World's Largest Rube Goldberg Machine

I know I said I was not posting until the New Year but I saw this World's Largest Rube Goldberg Machine Lights a Christmas Tree and I just had to share.  If you are teaching science here you go.

Prepfactory

Do you or your students need help prepping for the ACT, SAT or  Middle School English, Math or Reading.  Prepfactory has organized videos for reviews and then tests.  Give it a  try by clicking here.
This will be the last post until January 9th 2017.  Have a great winter break.

Day Drawing Challenge

This might be good for your art class to do over the winter holiday.

Indie Writer's Deathmatch

I usually don't post two posts in one day but I just saw this contest and there is only one week left so I will post a second post today.  If your students write short stories you might want to have your best submit by clicking here.

Build a Wall

In June of 2015 to be president-elect Donald Trump said the following:

Well if you are teaching Geography or Current Issues, there are many walls being built.  Check out this short video.

Stephen King's Tips on Writing

You can visit Stephen King's website by clicking here.  Here is an infographic from him.

Periodic Table Game

I have posted several different periodic table posts.  Just type in "periodic table" in  the search box in the top left of my page and you find many of them.  Today's is a game which might be great as a review.  Try it out by clicking here.

Grosvenor Teacher Fellow Program

From Richard Byrne, The Grosvenor Teacher Fellow Program is now taking applications from US and Canadian teachers interested in field work expeditions to places around the globe.  The entry deadline is the end of this month.  To see the entry information click here.

Wages and Me

If you are teaching a course in Careers, Personal Finance or Mathematics this lesson might be for you.  The Wages and Me lesson click here.  One of the links in this lesson points to the US Department of Labor Occupational  Employment Statistics.  You can see that page by clicking here.

Teaching History

This website is authored by Jonathan Burack.  Material is arranged under the three categories of: Teaching Materials, History Content and Best Practices.  To see the website click here.

Literature Map

If you have a hard time finding books for your students to read, this site might help.  Type in the name of an author that they like and it will produce a map of similar authors.  To see the site click here.  Below is one produced for the author Steve Berry.

Trigonometric Functions using real world examples

Kathy Stevens from Calgary Alberta had her students involved in a series of labs that highlighted trigonometric functions.  If you are teaching a course that deals with drawing sinusoidal curves this might be a good watch.  Just click on the Watch on Vimeo button below.

Credo

Want a new place for your students to start a research project?  Well Credo might be the place.  It is a search engine of encyclopedia entries.  When you click on a result it gives you a summary of the article in the encyclopedia, a list of related terms and copy and paste citation in MLA, APA, Chicago and Harvard format.  Check it out by clicking here.

Silhouette collage art

The following Silhouette collage art lesson is from Christine Theodore.  The students used flashlights to trace each others silhouette then covered them with magazine clippings with words that described themselves.  I think this could work with Tagul as a word cloud after the silhouette image has been placed in Tagul.