Follow The Helpful Counselor's blog, Facebook, or Twitter accounts to receive notice of new posts to the site. Take advantage of the free materials available on the site to use in your classroom. Be sure to share information from the site with your school counselors and fellow educators.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ice and Sky - Association Wild-Touch and Luc Jacquet
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): antarctica (30), climate change (70), slides (65), video (278), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Challenge students to create a multimedia presentation on climate change using UTellStory, reviewed here. This tool allows for narrating and adding text to a picture. Challenge students to find a photo (legally permitted to use), and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report. Have students create a map (choose locations, add text, images, and videos to demonstrate the effect of climate change) using Tour Builder, reviewed here. Have students use Bio Cube, reviewed here, to create a biography about Claude Lorius.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future - UNESCO
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): cross cultural understanding (123), cultures (109), debate (46), problem solving (294), sustainability (18)
In the Classroom
Connect students globally with challenges that people face around the world. Begin by building your knowledge with the activities and resources provided. Continue by choosing different areas to explore as a class, in small groups, or individually. These activities can become a focal point of problem-based learning scenarios. Consider viewing Google Lit Trips, reviewed here, and challenge students to create a "sustainable earth" trip. Document areas on the globe with videos, images, and text that you and students find. Add a link to Pinterest, reviewed here, to have an ongoing brainstorming session of all possible solutions. Use parts of the site to begin a Global Connections Club either in class or after school. Students can share a Google doc or wiki to foster group collaboration. Not comfortable with wikis? Check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through. Focus on problem solving by sharing parts of Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future. Teach debate through the different sides of the issues presented. During current events, engage students in saving our most valuable resource, our Earth. Use as a nonfiction passage for close reading. Have students take information research further, and present to others in a different format. Begin a blog for each student to share reflections. Create a newspaper using a site such as Zinepal, reviewed here. Use at a community night to promote awareness of the need for sustainability in your community.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kartveli: Innovator in Aviation - Aviation Media LLC
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): aircraft (25), aviation (35), design (88), engineering (129)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site on an interactive whiteboard or projector as part of a career or technology unit. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. This is a great find for gifted students to discover lesser known pioneers in the aviation field. Have students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about Alexander Kartveli or his peers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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H & R Block Budget Challenge - H & R Block
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): financial literacy (87), grants (18)
In the Classroom
Put relevant, real-world opportunities into content area subjects by using a problem based financial literacy lesson plans, challenges, or online games. Use the lesson plans or choose the parts that are relevant to your curriculum. For younger students, offer in a gifted or enrichment class. In middle or high schools, make this part of your regular curriculum. Use as a reference for a problem-based learning situation involving raising money or spending money carefully and effectively. The Budget Challenge is available at multiple times from September through April. Challenge your students to participate nightly to earn points. At the midway point and the conclusion; the top classroom will win grants. Have students make a checklist using a tool such as Flask, reviewed here, to keep up with information during the game. Have students journal their daily progress in your class blog. Be sure to keep a page on your website for students to record any challenges they face. Review these periodically as needed.Continue this study with a well hooked next step, careers! Students can find opportunities to explore their career interests preparing for the next step, colleges and universities! All of the work completed with financial literacy, career planning, and college preparation can go into a multimedia portfolio. Create a multimedia presentation using one of many TeachersFirst Edge tools, reviewed here.
Start a Personal Finance Night and invite banks, businesses, colleges, and universities to present relevant information. Students can also start small companies, decide upon a product, make plans, discover the capital needed, produce the product, and sell at an Economy Fair. Be sure to have students interview successful business leaders in your community and present these in a multimedia presentation. Tie in relevant literature; biographies, investment stories and financial books such as Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. Make a difference to change the lives of your students forever.
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Microsoft Educator Network - Microsoft
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): computers (102), Microsoft (41), professional development (164)
In the Classroom
Sharpen your technology integration skills and grow in your knowledge with Microsoft. Apply useful tools to your classroom situation. Using tutorials, you can find answers to many common problems. Form a group and participate in classes and blog together. Create lessons aligned to the Common Core Standards using the Common Core Implementation Kit. Develop students critical thinking skills using the Critical Thinking Teaching Guide. Teachers of students with special needs, discover videos and guides for accessibility with definitions of impairment types and more. Chemistry teachers will find Word Add-in, with an easier way to insert, modify, and present chemical symbols and data sources. These are just a few of the guides, videos, and lesson plans. Explore for yourself to see many, many others. Allow students to explore tools and use ones that are useful for them.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Study Body Language - Study-Body-Language
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): autism (19), back to school (62), debate (46), gifted (88), Special Needs (33), speech (89)
In the Classroom
As a professional educator, nonverbal body language greatly impacts your teaching, communication with students, colleagues, parents, and presentations. Improve your nonverbal communication skills by reviewing different parts of the site. Feature on the interactive whiteboard (or projector) as part of instructions for student presentations to offer important tips for success. Use as a resource for any autistic children or children who have difficulty communicating. Give to parents as a resource for when their student is practicing a project presentation, or with their student who needs extra assistance in communication. Fuel your debate team with these important tips. During leadership classes or activities, these can become important lesson ideas and resources. During practice for job or college interviews, have students discover important ways to communicate.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Disability History Museum - Disability History Museum
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): disabilities (20), primary sources (93)
In the Classroom
Use the resources here to help students talk about the role and experiences of those living with a disability. How have attitudes changed over time? What has driven those changes? Helping students understand why some people experience physical and emotional challenges, and the importance of honoring their contributions and abilities can be difficult. The resources in this archive may be helpful in sparking discussion.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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That's Not Cool - Futures Without Violence
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): cyberbullying (48), digital citizenship (68), internet safety (118)
In the Classroom
Share a link to That's Not Cool on your class website for students to access from home. Be sure to share this site with parents so they can have a conversation about the topics found here with their students. Discuss topics on this site as part of your Internet safety lessons. Share this site with school counselors as a resource for teens facing online safety issues.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vizualize.me - Parchment
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): careers (139), infographics (51), portfolios (32)
In the Classroom
Have students create a personal resume as an example of how to portray their strengths and interests to potential employers. Middle school students in an art or career exploration class can create a resume infographic about themselves to use for summer jobs or even on a flyer to get part-time work around the neighborhood. In history classes, offer the infographic resume as a possible project alternative. For instance, if you are studying Medival History and the feudal pyramid, students could create a resume for a serf or knight. The possibilities for personalities in history are practically endless! Students in literature classes could create an infographic resume for a literary character or author.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mouth Healthy Kids - American Dental Association
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K to 6tag(s): careers (139), dental health (22)
In the Classroom
Feature Mouth Healthy kids on your interactive whiteboard to begin your unit on healthy teeth or even the senses. Watch videos to engage children then follow through with the online quiz. Offer at a center for extra time for exploration and learning. Use as a research tool for career day. This is a great find for Dental Health Month!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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