Stem - Fallen Person Detection System

 

A Maine high school student created a deep learning system that combines a small computer and a thermal camera to detect heat signatures of a fallen person and immediately text for help.   His hands-free detection system was able to distinguish among competing images to identify a fallen person at an average accuracy of 98 percent.  To read the article and see the video click here.

Teaching Advice

 

Larry Ferlazzo wrote an article in Education Week that had educators share their best advice received or given out about education.  It is worth the read.  Click here.

Mindmapping with Forky

 Do you want to create a mindmap?  If so I have posted about this several times.  Click here and here.     Today I am posting about another site called Forky.  It is free but you have to register.  To see it click here.

Women's History Month: Exploring the Life of an Engineering Pioneer

 

Continuing with yesterdays theme of women and STEM, here is an article on a pioneering women in the field of engineering.  To read it click here.

17 must-watch movies and TV shows with women in STEM

 

According to Kelly Woo, "Women in STEM often find that they’re few and far between in their workplaces — and on screen, in movies and television. Representation of women in science, technology, engineering and math fields has improved in the last few years, as more movies and TV shows put female characters front and center, but it could get better. "  To read the article click here.

Biology Junction

 

From Kevin Powell , "Biology Junction, an essential site dedicated to helping those doing advanced placement biology work in high school. I’m a former AP Biology student myself, who now dedicates my life and time in tutoring and providing successful strategies for passing this advanced course and earning college credit. Our site provides the best AP Biology review content and provides helpful information for both students and teachers of the subject."  To see the site click here.

City Guesser - Geography Game

 

This Geography game has been updated from street view pictures to videos.  They even have a category of Canada.  To see the updated site click here.

Customize Your Cursor

 

Would you like to customize your cursor?  Well with teaching your class virtually when you are sharing your screen with student it might make sense to make your cursor larger and maybe another colour.  To do this just go down to the search box in the bottom left hand corner of screen on the task bar where it says "Type here to search" and type "mouse".  

Click on "Mouse Settings".   

 In the top right you will see "Adjust mouse & cursor size".  Click on that. 

 Now move the slider to change the size of the cursor and you can select the colour by clicking on the box with the colour wheel.  Maybe pick an nice neon colour for your students to see.

Science Daily

 

Your source for the latest research news in Health, Tech, Environment, Society and also a Quirky category.  Probably a few things for bell ringers for your class.  To take a look click here.

Indigenous Youth Anti-Racism Program

 Welcome to Indigenous Youth Leading Youth (IYLY), an anti-racism program created by youth for youth! The IYLY program was designed in consultation with a youth advisory circle comprised of Indigenous youth from across Ontario. Indigenous Elders were also consulted to ensure the incorporation of traditional knowledge and teachings.  To see the pdf click here.

Classification in Biology using Shoes

 

Before studying taxonomy in your Biology class you might want to have your students do this classification lab with their own shoes.  To see the lab click here.

French Vocabulary Games

 

If you are teaching French and would like some online vocabulary games for your students click here.

Belated Happy Pi Day

 

My bad.  I should of posted this on Thursday so you could of done these fun activities on Friday with your students but so what, today can be Pi plus 0.01 day.  Check out some of these activities by clicking here.  

Power Point Presentations for Spanish Class

 

If you would like some Spanish power points for your class try some that are located at the following website by clicking here.  Make sure after downloading to run a virus scanner on them.  I try a couple and found no issues but I take no responsibility for you not scanning.

40 Maps that Explain the World

If you teach Geography then mapping activities are probably pretty important.  Even though these links are a bit dated, the ideas they represent could be valuable to your teaching and your students.  Check them out by clicking here and here.

 

The Physics Classroom

 

Last Wednesday I posted about oPhysics.  Hear is another Physics post.  The Physics Classroom is an online, free to use physics website developed primarily for beginning physics students and their teachers. The website features a variety of sections intended to support both teachers and students in the tasks of learning and teaching physics.  There are many tutorials and interactives here.  To see the website click here.

The Met Museum - Art Lesson Plans

 

The Met museum has art lesson plans for educators.  To see these lesson plans click here.

World Poetry Day and Social Justice

 

World Poetry Day is March 21 as declared by UNESCO.  There is a site that you might want to look at which is a great resource for Social Justice poetry including workshops.  It is called "Split This Rock".  According to their website, "Split This Rock cultivates, teaches, and celebrates poetry that bears witness to injustice and provokes social change. It calls poets to a greater role in public life and fosters a national network of socially engaged poets. Building the audience for poetry of provocation and witness from our home in the nation’s capital, we celebrate poetic diversity and the transformative power of the imagination.

Split This Rock explores and celebrates the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for change: reaching across differences, considering personal and social responsibility, asserting the centrality of the right to free speech, bearing witness to the diversity and complexity of human experience through language, imagining a better world.

Split This Rock is dedicated to revitalizing poetry as a living, breathing art form with profound relevance in our daily lives and struggles. Our programs integrate poetry of provocation and witness into movements for social justice and support the poets of all ages who write and perform this vital work.

The name "Split This Rock" is pulled from a line in “Big Buddy,” a poem from Langston Hughes.

Don’t you hear this hammer ring?

I’m gonna split this rock

And split it wide!

When I split this rock,

Stand by my side."

To see the website click here.

Learn With Google Arts and Culture

 

Google Arts and Culture came out a couple of weeks ago with a collection of lesson plans and more for teachers.  Take a look at the street view imagery and virtual tours.  There are many different subjects to see.  To take a look click here.

oPhysics

 

The oPhysics website is a collection of interactive physics simulations created by Tom Walsh.  Most of the animated illustrations and all of the interactive simulations on this site were created using the wonderful GeoGebra software.  To see the website click here.

Explore Biology

 

Here you will find resources to help you teach biology at the high school level. There are tons of power points/lecture notes available for AP Biology.  To see the website click here.

Balancing Act

From their website, "Welcome to It's Elemental - Balancing Act! The computer will give you a number of incomplete chemical equations. Balance the chemical equations by selecting coefficients from the pull-down menus. Once you think the equation is balanced, press the 'Check my answer!' button. Have fun and good luck!"  To see the website click here.