Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs

If you teach English you might want to check out Laura's blog.  It is fabulous.  To see it click here.  She also has a Youtube channel that you can see by clicking here.  She has a Teachers Pay Teachers page that has free stuff too.  You can see this by clicking here.  She has a  free slideshow (if you have a TPT account which is free) on Introductory and Concluding paragraphs with a youtube video for each.  Click here and here. 

Fire Lab

If you teach science you might be interested in Fire Forensics produced by Underwriters Laboratories.  According to their website "Join us at UL’s Fire Lab to work side by side with fire scientists through a series of videos, interactive tools and experiments. You’ll learn how fire is defined, how it develops, and how the evidence left behind suggests how and where it started. Once trained, you become the fire investigator who determines the cause of a fire using the scientific method to establish a claim based on evidence from the scene!"

Interactive Periodic Table in Pictures and Words

I posted last month a couple of very good sites about interactive periodic table sites.  To see them click here.  This is another one but it is not as fancy in a good way.  It shows a picture of a common everyday item that the element is used in and a basic description of the element.  To see the website click here.  You might also go to their home page and scroll down to see some of the other things they offer like element cards and other printables.  If you would like to see the other posts I have done on periodic tables just type "periodic table" in the search box in the top left corner.

Hacking STEM

Hacking STEM is brought to you by Microsoft and is meant to provide teachers with an inexpensive way to deliver hands-on STEM lesson.  From their website, "Browse our library for downloadable, hands-on, teacher-tested projects and activities that use everyday materials to make STEM affordable, accessible, and fun for everyone.".  To see the website, click here.

If you teach Economics this site might be for you.  Just search the term you need such as "cost benefit analysis" and you will get the videos that pertain to your query.   It will also give you a definition of the economic term searched.  It will list all the shows that have that term.  To see the website click here.  I posted about this site on May 29 2013.  You can see that post by clicking here.

Shakespeare Insult Kit

My daughter texted me with a Shakespearean insult , "Thou art a saucy, tickle brained, nut-hook.  How dare thou bit thy finger at me".  I  had to look it up.  I found the Shakespearean Insult Kit that you might use with your class if it is their first time seeing Shakespeare.  To see the insult kit click here.  I found the image below at this site and used Background Burner to remove the background from the infographic.  If you want to see my blog  about Background Burner click here.

VR Hangar from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

This free app is now available for your Iphone or Android device.  There are three virtual reality tours available from the Smithsonian air and space museum.  They are: The 1903 Wright Flyer,  Chuck Yeagar breaking the speed of sound and  Apollo 11.  You can see these VR tours by clicking here. 

Endangered Wonders of the World

These monuments at risk, have been 3D digitally archived.  On Google Arts and Culture you can look at Open Heritage by clicking here.

Tasteatlas

If you are teaching a foods class you might want to check out Tasteatlas.  Tasteatlas is an interactive map that shows traditional foods from the area you select.

TED - ED and Ancient Rome

If you teach history and are doing anything on Ancient Rome there is a new TED Ed lesson on "The Day in the Life of a Roman Soldier".  The whole lesson along with the video can be found by clicking here.  If you are interested in this TED Ed Lesson, there is a much older one called "A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome" and can be found by clicking here.  

1.7 Billion Stars - Interactive Image

If you are teaching a unit on space science or astronomy you might want to look at the interactive image of 1.7 billion stars taken by European Space Agency  craft Gaia.  According to the article in VOX, "This database is not just for making pretty images. It also contains information on the distance, motion, and color (useful in determining temperature and age) of about 1.3 billion of the stars. It’s a 3D, moving atlas of the Milky Way."  To see the interactive map click here.

Comic Math - Calvin and Hobbes

If you teach math , and would like a comic for your lesson then try this website by clicking here.  They have listed with links to all the Calvin & Hobbes comics that have math involved.

PTable - Interactive Periodic Table

Last week I posted about an interactive periodic table game, click here to see that post.  Today I am posting about another great Periodic Table website that Mr Dupuis at my school told me about.  This interactive site allows you to mouse over an element and you will get different information based on what tab you are in.  Information such as Properties, Orbitals, Isotopes and Compounds.  If you are in the  Wikipedia tab and click on an element you will have a little box pop up with a Wikipedia entry on that element.  To see the website click here.

WikiWhere

This is a Geography guessing game.  You are given three clues that are taken from Wikipedia about a major city in the world.  You then click on the globe to select the city.  You are then shown how far off you are.  To see the site click here.

The Math Contest

The Math Contest is back from Ole Miss University.  They put up a weekly question on Monday morning at 9 am EST.  If you get it correct they post your name.  When I taught math, I would use the question for a bonus mark.  The first person that had their name on the list and could also explain to me how they got their answer would get a bonus mark.  The website can be found by clicking here.   Yours truly made had one of the top 10 quickest answers up this week.

Grammarly

This is a free Chrome addon.  It will detect grammar errors, spelling errors and other errors in your writing.  To see Grammarly click here.