Google Public Data Explorer

 

Google Public Data Explorer is a free way to analyze public data.  I first posted about this in 2015.  It is worth taking a look at it again. You can look at fertility rate, life expectancy, HIV prevalence,  education, etc for many countries all at once.  You pick what you want to plot on what axis.  You can animate the graph through the century by moving a slider to see how things change over time.  To see this website click here.   This might work well in your Data Analysis class or Statistics unit.  This might work in your Geography class if you want to look at GDP versus Population Density, etc.  Play around with it to see what you can find out.

Trading Card Creator - ReadWriteThink

I know one of our History teachers, Mr. E. has his students make trading cards for his class.  This could be done in the English class too.  ReadWriteThink has on their website a trading card creator. 

According to their website, "The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.

These cards are can be used with any type of book students are reading or subjects that they are studying, and make for an excellent prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories and need to consider characters, setting, and plot. Specific prompts guide student through the various types of cards, expanding students' thinking from the basic information and description of the topic to making personal connections to the subject."

To see the website click here.

What is Plot?

Here is an anchor chart I made a zoom.it from.  It originally came from Katie Klohn which can be found by clicking here.