Virtual Science Experiments

http://www.reading.ac.uk/virtualexperiments/experiments.html

Virtual Experiments have been recorded at Reading in physics and in other areas of science. Some examples are listed below. In the first section experiments most suitable for schools are listed, following this are experiments more suited tohigher levels. The repertoire of VEs is constantly being increased.

Youtube free music

On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use

For the last couple of years Vimeo has offered free music to download and re-use in your video projects. Now YouTube is offering the same thing through the YouTube Audio Library. This library is slightly different than the free music available when you use the YouTube slideshow creation tool. The music in the YouTube Audio Library is music that you can download to use in projects online and offline. You can search the library of music according to genre, mood, instrument, or duration. You can listen to the tracks before downloading them as MP3 files.

Applications for Education
The next time your students are developing multimedia projects for your class, have them take a look through the YouTube Audio Library to see if they can find a tune to enhance the messages of their productions.

Science Videos

http://science360.gov/series/

http://www.nytimes.com/video/landing/science-take/100000002331748/index.html

Cloze Quizzes

Cloze Quizzes

The New York Times’ Learning Network blog is experimenting with a new type of Test Yourself question written just for English language learners. In this series, which is published each Monday, teacher and blogger Larry Ferlazzo creates a quiz question for students, along with brief teaching suggestions for those who would like to take the topic further. The Learning Network still runs the Daily Test Yourself questions (which this year will also focus on history, math, English language arts and editing), but only the Monday E.L.L. Practice series will have teaching suggestions.

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Downloadable list of Bloom's active verbs!!  

Check it out!

Want to ensure that your lesson plans include higher level cognitive skills and rigor?


http://www.avon-schools.org/cms/lib02/IN01001885/Centricity/Domain/4290/MAP%20for%20Primary%20Grade%20%20Cognitive%20Verbs%20and%20Definitions.pdf

Inklewriter

What it is: Inklewriter is a great digital tool that lets students (and teachers if you are so inclined) write and publish interactive stories. Inklewriter lets students create choose-your-own-adventure type stories, story lines can come with choices and then be linked back together. Inklewriter makes this process easier by keeping track of which story paths have been finished and which still need work. There is no set-up required, no programming language to learn and no diagrams. Inklewriter is free to use and easy to share with the world when it is published. When a story is finished, it can even be converted to Kindle format!
I found the Inklewriter format to be pretty intuitive and easy to use. I think intermediate elementary and older will have no trouble using this tool for creative and informative writing.
How to integrate Inklewriter into the classroom: Inklewriter is a great digital tool for creative writing. Students can explore multiple plot lines and what-if scenarios in their fictional writing. I also like the idea of using Inklewriter to ask kids to explore the “what-ifs” in history. What if we lost/won this war/battle? What if the other guy (or girl) had been elected president? What if the Berlin wall hadn’t come down? These types of stories are fantastic opportunities for students to explore their curiosities and, in the process, learn more about the event they are exploring. After all, you have to know something about how an event actually went in order to write alternate endings.
Inklewriter would be a fun way for students to come up with alternate endings to a novel they are reading. Our students wrote a variety of endings for The Giver. Each student wrote a different ending that picked up from the last chapter of the book. Inklewriter would have been a great tool to use for all of these endings to be available in one place. Students could copy/paste the last paragraph of the actual book and then offer their alternative endings as options.
In science, students could use Inklewriter as a tool to record their hypothesis. Students can write out the objective and steps in their experiment and make a new “alternate ending” for their various hypothesis.
In math, students could create story problems where they lead others down the path to discover the correct answer.
Tips: These interactive stories are MADE for your tablet devices…if you have some in your classroom, take advantage of them!

http://ilearntechnology.com/

One of my favorite sites Classtools.net

http://www.classtools.net/

I personally like the random name picker.  Type your students name.  Click the name and it selects a student at random.

Allows you to save it and gives you an URL to bookmark, so you can use it over and over.  I would create shortcuts to each class on my desktop.