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Kidnetic - IFIC Foundation
Grades
4 to 7In the Classroom
Use the Leader's Guide for lessons that educators can use in the classroom. Assign different students or groups of students different bright papers to read in order to glean bits of material worth sharing. Give time for mini presentations, creation of conventional or multimedia projects, create a wiki of essential information and more. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Assign a food journal to students to maintain and have other students analyze the diaries and make suggestions for improvements and deficiencies.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Science Friday Kids' Connection - NPR
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): agriculture (60), air (148), animals (322), anthropology (12), archeology (32), chemicals (44), child development (26), climate (95), climate change (70), computers (102), ecology (138), ecosystems (93), electricity (92), energy (207), engineering (129), environment (325), experiments (69), genetics (88), habitats (106), insects (72), light (51), magnetism (38), medicine (70), mental health (26), nuclear energy (25), nutrition (159), oceans (165), paleontology (42), planets (128), plants (174), podcasts (57), psychology (66), radio (25), reproduction (8), sociology (22), space (221), stars (64), transportation (43), water (134), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Use Science Friday as a springboard and resource for research projects, or as an end of the week fun discussion. Play a podcast, and have students discuss the meaning and any possible misunderstandings. You could set up a computer in your classroom with a Science Friday podcast or video set up and ready to go for students to cycle through or for those who finsh their work early.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 (141)
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
Grades
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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Victorian Christmas - TeachersFirst
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Save this site as a favorite on your desktop and use it to add supplementary activities to your classroom before Winter Break. Many of the sites can be used as webquests, classroom activities or Learning centers. This could be a great way to mix the holidays into content, comparing today's celebrations to those of the 19th century.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Parlour Games - Old-Fashioned Living
Grades
3 to 8In the Classroom
Use this website as a resource for finding games that could bring history to life during a unit on Victorian England or Christmas. Plan a Victorian Christmas celebration with historically accurate games, food, and decorations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Celebrate a Victorian Christmas - Victoriana Magazine
Grades
1 to 8In the Classroom
This site is especially useful as a teacher-resource in planning a series of activities centering around a historic, Victorian approach to Christmas. It's an excellent resource to use as the basis for an informational treasure hunt with students from upper elementary through middle school. Use a tool such as TrackStar, reviewed here, to create a treasure hunt, scavenger hunt, or webquest. Use Celebrate a Victorian Christmas as a resource for study of the Victorian Era. Allow ESL/ELL students to try using Text to Speech Reader, reviewed here, which will allow these students to follow the highlighted text as the article or passage is read to them.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Classroom Jeopardy - superteachtools.com
Grades
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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Yacapaca! - Chalkface Project
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): assessment (114), 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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Glass Education for Students, Teachers, and the General Public - International Materials Institute, Lehigh University
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): chemicals (44), cooking (31), density (24), experiments (69), optics (15)
In the Classroom
Combine this site with The Corning Museum's Glass Chemistry site, reviewed here, as the essential ingredients for a major unit on glass! This website can be used for varying levels of science from introductory chemistry to advanced physics depending on the resources that you choose to use from the site. In introductory chemistry, share the "Sugar Glass Video," demonstrate to the class how to create sugar glass using the recipes on the site, and then have students create the glass in the lab. Have students explain states of matter, temperature change, etc. For physics and other advanced sciences, check out the Power Points and videos on the refractive index and density experiments. Perhaps the recipes and the "create a construction of sugar masterpieces" could be used in a family and consumer science class in a baking or candy unit.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TV411 - Math - Adult Literacy Media Alliance
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (198), 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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Things to Do for Children - Dorling Kindersley Limited
Grades
2 to 8In the Classroom
Select from the many attractive, motivating activities that fit your curriculum, and make some of them available on your web page for students to access when in the computer lab. Having a meaningful collection of online activities for students to engage in when finished with their work is a great classroom management tool, especially when using a set of classroom computers. The activities are suitable for individual work and many of them lend themselves to group or whole class assignments that you can project on your whiteboard.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Homestyler - Autodesk
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): architecture (84), area (73), design (88), volume (53)
In the Classroom
Users click and drag design components onto the main layout page. The free draw tool is a bit trickier to control but is similar to drawing tools in other programs. The perimeter measurement scrolls alongside the line you are drawing. The interface for such a complicated concept is intuitive. Students will need explicit instructions on how to operate this program.Use an interactive whiteboard or projector to share the tutorial presentation and demonstrate how to use the design tools. Divide students into cooperative learning groups to explore the site. Consider this resource to help math students visualize how to compute the surface area of three-dimensional shapes and understand how area and volume change with scale. Social Studies and History teachers can ask students to re-create the interior of an early American home, Greek Temple or even their own classroom. With guidance, this could be a wonderful tool to help younger students understand interior mapping skills. Classrooms focusing on "real-world learning" may find this a valuable resource tool to help students create design plans for an alternative environment.
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Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
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Kid's Health - MEDtropolis
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Try using this website in health class to teach about healthy eating. Or, use this in family consumer science for teens to have students find their own recipes to make in class. Have students evaluate the recipes based on standard nutritional and health guidelines. Assign cooperative learning groups a certain segment of this website and have the groups create multimedia presentations. Have students create podcasts using a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Earth 911 - earth911.com
Grades
K to 12tag(s): conservation (128), environment (325), recycling (60)
In the Classroom
Allow students the opportunity to choose articles of interest to read, learn more about the topics, and present to the class, write a blog post, or create a public service announcement (PSA) to communicate their learning. Have your students create an interactive online poster using Visme, reviewed here. Find a multitude of learning opportunities on this site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What you need to know about energy - The National Academies
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): conservation (128), energy (207), environment (325)
In the Classroom
Find a wealth of information on this site. Identify misconceptions about energy use and energy availability by assigning students to read blogs, news reports, and editorials or through use of a teacher made quiz identifying attitudes and understandings about energy. Divide students into groups to peruse the site and verify the information given with the sources listed on the site as well as other sources. Be sure to discuss credibility of sites and how to determine this with the students as well. Assign blog posts, conventional or multimedia posters, and other assignments to share the information learned. Create a concept map that showcases attitudes and reasons why they are so prevalent. Be sure to add facts to this as well. Create a campaign at school or in your community so that others can benefit from understanding the science behind energy use and availability. Have your students create an interactive online poster using Visme, reviewed here. Follow with an energy audit of the school or student homes to analyze ways to save energy.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NEN Gallery - National Education Network
Grades
K to 12tag(s): animals (322), architecture (84), england (56), fashion (10), medieval (27), plants (174), transportation (43)
In the Classroom
Bring history lessons about the 20th century alive by reviewing World War II photographs, videos, and interviews with survivors from the United Kingdom. Then ask your class to upload photographs of artifacts, people, film clips or conduct interviewers with survivors in their own community. Record the interview with a site such as Vocaroo reviewed here. Compare and contrast the experiences of both groups during the War. Have students in family and consumer science research fashion, clothing, food, and/or drink from various locations and time periods. Enrich an anticipatory set about William Shakespeare with photographs of his birthplace, Macduff's castle, the Globe Theatre, and his cottage in Stratford. Younger children will enjoy the numerous digital images of animals and antique toys. Prepare a series of topic albums for students to access and use for research by using the sites "My Album" feature.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Admongo - U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): advertising (33), propaganda (11)
In the Classroom
To play the game: Though a login is available, it is not needed to play the game. Choose a character and features as well as a username and password. Follow the on screen directions to find ads in various places outside and within the home. Find the ads, answer the questions, and even collect coins along the way. Consider using the game as a precursor to discussions about advertising. encourage students to record what they notice as they move through the levels to identify the reasons for the creation of an ad campaign and why these are so effective. Follow up with additional discussions and activities that look at various ads past and present (past tobacco ads such as those using doctors are a really great start.) Assign additional assignments such as assigning watching TV or listening to the radio or taking a road trip. Really, there is a purpose. Require that students find several ads for analysis. For high school biology, have them find food related ads or food use in shows and movies to discuss reasoning for the advertisement.Introduce the game on an interactive whiteboard or projector if you must, but most students will immediately guess how to navigate and collect coins, points, etc. as they move about and hear/read about advertising. Save your sanity by providing headphones or turning off the music! Young or weak readers might benefit from having a reading buddy partner.
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Online Personal Finance and Economics Game - Council for Economic Education
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): financial literacy (87), money (185)
In the Classroom
Divide students into cooperative learning groups to explore the site. Have students work together to form their mission groups and create a friendly competition within your class. Another option is to work on this as a whole class and compete against another classroom. Use the training videos on an interactive whiteboard or projector to prepare students for the missions. Have students blog or journal their experiences as they complete each mission. Lesson plans and materials are available at an additional cost. Teachers can sign up for their class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Basic Intergenerational Financial Literacy - National Center for Family Literacy
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): money (185)
In the Classroom
Use the resources on this site to enrich a mathematics unit on money or a mini-society social studies unit. Share the site links and printables with parents at open house or conferences, so students can further engage in financial literacy topics. Use the value ranking resource as a discussion starter for older students. Students can complete activities independently and then share with a peer.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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