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Venn Diagram Shape Sorter - Shodor
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): logic (248), problem solving (294)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Ask students to create their own Venn Diagram and have other students guess the rule. Consider using a site such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here). Use the site to demonstrate Venn Diagrams that might be used with different subjects: Science - use to sort animals by different characteristics, Social Studies - sort countries by different types of rule over a given time period. The possibilities are endless.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Tripline - Byron Dumbrill
Grades
4 to 12To create a new trip, you must register at the site. Registration requires a username, password, and valid email address.
tag(s): maps (298)
In the Classroom
Suggested uses on the Tripline site are to use along with moments in history such as Paul Revere's ride and Lewis and Clark's expedition to demonstrate stops along their path. Other classrooms uses would be for students to create a Tripline map of their summer vacation to use as an enhancement to a regular report, map out your favorite sports team's schedule, historic state sites, and much more.Registration does require an email address. Tip: rather than using your personal or work email, create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service.
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Wolf Quest - Minnesota Zoo
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): animals (322)
In the Classroom
Share this site on the interactive whiteboard or projector as an introduction to an animal unit or geography unit about the western United States. Use material from the site's photo and video gallery to support student's research.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CO2 Science - Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): carbon (23), climate (95), environment (325)
In the Classroom
Integrate different activities from the education section into your classroom. Use the readings for older students as they are far above the reading level of elementary and early middle school students. Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Challenge cooperative learning groups to investigate on article/blog topic and create a multimedia presentation. Have your students create an interactive online poster using Adobe Spark, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Amazing Detergent Activity - CSIRO
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): colors (80), inquiry (34), scientific method (67)
In the Classroom
Try using this during the first few days of school to get and keep students excited about learning science. Have students create "I observed" and "what happened" lists. Discuss the different ways of making observations. Monitor the class by only moving forward as a class one step at a time. This cuts down on ruining the surprise for slower groups. Plus it provides time for questioning. Follow up by having students discuss the why the materials reacted the way that they did. Have them suggest and carry out different experiments to discover which part of the experiment causes it to work the way that it does.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WaterWorks - Investigating Fountains - OMSI
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): experiments (69), water (134)
In the Classroom
This would fit nicely into a unit on water movement or basic physics. Have students conduct experiments and then debrief by asking why and how the water reacted the way that it did. Have students work in cooperative learning groups and take digital photos throughout their experiment. Then have students narrate the pictures explaining what happened during their experiments. Use a site such as ThingLink, reviewed here, to have students narrate their pictures.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CurriConnects - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): book lists (131), independent reading (129), reading lists (81)
In the Classroom
Share CurriConnects as links on your class web page or wiki or share them with school and local libraries where students can select books to accompany what they are studying. Explore the many ideas TeachersFirst offers for using CurriConnects in your classroom. Be sure to share these lists with ESL/ELL teachers for reading selections to build student vocabulary and understanding of curriculum.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Water Planet Challenge - Earth Echo International
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): conservation (128), environment (325), service projects (24), water (134)
In the Classroom
Use the "Take Action" ideas to develop ways to make a change in the local area. Create small changes as individuals and broadcast their effects to make even larger changes over time. Create a campaign to understand the issues with water and to encourage others to make a change. Audit the water use at the school to make recommendations to the local school board or town council. Create blog posts or letters to the editor (possibly coordinating with language arts class for persuasive writing) to make a point and offer solutions. Have your students create an interactive online poster using Adobe Spark, reviewed here, to promote their service learning project.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Maine's Autumn Magic - Maine Department of Conservation
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): fall (14), fall festival (4), halloween (38), seasons (36)
In the Classroom
Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on fall foliage on a projector or interactive whiteboard. After viewing the video, take your class outdoors to view foliage in your community. Use this site when creating state reports to use as a comparison between Maine and your state in the fall. View the site early in the fall to introduce the unit, then take pictures of trees in your area each week to document changes throughout the season. Share the video presentation on your interactive whiteboard or projector as part of your fall festival festivities!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Testmoz - testmoz.com
Grades
K to 12tag(s): quiz (86)
In the Classroom
Skills required: Be sure to remember the password for your tests, as well as the unique URL. It would be wise to copy/paste them into a document you keep somewhere for reference. Users are unable to access the tests without the URL. Be sure to not share this ahead of time. Items in Testmoz are not made public.Use where automatically graded tests are required, such as for formative assessments to check student understanding. Use as a "ticket out the door" to see what students know at the end of class. Be sure that this is the medium you want to use for testing. Be flexible with students who find it difficult to take online testing. Entering all the material ahead of time can be time consuming, so this may not be the best format for long tests. Use this quiz application to create study quizzes for review for students to complete as homework (or during class time). Have students rotate to create daily check quizzes for their peers (earning a grade for test-creation). Learning support students and others who need a little extra review might like to make quizzes to challenge each other or themselves. Have students who are preparing to give oral presentations in any subject prepare a short Testmoz for their peers to take at the end.
Edge Features:
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Products can be shared by URL
Includes teacher tools for registering and/or monitoring students
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Ice Ice Maybe - Manga High
Grades
2 to 6tag(s): estimation (48), logic (248), problem solving (294)
In the Classroom
Save as a shortcut on classroom computers to use as a center. Encourage students to problem solve to get the penguins further along the ice and achieve higher levels. Share this link on your class website so students can practice logic and estimation while at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sweet Search - Dulcinea Media, Inc.
Grades
K to 12tag(s): search engines (62), search strategies (28)
In the Classroom
Provide Sweet Search for your students to find some of the best student friendly material on the web. For older students, evaluate Sweet Search with other search engines to determine which provides the best information.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Timelines: Sources from History - British Library
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): europe (74), literature (272), politics (97)
In the Classroom
This site is excellent for research projects or to provide visual context to your curriculum in social studies, world cultures, world history, literature, art, or western heritage classes. Offer this set of timelines as a research source for history, social studies, and literature classes. Show students these timelines on an interactive whiteboard. Or have students research various topics on their own using this fabulous tool. Pique their interest by letting them browse to find out what else happened at the same time as events in the standard history curriculum -- then ask WHY. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create online posters displaying their findings using an online poster creator, such as Padlet (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kid Wisdom - Kaiser Permanente
Grades
2 to 5tag(s): nutrition (159)
In the Classroom
Try the fill in the blank activities on an interactive whiteboard or projector. They can be used as whole group activity or as a center. The mini games are good to use when you have five to ten minutes of unstructured time. As a treat, using parent volunteers, have students create some of the healthy recipes that are provided. Share this link on your class website for students to access both in and out of the classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cellcraft - Newgrounds, Inc.
Grades
4 to 7tag(s): energy (207)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector, viewing this site to provide background information for further discussion in class. Have students work in groups to organize what they onserve and learn in the whole-class exploration, creating a mind map using bubbl.us (reviewed here). Use class discussion to uncover misconceptions and promote student understanding.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SMART Lesson Collection - Scholastic
Grades
K to 12tag(s): iwb (32)
In the Classroom
These lessons are great for the new SMART Board user or the seasoned pro. Use these if you need a lesson but don't have time to create one from scratch. View the lessons and use them as ideas to help you create your own lesson.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Snappy Words-Free Visual Online Dictionary - Snappy Words.com
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): maps (298), parts of speech (66), speech (89), thesaurus (24)
In the Classroom
Teachers and students on all grade levels will love usingSnappy Words for all subjects. Demonstrate it on your classroom whiteboard or projector, bookmark it in your favorites, and make it directly available to students from your class webpage. Elementary students will enjoy defining their spelling words or content area vocabulary. They can categorize their words by parts of speech or create a list of synonyms. Students can then create their own word "maps" for new vocabulary words using drawing tools or online graphic organizers like bubbl.us, reviewed here. Middle school, high school and adult learners can use it as a valuable tool for vocabulary specific to a literary work or subject area, preparing for a standardized test, or while reading assigned material or a book, poem, or article of choice. Whether you are writing content for an article, a blog, a letter, or any assignment, minimize this website and play with words to avoid repetition, choose precise meanings and kick your vocabulary up a notch! Share this one on your class web page, for sure.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Inventors and Inventions Resources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): inventors and inventions (92)
In the Classroom
Use these resources for science or social studies lessons and activities about innovation and invention, in observance of National Inventors' Day (celebrated on February 11, Thomas Edison's birthday), or at any time during the school year. Whether you are simply learning about the history of invention or planning a schoolwide Invention Convention, these resources will provide inspiration and project possibilities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Blipsnips - blipsnips.com
Grades
K to 12tag(s): movies (70)
In the Classroom
This application is very easy to use. Users must create an account and be able to find the URL of a You Tube video they wish to bookmark and share.Check with your technology department about using You Tube videos in your school. If your school blocks You Tube, ask about getting selected videos unblocked.
Use this application to find little segments of videos that can be used in the classroom. Bookmark (or save in your favorites) the sections and use to show only the parts of what you want. This is great for removing extraneous or unneeded material as well as keeping portions of videos hidden for the purpose of meaningful discussion. Separate World War II videos into separate battles. Clip different cell processes apart from each other in a Biology class. Share the "meat" with your class, and take out the parts of the videos that are not useful for learning. Even in primary grades, the ability to show "clips" from longer videos makes them more classroom-friendly.
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Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
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Symbaloo EDU - Symbaloo BV
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): bookmarks (68), DAT device agnostic tool (179), gamification (87)
In the Classroom
Be sure to know the URL's of the resources you are planning to share or have them open in other tabs to copy/paste. To share you must be able to copy/paste URLs (web addresses). Have older students create their own webmixes, but this resource is best used as a teacher sharing tool for sharing links, RSS feeds, and other resources for students to use in specific projects or as general course links. If shared with the world, the webmix can be viewed by others and is public.Create a webmix of the most used sites for your class and first demonstrate how the webmix works on a projector or interactive whiteboard if you have special instructions or color coding for its use. Some examples include links to copyright free images, online textbooks, or online tools such as Google Docs, ThingLink, Prezi, and more. Link to teacher web pages, webquests, resource sites for your subject, and any other resource that is helpful for students. Consider creating a login for the whole class to update with suggestions from class members. Use this AS your class website. Color code the tiles on a webmix for younger, non-reader, or ESL/ELL students. For example, color each subject differently from the others. Differentiate by color coding varying levels of skills practice at a classroom computer center or to distinguish homework practice sites from in-class sites. Differentiate difficulty levels using the various colors enabling you to list resources for both your learning support students and gifted students and all in between. Use color to organize tools for different projects or individual students. You may want to share Symbaloo EDU with parents at Back to School Night and the color-coding system for differentiation. This will help parents (and students) find what sites are ideal for their levels. Be sure to link or embed your webmix on a computer center in your room for easy access. Share a review site webmix for parents and students to access at home before tests, as well. Team up with other teachers in your subject/grade to create chapter by chapter webmixes for all your students. If you are just starting with Symbaloo, this is a simple way to differentiate, however, Symbaloo now has a Lesson Plans tool (also called Learning Paths), reviewed here, to help you differentiate for individual or groups of students.
Challenge your gifted students to curate and collaborate on their own webmixes as a curriculum extension activity on topics such as climate change or pros and cons of genetically engineered food. They can use color coding to sort sites by bias (or neutrality) as well as to group subtopics under the overall theme. Use the student-made webmixes with other students to raise the overall level of discussion in your class or as an extra credit challenge. If you embed the webmix in a class wiki, all students can respond with questions and comments for the gifted students to moderate and reply, creating a student-led community of learners.
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