Newspaper Map

If you are teaching about another country in your class, you might find it interesting to pull up an  online newspaper from that country and have it translated into English (or French or Spanish or whatever).  Well Newspaper Map will do that for you.  First go to the site by clicking here.  Next click on the Newspaper Map icon (like at the top of this post) in the top left hand corner to populate the global map of all the newspapers.   Next put your cursor on the map and move the map to center it and left click or scroll to zoom in on the coloured  dots/balloons  in the country or location you desire.  If you click on them a box should open up with the newspaper's name and the language you would like it to translated to.  Done.  Seeing that today is Halloween, I selected Transylvania Romania to see what I would get.  See below.

Piclits

I posted this last school year but I thought it deserved another go this school year.  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.

Would You Rather again

On November 6 2017 I posted about "Would You Rather" a website that asks students to pick between one of two real life options and justify their work.  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.

Halloween STEM activities

Halloween is around the corner and if you are teaching STEM (or Foods) there might be a couple ideas in here to get you ready for the 31st.  To see the ideas click here.

Worldmapper

According to their website, "Worldmapper is a collection of world maps called cartograms, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest." For example of a cartogram, below is one showing births.   To see the website click here.

Global Poverty

Through the use of storytelling, videos, and interactive maps, ESRI  takes a look at one method of measuring global poverty.  From their site, "This measure, called the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), addresses poverty through an integrative approach."

According to Maps Mania, "The Global Poverty Map provides a number of global views of poverty based on the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The map provides an overview of poverty around the world based on the 2014 Global MPI findings, with each country shaded on the map based on each country's MPI score.

The map also includes a map view based on the three main dimensions of the Index, health, education, and living standards. For this layer of the map countries are colored to show the predominant dimension of poverty in each country."

To see the website click here.

Day of the Dead Activities

With Dia De Los Muertos coming up I thought I would repost  about this site I posted about a couple of years ago but it is still something that would be great to use in Spanish class.  To see the site click here.

Anatomy Quiz

Seterra offers Geography games but I am going to point out that they have Anatomy quizzes too.
You can have your students point and click at the parts of the human anatomy or parts of the cell etc.
To see the site click here.  I just did the bones quiz and mixed up tibia and fibula.  Oh well more practice needed.

Viewpure

If you show youtube videos in your class but hate the comments, sidebars and other distracting material then you might want to use viewpure.  Just pop in the URL and hit the Purify button and you will get your video on a white background.  To see the website click here.

Hand-Sewn Portraits

From the website Colossal, "Embroidery artist Sheena Liam hand sews images of women whose hair seems to gracefully dangle from each of her 2D surfaces, Liam using black thread as a substitute for her subjects’ long locks."  To see the website, click here and  here.

Flu Season

The following embedded video is why you need a flu shot and is brought to you by TED-ED.  If you would like to see the lesson plan associated with this video click here.

Edgar Allan Poe

With Halloween coming up, I always think of E.A.P. and The Raven.  To see what I posted previously about him click here.  I also love to look at Homer's version of The Raven.  See below.

Graph Paper and Grid Images

The name says it all.  My daughter is taking grade 10 math and she was in dire need of graph paper.  Rather than try and draw it on regular lined paper or run out and by a pad of graph paper this site has the different type of papers you will need.  If you are graphing parabolas, trig functions or just listing a table of values and the associated graph, it is all there.  This site will have graph paper that you could use for science experiments.   Click here to see the website.

Factitious

If you are teaching fake news in your classroom, here is a simple game that asks students to read an article and then look at the source(s) to decide if it is real or an "alternate fact".  To see the site click here.

Bias and TED ED

If you are teaching about bias then you might want to look at using some of these TED ED videos.

To see the above TED ED webpage click here.

To see the above TED ED webpage click here.

To see the above TED ED webpage click here.

Fake News?

If you are teaching about bias and fake news with your students you may want to have them look into this Chrome extension.  According to their site, “your first step in the fight against fake news. Trusted News uses independent, transparent, and neutral sources to assess news sites. We aim to help you cast a more critical eye over the news by rating for fake, questionable or trustworthy news. Using a simple notification system, the extension flags the trustworthiness of the site. Check at-a-glance if a site is reputable or not. Trusted News also highlights satirical and user-generated content.”  To see the site to get the extension, click  here.  To see other posts I have put out on fake news (alternate facts) click here.  You may also want to look at the collection of sites put together by Glen Wiebe on Fake News by clicking here.

Shakespeare Uncovered

PBS Learning Media has a set of videos geared to high school students.  Some of the videos examine "Parent Child Relationships", "Gender Roles", "Grief and Loss", "The Role of Women" and many more.  To see the website click here.

Unraveling the Unit Circle Using Spaghetti

If you are teaching how to graph the sine and cosine function here is a nice and possible messy way of doing this for you students that they should find fun.   The video that is  posted on their website can be found by clicking here or looking below.

Random Name Selector

If you need to pick a student at random from your class, here is a website that will let you do that rather easily.  Just type in your student's names or better yet copy and paste them in.  See the 1 minute video I made to show you how the site works.  Click here to go to the site.

The Science of Food

The U of Nottingham has posted 14 videos about the Science of Food.  If you are teaching Foods or Sciences this may be something to look at.  To see the site click here.

Primary & Secondary Sources

If you teach History or Social Sciences and are teaching a unit on Primary and Secondary Sources, this site might be for you.  Jill Weber, 2016 Kansas History teacher of the year is highlighted on History Tech and her lesson on Sources is shown.  To see the website click here

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Interpreting Graphs Literacy Tests

Ms D. Fougere emailed me about this website.  It is called Turner's Graph of the Week.  I think it would be great for your students to use to prepare for the OSSLT or other literacy tests where they might be asked to analyze a graph to answer questions.  To see the website click here.

NASA's Interactive Solar System Exploration

If you are teaching anything about the solar system you might want to check out NASA's interactive solar system exploration website.  There is information about our solar system, its planets, their moons, its guests such as asteroids, meteors and comets and other information.  To see the site click here.