9-21 to 9-28 Latest News, Updates, and Cool Finds

Careers and World Languages

Science and Math Resources

1. Anatomy and Biology videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/bullharrier?feature=mhum

Financial and Career Readiness

1. Lemonade Stand - http://www.omsi.edu/exhibits/moneyville/activities/lemonade/lemonadestand.htm
2. Financial Fitness for Life - http://fffl.ncee.net/activities/6-8/6-8.htm
3. Personal Finances - http://www.omsi.edu/exhibits/moneyville/activities/getreal/getreal.htm
4. Savings Quest - http://www.mysavingsquest.com/
5. Start a comic shop - http://disney.go.com/hotshot/hsb2/
6. What’s Up in Finance - http://www.thirteen.org/finance/
7. Everyday Life Project - http://www.gcflearnfree.org/everydaylife
8. Kids Work! – Virtual workplaces - http://www.knowitall.org/kidswork/index.html
9. Education Wizard - https://www.vawizard.org/vccs/Main.action
10. Salary.com - http://www.salary.com/mysalary.asp
11. Resume builder - http://www.emurse.com/

Language Arts and Social Studies

1. Similar to a Flat Stanley project - http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/09/10/why-and-how-to-participate-in-teddy-bears-around-the-world-project/
2. http://education.usgs.gov/common/lessons/teaching_with_topographic_maps.html Great map resources
3. Find the Lat and Long of anywhere in the world - http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
4. Go Social Studies Go - http://www.gosocialstudiesgo.com/
5. Thumbscribes (13) - http://www.thumbscribes.com

Related Arts

1. Early Photographs of Musicians Around the World - http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/02/vintage-music-archival-photographs/
2. Breaking Bread Everywhere - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/breaking-bread-everywhere-plentifully-or-pitifully/?src=daypPictures of what people around the world eat in a day.
3. Other world cultures links from Larry Ferlazzo - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/08/11/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-worlds-different-cultures/
4. Transmitti – Downloadable translator app - http://www.transmiti.org/en/index.html
5. Karaoke for ELL - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/10/15/the-best-online-karaoke-sites-for-english-language-learners/

Teacher Resources:

1. http://edudemic.com/
2. Games for every subject area - http://www.mrwylie.com/

Cool Techie Tools

1. AMAZING - http://www.sidevibe.com/ Unfortunately, only allows for 50 student accounts per teacher.
2. http://www.pageflip-flap.com/ - Turn your text files in to page flipping books!
3. http://www.jotform.com/ - Seems like a robust program but haven’t had enough time to play with it to see if it is better than Google forms.
4. http://magazinify.com/ - Convert your Bookmarks and favorite articles into a pdf and mail it to yourself.