Online Paraphrasing Tool

If you would like your students to practice summarizing so they do not plagiarize then this might be the tool for you.   Take any text and paste it in the first box then have the students paraphrase in the second box.  Then watch the third box for parts that are too similar.  To see the online tool from Wenatchee Valley College click here.

This timely article on fake news by Scott Bedley talks about how he has his students look at articles found online.  Even though this was his 5th grade class, the information is pertinent for high school students.  To see the article click here.  I have also previously posted on fake news which can be seen by clicking here.

A Lesson about climate change and the people already harmed by it

Here is an article with some lesson plans/activities that your students can do on Climate Change.  The article is produced by the New York Times and can be seen by clicking here.

Periodic Table of Story Elements

Yesterday I posted about the Periodic Table Battleship, now here is another one.  From Barbara's website, "The merger of Science and Literature results in some very interesting time consuming things."  Here is here Elements of Story telling presented as a Periodic Table.  To see her website click here.

Periodic Table Battleship

Battleship can be used as a review or a way to introduce the students to the Periodic Table.  To see how to build this and play, click here.

Symbaloo

If you bookmark a billion different sites you find you might want to try symbaloo.  It is a visual way of organizing all the sites that you find or a way of curating sites for your students.  To see symbaloo click here.  To see an example of how a high school organizes their teachers webmixes by department click here.

World Book Day & UN English Language Day coming up

UNESCO has proclaimed April 23 to be World Book Day.  To see their site click here.  Some resources from the Arts Council of England can be found by clicking  here.

Reading Like a Historian by Stanford

Stanford has 37 lesson plans in their world history section that you might be interested in using in your class.  Check them out by clicking here.  They also have many US history lessons too.

The Simpson's in French / Spanish Class

Even though this is probably at too juvenile a level for high school French, I am sure you might get away by changing it for our introductory Spanish class.  Just a thought.  You can find the original by clicking here.

Distributive Property

If you are new to teaching the distributive property this might give you another way of looking at it.  To see Ms. Yenca's way of presenting the distributive property click here.

Mindomo mind maps

The other day a colleague of mine was asking about mind mapping software.  I suggested Coggle, which I posted about 2 weeks ago.  To see that post click here.  At the time my 11 year old son was with me in the staff room (a long story) and suggested Mindomo.  We both looked at him and then checked it out.  Well you know, this is a great mind mapping site too.  To see the site click here.  

They also have there own interactive tutorial which you can get by clicking here or just watch the video below.

Critical Thinking

From their website, "Critical Thinking is a name for the basic method for doing philosophy.

How do arguments work?
What makes an argument good or bad?
How can you apply it?"

Their website has many videos on critical thinking but many other categories.  To see their critical thinking site click here.  You can also go to their youtube channel by clicking here.

Space Hopper

A locational knowledge quiz for Geographers.  I have posted about GeoGuessr back in 2013.  Click here to see my post about it.  Today I have another Geography game based on Street View.

From there website, "Study the place shown in the photograph. Where is it on the big map?
Try interacting with the image or slideshow to look for more information about the location.
Find the location on the map and click the red dot to make your choice, then check your answer. Remember that there are clues to help you."  To see the website click here.

Words to Use Instead of Great

Here is another infographic from Grammar Check

Cell Biology Animation

This site by John Kryk provides wonderful animations of cell biology.  It explains cell functions and constituent parts.  The animations are accompanied by step by step explanations.   To see the site click here.

Worksheets with Wizer

Worksheets rarely get your students excited.  In fact most students think worksheets are 

 

Well you might want to try Wizer as it is an online interactive worksheet maker and more.  Here are some of the tasks that you can do:

Open question:  open ended questions that give your students a text box to type in their answers.
Multiple choice: multiple choice questions where student click on the right answer
Blanks: Students are given a number of sentences or passages that you have typed in and students must provide the missing words
Fill on an image: This allows you to upload a picture and students have to type in their answers on the picture( example: label the parts of a plant)
Matching: This task allows you to type words to match ( example: match the words to their definition)
Table: Allows you to add tables easily to your worksheet.
Text:Allows you to add text
Image: allows you to add pictures to your worksheet
Video: Allows you to add youtube videos to your worksheet
Link: Allows you to add links to outside websites to your worksheet
Embed: Allows you to add anything that has an embed code( ex. google maps, vimeo videos, padlets, etc)into your worksheet

To see the website click here.  Below is a 5 minute tutorial on how to use wizer

Loopy

  LOOPY, is a tool to build your own systems. No programming required. Just click-and-drag things and press play.

To see the website click here.  Make sure to look at the examples by clicking the Example button.

Historical Guru

This site has a US and World history tabs but what I really liked about it was the article on "33 Images Show a Unique Side of History You Probably Didn't Know".  There are some great historical pictures.  There are more than 33 pictures, I believe 71 when I last looked at it.  To see the site click here.

Nicola Tesla with his Tesla coil

Hiroshima victim's nuclear shadow

Novel Activities

I know some of our English teachers do some of these things mentioned in this blog.  If you are teaching a novel in your English class you might want to try these activities  by clicking here.

How Many Soda Combos Are There On A Coke Freestyle?

If you teach math that involves combinations, you might want to look at this lesson.  To see it click here.  He also has many other great lessons organized by grade.  To see these lessons click here.