Salmon Cannon

Migration patterns for these salmon have been altered by an impassable dam.  Here is a video of the solution.  I am sure this could be used in a class that involves current events.

Open Middle - Math

Challenging Math problems worth solving.  These might be great to do as group work.  Each come with hints and answers.  Here is an example from high school.  To see the website click here.

Here is another example

World Aids Day December 1st

This website is designed for English Language Learners and could be used for World Aids Day on December 1st.  To see the website click here.

Indigenous Speakers

According to Google Earth "A shared language is one of the most important connections among groups of people. Not only does it create a sense of kinship, but it promotes a shared worldview through unique vocabulary and traditional sayings and songs. Yet many of the world’s 7,000 languages are in danger of disappearing; according to the United Nations 2,680 Indigenous languages are at risk."

To learn more watch the video and click here.

Most Dangerous Writing App

I posted about this in June but I thought I should put it out again as it is a site you should look at.  This website might be great to get your students writing.  You can ask it to give you a prompt or not.  You can set it to a preset time or preset number of words you must write for or it stops and you are finished.  When completed you can save your work in many different formats.  To see the website click here.

Pauses in Macbeth

Here is another resource if you are teaching Macbeth.  They are from GCSE Macbeth.  To see them click here.  I also posted some other resources a couple weeks back that can be seen by clicking here.

Surging Seas Risk Finder

If you believe in Global Warming (and you should) then you might want to see what your coastal area you live in or are studying will look like down the road just type in the name of the city in USA   To try this click here.  

Big Scrabble

If you want to play scrabble in class with your students this might be the way to do it with your class.  Just need a laminator and away you go.

Twelfth Night Resources by the Royal Shakespeare Company

I was looking for some resources for a colleague that wanted some for her English class.  I found this site that had some teachers resources.  According to their website, "Discover teaching ideas and lesson planning inspiration through our range of resources, activities and other supporting materials on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night."  To see the website by clicking here.

My Life Elsewhere

According to their website, "MyLifeElsewhere is a collaborative community that allows you to compare the country you live in with other countries around the world. We'll show you various statistics that differentiate your country from others, including cost of living, geographic size, and more. If you moved to another country, what would your life be like?"

To see the website click here.

Learn With News

If you teach English or Current Events, you may want to check out Learn With News.  This site has 3 different lexile levels for each article it posts.  After each article, it has a list of "Difficult Words" with definitions.  It also has "Match the Synonym" and a true and false quiz.  To see the website click here.

Mapping Inequality

According to their website, "The Digital Scholarship Lab develops innovative digital humanities projects that contribute to research and teaching at and beyond the University of Richmond. It seeks to reach a wide audience by developing projects that integrate thoughtful interpretation in the humanities and social sciences with innovations in new media."

To see the website click here.

Macbeth Resources

The following resources are provided by Matt Lynch.  To see them click here.

An Indigenous Way of Life Threatened by Oil Sands in Canada

This article in the NY Times was written in 2013 but I just read it recently and I thought it was worthy of reading if you are teaching Current Events or an Indigenous Peoples course. Included with the article is an 18 picture slide show.  To see the article click here.

Robo-Compass

If you teach math and use compass, ruler and pencil to bisect angles or create equilateral triangles or other geometrical constructions you might want to try robo compass.  To see the website click here.