Mind Maps with Coggle

Mind Mapping and Concept Mapping is not a new concept but sometimes we forget to use this for our students that are for the most part visual learners.  I posted about a couple sites before for Mind Mapping.  To see that post click here.   Another one is Coggle.  See the video below on how to use this free site.  To see the website click here.

Memrise

Memrise is a tool to learn many different subjects.  It is part flash cards for review or learning.  It is part quiz.  I like this tool.  There a many premade categories with subtopics ranging from languages to science, math, history etc.  You can even make your own.  For example I looked under languages and found Ukrainian.  There are many science and math ones.

Memrise will give you one "term" with a definition  then when you are ready you will get a second "term" and its definition.  After that you will be quizzed.  More "terms" and more quizzing.  You get the picture.  I used "terms" in quotes as it could be a new word in Spanish, or a new word in Biology or a new graph in Functions etc.  Check it out by clicking here.

Geolover

If you are teaching a Geography or Travel and Tourism course you might want check out this website.  Use Geolover to plan and organize trips anywhere in the world. Mark places you like. Print to create your own travel map and guide. Click on a location, find sites of interest, and click "Add to my list." Click on your lists to view in map view and use other tools. Add your own places of interest easily.   To see the website click here.

Isn't that ironic?

 

Alanis Morrisette's song "Ironic" had no cases of irony, bad luck yes, but not irony.  See the last couple few paragraphs in the New York Times article here.  If you are teaching irony you might want to  play the song for your class as by now most of the kids will not have heard this once popular song.  Also you might want to use these slides from Laura Randazzo by clicking here.  You can also see her video below where she teaches a quick lesson (7:36)  using these slides.

Cells Alive

The site covers much information about cells and cell processes.   There are many interactive sections including cell cams, games, puzzles and more.    To see the site click here.

Student Handouts

Studenthandouts.com has many handouts at many grade levels in many subjects.  Even though most of them are at a grade school level, many of them will work in the grade 9-10 level in high school.  To navigate just look on the left side of the website to your subject. As of now science does not have much but history looks good.  To see the site click here.

Media History Digital Library

The Media History Digital Library (MDHL) is as The Donald says a HUGE archive of books, magazines about the history of film, tv and radio.  The search engine they use is called Lantern.  So if you need to search some history of media check it out by clicking here.

World Population History

If you would like to have your students see the correlation between human advances in Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, Health and the Environment and how it effected the population of the world you should go to this site.   Move the sliders at the bottom and/or click on the triangles at the bottom to see the population distribution throughout the world as well as an explanation of the critical  historic event that happened.  To see the site click here.

Super Heroes in the Spanish Classroom

I saw this one on Catharyn Crane's webpage.  If you are teaching Spanish she has a list of a bunch of Super Heroes names in Spanish.  She also has a game that she plays at the bottom of her post.  The first two are games on her teacher pay teachers page that cost a couple bucks for the digital download but the third one is free.  You can see her post by clicking here.

Mitosis vs Meiosis

Rick Groleau has a Flash slide show app on the NOVA Online site showing Mitosis vs Meiosis.  You can see the webpage by clicking here or the Flash slide show by clicking here.

Educational Videos

If you want an educational video this might be a site you want to check out.  For example if you are teaching the Careers course they have 110 videos on different careers.  You can see them by clicking here.    

Radio Garden - An Interactive Map of Radio Stations

This interactive map of the world shows green dots where they have radio stations you can click on to hear.  It could be great in a French or Spanish language class to click on a station in Paris or Barcelona or Quebec City or, well you get the idea. You might want to use this in your Music class or in an Current Events class to tune into a station near a location of interest you are discussing in class.  Enjoy.   To see the website click here.

Pic4Carto

If you are looking for some Creative Commons street level pictures of someplace you are studying in History, Geography, Current Events or even the setting in a realistic fiction novel you can try pic4carto.  It is a site that lets you zoom in on an area and then you pick a grid area of the location you are interested in and it will show you all the Mapillary, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, etc pictures available for that area.  Each grid area has a number on it that represents the number of pictures available for that area. Give it some time to load the stats of the number of pictures as it take a minute.  To see the website click here.

How To Avoid Very

This comes from the Grammarcheck website.  This would make a nice infographic posted in your class.

Pi Day is Coming

I have posted in the past about our very own Dr. Pretli's exploits with pi.  You can search Pi in the top corner of this blog for previous posts.  That being said you can click here to get all your Pi Day material.  The parody  video embedded below is from Fort Vancouver High School and is of the Eminem hit Lose Yourself (In the digits).

Proprofs

I saw a student studying for her Biology.  I had mentioned Purposegames in December on my blog before for this but this site looks pretty good too.  There are many different topics and the tests look fine.  Now you can pay and make your own tests but just to get your students a place to review this site will do fine.  To see the site click here.

Evaluating a News Article

From Easybib, (they also have a nice article you can see be clicking here).  Also see my previous post on Fake News on February 15 2017 by clicking here.  This infographic and other resources can be found on the Easybib site by clicking here

The True Size of

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Overlapmaps.  To see that post click here.  Here is another site that does the same type of thing.  I selected Belgium and it shows Belgium outlined in blue.  You can zoom in if you would like by using your mouse.

I then clicked on Belgium and dragged it over to Canada and placed it near my home town and then zoomed in on it.

To see the website click here.