YouHue - Emotionally Healthy Classrooms

According to their website, "YouHue is a classroom app that uses mood tracking to empower students to understand their emotions so they can better manage and communicate them.
Data from YouHue gives teachers insight that can be used to support student learning, identify and address issues, and build more meaningful relationships.
How students feel has a big impact on how they behave and how they learn.  YouHue makes emotional wellness an everyday practice, in school and beyond, to provide the foundation for social-emotional skills, growth mindset, and communication of needs."

To see their website click here.

TeachPhysEd - Benjamin Pirillo

If you are new to teaching Physical Education and would like to see videos  or lesson plans you can check out Mr. Pirillo's webpage, youtube channel and twitter account.  His webpage has a nice section on equipment hacks.  

Anne Frank house online exhibition

Google Arts and Culture has released an online exhibition of the Anne Frank house.  You can see this virtual exhibit by clicking here.

Quickcite

I have posted about many websites that you can use to do citations (use the search box in the top left corner to find my other posts on bibme, easybib or just put in citation) so here is another one called Quickcite.  Here is what they say about their site, "Simple and easy attributions for images, quotes, videos, and animations used in projects like slideshows and websites."  To see the webpage click here.

Beaker Chemistry App

Would you like to virtually mix chemicals on your android or ios device?  Well the Beaker app might be for you.  To see the website click here.

Bouncy Balls

Is your class to noisy?  Bouncy Balls is a graphical sound meter that you can use in your class.
To see the website click here.

Owning A Car - A Personal Finance Lesson

Many students think all they have to do is raise enough money to buy a used car and they are all set.  Not thinking about insurance,  repair expenses, etc.  Here is a website that has a 45 minute personal finance lesson plan for you to use.  To see the webpage click here.

Map Maker Interactive

Just like scribble maps I posted about before (click here) National Geographic MapMaker Interactive is a digital map making tool.  To see how to use it watch the following video but watch it in the Youtube site and on the right hand side are plenty of other tutorials.  Map Maker Interactive can be found by clicking here.

Contexted - Mindmaps and more

Would you like to turn your notes into a mindmap?  If so you might want to look at Contexted.   According to their website, "Contexted is a text-first personal knowledge manager. It is aimed to be a great writing experience for your notes, with the ability to frictionlessly link them together into a web of knowledge. Get a helicopter view of your web of notes with mindmap visualizations. You can format your text with Markdown, too." 

 To see the website click here.

Data Is Beautiful

The following is from Sasha, a PhD student.  It is a timeline of internet browser usage.  If you go to the site called Data Is Beautiful on reddit you can find some other great visualizations of data.  To see the site click here.  According to Sasha, the website is "A place for visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but pretty pictures are not the aim of this subreddit."

YO Teach

Yoteachapp is a backchannel tool offers interactive polls, drawing, messages, and more.  According to commonsense.org, "YO Teach! is a multi-featured backchannel web app where teachers create and moderate chat rooms for real-time digital interaction among students. Teachers choose the Create a Room option to create searchable or private rooms. Most teachers will want to enable the admin features, which require a password to delete posts, mute students, control room access, and use the interactive features. Teachers will have to enter the password again after setting up the room in order to make these features show up during moderation.

Kids access the rooms via a link, a QR code, or a numeric code. Once there, they can interact with teacher and peer posts by sharing text messages, replying to others' posts, voting, responding to polls, sharing and annotating pictures, and submitting drawings."

To see the website click here.

Reactions - Everyday Chemistry and Food

I posted about this PBS produced Youtube channel back in January of 2016 (click here).  It is a Youtube channel about everday chemistry.  One of the playlists  you might want to look at covers Chemistry and Food which can be found by clicking here.  If you would like to see all Reactions videos click here.

Digital Archive of The Windsor Star

Using Google Newspaper Archive (click here) I was surprised to see that they have 4297 archived issues of the   The Windsor Daily Star from July 31 1935 - November 13 1959 (click here) and 7505 issues  of The Windsor Star archived from November 13 1959 - December 31 1986 (click here).  Prior to Windsor amalgamating The Border Cities Star serviced Riverside, Ford, Walkerville, Windsor, Sandwich and Ojibway.  To see the 3538 archived issues from September 3 1918 - February 7 1935 click here.

Letterbox - A Word Game

This is a simple word game that you can play against a friend.  You are given 9 letters and you try and make as many words as possible.  Simple.  To see the website click here.

Turbulence - TED ED

Turbulence is all around us not just on airplanes.  This TED ED video along with the lesson plan might be used in your science class.  To see the TED ED page click here or just watch the video below.

Hacking STEM

If you haven't seen this site and you are a STEM teacher you might want to.  Lots of hands on lessons that do not cost much.  To see the website click here.

How does the stock market work? - TED ED

My son asked me how the stock market works as he started his first lawn cutting job this past spring/summer and has some cash now.  This video shows how it works.

The full lesson can be found by clicking here.

Scribble Maps

If you need to get a base map and annotate it or scribble on it, draw some line etc then this site is for you.  Here is what Edshelf has to say about Scribble Maps, "The easiest way to draw and share maps!

We have focused on making a tool that makes it ultra easy to draw on maps, we have polished the user experience using a large amounts of feedback from our users, and we continue to improve on a regular basis. The effort has paid off with Scribble Maps being used in grade school classrooms all the way up to Government agencies. In addition to being able to draw, with Scribble Maps you can:

Add Custom Images / Overlays
Place Text
Place Markers
Create custom widgets
Export to Google My Maps.
Export to Google Earth.
Save as KML/GPX/JPG
Create 3D JPEGs and Widgets
Send Maps to Friends
Print"

To see the website click here.  See the video below for a brief explanation of the website.

 

SafeShare

I posted this last year and back in 2016 but I think this is a post that you need to see if you use Youtube in your classroom and hate when another video starts at the end that might be inappropriate or the video suggestions on the right hand side might be distracting to your students.  Read my previous post below.

I was at a PD session on Friday and our VP showed a Youtube video.  At the end it put up a next video that was entirely inappropriate for what we were doing.  If this has happened before to you here is your solution.  I posted about SafeShare.tv on November 18 2016 but here it is again for you.  Remember the search box in the top left corner is your friend for previously posted material.  Safeshare will remove all Youtube ads and suggested videos which might not be appropriate for your students.  Just put the Youtube or Vimeo URL into the box and click the Generate Safeview button.  Your video will now show up on a SafeShare page that will ask you if you want to put a description of the video.  That is up to you.  Maybe you might want to put some questions there.  Hit the submit button.  You can now copy the new URL code at the bottom and use that to show the video to your class.    To see  what an old Youtube video of my son looks like on SafeShare click here.