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The Art of Baseball - Kennedy Center Artsedge
Grades
K to 6tag(s): architecture (74), baseball (32), critical thinking (122), painting (55), plays (32), problem solving (228)
In the Classroom
This site would be a perfect addition to incorporate the arts through a high-interest activity. Use the activities when the World Series takes place or as part of Opening Day activities. Throughout the year, use ideas for critical thinking lessons as a learning center. Have students create commercials for their newly designed ballparks or skits and share them using a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Kid World Citizen - Becky Morales
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K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): back to school (55), chinese new year (5), christmas (38), cross cultural understanding (172), earth day (59), hanukkah (12), hispanic (34), holidays (185), italy (20), Juneteenth (22), mexico (31), native americans (108), ramadan (10), thanksgiving (24)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use throughout the year when teaching about countries, holidays, and for cross-cultural literature resources. Choose a country to explore each month using resources found on the site. Learn about your students' backgrounds to find countries and regions to explore using activities on the site. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here, to compare and contrast your culture with that of a different country.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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FutureLearn for Schools - FutureLearn
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7 to 12tag(s): advertising (26), business (52), computers (109), creative writing (124), cultures (172), dental health (14), environment (246), financial literacy (91), gifted (66), literature (220), photography (121), politics (117), professional development (373), psychology (65)
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.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Story Maker - ABCya
Grades
K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): digital storytelling (153), drawing (61), writing (323)
In the Classroom
Story Maker is so simple very young students can use it successfully after a demonstration on a whiteboard or with a projector. Use this tool to design simple projects using student drawings to tell the story. At the beginning of the year have students draw and annotate stories to tell about their summer and share with classmates. Students of any age love to draw, so why not enhance their learning by having them draw their impression of a message to the reader from a story and then explain it in writing on Story Maker?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Musanim - Music Animation Machine YouTube Channel - Stephen Malinowski
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): music theory (45), musical instruments (50), musical notation (34)
In the Classroom
Use this YouTube Channel as an excellent addition to any music class to help students "see" music in a new way. Play videos on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) during quiet times in your classroom. Stop videos during play to analyze and understand the representations created and view specific instrument families used at each moment.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Institution for Arts Integration and STEAM - Education Closet
Grades
K to 12tag(s): architecture (74), professional development (373), robotics (23), STEM (288)
In the Classroom
Look at the back issues of ArtsEd LAB for different articles to see if you want to subscribe to ArtsEd LAB. Find ideas for incorporating art into science, technology, engineering, and math classes. Share with colleagues and at professional development meetings for any relevant ideas.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Bill's Games - Bill Kendrick
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): game based learning (187), logic (161), problem solving (228), puzzles (144)
In the Classroom
Share and demonstrate the activities on an interactive whiteboard. Create a link on classroom computers to use as a center. Challenge students to increase difficulty levels in games and activities. Ask students to journal about their problem-solving process when playing games and activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Giphy - Jace Cooke & Alex Chung
Grades
K to 12tag(s): animation (65), images (260), photography (121)
In the Classroom
Share an animated GIF to get student's attention! A cat reading a book is one way to begin reading time! Show any science concept a student should look at several times to see every aspect of the event. Some ideas to search for might be the development of an organism, cell division, a chemical reaction, formation of stars, or a bullet in slow motion. Do you want to reveal portions of a video outlining the travels of historic expeditions, addition of the states to the US, or any other historical event captured in a video? Use a looping animated GIF! Every subject could use one of these GIFs to generate interest in a class activity or new content. Use these examples as inspiration to create your own animated GIF's using GIFMaker, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Wonderment - Kidnected World
Grades
3 to 9tag(s): communication (129), cross cultural understanding (172), enrichment (12), gifted (66), listening (93), Problem Based Learning (12), problem solving (228), social media (48), social networking (61), social skills (22), speaking (26), sustainability (45)
In the Classroom
The Wonderment is a problem based learning adventure for each student around the world to communicate and collaborate with other students. This venue allows great lesson ideas for digital citizenship and digital footprints. Begin by choosing a path for the entire class and feature on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector. Have students work in small groups to choose their best response. Discussions can focus on creativity, problem solving, and collaboration between the group and others from around the world. In a gifted class, use as a way to challenge kids to break through the "right answer" and find the "best answer." Use this as a model for finding authentic needs in your community. Be sure to share a link to this tool on your class blog, website, or learning management system (LMS). Use this tool as the answer for the parents who always want more challenge and enrichment for their students at home. Be sure to share at a staff meeting to spread the wonder for other students and adults.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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New York Film Academy - How to do Stop Animation - New York Film Academy
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): assessment (143), digital storytelling (153), reading comprehension (149)
In the Classroom
Use stop motion animation as a new form of multimedia project for students to demonstrate their knowledge of the content, literature, and creativity. Use puppets, pictures, still photographs of people, Legos, or any other object to tell the story. Using any video recording device, incorporate with captions or sound to tell the story. In language arts, use SMA with retelling, alternate endings, students' writing, or commercials. In content area subjects use to demonstrate understanding of the topic with a digital story. Use as an alternate form of formative or summative assessment. Use as a journal for reflections. Offer as a choice for demonstrating knowledge. Put a link for these directions on your class webpage for students and parents to use at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Creative Educator - Tech4Learning
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (129), creativity (86), Teacher Utilities (183)
In the Classroom
Creative Educator, designed for teachers, helps you move past stale worksheets to get inspired! Be sure to look at this site to help you discover ways to integrate technology and creativity into lessons. Work with a partner to make the lessons fit in your situation. Share at staff meetings and offer new ideas. Look for ways to bring a new focus to your gifted students. Give as a resource to students, so they can choose a multimedia product to share the content knowledge they are learning. Once you and your students are familiar with the site use Padlet, reviewed here, to list out student interests. Then use Nearpod, reviewed here to assign lessons to groups with the same or similar interests. Older students, once they have determined their interests, can select their projects/lessons. After several selections, ask older students to choose the topic they were most interested in, find resources to learn more about the topic, then extend their learning by presenting their findings using a multimedia tool such as (click on the tool name to access the review): Canva Infographic Maker, Marq (formerly Lucidpress), Powtoon, and FlexClip.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Media History Digital Library - Media History Digital Library
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6 to 12tag(s): art history (99), media literacy (107), multimedia (51)
In the Classroom
Use Media History Digital Library in your classroom as a secondary resource to discover the culture and setting of a time period while studying literature or even through history classes. List the clues and details that provide further information. Analyze the article use and its influence on society by using close reading techniques. In a multimedia class, discover the history and progression of cinema, broadcasting, and sound. Use to discover the influence of critical world events such as world wars, depressions, economic influences, an industrial revolution, and more. Analyze the artistic changes throughout time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wimp - wimp.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (295), musical instruments (50), video (264)
In the Classroom
Bookmark Wimp as a resource for finding videos for lessons and activities. Share the direct link to individual videos on your class website or blog. To remove the distracting advertisements on video sharing sites and more, use a tool such as Clipchamp, reviewed here, or Watchkin, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Teacher Resources - Philadelphia Museum of Art
Grades
K to 12tag(s): art history (99), artists (83)
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Bookmark and save this site as a resource for art projects throughout the year, especially if budget cuts have taken away your art teacher! Use this site as a way to get students interested in art and its relationship with other subject areas and its relevance in our life.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Shape Collage - ShapeCollage, Inc.
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use Shape Collage to take a variety of images to make a collage. Use this tool to create pages of class memories for the end of the year and create yearbook type effects easily. Since you can create and customize the shapes, this would be a great tool to represent a theme for any story, novel, or unit of study.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Color Schemer - colorschemer.com
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K to 12tag(s): colors (64)
In the Classroom
After sharing and teaching students how to use this resource, create a link to the Color Schemer on your class web page for student use with projects, displays, and more. Share with your school's art teacher as an excellent resource for artwork.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Common Core Conversations - Kristina Holzweiss
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): commoncore (74)
In the Classroom
Common Core Conversations provides ideas and resources to assure your lessons contain Common Core Standards necessities. Investigate a resource for yourself every week or to share at your professional growth development. Be sure to document your new ideas under professional growth for your evaluation. When hosting professional growth development, begin here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Free Tiiu Pix - Tiiu Roiser
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): images (260), photography (121), slides (43)
In the Classroom
Bookmark Free Tiiu Pix to access images for any presentation. Create multimedia presentations for your subject or any presentation for staff or parents using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Be sure to share Free Tiiu Pix with other teachers on your campus.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Celebrating the Holidays with a Kid's Heart - Roxie Carroll - A Kids Heart
Grades
K to 4This site includes advertising.
tag(s): christmas (38), earth day (59), fall festival (6), hanukkah (12), holidays (185), july 4th (12), martin luther king (45), new years (5), preK (269), rosh hashanah (13), st patricks day (12), valentines day (11), yom kippur (15)
In the Classroom
Need to find quick activities for a special holiday in your class? Find ready-made activities to use during center time, class celebrations, or special reward time on your interactive whiteboard. After school programs can easily use activities for all different interests during holiday times.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Da Vinci - The Genius - The Museum of Science
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6 to 12tag(s): artists (83), inventors and inventions (80), italy (20), leonardo davinci (3), renaissance (38)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for use on your interactive whiteboard or with a projector. Explore the different portions together during your studies of the Renaissance, inventors, or artists such as Leonardo da Vinci. Share a link to this site on your class webpage for students to explore at home, or to use in your blended class activities. Add a link on classroom computers for use during computer centers. Have students replace paper and pen notes and take digital notes about what they are learnng using a tool like SimpleNote, reviewed here. Enhance students' learning by using Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about Leonardo da Vinci or other Renaissance artists. Extend student learning by challenging individuals and small groups to take one of the concepts they learned from Leonardo and apply it to something from today's world. Use a bulletin board tool like Lino, reviewed here, to record and save student ideas. With Lino you can create stickies with images, commenting, videos, and more. After individuals and small groups have devoloped their art, invention, etc., have them present their learning and their invention, art, etc. to peers using one of these multimedia tools: Click the tool name to access the review: Genially, Microsoft PowerPoint Online, Animatron, Renderforest, and Canva Inforgraphic Maker.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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