Useful Sites, How-Tos, Student Samples
Below I’ve posted two screencasts that demonstrate why you don’t really need an iboard and accompanying software to accomplish a task that can benefit your students. The screencasts are both about using the quadratic formula and could be viewed by students to assist them outside of class.
The first screencast was created by [...]
Yesterday I conducted an interesting experiment with my 8th grade class as part of mini-unit on psychology. We’ve been studying about classical conditioning and reviewing several famous experiments from the world of psychology. The experiment we talked about yesterday was the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Phillip Zombardo in 1971. It shows, [...]
I found out today that mixwit.com no longer works. Going to the site takes you to a new blog explaining that the site has been taken off line. They don’t go into great detail, but I assume it had something to do with legal concerns. Mixwit was great because students could make [...]
February 12 is Darwin Day (and Lincoln’s birthday) and also the penultimate day of my 7th grade unit on evolution. Throughout this unit I have used a variety of activities and websites to illustrate some of the concepts of evolution. Here is a list of some of the more valuable sites I used [...]
Last week, while staying home with my sick daughter, I crafted a couple lessons to make the sub’s job a little easier. I posted them on my classroom blog for students to complete. Throughout the day I monitored their progress on google docs and thatquiz.org. At one point I noticed some students weren’t [...]
I stumbled across this resource by accident this evening and thought I’d share it. Google offers free pdf downloads of posters about searching and using some of their applications for research. They give some good tips and could be a helpful starter for a unit on research.
Google Search Tip Posters
I’ve written about zeemaps before, but recently finished a project with my 7th grade geography class that reaffirmed its handiness. The students had to create a mock trip to Europe and write a journal entry about the things they did and saw in the various cities. They started off by finding the cheapest [...]
My students have been using google docs education edition for over a year now and, until a few weeks ago, had never tried the “sites” feature. The sites feature allows people to collaborate on a site and publish it to the world. I still think synthasite offers the most in terms of content, [...]