Animated Videos with Tellagami

Last Friday I posted about animated videos with Powtoon.  This week I am posting about an App for Android and Ipad.   It is as easy as picking your character and its mood.   Place your character and pick your background.  You can draw and doodle as well as record your voice.  To see the website click here.

Google Docs and Writting Music

Do you use Google Docs?  Do you write music?  Well put them together and you have a free add-on.  

The add-on is called VexTab and the add-on can be found by clicking here.   If you would like more information or a tutorial on how to use it click here.

FreightGeist

Google's Frightgeist lets you track what costumes are trending across the US.  This could work into a bit of a Geography and Halloween lesson for those creative enough.  Check it out by clicking here.

40 ways the world makes awesome hot dogs

Here is another short post that I am not sure if it fits in a Geography Class or a Foods class but it makes me hungry.  Check out all the ways hot dogs are prepared around the world by clicking here.

Creative Writting Resource

I posted about this site back in September 2013.  They have a great collection of resources for your creative writting students.  Take a look by clicking here.

High School Chemisty with the Ipad

From Education Technology and Mobile Learning, "Learn how other teachers have taught chemistry with the Ipad and how you can integrate a variety of Pad content into your own chemistry classrooms.  You'll find examples of complete chemistry lessons to complement your instruction".  Click here to see the website.

Rick Riordan Mythology Writing Contest

If you want your classes to write, here is a contest that might work for you.

You can go to the Scholastic website by clicking here.

Animated Videos with Powtoons

On this site you or your students can create online animated videos and presentations.  To see the website click here.  Too see an example of a students work using PowToon see the embedded video below. 

Basketball Golf Lesson Plan

If you have been teaching physed long enough you probably have heard this one but I thought it was interesting.  This is reprinted from PE Central.

Thanks to Sandy Kupchick who teaches at Brandywine High School in Wilmington DE. 

The Great Depression

Are you teaching about the Great Depression in your History class?  I remember watching a video produced by PBS called "Surviving the Dustbowl".  I just noticed that they have a Teachers Guide for this documentary.  You can see it by clicking here.  The DVD can be bought from PBS by clicking here.  

From PBS you can also watch online their video about the Crash of 1928 by clicking here.  It is just a little under an hour long.

The Writer's Workshop

The Writer's Work Shop is a playlist on the Ted Ed Youtube channel.  This might be a nice place for your students to get a quick lesson.  As of now there are 20 videos.  Take a look by clicking here.

Pasta to Create Sinusoidal Waves

Here is a hands on wave to work with sine and cosine functions in your math class and all it involves is some pasta.  To see the article click here.

Food Capitals of Instagram

I am not sue if this fits in with a Geography class or a Foods & Nutrition class but I thought it was pretty cool.    Just click on your favourite food and you will see an interactive map that shows some great geographic application of social media data.  For example I picked Pierogi and it shows a map of the top tagged areas of the world as shown on Instagram selecting Pierogis.  It also has a list of the top 5 cities also.  Click here to see the webpage.

How not to be ignorant about the world

Professor Hans Rosling has another Ted Talk.  This video is a good introduction to the ignorance project which shows how outdated views of the world makes combating global ignorance challenging.   I have previously posted about Professor Rosling on February 26 2014 and again on March 6 2014.  Click here to see those posts. 

To go to the ignorance project website click here.

Free French Language Power Points

Most of these free powerpoint presentations are for K-8 but I am sure some might work in your grade 9 classroom.  Take a look by clicking here.

123D Circuits

 

This is a free site from Autodesk.   Your students and you can connect circuits on a simulated breadboard and test them.  They can learn to measure current or other things with a simulated multimeter.  To see the website click here.  You have to sign in to create stuff but it is free.  See the videos below for some great examples of what you can do.

Cross Word Puzzle Builders

There are many crossword builders out there but here are a few.

1) Edhelper has a free crossword builder that you can enter up to 30 words.  Click here to go to their site.

2) Just Crosswords has free builder and over 300 categorized crosswords for you.  

3) ReadWriteThink also has a free crossword builder and is a great site for reading across the curriculum.   I posted previously about this on February 5 2013 but I thought I would re-mention this one.

4) Armoredpenguin's builder allows you to print out a key and decide on the dimensions of the puzzle. 

Everyday items used as art

How many ways can you use strawberries or bananas as objects for art?  How about balloons?  Ask Vanessa McKeown.

In your art or photography class pick an object and see how many ways you can use it in a project.

To see Vanessa's work, go to her web page by clicking here.

Fences at the border

With the influx of migrants into Europe and the fences going up at Hungary's border this article written this summer might be topical for your Geography or current events class.

To see this Yahoo News article click here.

Trend Watch

Trend Watch is what word is trending in the news and pop culture.  Trend Watch gives a definition of the word, why it is trending, a picture showing the cause of trend or something that represents the word.  This site would be good for current events, like the article I posted about Newsela on September 8, 2015 (to see that post click here).  To see Trend Watch, click here.

Algebra 1

This is from mathispowr4u and it is a nice video library of Algebra 1 material.    The material covers straight lines and solving systems of  linear equations.  Take a look by clicking here.

Are you being evaluated this year?

If you are being evaluated this year, you may find this video funny.  The video is from BoomWriter and you can go to this site by clicking here.

The Iphone Economy

This article/video from the New York Times  discusses the US's shift from a manufacturing economy.  

To see the article/video click here.