Useful Sites, How-Tos, Student Samples
This is the third post, in what’s become a bit of a series, on some of the things I’m doing with my summer school students. In the last post, I wrote a little about authentic assessment. Here is an example of one from my summer math class.
You’d be surprised at just how much [...]
Last week, I wrote about some posts I’m planning on publishing soon as part of my Google Docs series. I’m hoping to get up the posts regarding embedding and using the sites feature of Google Apps soon, but for now, here is a project that my students did today.
The lesson
We are currently studying the [...]
I’ve been incorporating interactive science websites into my lessons a lot this year. Though I don’t have time to give a full review for each of them, here is a list of the ones that have been most helpful.
Earth Science
Imagination Cubed - I’ve used this to have students create drawings of the layers of [...]
I stumbled across a great measurements website while preparing for my beginning of the year science unit the other day. It is called “Teaching Measures” and it has a number of helpful resources for practicing and demonstrating the basics of measurment (length, volume, and mass).
menu via kwout
It is directed at interactive whiteboard [...]
If you’ve read this blog, you know I’m a big fan of Google Docs. This past spring, while I was coordinating our school science fair it went from a helpful tool to an essential tool.
During the science fair, my students completed experiments and did a lab writeup of their work. They typed up [...]
Voicethread has been all the rage the last few months in educational tech blogs I’ve been reading. I finally used it for class a couple weeks ago and feel like I’ve just scratched the surface. For starters it’s very easy to use. The one I’ve embedded below took me about 10 minutes. [...]