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Year-End Roundup, 2016-2017: Questions for Writing and Discussion - New York Times/The Learning Network
Grades
7 to 12
tag(s): debate (39), persuasive writing (50), process writing (34), writers workshop (30), writing (309)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a resource for writing prompts, current events discussions, or as a springboard to debate topics. Before writing, encourage students to research their topic and take notes. Use an online note-taking site like Google Keep, reviewed here, to save and share notes. Have students share their completed projects in a blog and ask for feedback from their peers using Telegra.ph, reviewed here. There is no registration with Telegra.ph and you just click on an icon to upload images from your computer, add YouTube or Vimeo links. Take completed writing projects one step further and ask students to create a Odyssey, reviewed here. Odyssey offers the ability to tell a story through interactive maps including video, images, and more.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Rainforest Animals - Enchanted Learning
Grades
K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animal homes (53), animals (275), biomes (96), rainforests (17)
In the Classroom
Share this site on classroom computers for students to explore and learn about the variety of animals found in the rainforest. Use the information on the site as a starting point for research projects on animals and the rainforest. Have students keep a digital portfolio of resources using Spaces, reviewed here. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create informational videos sharing their research using a tool like Clipchamp, reviewed here. Then share them on a site such as TeacherTube, reviewed here. Consider creating groups for different animal classifications, such as birds or insects, to create the videos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World Biomes: Rainforest - Kids Do Ecology
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): animal homes (53), animals (275), biomes (96), climate (101), plants (143), rainforests (17)
In the Classroom
Include this site with resources for your unit on biomes. Share with students as an introduction to the two types of rainforest biomes, then have them research further information. Be sure to check out TeachersFirst interactive Biomes of the World Unit. This is an online research project for elementary and middle school students. Have students create an annotated image including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Image Annotator, reviewed here, to demonstrate different components within the rainforest.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Why Do Leaves Change Color? - Environmental Education for Kids
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Include this site on classroom computers and your class website for students to explore on their own. Use an online flashcard maker, like Flashcard Stash, reviewed here, to practice science vocabulary terms related to changing leaf colors. Have students take pictures each day of leaves near your classroom or their homes. Enhance learning by challenging students to create online collages with these images using a site such as Photo Joiner Collage Maker, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Savanna Biomes - Blue Planet Biomes
Grades
4 to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (275), biomes (96), habitats (105), plants (143)
In the Classroom
This is an online research project for elementary and middle school students. Use an online tool such as the Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here, to create a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast features of different biomes. Be sure to check TeachersFirst's interactive Biomes of the World Unit.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Prairie: Introduction - Illinois State Museum
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): animals (275), biomes (96), habitats (105), plants (143), prairie (4)
In the Classroom
Include information from this site with your other resources when teaching about biomes or states. Include a link to the site on your class webpage for students to use when researching information about prairies. Have students create a simple infographic about prairies sharing their findings using Canva Infographic Maker, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Chaparral Biome - Blue Planet Biomes
Grades
3 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animal homes (53), biomes (96), habitats (105), plants (143)
In the Classroom
Include this site with your biome unit. Be sure to check out TeachersFirst interactive Biomes of the World Unit. This is an online research project for elementary and middle school students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Chaparral Animal Printouts - Enchanted Learning
Grades
K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animal homes (53), animals (275), biomes (96), habitats (105)
In the Classroom
Have students create maps locating chaparals and animals from around the world using Google My Maps, reviewed here. Use an online poster creator, such as Padlet, reviewed here, to create posters with animal facts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sonoran Desert Seek and Find - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Grades
K to 6tag(s): animal homes (53), animals (275), deserts (20)
In the Classroom
Share with younger students on an interactive whiteboard before asking students to explore on their own. The mouse needs to be placed in a certain area for each image before the caption appears. After exploring the site, have students choose and research an animal then create an online interactive poster individually or together as a class using a tool such as Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here, or PicLits, reviewed here. Have students use a mapping tool such as Zeemaps, reviewed here, to create a map of local landmarks (with audio stories and pictures included)!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Biomes of the World - Arizona State University School of Life Sciences
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): biomes (96), deserts (20), forests (31), oceans (143), rainforests (17), rivers (16), tundra (13)
In the Classroom
Have cooperative learning groups create podcasts describing each different biome using the scientist's audio from the site as a model. Use a site such as Adobe Podcast, reviewed here. Have students use a mapping tool such as Zeemaps, reviewed here, to create a map of biomes from around the world (or country) with audio stories and pictures included!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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How to Deliver a World Class Presentation - Malcolm Andrews
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): infographics (70), speaking (22), speeches (22)
In the Classroom
Share this infographic with students before class presentations. Include it on your website for reference throughout the year. After class presentations, have students reflect on what they learned through the speech creating and presenting process and ask them to think about what they would do differently next time. Ask students to write a rough draft script for what they want to say (be sure to have them state what they would do differently next time). Then use a tool such as ScreenPal, reviewed here. This wrap-up for your assignment will help students internalize what they've learned about giving a presentation. Challenge students to create an infographic for something they do well academically, i.e. test taking and studying, writing up labs or research reports, etc. Use a tool such as Infogram, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Biome Challenge - Diana Dell
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): assessment (144), biomes (96), ecosystems (105), game based learning (304)
In the Classroom
Use this site as either an activator to assess what students know about biomes or as a review tool to assess what needs practice before an exam. Have students complete the activity individually on classroom computers, either simultaneously or as a learning center or station. Be sure to post the site on your teacher wiki or webpage, too, so students can review it before an assessment, both in and out of the classroom. Have students create their own quizzes using Quia or another quiz creation site such as Bamboozle, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Biomes Jeopardy Review Game - SuperTeacherTools
Grades
5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): assessment (144), biomes (96), game based learning (304)
In the Classroom
Use this game as a quick assessment of prior knowledge at the beginning of your biome unit. Share a link on classroom computers and your website for students to play on their own to review concepts. Have students create their own Jeopardy game using Classroom Jeopardy, reviewed here to share and review facts before a unit test on any topic.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WordMint - Nathaniel Story
Grades
K to 12tag(s): crosswords (21), game based learning (304), puzzles (163)
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Create puzzles and activities to review spelling or vocabulary terms. Create bingo cards and use as an introduction to new concepts. Share a link to this site on your class website for students to create their own puzzles for review at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Poki Educational Games - Poki
Grades
K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): game based learning (304), logic (166), problem solving (275)
In the Classroom
Share links to games on classroom computers and your class website. Share with parents for practice at home. Use Dotstorming, reviewed here to survey students to see which of several games was a favorite. With Dotstorming students are allowed to vote and make comments. After voting, challenge students to create their own game, similar to the one voted most popular using a tool such as Scratch, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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LOOPY - Nick Case
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Share LOOPY with students then have them explore the features included on the shared models. LOOPY would work well in classes with gifted students as an exploration project of different cause and effect relationship influences. Use the embed code to share student examples and explanations on your class website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips - Discovery Education
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K to 12tag(s): agriculture (54), animals (275), careers (196), constitution (103), design (76), energy (139), england (51), explorers (65), holocaust (41), lincoln (67), nutrition (135), pi (26), planets (123), shakespeare (98), spain (13), STEM (370), virtual field trips (139), weather (177)
In the Classroom
Immerse your students into your studies with a close-up in-depth look through virtual field trips. Visit places where time, money, and mileage inhibit your dreams for bringing your students into wondrous worlds. Find ways to visit where your class has never gone before. Find ways to motivate your most reluctant learners. ENL/ESL learners will appreciate the visit. Reach all types of learners through a class visit. Use field trips as a whole class anticipatory guide, a center activity, a home connection, or even as extra credit. Challenge your gifted students to be guides in their own learning by choosing topics of interest. Then transform their learning and ask these students to share research findings in a video with discussion questions to go with the research and with links to outside resources using a tool such as Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here. Be sure students create a script to read from before beginning to produce their own video.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pickit - Microsoft
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use Pickit in your Microsoft classroom as a resource for free images for presentations, reports, and writing projects. Once downloaded, share with students how to access and find images. Use images to add interest to your class website, newsletters, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Spotify for Podcasters - Michael Mignano and Nir Zicherman
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): communication (121), DAT device agnostic tool (129), digital storytelling (166), podcasts (163)
In the Classroom
Create regular or special podcasts to share on your class web page or wiki. Looking for even more ideas? Record class assignments or directions. Record story time or a reading excerpt for younger ones to listen to at a computer center AND from home, adding a touch of blended learning to your classroom! Have readers (perhaps older buddies) enhance their understanding and build fluency by recording selected passages for your non-readers. Launch a service project for your fifth or sixth-graders to record stories for the kindergarten to use in their reading and listening center. Challenge students to create "you are there" recordings as "eyewitnesses" to historical or current events. Make a weekly class podcast, with students taking turns writing and sharing the "Class News," encourage and extend learning, and have students create radio advertisements for concepts studied in class (Buy Dynamic DNA!). Invite students to write and record their own stories or poetry in dramatic readings. Language students or beginning readers could record their fluency by reading passages. Allow parents to hear their child's progress reading aloud, etc. Compare world language, speech articulation, or reading fluency at two points during the year. Challenge your Shakespeare students to record a soliloquy. Write and record a poem for Father's or Mother's Day (or other special events) and send the URL as a gift to that special person. If you have gifted students who lean toward the dramatic, this tool is simple enough for them to create dramatic mini-casts without needing any additional tools.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)
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Sketchboard - sketchboard.io
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Allow students to create collaborative drawings as responses to literature. They can map out the plot or themes, add labels, create character studies, and more. Share the finished products on an interactive whiteboard, projector, or your class website. Have a group of students create a drawing so that another group can use it as a writing prompt. Use a board as a brainstorming or sketching space as groups (or the class) share ideas for a major project or for solving a real-world problem. Use this tool with students in a computer lab (or on laptops) to create a drawing of the setting in a story as it is read aloud. As an assessment idea, have students draw out a simple cartoon with stick figures to explain a more complex process such as how democracy works. If you are lucky enough to teach in a BYOD setting, use Sketchboard to demonstrate and illustrate any concept while students use the chat and drawing tools to interact in real time. If you are studying weather, have students diagram the layers of the atmosphere and what happens during a thunderstorm, for example. Introduce this tool to students who are working on group projects. Alternatively, have students use this to work as partners or as a small team to complete complex math problems or equations. Give students a problem by typing it on their board.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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