Financial Football

With the Superbowl this weekend maybe it is time for a little Financial Football.

 This approximately 20 minute long games tests students on financial management.  To see the site click here.

Practical Money Skills for Life also has games such as Soccer. To see this part of the website click here.

2020

From selfstorage.com
The following is for the US but the outlook for jobs might be of interest to some students.

Produced by SelfStorage.com. Copyright 2013.

Questions to Close an Activity

Here are some questions to ask when finishing off an activity.  Hope you will find a helpful one.

From Larry Ferlazzo.

* What are two things you learned ?
* What is the most interesting thing you’ve learned?
* Imagine a simile or a metaphor about what we learned .
* Think of one thing you have learned in class that you can apply in another class or another part of your life. What is it, and how can you apply it?
* What was your favorite activity in class ? Why?
* What was your least favorite activity in class ? Why?
* What would you tell your parents or guardians you did in class ?
* How would you teach one thing you learned to your little brother or sister (even if you don’t have one)?
These next questions are from Harvard’s Project Zero:
* How does something you learned connect to what you already knew?
* How did it extend your thinking further?
* What questions do you still have?
Here are some more shared by Zane Dickey, an IB teacher in Africa:
How will this help you change the world for the better?
How does this lesson help you to be an upstander?
How can you apply this lesson to your own life in a meaningful way?
What specifically would you add to this lesson that would appeal to you?
What Way of Knowing (WOK) did you utilize most ?
How did this lesson make you feel and why?
Summarize this lesson or skills learned in one sentence while smiling.
The next questions are taken from 2007 Foundation for Critical thinking Press http://www.criticalthinking.org
What did you learn that will help you act reasonably and effectively in your life?
How will this help you become a more proficient reader, writer, speaker, listener?
How will it help you improve the quality of your life and the lives of others?
How will it make you become reasonable and a fair-minded person?
How will it help you use your reasoning skills to contribute to your own emotional life and that of others?

From Zane Dickey

How will this help you change the world for the better?
How does this lesson help you to be an upstander?
How can you apply this lesson to your own life in a meaningful way?
What specifically would you add to this lesson that would appeal to you?
What Way of Knowing (WOK) did you utilize most today?
How did this lesson make you feel and why?
Summarize this lesson or skills learned in one sentence while smiling.
What did you learn that will help you act reasonably and effectively in your life?
How will this help you become a more proficient reader, writer, speaker, listener?
How will it help you improve the quality of your life and the lives of others?
How will it make you become reasonable and a fair-minded person?
How will it help you use your reasoning skills to contribute to your own emotional life and that of others?
How will it help you think, feel, and act effectively and with integrity?

Stage Fright

If you have your students doing presentations in class you might want to show them this TED - Ed video on being Stage Fright.

To see the TED - Ed page from which this video came click here.

Easy Class

If you do not have an online presence for your classes, this might fit the bill for you and it is free.  You can post material.  You can have students hand in assignments.  You can have class discussions.  A calendar of events for your classes can be posted.  Students can log in and take multiple choice quizzes and easyclass will mark it for you.  Easyclass has a place for you to store all your files.  Take a look at their site by clicking here.

Artsource Curriculum - Dance, Music and Theatre Unit Lessons

From part of a press release from The Music Center in Los Angeles in October:

"The Music Center’s Artsource units were adopted by North Carolina’s Department of Education, and, in 1995, The Music Center partnered with McGraw-Hill to integrate elements of Artsource into the publisher’s elementary, middle and high school visual arts textbooks. This collaboration produced textbooks adopted in California that were used in classrooms nationwide. In its most recent iteration, Artsource, including all units, is now available as a digital resource on The Music Center’s web site."

Furthermore the press release said "Each Artsource unit is enriched with audio-visual materials, examples of discussion questions and sample lessons. There are participation activities for three different levels of experience – beginning, intermediate and advanced. Units are grounded in the voice of the artists and provide a window into the artistic process."

This site has 30 Dance, 23 Music and 16 Theatre unit plans.  To see the website click here.

Top 100 historical figures

I noticed this on Time's website.  To see the list click here.  To see how the data driven analysis was done and to see a break down by categories such as actors, scientists, authors, etc click here.

World Data Atlas

World Data Atlas has statistics on every country in many different categories such as agriculture, transportation, economy, etc.

To view the website click here.

California Lawsuit Against Teachers

With our seniority list coming this week I thought this might be an interesting article about a lawsuit going on in California against teachers and their "tenure".  To read the article click here.

Allo Prof

The Quebec government has a Flash based website to help their students in all their courses.  This might be of use to you or your students.  Click here to enter their site.

School Lunch in France

If you are curious, here is a school lunch menu in France for the month of October.

Click here to enlarge

This comes from Karen LeBillon's blog on French School Lunch Menus which can be found by clicking here. It is quite extensive and it is all in English so it might be good for a Foods class.  She also posts weekly here.

Another Periodic Table

I have posted several periodic tables in the past, some funny and some interactive.  Click here for a The Periodic Table of Comic Books or here for the Periodic Table of Videos or click here to see the one by the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago's one.. This one is by Los Alamos (yep that is where The Bomb was built).  To see their periodic table of elements, click here.

AP Biology Test Review

I posted about this great science site before.  See May 7 2013 by clicking here.  He has a video now for the AP Biology Test.  Check out the following video where he goes over questions posed to him by students around the world.  It is over 50 minutes long.  This might help as a review at the end of the year.

Now if you go to his site, he has a great set of lessons for the whole course.  To see this click here.

Cartoon - Albert Einstein

A tweet from Simon Cooper.  Take what you want from it.

Alchemy Smart Binder

From their website, "Alchemy SmartBinder is the free, cloud-based lesson binder that allows teachers to build and deliver digital lessons to capture valuable data on student engagement and mastery".   You can share your lessons with students, teachers and parents easily.    This might be another way to organize your lessons too.  To see the site, click here.

Hangout Quest

Mr E wanted to know how to have a scavenger hunt in the Palace of Versailles.  Well this will do the job.

 

With Streetview technology you can challenge your friends and run around inside Versailles.  Just click here.

Google Timer

If you need a no nonsense timer in your class try Google.  See the screencast below.

Arts Alive - Music, English/French Theatre and Dance

This Canadian website has information on Music, English and French Theatre and Dance.   You can click on the links for Teachers, for Students or for Parents.  Are you interested in a career in Theatre?  If so they have a page on careers in Theartre which you can get by clicking here.  From their website:

"ArtsAlive.ca is a performing arts educational website produced by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The goals of ArtsAlive.ca are:

• To engage younger generations of Canadians in information, multimedia resources and activities pertaining to the performing arts, and
• To provide free performing arts-related primary and secondary resources to students, parents and teachers to aid them in learning about and teaching the topics presented.

ArtsAlive.ca is managed by the National Arts Centre New Media department."

To see the website click here.

Google Ngram Viewer

Well last week I posted about Google Cultural Institute.  Today I will post about something that Google came out with in 2010 but this simple online tool is still relevant as a tool for studying social relevance of words throughout history as recorded in books.  You can see the Ngram Viewer by clicking here. For example if we look at "men" versus "women", we see women started to catch up to men in the early '70s as feminism really took off and ten years later caught up.

There are other interesting things that can be looked at in your social science class.  To try yourself click here.  Why is dog always more popular in the written word than cat?  Easy, there are more dogs than cats! 

Not so fast buckoo.  It depends.   See the following data for the US from the petfoodinstitute.org

There are many others you can play around with in a truly scholarly fashion.  You would guess that Friday is the best day of the week.  Not so fast.

Many others can be found by clicking here.  As ususal TED ED has an awesome video about ngram as shown below.  If you have the time, you may find it enjoyable.  Well at least I did.

Wordcounter

Before submitting your next paper in to be graded, copy and paste it into this free website to see if you over use  certain words.  As the site says, maybe everything is a "solution" and you better find another way of saying that.  To see the site click here.  Other websites offer tools that you might want to use.  I posted on September 3  2013 one such site called Story Toolz.  Take a look at it by clicking here.

The Difference Between Inference & Prediction

I made a zoom.it of a great anchor chart from "Teaching with a Mountain View"

Algebra and Barbie

Barbie jumps off the roof but tries not to hit the ground.  In the following article students used the line of best fit to help them with this fun activity in their Algebra class.  To see the article click here.

Graphing Stories

If you are working on distance time graphs in your math or science class you may want to look at this site.  You can download the graph paper and one of many videos, then have your students graph the scenario.  To see the website click here.

Space Math @ NASA

From their website, "SpaceMath@NASA introduces students to the use of mathematics in todays scientific discoveries. Through press releases and other articles, we explore how many kinds of mathematics skills come together in exploring the universe

The problem sheets that they have are real world problems and include answer sheets.  I peaked at the Calculus section and some of the problems might be a tad advanced for some students but their were definitely some good sheets there.  For example "Rotation Velocity of a Galaxy #106".  This would make a nice sheet in Grade 12 Functions or in Calculus.  

To see their website click here.

Scholastic Ipad Contest

Check the link out by clicking here.

33 signs you are a new teacher

Well it is Friday so here goes.  If you are a new teacher you may enjoy this.  If  you are a seasoned veteran you may remember those days too.  Click  here to see this.

What does the fox say?

My kids love this song and yeah I am sick of it by now too.  This infographic triggered the association.  Okay, it's Friday.

Flipped Classrooms again

Last Thursday I posted about The Flipped Classroom, click here.  Today I am posting another article I just read about The Flipped Class: Myths Vs Reality.  To see the article from  The Daily Riff, click here.

Map Your Recipe

With this website you can enter a recipe and you can find out where the ingredients were first domesticated. You can type in your own recipe or use ones they already have.  Then you will see were the items were first domesticated on a map.  As an example, I put in the recipe for Perogies ( a Ukranian staple).  Here is the map I received.

Pursued

You have been kidnapped and tossed in the trunk of a car.  Eventually you escape but you do not know what city you are in.  Using Google Street View you have a limited time to try  and discover where you are.
Check out the embedded video below as I play the first level.  This could be great in a World Geography class or any class that uses Google Street View as a tool.

Just watched the video again and the other giveaway was the street sign in the last shot where I guessed the city.  To visit the site click here.

Google Cultural Institute

This is a great website for students and teachers of Art, Geography and History, among others.  This is an online site of historical and cultural people and places.  This is the place to "Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world.Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces."  To see the website, click here.

A reason to take French

I know this is not Canadian but take a look.

by noahsmith.
Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

Word Hippo

This site would be good for ESL students or other students who might need help with synonyms and/or antonyms.  This site also will translate words to and from English.  To see the site click here.

Body Maps

At this website you can look at different parts of the human body and rotate them around 360 degrees.  You can also look at a certain area of the body and then just look at the muscles, nerves and vessel or bones.  The different views would be great to use in an Exercise Physiology course that would like at anatomy or any science course that looked anatomy.  

Both Male and Female body maps are available.  You may want to know that these maps are very anatomically correct and therefore discuss this with your class before you let them loose in the computer lab.  To see the website click here.

Museum of Science goREACT

The Chicago museum of Science and Industry now has an  interactive periodic table where you can mix elements and see what happens.  

From their website:

·         Initiate nearly 300 virtual chemical reactions by dragging elements into the Reaction Area.

·         Amazing images and videos illustrate the molecules you create.

·         Select alternate views of the Periodic Table to discover different aspects of the elements’ chemical properties.

·         Touch any of the Periodic Table's 118 elements to see an image and fun fact about it.

·         With helpful hints about reactions to try, there’s always something exciting to explore.

·         “Featured Reactions” menus guide you through themed sets of chemical reactions related to particular applications, such as the environment, beauty products or cars.

·         Learn more about how the Periodic Table is organized, and follow links to additional educational resources.

You can also find the App on the Itunes store.  It is called goREACT and can be found by clicking here.  If you would like to go to the interactive website click here.