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April 2008
Room 108 Teacher Resources
by knann
Fun interactives for science,social studies, and more. If you see something you want linked directly for students, let me know.
January 2008
Resource: Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices
by knann
Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages
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December 2007
Word Magnets
by knann
(via)
Quick and easy online tool for working with words and sentence structure. Easily adaptable to other activities as well.
November 2007
Google Earth: Creating KML From a Spreadsheet
by knann
(via)
Using Google Spreadsheets to create KML files (placemarks)
Requirements: a Google Account, images stored online (you must know the url), and the starter spreadsheet provided with this tutorial.
October 2007
Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab
by knann
& 4 others
Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. We’ve provided a set of ready-made guides which you can print out or use online. All of the guides are completely customizable or you can start from scratch and make your own! You can share them and work on them in groups too.
With Exploratree you can:
Use our ready-made thinking guides
Make a new thinking guide from scratch
Use it to set class projects
Print them out (they can go as big as A0)
Change and customise thinking guides, you can add or change text, shapes, images etc.
As a teacher, you can set up the sequence that you want the thinking guide to be revealed, so that you can stage the thinking activity
You can fill in a thinking guide and complete your project on the website
You can present your project
You can send your thinking guide to a whole group of people
You can submit a thinking guide for comments, so it can't be edited but just reviewed
Work in groups on the same thinking guide
Planets, Moons, and their Darksides
by knann
(via)
The activities will enable the teacher to:
position the nine planets interactively
demonstrate the phases of the moon
show that the moon orbits the Earth roughly every 28 days
illustrate to pupils that the Earth spins on its own axis
show that day and night are related to the Earth's rotation
Crickweb | Welcome to Crickweb
by knann
Great set of interactive resources for use with a whiteboard or projector. Ages 4-11
Planets in Our Solar System
by knann
& 1 other
(via)
Webquest for third grade. One or two links do not work.
Kidspiration Activities & Lesson Plans - North Canton City Schools
by knann
(via)
North Canton City Schools elementary teachers explored ways to integrate visual learning and thinking skills into their curriculum areas during a Professional Development study group. After becoming comfortable with Kidspiration, they created lessons and concept maps for their classes. These lessons are showcased to be used as a resource for educators. Please feel free to download the files and use with your students.
CLEO - Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online
by knann
Amazing set of resources from Great Britain for k-12
disposableWebPage.com
by knann
Disposable Web Page is now here! You can create a disposable web page with as little effort as a few key strokes and start right away at filling up the page with the content you want. Disposable web page offers you the convenience and freedom of getting information out there on the internet with as little hassle as can be. Why is it call disposableWebPage?
Each disposable webpage has a count down clock. You can set this clock to count down anywhere from 90 days to 0 days from the time the page is created. When the remaining time reaches 00:00:00:00, the page is automatically set for disposal and will exist for 2 more weeks before it gets incinerated.
Learning Flash MX for Teachers
by knann
Do you match this description?
You have been using PowerPoint in your lessons and feel that you have pretty well mastered it.
You are starting to feel limited by the way that PowerPoint works and you want to take more control over the way that objects are animated.
You have seen flash animations and games on the internet and want to have a go.
You haven't really got much of a life and think that staring at a laptop screen all weekend is fun.
Quiz-Busters
by knann
Quiz-Busters is an interactive quiz for two teams based on the popular television quiz program Blockbusters. The resource is designed to be used on an interactive whiteboard as a teacher led activity but can be played by individual students. Hopefully you and your students will find this a fun alternative to traditional question and answerquizzes and can actively contribute to Assessment for Learning (AFL).
Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration: Monarch Butterfly
by knann
& 1 other
Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children. The general public is welcome to participate.
The Reef Scene Builder
by knann
(via)
Easy to use tool to build an underwater scene. Save picture and download to print or use on your website. Could be used with a unit on the ocean or for a writing prompt.
September 2007
Planet Image Cards
by knann
Perfect images for the Size and Distance Activity located here: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/activity_10.html
Carl's Corner
by knann
Amazing site for K-2 teachers. Topics too numerous to list. Use the left side menu. Loads of printables for your classroom.
Math Slice!
by knann
Online interactive math games and challenges. Teachers can generate worksheets and print as a PDF for saving.
Make your own comic with MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages
by knann
Looking for an alternative to a quiz or an assignment of boring vocabulary definitions written on notebook paper? Trying to find a way to prompt students to write even short passages? Trying to teach simple dialog to ESL/ELL students? Working on appropriate language and interpersonal skills with emotional support students? Looking for a creative way to make clever newsletter additions, bulletin board items, or class rules? Use this great online tool for both students and teachers to create web-based or printed comic strips from a selection of characters and voice bubbles-- and with your OWN text!
NOAA Ocean Explorer
by knann
Find multimedia resources such as video, podcasts, photos and over 240 lesson plans for grades 5-12.
Post Lecture Notes Online for Free with LectureShare - LectureShare
by knann
This is a free and easy site for teachers to post work online. Create a course page quickly, add announcements, upload docs, video and audio. Students enroll and decide how they want to receive the info.
