TED - ED and Ancient Rome

If you teach history and are doing anything on Ancient Rome there is a new TED Ed lesson on "The Day in the Life of a Roman Soldier".  The whole lesson along with the video can be found by clicking here.  If you are interested in this TED Ed Lesson, there is a much older one called "A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome" and can be found by clicking here.  

1.7 Billion Stars - Interactive Image

If you are teaching a unit on space science or astronomy you might want to look at the interactive image of 1.7 billion stars taken by European Space Agency  craft Gaia.  According to the article in VOX, "This database is not just for making pretty images. It also contains information on the distance, motion, and color (useful in determining temperature and age) of about 1.3 billion of the stars. It’s a 3D, moving atlas of the Milky Way."  To see the interactive map click here.

Comic Math - Calvin and Hobbes

If you teach math , and would like a comic for your lesson then try this website by clicking here.  They have listed with links to all the Calvin & Hobbes comics that have math involved.

PTable - Interactive Periodic Table

Last week I posted about an interactive periodic table game, click here to see that post.  Today I am posting about another great Periodic Table website that Mr Dupuis at my school told me about.  This interactive site allows you to mouse over an element and you will get different information based on what tab you are in.  Information such as Properties, Orbitals, Isotopes and Compounds.  If you are in the  Wikipedia tab and click on an element you will have a little box pop up with a Wikipedia entry on that element.  To see the website click here.

WikiWhere

This is a Geography guessing game.  You are given three clues that are taken from Wikipedia about a major city in the world.  You then click on the globe to select the city.  You are then shown how far off you are.  To see the site click here.

The Math Contest

The Math Contest is back from Ole Miss University.  They put up a weekly question on Monday morning at 9 am EST.  If you get it correct they post your name.  When I taught math, I would use the question for a bonus mark.  The first person that had their name on the list and could also explain to me how they got their answer would get a bonus mark.  The website can be found by clicking here.   Yours truly made had one of the top 10 quickest answers up this week.

Grammarly

This is a free Chrome addon.  It will detect grammar errors, spelling errors and other errors in your writing.  To see Grammarly click here.