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Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum - Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Have students create an online presentation on Amelia Earhart or women in aviation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge presentation tools reviewed here. Have students create "talking pictures" as an alternative to a traditional reports using Blabberize, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Museum of Obsolete Objects - MoooJvM
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): inventors and inventions (71)
In the Classroom
Use as a introductory video into science and technology. Identify the science understanding and concepts needed to change the technologies. Brainstorm other technologies that could be added to this list from the various decades. Brainstorm together using a tool such as Mindmeister, reviewed here. Challenge cooperative learning groups to investigate a specific decade and determine what was a new invention then but is no longer used today. Have students create slideshows using Slides, reviewed here. Display these on a blog or wiki for students to review and comment. Assign students to do a written or recorded interview of those who have used these old technologies to find out how life has changed before and after the technology.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MoMath - Museum of Mathematics - Museum of Mathematics
Grades
2 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): critical thinking (112), logic (165), origami (15), sculpture (21), video (260)
In the Classroom
Use activities from Math Monday during Math nights or competitions at school. Challenge students to choose one of the activities to create while discovering math concepts such as symmetry and angles. Show videos from Math Encounters to students on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) as supplements to classroom activities. Have older students create projects found on the site, then share and create them with younger students. Share the site with the art teacher and work together to have students create mathematical art projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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YouTube Play: Live from the Guggenheim - Youtube Play
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
Capture your students' interest in the modern world of technology. Share this video on your interactive whiteboard or projector (be sure to use full screen mode). YouTube Play can be used in a variety of classroom settings; art, music, technology, language art, drama, science, or political science.In the art classroom, explore the emerging world of creative video. Determine elements of design, technology, photography, and movement. Discover the integration of music, sound, and movement in video in many creative ways. Use the site to demonstrate how to convey a message through creative animation. Express a creative editorial on a current events or important issues that challenge our world such as over-population, fossil fuels, or pollution. Have students create innovative political campaign videos. Take your technology classes to a new level of excellence. Add a visual component to poems, prose, or narratives as an additional interpretation device. Introduce storyboarding techniques to create videos with a tool like online sticky notes that can be move around such as Webnote, reviewed here, easily share Webnote using the URL. Have your students make their own videos using a tool such as Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here, and then share them via TeacherTube, reviewed here.
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Kids' Habitat - San Diego Natural History Museum
Grades
1 to 6tag(s): animal homes (56), animals (284), dinosaurs (40), light (51)
In the Classroom
Share this site with students to explore on their own to learn more about the canine family when learning about groups of animals. Use the recommended reading list as a resource for students who love dogs and canines. Complete the grow your own minerals activity when learning about rocks and minerals. Redefine learning by challenging students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Lucidpress, Powtoon, and MoocNote.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wisemapping - Wisemapping Corporation
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): concept mapping (17), graphic organizers (50), mind map (27)
In the Classroom
Users must be able to navigate the icons for editing and creating a mindmap. Icons and commands are the same as in any office and free applications that most people use. View the free demo for an introduction of using Wisemapping. Use the demo editor to play with the tools and learn what they do. Note: the demo function does not allow you to save your creation as it is a sandbox area for learning. Allow students an opportunity to learn to play first without teacher direction as each person will find different ways to use wisemapping for their best benefit. Click on a set of words to edit the words, color, font, etc. in the bubble. Drag items easily around the screen by clicking and dragging the icon to drop into a new configuration. Add "icons" and flags anywhere on your mindmap. Add a "note" to a bubble anywhere. The note appears like a little sticky note on the bubble and expands when clicked on. Add a "link" to any of the text on the wisemap that leads to any link on the web you specify. Export as a scalable vector graphic (svg), PDF document, or image file. "Share" to work collaboratively with others. Users must have a login in order to share and publish. Click on the "history" of a wisemap to view the contributions of others.Assign sections of current curriculum topic to groups of students to map out and explain in detail. Link to outside web pages and pictures and create notes with additional study hints and information. Assign a different group to review information for accuracy and add additional information and explanations. Using this process, a wisemap of a chapter or unit can be created easily and efficiently while benefiting all learners.
There are countless possibilities at this mental mapping site. Demonstrate the activity on an interactive whiteboard or projector, and then allow students to try to create their own graphic organizers. Use this site for literature activities, research projects, social studies, or science topics of study. Use this site to create family trees. Have students collaborate together (online) to create group mind maps or review charts before tests on a given topic. Have students organize any concepts you study; color-code concepts to show what they understand, wonder, question; map out a story, plotline, or LIFETIME; map out a step-by-step process (life cycle); map a real historical event as a choose-your-own-adventure with alternate endings based on pivotal points; plan a "tour" for a "thought museum." Use this mapping website as an alternative to a traditional test, quiz, or homework assignment in literature or social studies: have students demonstrate their understanding by completing a graphic organizer about the main points. Be sure that they RENAME it before they start work to an individual name so you know who did it (they could EMAIL it to you!) or have them print their results to turn in.
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Fascinating Fish - Florida Museum of Natural History
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): fish (18), marine biology (25), oceans (149)
In the Classroom
Within the education section of this site is a host of lesson plans and classroom activities that are offered for free! In addition to those, there are also small we explorations about classifying fish, fish families, and anatomy to name a few. Select the appropriate exploration for a particular unit and use that portion of the site as a learning center or station. Have students explore the desired section in cooperative learning groups or pairs. To assess what they have learned, have students create online posters on paper or do it together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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How Things Fly - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): aircraft (16), aviation (38), flight (31), space (214)
In the Classroom
Choose a type of flight to have students study and assign that part of the website as a web search with a question sheet. Or have students create their own journey by picking a learning path using Symbaloo Learning Paths, reviewed here, and then enhance learning by having students explain what they learn as they go through the activity in writing. Before writing, have students organize their thoughts about what they learn with a tool such as bubbl.us, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The International Civil Rights Center & Museum - The International Civil Rights Center & Museum
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): 1960s (27), african american (111), black history (128), civil rights (198)
In the Classroom
Have your students use the information about the people of the sit-in movement to write a biography. Add drama to your classroom and have students pretend to be one of the protesters. Have them write a monologue and present it to the class. Have students create public service announcement posters using Piclits (reviewed here). Use the announcements that can be found in the image gallery for examples.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teach Magazine - teachmagazine.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
This magazine is mostly geared toward the professional in you. But delve deeper and explore to find some excellent ideas to incorporate in your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SketchUp - Google
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): architecture (62), design (79), drawing (60)
In the Classroom
To introduce yourself to the program, check out the training video. There are templates that you can use to create your designs and they are offered in both metric and English measurements. The application is reminiscent of basic paint programs. Perhaps the best way to learn how to create with this tool is to take some time to "play" with it. The editors at TeacherFirst strongly recommend working your way through a sample before you implement this in a class. It gives your students a great model to visualize your expectations, and it will give you the hands on experience that you can use to help them. Another way to implement this is to roll it out to your students and have them "play" with it. You may learn more from them than you could have ever anticipated. Another neat feature of this program is that it allows you to Google search for previously constructed 3D models and download them directly into SketchUp on your computer!As part of a multidisciplinary unit in science, technology, economics, math, social studies, and English classes, use this site to create a culminating design project. In English classes, have students create a written grant or design proposal. In economics, have the students discover how to construct the project for the best possible cost. Have the final design project be a new museum or historical/tourist attraction to commemorate a local hero/heroine. In math and science classes, have the students "build" the project with accurate measurements. Then as follow up, have students use Google Earth reviewed here to predict the environmental impact of the new construction. Or, in technology education or industrial arts class, use this as a way to submit project drafts for construction.
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Diego Rivera Web Museum
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): painting (55)
In the Classroom
Introduce Diego Rivera to students using this website. Use the menu across the top of the main page to find a Biography, Sketches, Murals, and more. Encourage your students to create inspired works. Create a multimedia presentation on Rivera's art using one of many TeachersFirst Edge tools. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Visme, Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, and Typito. Use this site as an example for creating projects for other artists, mathematicians, or scientists. Post a link for this site on your class website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): asia (69), egypt (48), greece (27), museums (44), rome (21)
In the Classroom
Introduce the class to the areas to explore on your whiteboard or with a projector. Allow small groups to choose which resource they would like to learn more about, with a culminating activity of creating a multimedia presentation using a tool like Genially, reviewed here where students have a choice of presentation formats.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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San Diego Museum of Art - Collections - San Diego Museum
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Use this website on an interactive whiteboard or projector as an accompaniment for a history lesson. Look up a history topic your class is working on, and show them the images on the interactive whiteboard or projector to show how art reflects upon society. List the site on your teacher web page to allow students to access it in and out of the classroom, as it can also be used for a good starting point for history research papers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Art History Resources on the Web
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): art history (87)
In the Classroom
Although the site is slightly difficult to navigate, the images provided and their brief bios are extremely helpful! Use this site to supplement any lesson on history, as the images can provide context for students. Share the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston
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5 to 12tag(s): art history (87), artists (78), museums (44)
In the Classroom
Share this site with students and allow them time to explore on their own. Ask them to find artwork that interests them as a starting point for a period of time or as a starting point to research more of the artist's work. Have students share their work in an online book using Book Creator, reviewed here and include images, film, audio and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Legacy of the Horse - International Museum of the Horse
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
This site is excellent for enrichment. Include it on your teacher web page for students to access both in and out of class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Chocolate- All About Chocolate - Field Museum
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4 to 8tag(s): chocolate (4), halloween (30), south america (36)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lesson plans hosted on this site! Save this site as a favorite to allow for easy retrieval - a creative source for a cultural geography, history or earth science classroom! Use Google Earth, reviewed here, to explore the regions where chocolate grows and find photos to bring these locations to life on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Make natural resources a tasty lesson.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Death - The Last Taboo - Australian Museum
Grades
8 to 12In the Classroom
This site could be used as an alternative to dissection, an enrichment activity, or as part of a unit that uses crime scene investigation as part of its delivery technique. Anatomy classes could use this practice and review for quizzes or tests on the human body organs and systems. Show the site using the interactive whiteboard or projector as an introduction to human anatomy or to dissection. If you teach high school biology, this would be a great site during Halloween season, as well: teach anatomy with a creepy feature!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame - National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc
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4 to 12tag(s): baseball (33)
In the Classroom
Share the videos, interviews, and more on your interactive whiteboard or projector. As baseball season begins, have cooperative learning groups explore different elements of this site. Have the groups prepare a multi-media production. Perhaps a video clip of their own!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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