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.

Native Land

I saw this link from Martha M.  This resource called Native Land might be of use if you teach social studies, geography or history, especially with the new Ontario curriculum becoming mandatory in September 2018.  To see the website click here.

Google Arts and Culture

If you are teaching any type of Arts, History or Fashion course you should check out this site.  Just make sure you navigate it by clicking on the 3 bars on the top left corner to bring down the drop down menu.

The drop down menu looks like this.  To see the website click here.

Animal Farm

If you happen to be teaching Animal Farm in your English class, they have an excellent student handout booklet and teacher booklet, click here and here respectively.   The student work book even includes a copy of the text of Animal Farm.  They also have downloads in math (algebra, geometry, statistics) and social studies.  To see the site click here.

Listenwise

According to the AASL, "Listenwise harnesses the power of listening to advance student literacy. This collection of current events, English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies podcasts connects teaching to the real world and builds student listening skills. Listenwise provides English Language Learners the opportunity to experience academic language for college and career readiness. Appropriate for students 6-12th grades. The power of a great story enhances listening for student success and literacy for all. "  To see the website, click here.

Google Ngram Viewer

Well last week I posted about Google Cultural Institute.  Today I will post about something that Google came out with in 2010 but this simple online tool is still relevant as a tool for studying social relevance of words throughout history as recorded in books.  You can see the Ngram Viewer by clicking here. For example if we look at "men" versus "women", we see women started to catch up to men in the early '70s as feminism really took off and ten years later caught up.

There are other interesting things that can be looked at in your social science class.  To try yourself click here.  Why is dog always more popular in the written word than cat?  Easy, there are more dogs than cats! 

Not so fast buckoo.  It depends.   See the following data for the US from the petfoodinstitute.org

There are many others you can play around with in a truly scholarly fashion.  You would guess that Friday is the best day of the week.  Not so fast.

Many others can be found by clicking here.  As ususal TED ED has an awesome video about ngram as shown below.  If you have the time, you may find it enjoyable.  Well at least I did.