11-4-2011 Math Movies, Money, and Motion

1.      Math:

a.      Math in Movies - http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html

b.      NBC Learn – Science of NFL Football - http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/science-of-nfl-football

c.       Dough Main Money Games - https://www.doughmain.com/odmpublic/Money-Games/index.php

10-5 to 10-12 News, Updates, and Cool Finds

Learning to Search, P-Table, PaperRater

Science:

1. Visualize molecules: http://alteredqualia.com/canvasmol/#Graphite
2. Periodic Table - http://ptable.com/
3. New BBC Science games – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/brands/mi_highhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/brands/sarah_jane_adventures/

Math:

1. New BBC Math games - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/brands/bamzooki/
2. Money: https://www.doughmain.com/odmpublic/games/irulemoney/index.php
3. http://playspent.org/ - Great lesson but asks for donation at end.
4. Ruler Game - http://www.rsinnovative.com/rulergame/

Language Arts:

1. Copy and paste paper to evaluate word choice, grammar, spelling and more: http://paperrater.com/free_paper_grader
2. Kids Web Japan - http://web-jpn.org/kidsweb/
3. Listen to what’s written or listening skills - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/05/28/the-best-listening-sites-for-english-language-learners/
4. World Crunch - http://www.worldcrunch.com/
5. Compare your writing or modern writing to Shakespeare - http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/08/how-shakespearean-are-you/
6. New BBC English activities - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/brands/trapped/

Social Studies: historical images

1. http://www.histografica.com/
2. http://www.sepiatown.com/index
3. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keir.clarke/web/thereandthen.htm
4. http://www.oldsf.org/#
5. http://www.historypin.com/

Related Arts:

1. Art - http://www.colorcube.com/play/play.htm
2. Search free sound effects - http://www.soungle.com/index.php
3. http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=lyrics
4. Hispanic Heritage Month - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/09/03/the-best-resources-for-hispanic-heritage-month/

Other:

1. A Google a Day: Teach your students how to search - http://agoogleaday.com/#date=2011-09-19
2. Learn to search - http://www.boolify.org/
3. Kid Safe Videos - http://thekidshouldseethis.com/
4. Grade 6 T21 - http://www.energysavvy.com/
5. Find a great source online that needs some tweeking? Try PDF to Word - http://www.pdftoword.com/Default.aspx
6. http://learninglab.org/life_skills/cyberbullying/ - Life Skills according to Garfield
7. PBS Teachers: Technology Integration - http://www.pbs.org/teachers/librarymedia/tech-integration/

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.