Halloween Costume Infographic

Similar to the Infographic I posted the other day but this one shows costumes by the decade.  Have a fun time tonight and don't eat too much candy.

A History of Halloween Costumes [Infographic] by the team at Giraffe Childcare Dublin

Halloween Pop-Costume Index

Happy Halloween.  Did you wear any of these in the past?  Happy Birthday Mr. A.

by lglynn.
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Resources on Food

Here are a few resources that can be used in a Foods and Nutrition class or Health unit in Physed.

How much sugar is in the food we eat.  They have many different categories and show graphically with sugar cubes how much sugar is in that particular food or drink.  To see the site click here.

The following is an Iphone app called Chew or Die created by The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  From Itunes, "Mouths crammed with hot dogs. Tears streaming down pie-smeared faces. Stomachs stretched to the bursting point. These are the less-than-savory images that "competitive eating" conjures. But MSI's new mobile app will change that. Download Chew or Die and you can start challenging your friends—and yourself—to eat healthier.

Chew Or Die is a food challenge app that encourages users to make small changes to their daily food choices. Regularly eat pepperoni pizza for lunch? How about trying veggies on top instead? Ok,you’ve got that down… now why not dare your Facebook friends to out-veggie your pizza?"

Too read more or download the app click here.

The Simpsons - The Raven

Back to Edgar Allan Poe and The Raven for tomorrow.

Lisa reads "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. In this adaptation, Bart is depicted as the raven, Homer finds himself in the role of the poem's lead character, while Lisa and Maggie are seraphim. Marge appears briefly as a painting of Lenore. James Earl Jones narrates. The poem is read verbatim, with some of the poem edited out for time. Several times a bust of Edgar Allan Poe is visible in the background on a bookshelf.

Canadian Wartime Propaganda Posters

Most people think other countries only had propaganda posters.  Well we had them in Canada during both WWI and WWII.  It is interesting to see them.  Maybe you could have your students make their own using digital media or draw them.  The following is from the War Museum of Canada.  To see more click here.

Flocabulary - Pit and the Pendulum

It is just Educational Hip-Hop from Flocabulary.  With Halloween in a couple of day, here is another Edgar Allan Poe post.  It would be great to read the original and then go over it again with this rap.

French Graphic Organizer and Presse Francophone

A graphic organizer for a current events presentation can be found The Teaching FSL with Madame Aiello by clicking here.


Also a collection of on-line Francophone magazines and newspapers from around the world organized by country.  To see this site click here.

Straight Line Graphs

From their website, "Maths teacher Kathryn Hurrell, at Comberton Village College, helps her lower ability Year 9 pupils understand straight-line graphs by turning the mathematical concept into a practical activity.

Kathryn gives groups of pupils some simple y=mx+c equations and they work out pairs of suitable coordinates and stand at that point within a large scale set of axes on the classroom carpet."

Sorry I could not embed this video but you can click here to see the video

Teen Reading Contest

Anyone at KCI interested in winning some money for themselves and for our library?  Read the book "The Healers" (they will give you a digital copy or hardcopy, order a couple extra for the library please) and then make up a billboard, bookcover, booktrailer, commercial, act out a scene from the book, make up your own scene with characters from the book, write your own music based on the book or write an essay, poem or speech.  Wow that is a ton of options.    To get more information click here.

Halloween ComicFest

Well the first Friday in May is free comic book day at many fine comic book stores.  It turns out that this Saturday and Sunday is also a give away day!   Information on Halloween ComicFest can be found by clicking here.  Local participating merchants can be found by clicking here.

Hilarious Fail

A Friday funny for you.  Enjoy.

Itunes Apps for Teachers

Many of these apps are free. Free is good.

To find the category on your ipad:

1) Go to the App Store

2) Select all Categories and then select Education

3) Go to the bottom of the page and there is a list of quick links, select Apps for Teachers.

You have further subdivisions to pick from which are

1) Classroom Management

2) Curricula Support

3) Instructional Tools

4) Personal Organisation

5) Reference

A couple of articles for your reading pleasure II

Here is another article from HBR,  "The Hidden Biases in Big Data."  Does this apply to EQAO and OSSLT?  You be the judge.  You can read the article by clicking here.

Keeping with the spirit of the first article, here is another article about data, from the MIT Technology Review, "The Dictatorship of Data."  Click here to read the article.

Musopen

Musopen provides public domain sheet music and a library of composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel and  Debussy recordings.  To see this site click here.

Happy Mole Day

Hey Science Geeks. Yesterday Oct 22 was National Mole Day.  Sorry for the late post.

The next video is a TED-Ed video

Halloween Short Story Contest

is having a Halloween short story contest.  The might be something your students might be interested in.  Prizes are $250, $100 and $50 Visa gift cards.
The deadline is October 27 at midnight.  Not only must you have a short story but you need to add audio and sound effects.  To see the website, click here. Good luck.

Dia De Los Muertos

In preparation for Halloween I saw this interesting site from the Smithsonian Latino Center

They have some great ideas for teachers.  For Social Science teachers the accompanying pdf discusses customs and beliefs.  For the Art teachers the pdf discusses making paper mache skulls.  For the Foods class they discuss making sugar skulls.  There are other ideas and activities worth checking out.

The website can be found by clicking here.  The accompanying pdf users guide can be found here.
Also if you are a member of  teacherspayteachers (you should be as it is free to register and it has many freebies) you can check out this writing and presentation assignment by clicking here.

Halloween Math for Kids

Smarty Games has a nice little game for younger kids to practice their math skills.  I know this will not be of use for high school kids but I thought if teachers have little ones at home or students have younger sibblings this might be just the right thing for them.  To try the game click here.

Edgar Allan Poe

With Halloween being just over a week away, I thought an Edgar Allan Poe posting was in order.  Here are a couple of interactive sites dealing with one of his most famous poems, The Raven.

The Knowing Poe site has many teacher lesson plans and ideas.  To see this site click here.

The second site deals only with The Raven and goes through each stanza for literary devices.  To see this site click here. 

Engineer Girl

"The Engineer Girl website is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women." from

This website has many different sections to explain what engineers do and who they are.  There are contests  and  competitions, fun facts, interviews, ask an engineer and scholarship information to name a few. 

 A worthwhile site to check out regardless of gender.   To go there click here.

Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset versus a Fixed Mindset

From Monday Morning Mojo, click here

From Holton-Arms, click here

This video is from a TED X talk and is about 10 minutes long from Eduardo Briceno.

From Thoughtful Learning, click here

Metropolitan Museum of Art history books

The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts online 390 art history books.  You can download these for free.  That being said, some of these files are rather large.  You can sort these books by author, title, thematic category and others.  To see the site click here.

Canada's History

Check out this site.  There is some good information here for both students and teachers.  There are lesson plans like this one on WWI.  You can click here to see it.

Pimp Ma Botte

Some French language videos can be found at

Most are for younger children but I am sure some can be used in a high school setting.  I like Pimp Ma Botte.

These videos can be found by clicking here.

Concert TIckets and Algebra

From Mr. Miller.  A typical text book math question is A ticket agency sells tickets to a professional basketball game.  The agency charges $32.50 for each ticket, a convenience charge of $3.30 for each ticket, and a processing fee of $5.90 for the entire order.  The total charge for an order is $220.70.  How many tickets were purchased?

You could do a similar question with your class by photoshopping out a screenshot from TicketMaster after going through and pretending to order concert or sporting or tickets to the theatre as shown below.

Happy Thanksgiving

Notice Mr. Miller photoshopped or painted out the number of tickets.  Now your students can do set up the algebraic equations and then solve.  Note that setting up the equations is a key part of how they can be marked.  Then you can reveal the answer.

 

A couple of articles for your reading pleasure

From the article "Stop Telling Your Employees What to Do" is not directly about education but does have a lot of applicability to the classroom.  You can read the article by clicking here.

From the article "No Rich Child Left Behind" is an interesting read.  There are some stats that are pretty self explanatory ( Fisterisms included) but interesting.  From the article, "Family income is now a better predictor of children’s success in school than race."   You can read the article by clicking here.

20th Century Advertising

This ebook by Dave Saunders  might be a good resource for a business class or possibly an art class as it has many iconic posters.  This ebook is from the  Mohawk College website.  To see the book, click here.

Top 10 Deadliest Natural Disasters of Canada

From 

 

I made this zoomit  from the infograph from DKI website which can be found by clicking here.

Books for Victory

Seventy three years ago today.  The moral of this picture.....you be the judge but I think it is that it is never the wrong time to read.  The date according to this site.  However using a google image search I found an alternate date by clicking here.

Google Lit Trips

This is a free website.  You will have to fill out a quick survey though.

From their website

So What exactly are Google Lit Trips?
The short version is simple. Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.
The focus is on creating engaging and relevant literary experiences for students. I like to say Google Lit Trips “3-dimensionalize” the reading experience by placing readers “inside the story” traveling alongside the characters; looking through the windshield of that old jalopy in The Grapes of Wrath.

What Google Lit Trips AREN’T
Google Lit Trips aren’t like sparknotes and other resources that can be used to circumvent the need to actually do the reading. They are designed to stimulate higher level thinking skills and to connect the story’s themes and messages to the issues of the real world in which students live.

To go to the site click here.

Science and Cooking

I have posted about MOOCs before. See Thursday May 2 by clicking here.  Harvard has a course that starts next week for "audit" or for "certificate" (remember free) on Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science.  You can see this by clicking here.  The course starts Tuesday October 8.  

Ipad debacle in Los Angeles Schools

Technology in the classroom is great as long is there is adequate training for students and teachers.  Smartboards, laptops and Ipads can be a great tool.  The Los Angeles school board however has got themselves into a bit of a mess lately.  To read a couple of articles about this click here and here.

My Study Life

This is an online, IOS or Android planner for students.  There are many of these out but this one is free online and is a Windows 8 friendly app.  Click here to get more information.

Hockey Fitness

From

I am sure that Hockey Fitness could be worked into a fitness unit in Physical Education.

Click here to see section on Hockey Fitness.  If you would like to see the main section on the Science of Hockey, click here.