Energy Kids (for Teachers)
Find energy related stories, hands-on activities, and research articles for your classroom! These curriculum-based lessons are separated by age-grade.
Energy Kids (for Kids) is the site where your students can explore and learn.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Art, Games, Odds and Ends | Posted on January 31, 2011
Meet Me at Midnight Welcome to Meet Me at Midnight, an interactive adventure set in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (American Art). Our goal is to introduce youngsters to American art and artists using examples from our collection. We also aim to teach art terms and concepts in a fun, game-based setting.
Each avatar from the “treasure chest” takes visitors on a different adventure. The coyote teaches about sculpture; the Headless Horseman, about landscape; and the ballerina, about light. Every story takes place in five sequential galleries—each hosting either a puzzle or an artist-match game. The five gallery topics always follow the same order—media, technique, design, purpose, and culture.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in iPad | Posted on January 31, 2011
Ultimate Guid for Using iPad in the Classroom Here is a document containing dozens of tips on how to use the iPad in the classroom. From the Brushes app to learning how to play music, there’s a lot of surprising and useful tips.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Desktop Publishing, Google | Posted on January 31, 2011
70+ Google Forms for the Classroom Google Forms is a great tool. Take a look here for a more detailed introduction and guide to using and creating a Google Form – this was written prior to Google bringing forms into the NEW menu.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Comprehensive Evaluation Forms | Posted on January 28, 2011
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Promethean Resources | Posted on January 27, 2011
Hiding Images on Promethean Tutorial
This is a short, informative video tutorial (using screen capture tool JING) about how to hide images on Promethean Tic Tac Toe board.
Teach Kids the News.Com provides timely, relevant news articles for kids, educators in the classroom and parents at home.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Games, Social Studies Resources | Posted on January 27, 2011
Mission-US.org
Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Google, Search Engines | Posted on January 27, 2011
100 Google Search Tricks for the Savviest of Students is just what it says. Great shortcuts for educators or students doing research.
Qwiki.Com is a phenomenal new encyclopedia/search engine that is perfect for the classroom – especially for viewing on interactive white boards. A search will turn up a multipmedia show complete with sound, video, photos, and additional information to be explored.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Web 2.0 | Posted on January 26, 2011
Cool Web 2.0 Tools for Schools is a great index of free web applications for classroom use.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Math Resources, Personal Finance | Posted on January 25, 2011
Planet Orange is a web site that helps kids, from 1st to 6th grade, learn about earning, spending, saving and investing.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Science Resources | Posted on January 24, 2011
Harry’s Big Adventure.Com
Make the world of insects come to life
for your students—either in your classroom
or at our traveling exhibit.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Games, Math Resources, STEM Resources | Posted on January 24, 2011
Mr. Nale.Com/Math is an excellent site for grades 2-4. You can look at all math activities or click on the math tab to search resources by grade level.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in First to the Top | Posted on January 24, 2011
Tell Tennessee.Org
The state’s education leaders want to ensure that every Tennessee educator has the supportive environment necessary to help students achieve at the highest levels. The TELL Tennessee Survey is an opportunity for every educator to “TELL Tennessee” if they have positive teaching and learning conditions, which research has shown to be important to student achievement and teacher retention. The anonymous online survey may be completed February 14 to March 11, 2011.
Science at PPPST.Com is an excellent science site for elementary teachers. Sorted by science topics there are Power Point lessons, kids activities, and lesson plans for teachers. One of the best sites I have seen!
Science – Lots of Lessons.Com is a great companion site with some shared resources but others that are unique to the site.
Science Class.Net has resources geared to older students but also content that can be adapted for middle grade elementary.
Easy CBM.com
EasyCBM was designed by researchers at the University of Oregon as an integral part of an RTI (Response to Intervention) model. From the start, developers have emphasized the goal of the system to help facilitate good instructional decision-making. Teachers define their classes and students are able to do progress monitoring on reading/language skills. The best part – it’s free!
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Science Resources | Posted on January 21, 2011
Edheads.Org has science lessons with teacher lesson plans. The topics appropriate for elementary are weather, simple machines, and compound machines.
Myths and Legends
The variety of stories in Myths and Legends aims to give inspiration to young people at school and at home to create and publish their own work. The site provides a multitude of tools and opportunities that enable pupils to submit their stories for the enjoyment of a world wide audience, with the prospect of receiving peer review and evaluation.
ePals Global Community
ePals is the leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Math Resources | Posted on January 21, 2011
Xtra Math.Org is a free site where teachers can register, set up a class, and have students practice math facts.
Junk Food Science
Junk Food Science helps primary and secondary pupils understand the science linking health with diet, and inspires discussion around the options available to help improve the nation’s eating habits.
Time Monsters.Com is an online tutorial for teaching students time. It would be great for Interactive Whiteboards.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Photography, Grants | Posted on January 19, 2011
Doodle 4 Google.Com
Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign Google’s homepage logo for millions to see. At Google, we believe that dreaming about future possibilities leads to tomorrow’s leaders and inventors, so this year we’re inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, “What I’d like to do someday…”
Whether students want to find a cure for cancer or take a trip to the moon, it all starts with art supplies and some 8.5″ x 11″ paper. And, one lucky student artist will take home a $15,000 college scholarship and $25,000 technology grant for their school, among many other prizes.
Registration closes at 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) on March 2, 2011, and entries must be postmarked by March 16, 2011 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Time (PT). The winning doodle will be featured on our Google.com homepage on May 20, 2011.