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Mapping the Nation's Well-Being - NY Times
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): careers (139), dental health (22), map skills (84), maps (298), mental health (26), nutrition (159), stress (14)
In the Classroom
Use this map when studying map reading and graphs. Talk about what geographic, climate, or economic factors may influence "well being" in a certain location. Have students create a simple online posters comparing two areas using PicLits (reviewed here. Or use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here) to compare two areas. Incorporate information from this map when doing state projects. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. This site is very accessible for ESL/ELL and learning support students since there is little reading.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Compare & Contrast Map - Read, Write, Think - International Reading Association
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (197), concept mapping (20), graphic organizers (39)
In the Classroom
Use this site to introduce comparisons to your students on your interactive whiteboard or projector. After demonstrating how to use the site, create a link on classroom computers for students to make their own comparisons to be printed and shared. Divide students into 3 groups - one for each type of comparison essay - and have them create comparisons for their type, then share and compare with other students. Have students create "talking pictures" to illustrate the different types of comparisons using Fotobabble reviewed here. Use this site with gifted students as a way for them to explore subjects more deeply than discussed in class. Use this site with ESL/ELL students to help organize information easily and as a visual representation of class material.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Explania - explania.com
Grades
4 to 12Embed the videos easily into your blog, wiki, or site for use with students. This site does allow users to submit their own videos, but this appears to be for a fee and mainly for businesses looking to advertise or promote a service.
This site includes advertising.
tag(s): advertising (33), animation (63), myths and legends (26), sports (99), twitter (45), video (278)
In the Classroom
Share these short videos on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Find videos related to the content you are teaching. For example, the "What is the flu?" animation gives a great amount of information about colds and flu. Begin your lesson by asking students common statements or questions about what they understand about the cold or the flu. Show the results on a board and then share the video. (Embedding it in a site that you already have is a really great idea.) Identify the actual information to counter the common misconceptions. Find great animations related to technology and using computer and Web 2.0 tools. Divide students into cooperative learning groups to explore the site. Have them report information learned to the others. Challenge groups to create an animated explanation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge animation tools here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teachers: World Food Programme - World Food Programme
Grades
3 to 10tag(s): cross cultural understanding (123), nutrition (159), service projects (24)
In the Classroom
Share this site with your students on your interactive whiteboard or projector then allow them time to explore on their own. Use lessons from the site in your classroom. Have students create a multimedia presentation using Thinglink, reviewed here. This site allows users to narrate a picture. To find Creative Commons images for student projects (with credit, of course), try Compfight, reviewed here. Service groups, student councils, and gifted programs can find many ideas for service projects and fundraisers through this site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sophia - Sophia Learning, LLC
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): anthropology (12), arabic (20), archeology (32), architecture (85), business (58), chinese (50), dance (27), design (88), environment (325), greek (41), literature (272), organizational skills (125), portuguese (21), probability (141), psychology (66), religions (68), statistics (127)
In the Classroom
Provide your students with reinforcement or challenge into the many different areas listed. Allow time for students to choose their area of interest to study. Create an account and contribute your teaching materials. Be sure to list this site on your class website as a resource. Encourage parents to visit this site to brush up on their skills. Challenge students to create your own learning packets based on your areas of study. Include your own personalized packets on your class blog. You can create a private group, so only your students may access your materials.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Curriki - EnterpriseDB Postgre SQL company
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): graphic organizers (39), literacy (106), operations (123), rubrics (31)
In the Classroom
Curriki has a number of ways to benefit teachers and students. Use Curriki as a resource listed on your website for parents and students to have extra opportunities for additional practice or enrichment. Use as a way to organize your digital resources. The lesson plan and webquest templates are user friendly and promote best practices. While growing in your professional development by connecting with teachers worldwide, let your class learn with other classes worldwide. Curriki encourages you to think critically of your own lessons, but also lessons suggested.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google Family Safety Center - Google
Grades
K to 12tag(s): internet safety (118)
In the Classroom
Use the resources from the site to show students how to safely search the internet. Post the link on your class website for parents to access from home. In addition, set up a safe search engine for students to use when doing research.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Own Your Space - Linda McCarthy and Microsoft
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): cyberbullying (48), internet safety (118)
In the Classroom
This is a great resource to use with your students. Each chapter can be downloaded separately. Have students read a new chapter each week or month. Have students use the book for research. Groups can read a chapter and then prepare a presentation. Use a site such as 280Slides (reviewed here) to have students create slideshows.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The World's Harvests - Time Magazine
Grades
4 to 10This site includes advertising.
tag(s): agriculture (60), cross cultural understanding (123), cultures (109), nutrition (159)
In the Classroom
Use this site as an anticipatory set to introduce a unit or lesson on nutrition around the world on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use it also to explore differences in farming methods and food storage practices worldwide. Have students create similar photo essays in groups, comparing harvests from different regions of the U.S. using Thinglink, reviewed here. Thinklink allows users to narrate a picture. Challenge students to find a photo and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report. Students can use Creative Commons Search, reviewed here, or Compfight, reviewed here, to find pictures you are ALLOWED to use without copyright problems, simply by giving credit.Have students work in pairs to create online posters using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here, to illustrate the different harvests from around the U.S.
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Early Sprouts - Early Sprouts Program; Keene State College
Grades
K to 4tag(s): child development (26), cooking (31), nutrition (159), obesity (18)
In the Classroom
Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects. Use the print sources and images from this site for your bulletin boards. This site is a perfect addition to Earth Day activities. When you have lessons on nutrition, make them real by including the sensory aspects of this curriculum. Try some of the simple recipes in class, or cut and paste to make a classroom cookbook.Use this site as a jumping off point for growing those parent gifts of sweet potato greens or other small vegetable plants.
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Sqworl - Caleb Brown
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): bookmarks (68)
In the Classroom
In the classroom use this site to combine url's of online class projects into one group. Create a group of resources for students or parents for different subjects and share the url through your classroom website or newsletter. Create a group with videos relating to classroom content. Create a classroom account and let students add resources they have found to groups to share with others. Show students how to follow other groups on Sqworl and share resources by creating their own groups. Share this site with others in your building or district as an easy way to save and share online resources.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
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Farmer's Stories Online Farm Tour - Cabot Cheese
Grades
3 to 9This site includes advertising.
tag(s): agriculture (60), myplate (27)
In the Classroom
Have students create similar photo essays of farmers or members of any other profession in your state, using this as a model and example. Have students create a multimedia presentation, adding audio, using Thinglink, reviewed here. This site allows you to narrate a picture. Challenge students to find (legally permitted to be reproduced) or even take a photo.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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DOGOnews - Meera Dolasia
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): news (262), reading comprehension (123), sports (99)
In the Classroom
Non-fiction reading and background knowledge have found a new emphasis with The Common Core State Standards. It is more important now than ever to help connect students with quality, non-fiction reading and viewing material. Find great news resources and videos of the week to create assignments for your class at DOGOnews. You may want to create a class page and load several news articles. Have students choose from the articles, and email it to themselves. Have students print out the article and complete a "close reading" of the article by annotating it. Then have students who chose the same article get together in groups to discuss their reactions about the article, create a summary together, and create four or five open-ended questions about the article. Lastly, create groups of four, with each student having a different article, and have them present their article to the others in the group and ask them their open-ended questions to trigger a discussion. Create a class magazine from the articles. Or better yet, have students create a multimedia presentation using UtellStory, reviewed here. This site allows users to narrate a picture. Challenge students to find a photo (legally permitted to be reproduced), and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report. Strengthen reading comprehension by having an 'article du jour' on your interactive whiteboard or projector as students arrive. Link this site on your homepage.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ChooseMyPlate.gov - USDA.gov
Grades
1 to 12In the Classroom
Dietary guidelines can be a help to all teachers, faculty, and staff. Challenge students to track their food and physical activity. Plan meals to bring you perfect health. Plan a nutrition day in which every student shares some aspect of this site in a presentation with other classes and parents. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Evaluate the cafeteria lunches to bring even more fun into your recipe! Add an international portion with your students' multicultural recipes to add to make your own cookbook, or website. Be sure to add this link to your own site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virtual Swim - Virtual-swim.com
Grades
6 to 12While the site offers custom animation for FREE, there is a cost if you choose to send in a video of yourself swimming both above and below the water surface. Depending how involved you become with using this site, this is not at all necessary, but it is an option.
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tag(s): human body (132), motion (69), sports (99), waves (22)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Try using this tool in your physics class to analyze motion, to reinforce Newton's Laws, and to explore Bernoulli's principle. Divide your class into teams and have them swim to the head of the class by assigning each group a different stroke and have them explain how the stroke demonstrates Newton's first and third law. Assist students in gathering numerical data to calculate force using Newton's second law. On a more simple level, when using this website in physical education, use the site to demonstrate the proper form for each of the strokes available on the site. Have students share the science of motion in their sport of interest. Fr example, what do runners do to minimize wind resistance at the start of a race?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reep World - Arlilngton Education and Employment Program
Grades
1 to 5This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
To help your weaker readers and ESL/ELL students, share the vocabulary words prior to reading, either on a handout or by projecting on an interactive whiteboard. Highlight the words in the text as you come to them. Use this site when teaching health issues to newly arrived ESL/ELL students and special education students. Use the personal stories, story cards, and photos on this site as models for projects your students may do about their family members.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Produce Oasis - P-O-P Interactive, Inc.
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
During a unit on healthy eating, challenge your students to create a web exhibit collection about the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables using a tool such as Bag The Web (reviewed here) to share all of the important links, information, and even brief descriptions. Use the site with students to create healthy menus and find alternatives to fast foods. If you are a family and consumer science teacher, try out some of the recipes in class! Have students choose a recipe and create a "how-to" video to share with the class. Share the videos using a tool such as SchoolTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Utubersity - Utubersity.com
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): arabic (20), architecture (85), business (58), engineering (129), geology (81), german (66), literature (272), medicine (70), psychology (66), religions (68), sociology (22), sports (99), video (278)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for videos to use in the classroom. Have art students use Screencast-o-matic, reviewed here, or Screencastify (Chrome app), reviewed here, to make narrated recordings about videos that they find on this site. Share this site with gifted students who are delving deeper into topics than your current curriculum allows. This is a great site to share on your class blog, wiki, or website for students to use for extra practice or advancement.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fuel Up To Play 60 - U.S. Dept. Agriculture, National Football League
Grades
2 to 12In the Classroom
Participate in the healthy eating challenge by creating your own class video entry for the Cooking Show Challenge! Share the videos using a tool such as Teachers.TV reviewed here. Help your class members to apply to be student ambassadors. Help your students to sign up and start graphing their physical activity and nutritional changes, receive badges and prizes, see how their classmates are doing and encourage them by giving rewards, and finally, by viewing what other classes are doing. Share the information on this site with parents so they can support the lifestyle changes encouraged here at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Inspire My Kids - Mike Stutman and Kevin Conklin
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): bullying (51), disabilities (20), school violence (13), service projects (24)
In the Classroom
Share stories from the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector when learning about character traits such as sportsmanship, perseverance, and responsibility. Use the site as a resource when problems arise in the classroom such as bullying, intolerance, or special needs awareness. Have students use resources from the website as models for writing their own articles or creating a podcast. Use a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here). Use the stories as models for writing activities and essays. Your students could also draw inspiration from this site to create values comics using one of many comic creation tools in this TeachersFirst collection.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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