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The College of Exploration - Video Showcase - The College of Exploration
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): biodiversity (34), diversity (33), hawaii (8), marine biology (35), oceans (165), whales (17)
In the Classroom
Use one of these videos (or several) as an anticipatory set for a science lesson on one of the topics, sharing the video on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Students will enjoy the "up close" look at the ocean and its many creatures. Or have students work in cooperative learning groups and choose one of the videos to view as a group. Have the groups share the information from their video clip. If you are looking for a science research project, why not assign one of the twelve topics to each of your students and have them further investigate the specific topic.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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NOVA: Science Now - Hurricanes - PBS
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): hurricanes (40), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Be sure to check out the "Teachers Guide." There you can click on "Classroom Activities" to find a lesson plan, additional links, and explicit standards. Use the additional links included with the lesson plan for students to do further research about hurricanes. Have them work in pairs to research various "famous" hurricanes and add them to a class "disaster" or "weather" wiki.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Geography at the Movies - blip.tv
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K to 12tag(s): agriculture (60), climate (95), environment (325), rivers (25), rocks (52), weather (201)
In the Classroom
What a fabulous resource for geography and science lessons. A high-speed connection is a must.Use your interactive whiteboard (or projector) and share these FREE video clips. Be sure you turn up the volume on your speakers. Or make the videos an individual or cooperative learning group project. Put the pertinent video titles on a list and allow each individual/group to choose one of the videos to view and share the information with the class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NOVA: Science Now - Stronger Hurricanes - PBS
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5 to 12tag(s): climate (95), climate change (70), hurricanes (40)
In the Classroom
What an excellent website to use if your class is studying climate, weather, or Hurricane Katrina. Use an interactive whiteboard (or projector) to share the video clips with your class. Don't forget to turn up the volume. After viewing the video clips, have your students write a letter or blog entry explaining their fictitious "experience" with a hurricane, using three facts that they learned from the video clip. Or turn down the sound and have students write and perform a news-story style narration of their own for a video clip from the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Maps and Graphics - United Nations Environment Programme
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9 to 12tag(s): climate (95), conservation (128), data (161), environment (325), pollution (65), statistics (127), water (134)
In the Classroom
Use a graphic comparison between different areas of the world as a starting point for environmental or social problems discussions. An interactive whiteboard with drawing and highlighting tools will allow your students to "work" with the data both visually and tactilely. Students can gain a global perspective to problems and better grasp the meaning of data. Students can then research specifics or reasons behind the statistics shown on the graphic. For example, use a map of Population of World by Poverty. Students can then research the populations of the countries as well as the possible reasons for the poverty. Students can calculate the percent differences between countries or different years. Have students make comparisons into multimedia or traditional presentations. Students can also have class discussions, debates about policies, or create a wiki to show information and sides of the issues and to make the data "show" something more meaningful than a simple number.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kidlink - Kidlink
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3 to 12In the Classroom
Students need not have their own email to use this site. Kidlink explains that they are permitted to use the teacher's email address (which allows you to monitor their activities, as well). You might want to use your "extra" email account. Set up accounts for your students to communicate in your world language class or as part of your study of other continents. With younger students, you may want to communicate as a whole-class activity, composing on a projector or interactive whiteboard.If your school policies limit your ability to use such a site, see the FAQ information and ready-to-go presentation explaining Kidlink. Share it with your principal and parents. ALWAYS get written parent permission when sharing student work/ideas online.
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Timeline of Art History - Metropolitan Museum of Art
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6 to 12tag(s): art history (77), medieval (27), renaissance (31)
In the Classroom
Art teachers will find it easy to search for themes. History teachers can access items by date. Any of the "thematic essays" could be projected on an interactive whiteboard (or projection screen) to accompany a lecture in class. Or have students use this excellent resource for independent research or to illustrate their own presentations. Challenge groups to choose a time period and create blogs about the "mood" of the art. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Telegra.ph, reviewed here. This blog creator requires no registration! Or have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Interactives: Historical and Cultural Contexts - Annenberg Media
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): primary sources (93)
In the Classroom
The site would work well on an interactive whiteboard (or projector) as a classroom activity. With the teacher leading and clarifying, the class might walk through several simple document analyses to gain an understanding of primary documents and their uses. If you do History Day competition, this activity would be a good starter early in the process. Alternatively, students could be instructed to complete the activity independently as an introduction to a more complex discussion of primary documents or to prepare for the dreaded DBQs ("document-based questions") in AP History classes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Language Menu Activities - Learnwell Oy
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6 to 12tag(s): capitals (24), flags (22), vocabulary (321), vocabulary development (124)
In the Classroom
Mark this site in Favorites on your classroom computers for ESL and ELL students.. Provide information about this site to foreign language teachers in your school. This is a wonderful site to list in your class newsletter (if applicable) or on your class website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Traveler IQ Challenge - Travelpod.com
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3 to 12In addition to the main activity, this website also provides travel blogs and photos. Be sure to check out the content on the blog before you share it with your students. The link to "create your own challenge" uses a Facebook log-in, so will likely be blocked in your school.
In the Classroom
Use this website to provide your students with a more eclectic geography lesson. Divide your class into teams. Then use an interactive whiteboard or separate computers to see which team can earn the most points by finding the most locations. This web activity is also ideal for cooperative learning groups. Before you turn students loose on their own computers, decide which teacher-previewed travel blogs, if any, they are permitted to view.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The History of Jim Crow - NYLife/PBS
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6 to 12tag(s): segregation (16)
In the Classroom
There are countless ways that secondary teachers could incorporate this website. The lesson plans are ready to go and simple to use (see Teacher Resources). Why not work together with your teaching team to offer an interdisciplinary unit on segregation, relating the history to literature? Use the books, To Kill a Mockingbird, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, or numerous others to help your students visualize the time period and make connections about the history and the literature. This website is also a great opportunity for collaborative work. Have your students read different historical fiction books from this time period, and then share the various similarities that they find. As an extension, have students write fictional blog entries from people they read about.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Free Rice - freerice.com
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6 to 12tag(s): multiplication (211), symbols (17), vocabulary (321)
In the Classroom
Reminiscent of The Reader's Digest "Enrich Your Word Power" feature, this is a great little time filler, especially for those students who always seem to be ahead of the rest of the class. They can challenge themselves to better their "level" as gauged by the site. They can challenge each other to see who will give the most grains of rice in any given session. If your class has a vocabulary glossary wiki, this site will provide many new entry ideas! You might even get into a conversation about how much 20 grains of rice really is and where around the world it might do the most good.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Timeless Ideas for Teaching - Concord Monitor Publishing
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6 to 12tag(s): local history (15), news (262), newspapers (96)
In the Classroom
Whether you use hard-copy papers or electronic editions, many of these ideas will work even better using technology: word processing, wikis, blogs (for editorials), graphic organizer tools, digital cameras, etc. Use today's tools to study this powerful medium as it goes through transition into an electronic world. Consider asking students to compare electronic vs. hard-copy newspapers and their pros/cons, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Who's Got What? - sciencemuseum
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3 to 12tag(s): coal (14), earth (224), earth day (105), electricity (92), energy (207), natural resources (58), oil (40), resources (107)
In the Classroom
What a fabulous resource for any class studying various forms of energy and natural resources found throughout the world. This would be an excellent addition to a science class studying about energy, or a geography class learning about the resources found on the various continents of the world. Even earth science classes can locate resources and explain how the geology of these areas provides the resources.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Blogabond (beta) - Blogabond
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6 to 12tag(s): cities (27), continents (51), countries (81), maps (298)
In the Classroom
Find some travel bloggers who are visiting the places you are studying and share the pictures and posts on a projector. If you teach a foreign language, you can also find posts from people in other languages as they visit the U.S.! Of course you will want to preview to be sure the blog content is appropriate for the classroom. Your students would love to comment as a class and ask questions of someone "on location" in the continent/country of interest. Create a TEACHER log-in to do this as a group to protect student safety "talking to strangers." Your school filtering may block all URLs with the word "blogs." If this is the case, you may want to use your home computer to select a few specific travel blogs that are school-appropriate and support your curriculum and request that they be unblocked.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Exploring Africa - Michigan State University
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6 to 12In the Classroom
This website is literally a textbook online. The information is ready to go and easy to use. It may not be possible to cover all of the information included in this extensive website. Pick and choose the modules that will be useful in your own classroom. Modules can easily be used independently and include detailed teacher notes, evaluations, printable pages, and more. Many of the a ctivities will work well using technology, though the plans do not specify this. For example: Share some of the maps on your interactive whiteboard or have students draw some of their "preconceived notions" about Africa on the whiteboard as part of the introductory image activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Africa Guide - africaguide.com
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2 to 12tag(s): africa (168)
In the Classroom
What a fabulous tool for online research or student-guided learning. This website presents a wonderful, concise summary of all of the countries in Africa. Why not assign individual students (or groups or 2) a specific country to research. Then the students can create an interactive PowerPoint or other presentation to share on a projection screen. With younger students, use your interactive whiteboard to share the site (turn up the speakers), allowing students to click and guide the class "trip." Music links go to Amazon, and only some have the listening feature available (scroll down the Amazon page to "Listen to Samples"). You will want to check before class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks - McDougal Littell
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6 to 12tag(s): rock cycle (10), rocks (52), volcanoes (66)
In the Classroom
Get your interactive whiteboards ready (and turn up the volume). This highly motivational activity is a "don't miss" addition to your earth science class. Be sur eto provie the link from your teacher web page for students to use the interactives as reinforcement or review. When you are using the interactive page (page 2), be sure to click on the blinking object. By clicking on this object, you will be taken to another window with a more detailed view of the specific topic. When you return to the main interactive page, look again for the blinking object.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Tomorrow's Climate - Today's Challenge - Defra
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6 to 12tag(s): climate (95), climate change (70), environment (325)
In the Classroom
What an excellent website to entice and educate your students about climate change and global warming. Use the website as a personal resource to educate yourself about the changes. The interactive videos and animation are perfect for an interactive whiteboard or projector. Be sure to involve your students in some ACTION as they learn about climate change. Have them create posters, brochures, or electronic "messages" telling people how they can help. Maybe even try a climate change podcast?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ILike2learn - Ilike2learn.com
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3 to 10tag(s): continents (51), maps (298), mountains (16), oceans (165), rivers (25), russia (35), russian (28)
In the Classroom
This website is perfect for a single-computer learning center, on a classroom computer cluster, or as a review activity for older students. Save this website on your desktop and offer it from your teacher web page, so students can utilize this resource when you are teaching about states in the USA, continents, oceans, or other countries throughout the world. Warning: tell your students to steer clear of the "Take the Dumb Test" link at the bottom of the page. It is an annoying distraction and asks for an email address.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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