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What Does One Trillion Dollars Look Like? - PageTutor
Grades
4 to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): financial literacy (87), money (185), number sense (96)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for demonstrating place value and exponents of 10 on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Ask students to draw each amount as they would visualize it before revealing the actual size from the site. Challenge students to change the representation used ($100 bill) to something different (popsicle sticks, bricks, etc.) to find how proportion changes.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Moneyville - Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
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4 to 8tag(s): financial literacy (87), money (185)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free teacher's guide to plan classroom lessons. Use this site as a learning station or center when studying money and finances. Make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and use it as a center. Create a link to this site on your classroom website or blog for students to practice at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Newsmap - Marcos Weskamp
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6 to 12tag(s): business (58), diseases (72), news (262), politics (97)
In the Classroom
A quick class warm up covering the news of the day is easy using this site. Use the different nation views to illustrate the relative importance of different issues to different people. Save the site in your favorites so students can keep up-to-date on the news independently. If you require current events presentations or summaries, this site provides a terrific place for students to get started. Share this on your interactive whiteboard or projector as students enter your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Kids Should See This - Rion Nakaya
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K to 8tag(s): news (262), speaking (25), video (278), writing prompts (93)
In the Classroom
Check first to be sure the media are not blocked by school web filtering. Choose one item from the site to share on your interactive whiteboard or projector as a class discussion starter on current topics or as a lead-in to a lesson. (Example: show the YouTube video about order of the planets when beginning an astronomy unit). Share the site with students and let them explore to find interesting topics for research reports. Ask students to choose one item from the site to share with other students as a way to practice oral presentation skills. Use videos or images as writing prompts or blog prompts. ESL/ELL students can practice their language skills by retelling a favorite video. Challenge your students to create their own informative videos on a topic that your class is exploring. Share the videos using a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sand Dollar City - DoughMain
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4 to 7tag(s): banks (10), financial literacy (87), money (185)
In the Classroom
Create one classroom account using your teacher email and a single user name and password. Record scores weekly as different students try the activity to record growth of the candy shop. Challenge students to increase scores each week by posting recorded scores and making a graph. Send site information to parents and allow students to create accounts at home, then compare student scores each week and challenge them to make the most successful store.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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How To SMILE - National Science Digital Library
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K to 12In case you are wondering about the title, SMILE is the Science and Math Informal Learning Educators pathway of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
tag(s): resources (107), social networking (112), STEM (173), video (278)
In the Classroom
This is a perfect way to organize and sort lessons by topic or age range for future classroom use or to share with fellow teachers. Create a community list of lessons to use within your district. Share this site with other teachers in your building or district as a resource for STEM lessons. Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Online Conversion - Robert Fogt
Grades
3 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): conversions (27), measurement (175), temperature (34), time (142)
In the Classroom
Following a lesson on conversions, allow students to access the site to check answers. Mark this site in your favorites and share it on your TeachersFirst public age for quick access. Use as a handy resource on your interactive whiteboard or projector anytime that conversions come up in your classroom. Share this site with students through your class web page or TeachersFirst public page as a resource to use outside of class-- even when cooking with mom or dad!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Money Instructor - Money Instructor
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): business (58), careers (139), financial literacy (87), investing (8), money (185)
In the Classroom
Print off worksheets to use in your classroom. Search for lessons on any money-related topic you are studying in your classroom. Elementary teachers: be sure to check out the lesson "Teaching Elementary Money Skills." In secondary classrooms, check out the lessons on savings and investing, business and career, and more. Create a link to the interactives on your classroom computers to use as a center or for free time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Learning to Give - Points of Light Institute
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K to 12tag(s): african american (109), animal homes (61), animals (322), charts and graphs (197), colonial america (107), communities (37), data (161), diversity (33), ecology (138), environment (325), heroes (24), money (185), recycling (60)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for all subject matters, search for subject and browse resources. Share with other teachers in your building or district including teachers of the arts. Get your students involved! Challenge cooperative learning groups to create a multimedia presentation using one of many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here discussing one of the topics at this site. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Piktochart, Lucidpress, Powtoon, and Rooclick.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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EconEdLink
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1 to 12tag(s): consumers (18)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free digital lesson plans offered by this website. Useful for any economics class, regardless of age. The site includes standard criteria and images, which are helpful in preparing the lesson for class use.Comments
An absolutely fantastic site. If you teach econ, you need this site., OH, Grades: 10 - 12
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Classroom Jeopardy - superteachtools.com
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K to 12tag(s): grammar review (42), matching (24)
In the Classroom
Use this great resource to create Jeopardy games for any content area. This resource is perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard or projector with a student emcee. Use for vocabulary/terms, identifying parts of anything, and reviewing for any curriculum topic. Use as an opener to a unit to determine what students already know. Play as a review game to assist learning for all students. Encourage students to create the clues and answers to their own Jeopardy review games as a creative way to review and reinforce. Learning support teachers may want to have students create review games together.You or your students can copy and paste the HTML code for any game on your web page, wiki, or blog for easy access to any Flash Jeopardy Game.
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PRIME Mathematics Encyclopedia (Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia) - B Sidney Smith
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3 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): dictionaries (60), probability (141), problem solving (294), vocabulary (321)
In the Classroom
Create a link to the site on classroom computers to use as a student resource. Provide students with the definition of terms and challenge them to find the term being defined. Share this site with students and allow them time to explore the site. Create a scavenger hunt and ask students to search for different terms on the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Yacapaca! - Chalkface Project
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4 to 12tag(s): assessment (113), quiz (86), quizzes (105)
In the Classroom
You can create and/or assign quizzes for any topic. You need not register students to simply assign an activity, but registration is required to keep and report scores. You simply check which countries to include to narrow activity searches, so decide whether alternate spellings might be an issue for your curriculum topic. Students can use quizzes either at home or in school. Use this site to help students review concepts and receive immediate feedback on their performance. There is a direct link in the quizzes to send a link to registered students or to share on social networking sites such as Facebook, iGoogle and Blogger. Assign small groups of students to create their own quiz for any topic you might be studying. Students can challenge their peers as a review.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sant Ocean Hall Coral Reef Interactive - Smithsonian, NOAA, and Operand
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3 to 12tag(s): coral (12), ecosystems (93), marine biology (35)
In the Classroom
Use this interactive coral reef in a study of nonrenewable resources, conservation, or ecosystems. Put the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector and watch your class jump into the water! As a starting point for Socrates seminar, debates, and persuasive writing, this site offers a great variety of passionate debate! Using this site as a model, have your students make a similar situation with other ecosystems. Have students create other scenarios for non-renewable resources, arguments for alternative energy, or even bring closer to home with a local dilemma. In writing class, develop an interactive based on the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. Why not have students create a Prezi presentation (reviewed here), simple to use with endless possibilities. Use the model for other scenarios and develop other story ideas. Use a problem based learning scenario into ways humans affect the environment. These activities will engage every learner!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Economics and Money: TeachersFirst Editors' Choices - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): financial literacy (87), money (185), recession (3)
In the Classroom
Browse these editors' choice resources to find the best for your classroom needs. Don't forget that you can use economics information to teach math concepts. Make your lessons relevant in today's world by connecting the economic concepts as you teach writing, reading, and more. As your students master the concept, have them create a "Kids Guide to the Economy" on a class wiki or make videos on single concepts to be shared via tools such as SchoolTube (reviewed here) or TeacherTube (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Treasury Direct Kids - U.S. Department of the Treasury
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4 to 8tag(s): advertising (33), posters (40)
In the Classroom
After presenting the basic info on this site, have students make online posters parallel to the old ones they see displayed here. Use an online poster creator, such as Padlet (reviewed here). Have them make their own graphs of funds and debts based on their own finances using Tabblo reviewed here. Use this site when teaching percentages; have students do problems figuring the interest on today's debt. Introduce them to the concept of buying a bond today and have them calculate its accrued interest and how many years it will take to gain face value. Have students in a team create modern day videos to advertise and sell savings bonds. Share the videos using a tool such as SchoolTube (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TV411 - Math - Adult Literacy Media Alliance
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4 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (197), financial literacy (87)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector as practice or review of current math topics. Provide a link to games on classroom computers for student practice. Spanish teachers may want students to complete a lesson in Spanish to provide real-world language practice. Share this site with parents through your classroom website or blog to provide review materials at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Emory University
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6 to 12tag(s): africa (168), black history (56), slavery (67)
In the Classroom
If you are teaching a course that covers the African slave trade, this site will be invaluable. Take some time to browse the interactive maps and timelines, look through the lesson plans, and find images that can be used to supplement reading and discussion. Discover the glossary of terms that could be used for vocabulary work, the tables of information useful for teaching data analysis, and the African name database for genealogy research. Challenge cooperative learning groups to research a specific section of this site and create multimedia presentations. Try Thinglink, reviewed here. This site allows users to narrate a picture. Challenge students to upload a copyright-safe photo, and then narrate as if it were a news report. Another idea: have students create an online presentation using Smilebox, reviewed here, or another reviewed presentation tool from the TeachersFirst Edge.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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StatPlanet
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6 to 12tag(s): data (161), environment (325), maps (298), population (66), statistics (127)
In the Classroom
There are countless ways to incorporate this website into many subject areas. Math teachers will love having a way for students to apply data skills in a real world context. During Women's History month, compare statistics of countries and how women are compensated for their pay. In health class, share the HIV occurrences throughout the world. Assign cooperative learning groups one specific area to investigate and present their findings to the class via a multimedia presentation. Have students use a mapping tool such as Click2Map, reviewed here, to create a map of specific locations within their research. They can even include display markers featuring text, photos, and videos!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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2010 Census - US Census Bureau
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6 to 12tag(s): census (19), demographics (19), population (66)
In the Classroom
First, it's important for students to know that the US Constitution requires a census, and second, that the information gathered is used in a variety of important ways that affect them directly. The first data posted looks at how shifts in population density will change the way various geographic areas of the country are represented in the US government. Consider reading the Director's blog for further analysis of how census data is being used on a local, state, and national level. Of course, the data are perfect for using in math and civics classes for teaching graph reading and creation, and for providing real-life information to use in statistical analysis. A civics or sociology class might download a copy of the census form and consider what the questions tell us about how families live in the 21st century. What questions might students add to a future census form that would reflect how things are changing for their generation?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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