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Harmful soda - Term Life Insurance - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Flash Use this useful graphic to understand the many effects from drinking soda. Effects are explained and statistics are provided. An embed code is given to place the graphic directly into any site, blog, or wiki.
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Use as an introductory item to a unit on nutrition, health, or systems. Share the graphic on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Divide the issues depicted in the graphic among groups of students and provide time to find additional supporting resources to fact check statistics provided. Students can present their findings to the class as well as add more information for greater understanding. Have groups create interactive online posters ("glogs") using Glogster EDU, reviewed here. Expand the discussion to branch out to other types of food or dietary issues. For example, BPA is mentioned in the graphic. Students can search more information about BPA, its problems, and where it is found. Create different posters (or "glogs") to start an awareness campaign at school to change eating habits.

NEN Gallery - National Education Network - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Includes audio includes video Here is a copyright free gallery of over 50,000 high quality images, video clips, and audio files for the educational community. View the gallery online and download free files, without having to register or create an account. Registration is necessary for the uploading of files. Moderators review all content on the site before posting. Registered users can store content in separate online albums. Search the site's resources by keyword, subject, instructional age, or phrase. The site originates from the United Kingdom so you may notice some spelling differences from American English. The gallery files reflect this particular geographic location, history, culture and language.
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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.

Animoto for Education - Animoto Productions - Grades 8 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Flash Includes audio includes video Teacher's First Edge Review: for moderately adventurous technology users. This animation tool will help create a slide show with pizzazz. Add personal sounds, videos, and other media to create the next level of slide show for you classes. This tool is great for PC-based schools without access to other free video or multimedia creation software. The limitation of this site is the free portion limits enhanced slide shows to be only thirty seconds in length. However, a typical thirty second video requires twelve images which is a reasonable number for projects with middle and high school level students. The education version has some advantages: Use Animoto with all students simultaneously in class. Download created videos and share among other students in the class. There is also an upcoming feature of an Animoto application for iPhones. Here is a sample Animoto created by our review team:
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Skills needed: Sign up and request an educator account. Wait a few days for your verification email to arrive. Create a new account and enter the classroom code from the email in the promo/referral code box in the sign up form. Provide the classroom code to your students (13 and over) as they register for an account, as well. Do this to allow all your students access to Animoto at the same time. Redeem the class code for 6 months of educator access. Time run out? Simply renew for a new educator account.

Users need basic understanding of how to upload pictures, videos, and other media, especially for a user who wants to add their own content. You may also use stock images and media available through the site. (Our sample is made primarily of stock images.) To create a show, simply click on the create button and follow the onscreen instructions. If adding personal images and video, the program will allow searching through files. Add music from site bank or from personal music sources (copyright-free, of course). Finalize the video with the last click and view your video. It can then be shared easily from the codes or export tools provided.

Safety/Security Concerns: Note that students under 13 are not able to create their own accounts. Students must have individual accounts (email required). Check your school policies about accessing/sharing student email on school computers. You may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how. Samples provided on the website are fairly generic and safe to view by students. Students can log into social networking sites for photo sharing if it is allowed at your district. Once the iPhone application is available, monitor students closely with careful attention to the schools acceptable use and electronic device policies. Be sure that videos created in an educator account are kept private among those in the class. Manage the students' activity on animoto while students continue to have their own account.

Possible uses: Use this site to make commercials, science fair previews, and animated shorts in any content area. Have students make "advertisements" for an organism or a literary character. Make a travel commercial for a country being studied or for cultural sites in a world language class. Be sure to share the presentations on your projector or interactive whiteboard.

Online Personal Finance and Economics Game - Council for Economic Education - Grades 5 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Lesson idea Requires Flash Includes audio This online interactive personal finance game has students work their way through 15 personal finance missions. Within each 30-minute mission, students are asked to help someone solve a personal finance situation. Students create, choose teams and use online tools like the mission brief and geo-locator to help solve the mission.
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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.

Basic Intergenerational Financial Literacy - National Center for Family Literacy - Grades 2 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Lesson idea Requires Flash includes video This site provides tools for financial literacy including an introduction to basic financial ideas and vocabulary, budget decision practices, and ideas for including students in conversations about money. Although the page looks very text-heavy the linked activities are more interactive. Activities may be introduced at school but are well-suited for parents and students to do together at home.
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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.

The Story of Stuff - The Story of Stuff Project - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Acrobat Reader Requires Flash includes video The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute web cartoon that illustrates how all the "stuff" we use affects our lives and our planet. While the cartoon clearly has a liberal-leaning political agenda, that should not deter you from using it. In fact, asking students to point out its biases would be an important lesson in sorting out perspective in a persuasive argument. The site has recently added another cartoon dealing with the "cap and trade" energy issue, and promises future efforts focused on bottled water and electronics. The "downloads" tab offers PDF versions of the script, posters and other promotional material, and short teaser video clips of the film.
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Useful in classes on economics, ecology, consumer living, sociology or current events, the film would provide a wonderful discuss lead-in on topics ranging from consumer decision making to the environment. Because the site operates under the "Creative Commons" copyright agreement, you can download your own copy of the film for educational use or order a DVD copy.

Financial Football - Ulsa, Inc. - Grades 8 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Lesson idea Help teens understand practical money skills using the interactive game of Financial Football. Teaching Modules include Fundamentals of Investment, Strength Training (Savings and Interest), Defensive Spending, and The Game Plan (budgeting). Complete pdf teaching information is available for each module. Launch the game and get fired up for financial well-being, complete with theme music!
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Plan your financial unit to coincide with the SuperBowl or the opening of NFL football, then use these ready-made activities to train better consumers and money managers. As they do the activities and learn, challenge your sports-minded groups to write up an illustrated financial game plan on Glogster EDU, reviewed here. Imagine all the X's and O's! The less grid-oriented might to opt for creating an illustrated financial planbook using Bookemon, reviewed here.

Moviesheets - Christopher Sheehan - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Acrobat Reader Requires Flash Includes audio includes video Use this database to find teacher created sheets that follow movies shown in the classroom. Provide a change of pace for your students by using different questioning to challenge them. Be sure to preview, as this collection is only as good as the materials submitted. Check with your administration on rules for using "home videos" as they can be a violation of licensing or deemed inappropriate. Even though videos appear here, they may not be educationally appropriate. Be sure to check out the notices at the start of any "entertainment" video to be sure of legality. Keep in mind that these worksheets should not replace good interactive and thought provoking activities. Be sure to use other means to involve students in thought and action beyond the worksheets themselves. Find worksheets in either PDF or Word formats.
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Use the worksheets to get students thinking about the science (or math, or other subjects) beyond these videos. Encourage students to create their own questions from the movie (reminding them of the relevance to your subject area) and choose the best worksheets to use and submit. Require students to add additional questions that are thought provoking and tied to the content for additional consideration. Use questions that go beyond factual recall to tie concepts together, explain phenomena, or uncover misconceptions. Continue discussion of concepts further than the paper through open discussion or blog posting. Rather than creating a worksheet, have your students create an interactive online poster ("glog") using Glogster EDU, reviewed here.

Nutrition explorations - National Dairy Council - Grades 2 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Flash Includes audio Find activities, nutritional information, recipes, physical activity ideas, and more at this colorful and interactive site. Click on ”Nutrition” to tour the food groups, learn how much you should eat, and more. At the “Activities” link you will find several action packed “nutrition” interactives. Don’t miss the “Kids Kitchen” to find some excellent (healthy) recipes.
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Allow students to try the activities and collect the information learned for discussion in class. Create conventional or multimedia posters about nutritional facts that others may not be aware of. Use an online poster creator, such as Wallwisher, (reviewed here) or Glogster, (reviewed here). Analyze current diets of students with what is recommended. Analyze commercials for foods for truth and untruth to learn to make good choices. Set goals for a nutrition campaign in your classroom.

Sugar stacks - sugarstacks.com - Grades 2 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Confused about what the sugar content is in foods? Compare the sugar amounts visually using this fun resource. Pictures show the item, amount of corresponding sugar cubes stacked in front as well as the nutrition label amount for that item. Choose other categories of foods below to make additional comparisons. New features such as holiday meals are also seen on the site. There are snacks, beverages, candy, breakfast foods, vegetables, and more. Use the form along the bottom to comment and make suggestions.
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Assign students to research different types of foods to compare sugar amounts. Have students use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here) to compare various foods. Use this prior to a discussion of nutrition, biomolecules, or how the body uses food as fuel. Have students work cooperatively and discuss their observations with the rest of the class. Consider determining the ratio of grams to number of sugar cubes, investigating, and then creating a class set of food and sugar cube pictures. Use this graphic way to explain the concept of proportion in a very concrete way as you teach it in math class. Use student ideas to create other visual images to drive home nutritional messages to others.

Build A Cell Phone - Edheads - Grades 5 to 10 - permalink -      Share

Requires Flash Includes audio includes video This site challenges students to engineer cell phones to market to senior citizens based on research about their needs. It is a very interactive, five part activity that explains the objective of the activity, the research on the market, includes a design lab to create the new cell phone, and test survey results with "individual senior interviews." There is some humor to the site, and the interviews, though with cartoon seniors, are entertaining and informative. The site is dynamic with the interviewee's responses after the design is altered. Students learn to research and design for a real world task.
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Try using this activity as an alternative to product design or in conjunction with product or machine design in science or technology education courses or as part of a STEM program. Also, business and marketing courses could make use of this activity. After completing the activity, have students create multimedia projects presenting their findings or advertising their new product. Have students use an online poster creator, such as Wallwisher, (reviewed here). Or have students create a video to share with the class using a tool such as TeacherTube reviewed here.

coolfood - European Food Information Council (EUFIC) - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Lesson idea Requires Flash Includes audio This European site features nutrition information in interactive format for two age groups: Kidz (ages 6-12) and ADOZ (ages 13-19). The KIDZ area features topics such as "Brain Food," "Nutrition Quiz," "Body Fit," "Safe Food," and "What's a Label?" The ADOZ section delves deeper into the same topics and more, including "Emotions and Eating" and "Food Myths." The nutrition information included in the site is from EUFIC but closely parallels comparable literature from the USDA and other US agencies. There is a "School and Parents" section with teacher's guides and background information about the site. You may want to turn down your speakers to avoid the intro music in each area. If you have speakers of European languages other than English, return to the coolfood home to select a different "flag" for another language.
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Share the interactive quizzes and activities on an interactive whiteboard or projector to spark interest and assess prior knowledge at the start of your nutrition unit. Have student groups investigate food myths, facts, and more, then create their own online "Infoodmation" posters using a tool such as Glogster, reviewed here. Or have students create visual menus for balanced eating on a class wiki. Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries – check out the Teacher’s First Wiki Walk-Through reviewed here.

Glogster EDU - Glogster - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Flash TeachersFirst Edge Entry: For moderately adventurous technology users (teachers) and most student users (with significant help in primary grades). Glogster EDU is a tool to create online multimedia "posters" that can incorporate all types of elements into a visual space: links, images, text, videos, music, and more. Your students will have multiple ways to express themselves and to learn from each other, making it easy for you to differentiate and engage each student.

The ad-free EDU community offered by Glogster is designed to alleviate the problems of inappropriate content and contact with "outsiders" not welcome in your class' electronic community. The EDU area provides classes advertising-free glogs and easy teacher monitoring of student work. Students can comment and interact within a "gated community" with education-friendly options for collaboration and learning. Remember those "All About Me" posters you used to make during the first month of school, or science fair stand-up tri-folds, or magic-marker-drawn visual aids for speeches? Translate 20th century "visuals" into the 21st century using Glogster EDU, extending your students' intellectual reach and mastering the media to incorporate new technologies and richer messages. Here is an example glog created by the TeachersFirst Edge team.
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Skills needed: Join the site (free). Premium service is available, but this review is for the free version. Registration requires teacher email. Once registered and confirmed by email, teachers can establish up to 200 student accounts without student emails. Take time to view "new glogs" within the EDU area to get some ideas. Skip making a profile, if you wish.

You can learn all about Glogster EDU and see student examples by scrolling down the home page to "Students Work," a collection of great videos (click the screens to play), and "Educational Resources." Don't miss several teacher-friendly, step by step tutorials in print and multimedia formats.

If you prefer to simply play, start by creating a glog to try out the tools (don't forget to name it). Keep it simple or add all the bells and whistles. Preview as you work or return later to complete and publish your Glog. Add ready-made graphics, images from files on your computer or by URL on the web, links (hyperlinked from text or other objects), text boxes or bubbles, backgrounds ("walls"), animated graphics ("vinyl and toys"), recorded audio, embedded video from SchoolTube or TeacherTube, uploaded media file, and much more. You can also "grab" video or audio from your computer's webcam and mike. [Our editors had some trouble "grabbing" video from a Mac using Firefox, so TEST in advance. A very responsive Glogster EDU tech crew tells us they are working to correct that glitch.]

Of course you will want to model and teach appropriate documentation of any sources of images and media you use and to use copyrighted works legally. If you limit access to your class only by keeping a glog "private," you can use copyrighted materials under Fair Use. YOU must limit the distribution of the URL, however.

When you are done working, decide whether the glog is "unfinished" or "finished" (and published), and decide whether it will be public or not. Share finished work with "friends" (classmates) in the Glogster EDU area or via URL and other social networking tools. You can access ALL your glogs and your students' glogs from your teacher dashboard, including the glog URLs. You can embed a glog in your class wiki or blog, making it easy to "collect" student glogs in one place. Watch the tutorials on embedding so you can learn how to adjust the size of the embed window and which codes work best for wikispaces.

Safety/security concerns: Check school policies about posting student work on the web. Obtain written permission and notify parents about your exciting Glogster projects so you can share with them. Have specific rules about using social networking tools through Glogster, especially about "friend" and profile features available at log-in. EDU glogs are automatically "private." Teachers have access to see and administer student passwords (great for forgetful students!). Free accounts have "gobbledegook" user names for students, so keep a cheat sheet to help students log in with these odd "names." You have the choice to make student glogs "Unfinished private" - only teacher and creating student can see, "Finished Private" - only teacher and all students within classroom can see, and "Public" for all to see.

Possible uses: (in addition to those shown in the sample glog here) "visual essays;" digital biodiversity logs (with digital pictures students take); online literary magazines; personal reflections in images and text; research project presentations; comparisons of online content, such as political candidates' sites or content sites used in research (compared for bias); documenting science experiments or illustrating concepts, such as the water cycle; "Visual" lab reports; Digital scrapbooks using images from the public domain and video and audio clips from a time in history -- such as the Roaring Twenties; Local history features; visual interpretations of major concepts, such as a "visual" U.S. Constitution. Build a library of sample Glogs by you or by former students, then ask students to create their own as a new way to assess understanding: you could even provide links to images and raw materials they may use (especially if you have students who need extra scaffolding), and they can work with them to sequence, caption, and write about the pieces. After a first project where you possibly suggest "building blocks," the sky is the limit on what they can do. Even the very young can make suggestions as you "create" a whole-class glog together using an interactive whiteboard. Consider making a new project for each unit you teach so students can "recap" by visiting the glog long after the unit ends. Save student glogs from year to year as examples, possibly even awarding prizes for "best" examples. Have upper elementary or middle school students create "glogs for understanding" for "little buddies" two or three grades lower.

Shmoop US History, American History - Shmoop - Grades 9 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Lesson idea Useful for either teachers or students, Shmoop is a virtual cram session on a variety of topics. In this history section, choose a time period and you get a tabbed overview of the era including a quick review, a more in-depth coverage, a timeline, important people, fun facts, web links, and a test review. There are featured stories, Hot Topics, and study guides. It's all written in a breezy, accessible style that students will appreciate, but it's not superficial.
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Students will love this site for reviewing and preparing for exams. Share this link on your class website for students to access both in and out of the classroom. Take advantage of the FREE study guides. Why not have cooperative learning groups investigate specific topics relative to your current unit of study and create multimedia presentation. Create podcasts, using a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here). Have students create a Voicethread reviewed here. This site allows you to narrate a picture. Challenge students to find a photo (legally permitted to be reproduced), and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report about the event or topic.

Teachers can also use this site to differentiate between the typical lectures used to teach a US history project. Use the images on this site to create a "picture walk" in your classroom, introducing any one of the topics offered. Select 10-15 of the more powerful and diverse images, hanging them up in different locations around your classroom. Have students rotate around the classroom every 30-45 seconds, jotting down what they observe and infer about each image until the entire class has completed the circuit. After the class is back in their seats, have a class discussion based on what they observed and what this says about the topic.

Fine Tuna - Spoiltchild Design - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Teachers First Edge review: for ANY user able to COPY and PASTE a URL. Add annotations to ANY image and share the combined image and notes by URL using this simple online tool. Imagine being able to comment on an advertisement image, critique a work of art, or even explain propaganda techniques found in online images or sales sites. You can upload an image (such as a shot from a digital camera) or use one already on the web. Help develop students' critical eye by using this tool and sharing the annotated images by email or by URL. Here is a sample annotated web image created by the TeachersFirst editors. Recipients of shared images can reply and add comments of their own. Students can also use this on their own to make comments or reminders on images, useful for studying on their own!
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No membership required. No special skills needed except knowing how to find an image on your computer for upload or how to find the URL of a web image. Just RIGHT-click the web image to find its direct URL ("Properties,""Get info," or "copy image location," depending on your computer). COPY (CTRL+C) the URL, and you are ready to paste it (CTRL+V) into Fine Tuna to add your commentary. Be sure to SAVE each addition, whether note, insert, or drawing element, then click "Send for review" to email or copy the exact URL. Tip: Be SURE to save completed URLs for finished work into a document or mark them in favorites for later access. It may be wise to also email them to yourself (or the teacher). Once you share and close the image, the only way to "find" that URL is in the web browser history on the computer where you viewed it (IF you can find it!).

Safety: The only safety concern is that you should NOT label photos with identifiable information. The site does not require a membership, and the URLs of images you have annotated are not publicly available.

Possible uses: Use this site as an extension activity after performing class critiques of images on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students find examples of different propaganda techniques in images, annotate them, and share the "fine tuna-ed" images on a class wiki or submit them as homework via email. Isolate design elements or techniques in works of fine art, discuss composition of your own photos, or even annotate digital pictures of local historic sites. Imagine labeling the architecture of your courthouse or the parts of your school garden photos. With younger students, annotate an image together a few times until they are ready to use the tool in small groups. Your younger students will also want to use the "notes" as voice bubbles for the people in images to "talk." What a great way to teach punctuation of quotations! Art classes can also use Fine Tuna for collaborative critiques of art works in progress. Shoot a quick digital picture for upload and share for classmates to offer commentary and suggestions from any computer. Make "critique day" an ongoing experience!

Tramline Virtual Field Trips - Tramline - Grades 1 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Acrobat Reader Lesson idea Aligns to Standards This website is dedicated to delivering a variety of virtual field trips. The trips are listed by content. Each trip contains objectives, concepts, and terms to know. There are lesson plans linked in the Teacher Resource section of the page, and extra information on the topic. The trips themselves are a lot like guided web quests. The websites that are used in the field trips show good variety. And standards are even provided! The trips include grade levels. Examples of topics include hurricanes, dinosaurs, deserts, natural wonders, dark ages, and American Presidency.
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Virtual field trips from this website could be used on the interactive whiteboard or projector as a whole class activity. A better use could be to create a question sheet that mirrors the trip and have students work through the field trip at their own pace in lab, either with partners or individually. Follow up by challenging student groups to create an interactive guidebook to their topic using a tool such as Bookemon, reviewed here. With younger students, make a class book together.

My Safe Home - Home Safety Council - Grades 3 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Flash Includes audio Learn about safety hazards throughout the home. View sections of the house such as Kitchen, Hallway, Pool and Spa, or Backyard. In each section, find safety concerns for Falls, Poisoning, Burns, Fires, Suffocation, and Electric Shock. Each concern contains an audio file and/or written information to outline the danger.
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This site is a terrific find for your safety unit or safety week. Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Or have cooperative learning groups investigate specific rooms together. Students can use this information to determine common household dangers. Students can use the information to create a visual or interactive online display of safety information. Use the information to create public service announcements, newsletters, or a mini lesson to present to the class, other classes, or parent groups. Have students create infomercials to share with the class using a tool such as SchoolTube reviewed here.

WordSearchFun.com - WordSearchFun.com - Grades 3 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Use this site to find some GREAT word searches that are ready to go! Whatever topic you are looking for, you just might find a word search here. If you can't find one, make your OWN ONLINE word search. What a fantastic tool to use and/or create in any subject!
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Share the relevant word searches on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have cooperative learning groups practice spelling or vocabulary words by creating their own word search. List this site on your class website for students to use both in and out of the classroom. This is a great one for those word search lovers in your class. Why not have students use a whole-class account to make their own word searches to challenge each other with new vocabulary and terms?

CareerZone Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Department of Education - Grades 7 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Requires Flash This website offers a fairly comprehensive like/dislike work personality profile. (There are other quizzes and occupation information available at the homepage). It is a very long survey (180 questions at the time of this review), but it can be saved in process which is a very helpful feature. Students answer simply “like,” “dislike,” or “not sure.” Once the profile is completed, an interest profile is developed and the meanings of the interests can be referenced in the first type of assessment. Jobs that are highly related to the individuals’ interest profile are linked here. The specific occupations are linked to information on the career including descriptions, education requirements, experience and skills needed to perform the job. Also, basic career information is also available by search without doing the interest assessment.
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This site could be applied to any course. It could be invaluable to guidance classes, family and consumer sciences, and business courses. This would be a great introductory lab for any of those classes as well as others. Demonstrate on an interactive whiteboard or projector and then have students work on individual computers to take the survey. Have students access the site and complete the survey and do a simple research into three different possibilities. Then have students reflect on the careers that surprised them as well as the ones with which they thought they would want to do. Have students create “a day in the life” blog entries related to a day on the job of one of the careers suited for them.

The Science of Cooking - Edinformatics.com - Grades 7 to 12 - permalink -      Share

Interested in the chemical changes that occur during cooking? Have food related cooking questions? Find your answer here on this free site. Learn proper food cooking techniques and identify the science behind them. Teachers should caution students to ignore the ads along the margin of the site.
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Identify the various techniques and science behind them. For example, browning meat is called the Malliard reaction. Understanding why this brings out the best flavor in the meat is interesting. Learn about sugar substitutes, its use in cooking, and relationship to flavor. Identify taste and how we are able to sense tastes at the molecular level. Follow discussion of techniques with actual use of the technique and resultant taste tests. During a cooking lesson, why not have cooperative learning groups try something they learned? Video their “experiment” and share with the class (and parents) using a tool such as TeacherTube reviewed here.

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