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Hyperphysics - Georgia State University
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10 to 12
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Find comprehensive information about any physics topic on this site. Information is creatively linked and is portrayed as a concept map to organize and identify relationships among...more
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Find comprehensive information about any physics topic on this site. Information is creatively linked and is portrayed as a concept map to organize and identify relationships among concepts. View tutorials and related information. View an extensive index of topics along the right hand side of the site.
tag(s): tutorials (50)
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Chalkbored - Jeremy Schneider
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9 to 12
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"Chalkbored" is an amazingly free resource for eleventh and twelfth grade chemistry classes. Lessons are organized into units such as Matter and Chemical Bonding, Chemical Reactions,...more
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"Chalkbored" is an amazingly free resource for eleventh and twelfth grade chemistry classes. Lessons are organized into units such as Matter and Chemical Bonding, Chemical Reactions, and Hydrocarbons and Energy. There is an easy to follow key for what is offered with each lesson. PowerPoint presentations, printable worksheets, and accompanying experiments. This would be great for a beginner teacher of high school chemistry or for an experienced professional who would like to try out different things. Please be aware that this website is written by one author who has some strong beliefs about/against traditional education. However, the content of the website is far valuable and it certainly is worth taking a look.
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tag(s): elements (32), experiments (65), periodic table (49), printables (35)
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This resource would be wonderful for an online chemistry course. The PowerPoint presentations could be uploaded and shared with students. The students could view them on their own time, taking time to properly digest the information. In a traditional classroom setting, pick and choose some presentations to share with your students. Try an associated lab in chemistry. The module is meant to make science easier on the paperwork end of things and more engaging with the hands-on activities.
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Space Science - European Space Agency
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K to 12
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Find great images, links, and articles about the sun and Space on this interesting site. View a variety of different multimedia including videos, images (including high resolution,)...more
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Find great images, links, and articles about the sun and Space on this interesting site. View a variety of different multimedia including videos, images (including high resolution,) animations, sounds from space, and downloads. Find resources for further information as well as information about space missions. View and read related articles for a better understanding of current understandings of space objects. Also offered on the site is a free download of the JHelioviewer for learning more and exploring the Sun. This visualization tool developed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center allows everyone to understand more about the Sun by enabling you to bring up images of the Sun from the past 15 years. Create your own movies of the Sun or change the color of the images. Export your finished movies to view in a variety of formats. This open source downloaded program is virus/spam free and requires Java to operate.
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Learn about the Sun using JHelioviewer. Create mashups of Sun images and learn more about the resource that provides the Earth with energy. Use the resources on this site to learn more about concepts and objects found in space. Use this site to ask questions that can be a springboard for further research and projects either by individual students or groups. Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and use it as a center. The text portions are challenging, so you should pair weaker readers with a partner as they research on this site. Have cooperative learning groups create podcasts demonstrating their understanding of one of the concepts. Use a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here). 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). Use an online poster creator, such as Padlet (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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History of Vaccines - College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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8 to 12
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This site includes fascinating, interactives that feature diseases and interesting stories about their preventions, results, and perceptions from the 15th century to the present. Other...more
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This site includes fascinating, interactives that feature diseases and interesting stories about their preventions, results, and perceptions from the 15th century to the present. Other timelines focus on scientists involved in disease prevention, and also timelines on how science interacted with disease to improve people's lifespans and lives. Related articles, activities, and great photos support the events of the timelines. Four lesson plans for teachers accompany features of each of the time lines.
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This site is ideal for an interactive whiteboard or projector. Have the students open the site and use the whiteboard tools to do a general overview of the history of vaccines. Students can then select specific areas of interest and go to the articles section to get more information on areas of their choice. Enhance learning by having students create an online poster project combining information from here and from their own research using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here), or PicLits, reviewed here, or modify learning by asking students create their own interactive timelines using a site such as Sutori, reviewed here, that can include images, text, and collaboration.
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Ptable - Dynamic Periodic Table - Michael Dayah
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9 to 12
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Looking for an Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements? Use this free tool as one of the most customizable and interactive ones to date. Choose various parameters at the top ...more
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Looking for an Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements? Use this free tool as one of the most customizable and interactive ones to date. Choose various parameters at the top of the periodic table to customize your view. Easily see the trends in the periodic table by selecting the appropriate parameter and watch the elements change color in proportion to the value. Use the Time Machine to determine the elements discovered (and not discovered) at that time. Drag the slider above the nonmetals to view their states of matter. View realtime data of 16 properties with a simple hover of the mouse. The slider also views subsets of data for even more information! View the orbitals of each element as well as all available isotopes. Choose Latin translations to understand the origin of the symbol of that element as well as direct information from Wikipedia. Can't find your element? Use the instant search on the site and the element will be highlighted. Read the About page for some common questions and answers as well as citing this resource and other user questions.
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tag(s): elements (32), periodic table (49)
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Use this unbelievable resource for finding information about the elements. Consider using the site to first understand periodic trends. Allow groups of students time to look at the elements and play with the controls. Encourage them to question why the numbers change and what the terms represent. Knowing the elements is more powerful when they are studying the trends in the periodic table. Report group findings to the class to understand how the periodic table is arranged and what elements have in common with one another. Create a mind map using a tool such as scribblar or a poster of the trends of the periodic table for quick reference.Comments
This is a wonderful resource to teach about the wealth of information compiled in the Periodic Table of Elements. I especially love that for each element it shows a revolving model of the orbitals, and the spins of the elements according to the electron configuration.Ana, , Grades: 6 - 12
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How Old is the Earth? - Extreme Science
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7 to 12
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This is a simple sub-page from Extreme Science. Learn factual information about the geological history of the Earth. On the right side of the page, there is a navigational list ...more
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This is a simple sub-page from Extreme Science. Learn factual information about the geological history of the Earth. On the right side of the page, there is a navigational list of topics that allows one to navigate between topics. The readings are relatively easy for early high school students and would make a nice alternative to textbook readings. The hotlinks to extra information on specific terms and concepts are a very helpful and convenient touch. Be aware: there are some advertisements. Advise students not to click on the ads.
tag(s): amazon (11), animals (274), antarctica (28), arctic (33), earth (194), earthquakes (52), geology (61), plate tectonics (29), sun (87), tsunamis (15), volcanoes (62), weather (175)
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Use this site as an alternative to a textbook in a one-to-one laptop science class. Add the link to the classroom web page or wiki as an informational resource for your students. Or develop questions about the reading and use them as a guided reading activity to enhance reading across the curriculum. Have cooperative learning groups explore one of the specific topics and create multimedia presentations. Use Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here, or PicLits, reviewed here, to create online posters. Extend learning by having students use Google Drawings, reviewed here, to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Tropical Oceans - MBGnet
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4 to 10
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This site highlights the beautiful tropical oceans in the world. The focus is on coral reefs, ocean animals, and additional ocean links. Learn about the location of coral reefs, threats...more
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This site highlights the beautiful tropical oceans in the world. The focus is on coral reefs, ocean animals, and additional ocean links. Learn about the location of coral reefs, threats to coral reefs, and more. Take your students on an underwater adventure with this simple, yet informative website.
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Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Have cooperative learning groups create multimedia projects about the coral reefs, animals, or tropical oceans in general. 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). Challenge groups to create online books using a tool such as Bookemon, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WWF Footprint Calculator - World Wildlife Federation
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3 to 12
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Determine ecological footprints with this site. Click start and answer questions about food, travel, home, and stuff. Amounts and questions use British units so students may need help...more
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Determine ecological footprints with this site. Click start and answer questions about food, travel, home, and stuff. Amounts and questions use British units so students may need help in understanding them. At the end, the ecological footprint is displayed as well as strategies for reducing footprints.
tag(s): ecology (118)
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Use this site to determine how each of us affects the environment. Bring math into the classroom by converting British units to American units. Students can research how each of these categories affects the environment and create action plans for reducing their footprint. Follow the action plans and retake the quiz after to see the change in footprint. Create Public Service Announcements in the form of posters or videos to share information. Have students create online posters on paper or do it together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard or PicLits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vancouver 2010: With Glowing Hearts - The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic
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K to 12
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This eclectic site has something for everyone about the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. For younger students, be sure to meet the mascots of the site, view the interactives, and more. Students...more
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This eclectic site has something for everyone about the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. For younger students, be sure to meet the mascots of the site, view the interactives, and more. Students of all ages can use this site to learn about the schedule, view photos and videos, learn about each sport in the winter 2010 Olympics, trace the torch relay, view a spectator guide, meet the athletes, view the interactive map, and more.
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Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Introduce the mascots to your students and discuss their relevance. Have students research various athletes or sports and create a multimedia presentation. Use the Olympics as the theme for your study of world geography. 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). Have cooperative learning groups create online books using a tool such as Bookemon, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World of Molecules - World of Molecules
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7 to 12
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View a variety of molecules in the following categories: Food, Fuel, Pesticides, Solvents, etc. Key resources found on this free site include a periodic table, scientific calculator,...more
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View a variety of molecules in the following categories: Food, Fuel, Pesticides, Solvents, etc. Key resources found on this free site include a periodic table, scientific calculator, dictionary, and molecular modeling. Use "Explain It with Molecules" to use interactive 3-D molecules for greater understanding of interactions. Find elements by using the "Directory of Elements" search function select a molecule by searching "3-D Structures." View molecular structures and read background information about the molecules.
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tag(s): molecules (43)
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Choose Fuels to identify similarities and differences between the various types of hydrocarbons. Such lists can bring to life the molecular formulas of the compounds and the resulting chemical and physical properties. Discuss the energy required to break down these molecules through the process of combustion. View the food molecules to identify why the calorie amount for each is different. Create a discussion of how different biomolecules are used in the body. Have cooperative learning groups research a compound or property and create an online poster using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard or PicLits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea - PBS
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4 to 12
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Ken Burns has been busy again, this time creating a film about the US National Parks. This site carries many clips and even the full length film. There are many ...more
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Ken Burns has been busy again, this time creating a film about the US National Parks. This site carries many clips and even the full length film. There are many resources here about the US National Parks. To make the site more collaborative, you can submit a story and pictures about a visit to a national park. There is an extensive bank of other web resources as well. There are also lesson plans available at the "Educators Link."
tag(s): national parks (28)
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Share the film (or clips) on your interactive whiteboard or projector. One section of the site enables you to design a national park postcard to email to a friend. Groups of students might research individual national parks (links to the NPS site appear on this site) and circulate their own postcards to other groups. Students can also "collect" national park badges that can be cut and pasted into personal or class websites. You could also have cooperative learning groups create multimedia projects about various National Parks. Alter student learning by having students create online posters or do it together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard, or PicLits. If you are near a park, your students could redefine their learning and create an online park tour to share with others far away! Try a tool such as Adobe Spark for Education.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Neave Planetarium - Paul Neave
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K to 12
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View stars and planets easily in your browser window. Move the sky through a simple click and move of the mouse. Find information about the stars and planets by clicking ...more
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View stars and planets easily in your browser window. Move the sky through a simple click and move of the mouse. Find information about the stars and planets by clicking on each object, the name of the star, its constellation, brightness, and distance away is portrayed. View the stars from other areas of the world for comparison. Latitude and longitudes are easily seen to identify locations. Quickly change the date and time of viewing and other options such as full screen, constellations, and daylight.
tag(s): stars (78)
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The uncomplicated interface makes this free site easy to navigate. Group students to visit sections of the sky and report on constellations found there. Students can also research the history of the stars in the constellations as well as stories related to navigation and mythology. Create models, posters, or presentations of the constellations for discussion in class. 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). Create stories or poems about the stars or constellations. Share the stories and poems on your class wiki. Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries - check out the TeachersFirst's Wiki Walk-Through.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Think Green - Waste Management
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K to 12
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Waste Management will teach you all about recycling. The site shares a 30-second video highlighting recycling, followed by downloadable posters, guides, and other tools, container labels,...more
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Waste Management will teach you all about recycling. The site shares a 30-second video highlighting recycling, followed by downloadable posters, guides, and other tools, container labels, multifamily tools, and recycling resources for kids. The site also shares the same information for businesses, property managers, municipalities, and schools.
tag(s): earth (194), earth day (62), environment (253)
In the Classroom
Use this site for lesson plans, videos, and other resources for teaching environmental issues to students of all ages. Students can create individual, group, or class projects to increase awareness of environmental issues. Why not have students create age-appropriate multimedia presentations demonstrating what they learned? Have students create posters on paper or do it together as a class using an online tool such as Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here or PicLits, reviewed here. Have cooperative learning groups create online books using a tool such as Bookemon, reviewed here. Have students create commercials and share them using a tool such as SchoolTube.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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HealthMap - Clark Freifeld and John Brownstein
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7 to 12
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Use HealthMap (Powered by Google Maps) to view the status of different diseases around the world, compare between countries,and identify trends. HealthMap brings up to date data from...more
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Use HealthMap (Powered by Google Maps) to view the status of different diseases around the world, compare between countries,and identify trends. HealthMap brings up to date data from multiple sources into one place for better visualizing. Click on the Blog link to access specific information about diseases including symptoms and treatment. Refine your search on the map by disease, category, or region of the world. This site can be viewed in French, Spanish, and several other languages.
tag(s): scientists (72)
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Use this site whether you are discussing illness and viruses, socioeconomic factors that affect disease rates, or looking to offer a critical thinking exercise for your students. Have groups of students choose a continent. As a group, have them investigate the diseases, where they are concentrated, and the factors involved in the transmission. Students can share findings on posters or using a wiki or blog. For quicker projects, create electronic "posters" or word graphics using tools such as Piclits. As the groups find information, they may find parallels to other group's work that can spark discussions between the groups. Through use of this site, encourage student groups to look beyond the biology of diseases to research living conditions in other areas of the world.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Threatened Species - World Wildlife Fund
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6 to 12
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The World Wildlife Fund's pages on endangered species provide both a web-based synopsis and more extensive printed materials dealing with each of the species listed. The content may...more
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The World Wildlife Fund's pages on endangered species provide both a web-based synopsis and more extensive printed materials dealing with each of the species listed. The content may be challenging for some students, but there's plenty of detail in these descriptions.
tag(s): endangered species (28)
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Share this site on an interactive whiteboard or projector, and open a class discussion about ways that students can help endangered species in their local area. Have students explore the site individually or in cooperative learning groups, and make a poster on ways that the class could get involved to help a specific species. We recommend using a digital poster site such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Hubble - A View to the Edge of Space - The Exploratorium
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6 to 12
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The Exploratorium - This site is a self-guided tour and history of using satellites to see the earth from above. Along with menu items like people, place, ideas, and tools, ...more
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The Exploratorium - This site is a self-guided tour and history of using satellites to see the earth from above. Along with menu items like people, place, ideas, and tools, there are webcasts and a section explaining how NASA's LandSat works. This would make good supplementary material for a unit of study on space or landforms.
tag(s): landforms (36), stars (78), telescopes (13)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a learning center or station during a unit on space exploration. To assess student learning, have students create online posters on paper, or if you are beginning to incorporate technology in your class make the posters together using a tool such as PicLits. If you and your classes are more advanced in using technology, try Genial.ly. Genial.ly allows you to create interactive posters by adding polls, videos, embeds, web links, PowerPoint, and PDFs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World without Oil - Ken Eklund
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4 to 10
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What would happen of the world ran out of oil? Players simulated that reality through this innovative game. Though the activity is officially over, for the thirty-two days of play,...more
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What would happen of the world ran out of oil? Players simulated that reality through this innovative game. Though the activity is officially over, for the thirty-two days of play, over fifteen hundred stories of reaction to a massive decline in available oil and their reactions were recorded. Each story has been archived. Use the Time Machine to go to any of these weeks. Official stories for that week are the headline. Read stories by players in the blocks to the left. Click on a story block to go to the story. Take Gretchen's Quick Tour and experience the activity as one of the participant's did. Be sure to check out the Lesson Plans for Teachers.
tag(s): climate change (112), critical thinking (179), environment (253), oil (21)
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This is a massively collaborative imagining of the first thirty-two weeks of a global oil crisis. Though a game, the research shows that most of the players have continued the habits they developed in this game into their real life. Follow the Quick Tour to identify the parts of the game and have students peruse and report on player stories. Share with the class and brainstorm which stories are apt to occur in their household or community. Research ways to decrease our personal use of oil and other environmental or personal reasons to do so. Create conventional or blog writing about their personal opinions to the possibility of a world without oil and what students can personally change. Be sure to identify the many things that petroleum makes that is used in our lives.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zoho Show - ZOHO Corporation
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K to 12
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Zoho Show is an online presentation and document creator tool. This program is somewhat simpler than PowerPoint, but runs on a similar format. Use this tool as you would PowerPoint...more
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Zoho Show is an online presentation and document creator tool. This program is somewhat simpler than PowerPoint, but runs on a similar format. Use this tool as you would PowerPoint with your students. It is very advantageous if you have assigned a project and students do not have access to PowerPoint at home. This can be accessed anywhere with no cost to the student, the parent, or you. Sharing and collaborating is also simple. Upload, edit, and save your documents easily.
tag(s): multimedia (62), slides (37)
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To use this site, you will need to create an account. You will need to navigate using onscreen instructions. There is a video tour of the features if you would like to view it, but it is just as fun and easy to play with the tool. Slide themes are limited, but the tools are simple and it is easy to publish to a URL that can be shared with everyone.Use this tool to create presentations when students will need more than class time to finish. Have students make individual presentations. Instead of presenting on projector, have them share to the class wiki or within their zoho group to promote discussion and peer review. Assign a round-robin peer review so everyone gets some feedback.
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Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
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Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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How Things Fly - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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4 to 12
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How Things Fly offers a self guided, interactive resource to understand how space and air flight happen. This site delivers information clearly and effectively about lift, drag, thrust,...more
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How Things Fly offers a self guided, interactive resource to understand how space and air flight happen. This site delivers information clearly and effectively about lift, drag, thrust, and weight. It is very easy to navigate and there is a ton of information to gained! This answers a lot of questions that students tend to ask when talking about space and some physics.
tag(s): aircraft (25), aviation (51), flight (33), space (248)
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 Nearpod, 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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Levers - vectorpark.com
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Learn about levers and forces with this engaging interactive. As items drop into the water below, pick them up and drag with your cursor to hang on the lever above. ...more
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Learn about levers and forces with this engaging interactive. As items drop into the water below, pick them up and drag with your cursor to hang on the lever above. Add other levers as they appear. Once objects are hung, move them from one area to another to see the differences in the levers. Let water out of the pail to see even bigger changes. Follow the links to download on a Mac or PC, or download the app from Apple's App Store.
In the Classroom
Explore how levers work before, during, or after a unit of instruction. Encourage students to create similar models in the classroom (using different materials of course.) Measure and record the effects of each object on the lever to learn more about forces and the parts of a lever. Propose changes to where items are placed and discuss the changes on forces. Follow the links to download on a Mac or PC, or download the app from Apple's App Store.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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