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2 Minute Geology - Nick Zentner and Tom Foster
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6 to 12tag(s): earthquakes (50), floods (11), geology (61), rocks (43), volcanoes (59)
In the Classroom
Flip your classroom and use a video as homework. Have students take notes on the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. Or, use a tool like EdPuzzle, reviewed here, for students to pause videos and ask or answer questions right on the video. These activities can uncover misconceptions. Show the video to the class, and then discuss the concept at length. Use these videos to introduce geology concepts, then have students choose an idea to research further. For more advanced classes, provide time for students to choose a video to view and research the underlying concept. Challenge students to make a multimedia presentation of their findings using Sway, reviewed here, or Vevox, reviewed here. Vevox offers interactive features such as real-time polls and comments to keep viewers interested and involved in the presentation.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Knight Lab - Northwest University
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K to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (150), images (255), maps (215), timelines (57)
In the Classroom
This site is a must-have for anyone who teaches writing or assigns writing projects. Bookmark this site for use throughout the year with any writing project. Focus on one tool a month to learn more about the features available. Assign a tool to different groups of students and let them become the experts. Enhance students' learning and modify classroom technology use by asking the groups to create a "How to" video for their tool and to share with their peers. For this, try using Free Online Screen Recorder, reviewed here, or RecordCast Screen Recorder, reviewed here. Work with peers to assign projects across subject levels using tools from this site to compare and contrast images, create interactive timelines, build story maps, and much more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Common Core Lesson Plans Template - FormSwift
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K to 12tag(s): classroom management (107), commoncore (59), professional development (287)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of these lesson plan templates for lesson planning using Common Core Standards. If you don't teach using Common Core, these templates are still useful for lesson planning. Change the portion with standards to meet your goals and objectives for individual lessons. Use these templates when collaborating on lessons with other educators as a way to maintain consistency in planning. Share these templates with other teachers during professional development sessions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ClassHook - Alexander Deeb and Joyce Ang
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6 to 12tag(s): movies (49)
In the Classroom
Find clips on ClassHook to share with students as an attention-getter or introduction to new content. Create a link to media clips on your classroom computers or class website for students to view on their own. Flip your classroom and have students watch videos at home before teaching lessons. Enhance student learning by having students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Tumblr, reviewed here, discussing the content of movie clips concerning the lesson taught. Alternatively, you could add questions for students to answer while viewing video clips at home. Do this by using a tool such as playposit, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mahara - New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission
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8 to 12tag(s): assessment (130), classroom management (107), portfolios (21)
In the Classroom
Record classroom activities and student learning with photos or videos. Show students how to create a portfolio, then document their learning and make comments in their portfolio. Share portfolios with parents, not just at conference time, but any time the student portfolio is updated to keep parents in the loop.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Full Spectrum Science: Fireworks - Exploratorium
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6 to 12In the Classroom
Enhance learning by having students create a simple infographic about fireworks using Venngage reviewed here. Use this video as a model and have students research the origins of other common items. Have students upload a photo they have taken and add an explanation about what they learned using a tool such as Add Text, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Affordable Colleges Online - Dan Schuessler & Doug Jones
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9 to 12tag(s): college (44), financial aid (12)
In the Classroom
Many students are considering virtual degrees, and almost all college-bound students need information on financial aid options. Affordable Colleges Online is a useful site to include with information on college search strategies, consider bookmarking it for college-bound students. This tool is helpful for high school guidance counselors or teachers who work with juniors and seniors. Provide the link on your class website for families to access and explore at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Weather-Ready Nation - National Weather Service
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K to 12tag(s): fire (24), floods (11), hurricanes (34), safety (65), snow (22), tornadoes (16), tsunamis (15), weather (166)
In the Classroom
Share a link to Weather-Ready Nation on classroom computers for students to explore on their own. Include information from the site during your weather unit. Discuss weather threats that are specific to your area. Take advantage of the free flyer to print and include on a classroom bulletin board. Enhance learning by having students create annotated images of weather events including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Image Annotator, reviewed here, for younger students, or Google Drawings, reviewed here. Google Drawings allows you to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more. Alternatively students could create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as WordItOut, reviewed here. Extend learning by challenging cooperative learning groups to create daily weather forecast videos using Powtoon, reviewed here, and share them on a site such as TeacherTube, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AeroSpaceGuide - Vic Stathopoulos
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): explorers (63), solar system (122), space (236), STEM (333)
In the Classroom
Use AeroSpaceGuide as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Allow students time to explore as a starting point for further research into space-related topics. Enhance learning and modify classroom technology use by having students create an infographic sharing their space research using Visme , reviewed here. Upon completion of your space unit transform classroom technology use by having students make a multimedia presentation featuring information learned using slides, reviewed here, or Lucidpress, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Born Free USA - Belton Mouras and Ken Guerrero
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6 to 12tag(s): animals (261), service projects (17)
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Take advantage of the free lesson plans and more to include with your animal unit. After introducing the site with a projector or on an interactive whiteboard, allow older students to explore on their own then choose a topic of interest for further research. Have students make a multimedia presentation or create a digital story about their animal topic using Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here. Younger students could create a digital story around their animal topic using Book Creator, reviewed here. Consider bringing in a local animal advocate to speak to your class about issues in your area. Post a link to this website for students to share with parents at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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KQED Media Literacy Courses - KQED Teach
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K to 12tag(s): media literacy (106), professional development (287)
In the Classroom
Gain a better understanding of media literacy tools by taking KQED's professional development courses. Participate in classes on your own or with colleagues as part of your ongoing professional development. Begin any of the self-paced courses anytime and complete them at your own pace.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Exploratorium - Exploratorium
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4 to 12tag(s): atmosphere (22), colors (62), earth (188), electricity (60), energy (137), geology (61), light (55), magnetism (36), matter (49), motion (53), oceans (137), optical illusions (11), optics (12), sound (74), space (236), STEM (333), temperature (33), time (90), water (100)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many resources found on Exploratorium to supplement science lessons. Resources include animations, songs, activities, and more. Share this site with students to use as inspiration for science fair projects. After using resources from the site, enhance learning by having students make a multimedia presentation including information learned, using Sway, reviewed here. Sway creates unique multimedia projects using text, images, and media. Change the look of your Sway using the Mood and Remix tools to change the color palette, layout, and fonts. Alternatively, choose one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Asana - Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): DAT device agnostic tool (125), organizational skills (82)
In the Classroom
Create an account to use with students as a tool for organizing and collaborating on group projects. Asana makes it easy for all users to view overall progress on each task. Use Asana to help students remain on track with project deadlines; encourage older students to create their own account and set up groups for projects. Use this tool to collaborate with colleagues for use with professional projects such as unit planning and long-term scheduling.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rambox - Ramiro Saenz
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K to 12tag(s): communication (117), organizational skills (82)
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Download Rambox to organize content into one location, and see everything at a glance. Rambox works well for busy people who receive communications from many different messaging applications.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Delightex (was CoSpaces) - Delightex GmbH
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4 to 12tag(s): augmented reality (7), coding (95), creativity (81), DAT device agnostic tool (125), digital storytelling (150)
In the Classroom
Recreate scenes from books or use Delightex (CoSpaces) to retell any story with 3D images. Encourage creativity and ask students to develop virtual exhibitions of artwork, animal habitats, or landforms. Have older students create infographics featuring data collections, for example comparing availability of Internet in different American towns.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ClipGrab - ClipGrab.org
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K to 12tag(s): conversions (37), movies (49), noregistration (81)
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Use this service to backup your videos from YouTube and other sites. Use to download and save videos at home that you wish to show to students, especially if the school or district blocks them. Users must be able to find, copy, and paste the URL of the video to be downloaded. Once the program starts, you will be prompted to save it. If you want to use the video at school, you would save it to a USB stick. No registration or login is required. This should primarily be a teacher resource. If using with students, discuss appropriate and inappropriate uses of the technology as well as choosing necessary videos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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How the Sun Controls Nature - The Solar Centre
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4 to 12tag(s): adaptations (15), animals (261), solar energy (34), sun (83)
In the Classroom
Share information from this blog with students as part of any plant or animal unit, or as you explore the sun as part of our solar system. Have students dig deeper into the sun's influence on animals, then have them create their own simple infographic sharing their findings using Venngage, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reactions - American Chemical Society
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): chemicals (37), diseases (58), nutrition (134), seasons (56), space (236)
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Share a video with students once a week to help all of you learn about the chemistry in our everyday lives. Flip your classroom and use a video as homework. Have students take notes on the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. They can do this with pen and paper or online. If you want the assignment online, explain to students they need to open a new tab in their browser window and take notes with a tool such as Webnote, reviewed here; tell students to be sure to save the URL to share their notes and questions with you and their peers. Or, use a tool like playposit (formerly eduCanon), reviewed here, for students to pause videos and ask or answer questions right on the video. These activities can help uncover student misconceptions. Show the video to the class, and then discuss the concept at length.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Physics Girl YouTube Channel - Dianna Cowern
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8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): cryptography (5), energy (137), gravity (49), hurricanes (34), magnetism (36), measurement (118), motion (53), space (236), waves (13), weather (166)
In the Classroom
Flip your classroom and use a video as homework. Have students take notes on the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. Or, use a tool like EdPuzzle, reviewed here, for students to pause videos and ask or answer questions right on the video. These activities can uncover misconceptions. Show the video to the class, and then discuss the concept at length. Set up a video chat time for one of the YouTube videos using a tool such as Watch Together, reviewed here. For more advanced classes, provide time for students to choose a video to view and research the underlying concept.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science in the Classroom - Science in the Classroom
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9 to 12tag(s): animals (261), cells (82), diseases (58), drugs and alcohol (28), genetics (82), human body (95), medicine (56), plants (137), STEM (333)
In the Classroom
Science in the Classroom is a must-add to any high school classroom. View articles together on your interactive whiteboard as you add highlighted annotations to focus on the content. Alternatively, print a copy of the article and have students add highlights to compare to the site's highlighted portions. Be sure to help weaker readers and ESL/ELL students by sharing the vocabulary words before reading, either on a handout or by projecting on an interactive whiteboard or screen and highlighting them in the text as you come to them. Flip learning by having students read an article before coming to class, ask them to prepare questions they have for when they return to class. Have students create a simple infographic sharing their findings using Venngage, reviewed here. Use an online flashcard maker, like Cram - Online Flashcards, reviewed here, to review important vocabulary or content from any article.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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