The Rock Cycle

Here is  a 2 minute video on the Rock Cycle: Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks.  To see the video click here.

March Music Madness in Your Language Class

It is almost March and you know what that means!  March Reading Madness.  I do March Reading Madness in the library and I thought this would be a cool idea in Spanish Class (or any other language course).  Below is the bracket for 2016.  To see the website click here.  Have your students listen to a few different songs per class for a week and then they can vote each class and you can post the winner up each day after all your classes vote.  Have fun.

Here are the songs for 2017:

La Carretera – Prince Royce

Ya no me duele más- Silvestre Dangond

Héroe Favorito – Romeo Santos

Olvídame y Pega la vuelta – Marc Anthony y JLO

Quisiera - CNCO

Sofía – Alvaro Soler

Fuego - Juanes

Dueles – Jesse & Joy

Carnaval - Maluma

Otra Cosa – Daddy Yankee, Natti

Sigo extrañandote – J Balvin

Andas en mi cabeza – Chino y Nacho

Limonada – Kany García

Gozadera – Gente de Zona

Lo Siento – Tomas the Latin Boy

Sola – Becky G

3-D Paper Dissection Models

Dissection, you either love it or hate it.  I just thought I would post another option for some of your science students.  You can buy their 3D cut out models for your students to "dissect".  You can print out a class set or as many as you want from their Teachers Pay Teachers site.  They also include power point   slides with their download.  To see their site click here.  You might want to search around their website as they have many other great ideas.

Grade Proof

Before your students hand in their papers have them get it proofed for spelling, vocabulary and grammar for free by using the free version of Grade Proof.  To see the website click here.

Net Neutrality using the "Whopper"

It might be a bit late but if you are teaching about Net Neutrality in your class, the following Youtube video using The Whopper as an example will demonstrate the Net Neutrality very well. 

History with Tom Richey

I have discussed his website in the past.  To see them click here and here.   He does such a great job that I think I need to point out his website again.  For teachers he posts many power points for history courses for free or very minimal cost.  I am talking $7 for a set of 7 really good power points.  For students and teachers he has some great study guides and videos.  Search around his website and you will NOT be disappointed.  To see his site click here.  

French Conjugation Dice

If you want to have your students practice their conjugation, I found these dice outlines on Cartable et récré that you can have your students roll.  For the verbs to conjugate you might want to look at this.

Would You Rather revisited

On November 6 2017 I posted about "Would You Rather".  To see the post click here.  I thought I would post about John Stevens blog that dwells into some of these Would You Rathers.  If you teach mathematics you might want to look at the Would You Rather website but also Chris Hunter's blog.  To see his blog click here.  He also has an interesting twitter account.  You can see it by clicking here.

Pinetools - Censor faces on photos

I needed to post a picture of my library with some students hard at work but wanted to blur any faces for anonymity.   I found a nice website that not only blurred faces but had many other tools available.

To see the pixelator  click here.  If you want to see all the other things other than image alteration tools click here.

Wireless Philosophy

If you teach a course that involves logical fallacies, you might want to check out wireless philosophy.  They have many well produced animations to show such topics as: critical thinking, ethics,  the history of philosophy, the philosophy of religion and political philosophy.  Take a look by clicking here.   I would also like to wish my wife a happy birthday. 

Colonial Independence of Africa

If you are teaching Geography or History of Africa here is a map of the nations of Africa and the year of their colonial independence.  Oh so recent.  To see the website click here.

Rewordify

According to Teachers First, "Rewordify helps you understand what you read. Paste any text or website into the box to rewordify the text into simpler language. Easier to understand words replace difficult text shown with highlighting. Click on the highlighting to view the original, more difficult word(s). View excellent student and teacher demonstrations showing how to use the website. You have the option to choose how Rewordify displays the results using the options in the settings. Several options allow for easy personalization of results".  To see the rewordify website click here.

If you have different level readers in the same class, this might be a quick way to differentiate what they are reading.  Just copy and paste the text in the yellow box.  If you are teaching ESL/ELL students this site might come in handy.

Cell Transport & Tonicity Doodle Notes

Sandy Jacobs has a nice blog article on "creating foldables, graphic organizers, sketch notes (completely their own ideas) and doodle notes (my ideas)" for Cell Transport & Tonicity.   Above is the blank and below is what the students do as the teacher presents the lesson.  Click here to see Sandy's page "We Teach High School" .

Games to Improve your Typing Skills

There are many online games to improve your typing skills.  Here are a few:

1) Z-type 

To see this site click here.

2) Nitro Type 

To see this site click here.

3) Alphabetic Rain 
To see this site click here.

4) The Typing of the Ghost Game

To see this site click here. 

5) Typing Club 

This isn't a game but a series of lessons that helps you work on just a couple of keys then build.  To see the website click here.

Perspective and Shape from Shading

The following video on Perspective and Shape from shading.  Saw this on Twitter (actual redditt but it was originally on  Daniel Willingham's Twitter).

Perspective and shape from shading, via @reddit pic.twitter.com/O1gWTmcqEh

— Daniel Willingham (@DTWillingham) December 15, 2017

War Propaganda Posters

I have previously posted about war propaganda posters.  To see them click here and here.  Today I am posting about two more websites that have war propaganda posters.  One is from  Learning NC and the other is from Smithsonian.com.  To see these ones click here  or here.

Virtual Walking Tour with Google Maps in the Spanish Class

Looking to get your Spanish class (could also be your French  or German class) out of the classroom and into the computer lab?  This assignment uses Google Maps and might be just the thing for you.  If you go to the website, you will see the instructions below and a template for the students to use.  All they have to do is go to Google Maps and take a screen shots from street view of an appropriate scene.  To see the website click here.

Math, Science, Music

Maybe the site should be labelled Music Math Science but it is worth looking at.  From their site, "For Herbie Hancock, the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, inspiring young people to learn about math and science through music has been a life-long dream. For him, there is a profound connection across the disciplines and a way to ignite passion for challenging concepts through music. This was the foundation of the project of Math, Science and Music."  To see the site click here.

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

As a teacher would you like to learn for free?  This is a very popular podcast site for teachers.  I am sure you will come away with something as there are over 80 podcasts.  Click here to see the site.

Respectfully Disagree

If you are teaching a controversial topic or something where students might vehemently disagree with the other person discussing their opinion, you might want to look at this site from Teens Health.  It is titled, "5 Ways to (Respectfully) Disagree" and can be found by clicking here.  You might also want to look around their website if you teach Food, Fitness or Health class as they have information there also.  If you teach Spanish, you can click on the "en español" box to get the article in Spanish.