Body Maps by Healthline

If you are teaching any kind of course that involves human anatomy such as Exercise Science this site could be great for you.  

You just select what part of the body or system you want to examine and then can rotate it around.  Both male and female maps are available and they are very anatomically correct.  You may want to discuss this with your class before letting them loose on the computers.  To see the Body Maps website click here.

Knowledge Forum Fact Sheet

The American Education Research Association has created some Ed Talk Short Videos, but what you might find interesting are the pdf Fact Sheets on educational related topics called Ed-Talk Fact Sheets.  To see the website click here.

Dollar$ and Sense

These pdf lesson plans on personal finance can be used in a business or math class.  They are about 30 minutes long and are produced by H & R Block.To see the lesson plan on budgeting click here.  To see the lesson on credit cards click here. To see the lesson on student loans click here.

Zombie Based Learning in Geography

With Halloween coming up I thought this might be appropriate.  I was reading an article on Edutopia about Bellevue Washington's Geography teacher David Hunter and his Zombie-Based Learning curriculum.  The curriculum has over 70 standards-based lessons. You can go to his site by clicking here.  You can also read the article about this course by clicking here.

The Geography of Horror

With Halloween around the corner I thought this site would be appropriate for Geography or Film study students and teachers.  Each map is broken down by decade.  It shows where each of the horror films took place on the map of the world.  Take a look by clicking here.

Choose My Plate, Mon Assiette, Mi Plato

This site is created by the United States Department of Agriculture.    The site promotes healthy eating.   You can Plan, Analyze and Track your food with Super Tracker.  There is a Tool Kit for teachers in My Plate, My State. To see the main webpage click here.  You may want to cursor to the bottom of the page to look at the Online Tools.   For the Spanish teachers, My Plate Daily Checklist is also available in Spanish.  To see it in Spanish click here.   For French or other languages click here.  Also there is a Kids State Dinner, which is a pdf booklet of student submitted recipes from all 50 US states.  It is described as a healthy lunchtime challenge.  To see this click here.  

The Concord Consortium

    

The Concord Consortium has as a goal to revolutionize digital learning in Science, Math and Engineering.  Their site has many interactive animations from various subjects.  Just click on the subject  area and grade and see what's there.  To see the site click here.

Kahoot

Many of you have used Kahoot.  If you never have,  then read  about it by clicking here.  Now Kahoot has a team mode which allows you to enter a team name as well as individuals and you will have more time to answer so your group members can discuss before answering.  Check out their main site by clicking here.

Newsela - Differentiated Reading, Current Events, Sports and even Spanish

Would you like to have your students read about Current Events, Science and Technology or Sports that are differentiated by reading level?  Each article has the same content but is differentiated at 5 different reading levels. You can also select the language of the article as either English or Spanish.
You might have to register to see archived articles but registration is free.  To see the website click here.

History Education MN - Primary Sources

I noticed one of our History teachers doing a few lessons on Primary Sources.  I thought that these videos might be helpful for teachers doing the same type lesson.   They are created by the Minnesota Historical Society.

If you would like to see their website click here.  They have material for students and teachers.

100 questions that promote discourse

Asking better questions can open up new doors for students.  This infographic by Dr. Gladis Kersaint from Ready Mathematics might be incorporated in your instructions.  They are good questions for other subjects besides mathematics too.  To see the printable 4 page version click here.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library makes biodiversity literature freely available .  You can search  academic topics with the search engine.  The also have an active Twitter feed. To see the website click here.

Ask Smithsonian

These videos are all around a couple of minutes long and might be used to introduce something you will be discussing in your class.  For example "What happens when you get a concussion?"
To see the website click here.

18th Century History Cooking Channel

Is it a History Channel?  Is it a Cooking Channel?  Maybe it is both.  This video channel is produced by Jas. Townsend and Sons Inc, a producer and retailer of 18th and 19th century clothing.  To check out their Youtube channel click here.

27 Ideas For Teaching With Topographic Maps

The USGS has 27 Ideas For Teaching With Topographic Maps.  You can see this by site by clicking here.

French Language Resources

This site has resources that include flashcards, word searches and Halloween vocabulary.  To see the site click here.

 

The Difference between Canadian and US Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

CK 12 Flexbooks

Flexbooks is a new open source model of textbook creation that will allow schools, teachers, parents and even students create custom textbooks.  Materials include simulations, PLIX (play, learn, interact, Xplore) and practice. They have materials classified by course and then by topic.  Some of these are quite good depending on course.  Take a look by clicking here.

Google Arts and Culture

On March 28 2013 I posted about Google Arts Project.  To see that post click here.  Mr E. was in the library the other day with his class and I saw that he was looking at the Palace of Versaille and I noticed that my link to Google Arts Project now brings you to the Google Arts and Culture site.  Wow is it much better.  There a ton of museums and places you can go using Street View.  You can go to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, The White House and of course the Palace of Versaille.   To search around go to Google Arts and Culture by clicking here.  Either go down to some of the Virtual Tours or go to the Search box in the top right hand corner and pick a museum you would like to visit.  If they are partnered with that museum they will have pictures of some of there works and they may have a circular picture with the word Explore underneath.  Click on this and you can roam around the museum.  For example the Field museum in Chicago is shown below.

World of 7 Billion video contest

They are running a video contest that puts together Geography, Science and Media Arts.  The contest will give out a top prize of $1000.  You have to produce a 60 second video about human population growth  that highlights one of the following: climate change, ocean health or rapid urbanization.  The deadline is February 23 2017.  To see the contest flyer click here.  To see the contest website click here.  There is also a teachers resource link on the contest website.  You might want to consider using Wevideo to create your video unless you are using a Mac.  If using a Mac you probably will be using iMovie.  Good luck.

Edgar Allan Poe

Halloween is this month so it reminded me that I posted about Edgar Allan Poe last year with a couple of sites that you might like to look at.  To see that post click here. I also like the Simpson's video of the Raven.

Cosmic Quest

The Canadian Heritage Information Nework has produced a series of webpages called Cosmic Quest.  If you are teaching Earth and Space Science you may want to look at this site.  Click here.