World Geo Chat

If you are teaching Geography you will enjoy this blog that also has a twitter chat weekly every Tuesday at 9 pm EST.  To check out their webpage click here.  This will be my last post as tomorrow you should be writing your exams.  Good luck and check back on February 1st for another KCI Library post.

Purdue OWL and research projects

If you have been teaching high school English for any length of time you are familiar with Purdue Owl.  If not, this is a site you should definitely check out.  It has been around a long time and has withstood the test of internet time.  Your students that are writing research papers will be able to look at style guides for MLA, APA and Chicago.  The site also has many half hour activities on plagiarism.   Check out this great site by clicking here.

Science With Mrs. Lau

Mrs. Lau has a great site for ideas for teaching science.  After many pictures of her activities, she usually has a link to her Teachers pay teachers site.  Take a look by clicking here.  You might like the "Modelling Nucleic Acid with Pipe Cleaners, Beads and Paper Clips" activity.  To see the activity click here.  Another activity is  "Hands-on Biochemistry: Beads, Pipe Cleaners, and the clearest way to teach monomers and polymers!"  To see it click here.  Lastly for the Biology teacher, how about "How My Classroom Turned into a Giant Cell".  To see this click here.

Mind Maps by Bubbl.us

There are many mind mapping sites out there.  I  have posted many times about them.  You can find other ones by clicking here.  Bubbl.us is very simple.  To add  bubbles  just click on the plus sign and you will get another bubble.  To see the site click here.

Teaching Strategies for Literacy Skills

If you would like some student-centered teaching strategies to strengthen your students’ literacy skills then check out their website by clicking here.

Interactive Timelines

If you need a tool to make a timeline for your class you might want to check out this free website by clicking here.  According to their website, "TimelineJS can pull in media from a variety of sources. Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia, SoundCloud, Document Cloud and more!"

High Frequency Spanish Verb Unit

If you are teaching Spanish you might want to look at Allison's website. To get you ready for semester 2  here is a link to her first unit on "High Frequency Spanish Verb Unit to Start Spanish 1".  To see her site click here

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Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation using baseball

If you are teaching mean, median, mode and standard deviation you might want to look at the lesson from the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  To see the lesson and activity click here.  They also have other math lessons that can be found by clicking here.  They also have lessons on  Social Studies, Science and Arts.  To see these lessons click here.

Learning From Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes.  Even Elon Musk.  He is a South African born that moved to Canada at 17.  You might know him as chairman of Tesla Motors.  He also owns Space X, a rocket company.  Space X released a blooper reel of their previous failures.   Failures are something to learn from.  Elon knows.  This company has had some failures but is valued at around $20 billion.

Google Arts and Culture

If you are teaching any type of Arts, History or Fashion course you should check out this site.  Just make sure you navigate it by clicking on the 3 bars on the top left corner to bring down the drop down menu.

The drop down menu looks like this.  To see the website click here.

New Urbanism

In the 2017 APHG exam (click here to see the exam), there was a question that dealt with new urbanism and walkability.  This TED talk from Jeff Speck gives a good sense of what planners believe in new urbanism are trying to do.

The transcript of this TED talk can be found by clicking here.

PicLits

According to M.T. Christel, "To foster deep student engagement with images and their analysis, students can easily use the PicLit website, which provides a treasure trove of preselected images to examine for visual composition, emotional appeal and narrative potential. "  The site is like a meme generator but the pictures selected do not beg sarcastic comment but rather have high end aesthetic value.  Your students can select a picture and then drag and drop words or for older students select free-style  and type on there own.  The pictures to me, beg poetry.  See some student examples below.

To see the website click here.  For a 4 minute demo watch the video below.

High School Chemistry Apps

If you are teaching High School Chemistry you might want to check out these apps if you haven't already.  To see the website click here.