Earthducation Adventure Learning Series is a series of 7 expeditions to every continent spread over 4 years by explorers and educators designed for the dynamic connectivity between education and sustainability. As the explorer and educators carried out their expeditions throughout the world, students can experience the travels with them virtually.
Interesting site that offers to those who may not travel to Paris, a feel of the Louvre. There are several online virtual tours that showcase the various exhibition rooms. This virtual field trip introduces one to the different cultures, sights, and events outside his/her own.
Glogster EDU is an interactive digital platform for users to create online multimedia posters, called glogs. Users can drag and drop text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data to create glogs. The completed glog can be shared in a variety of educational settings, including blogs, wikis, web pages, or e-mail.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.
This site provides information and resources for teachers on the WebQuest Model.
The Kahn Academy offers resources on a variety of topics like Math, Science, Computer Science, Finance and Economics, Humanities and Test Prep. Resources include an extensive video library, interactive challenges, and assessments.
Create a Graph is a free website that allows users to create bar, line, pie, area, or x-y graphs by inputting specific information. Graphs can be saved or printed. Suitable for lower grade levels.
Classroom Resources have a pretty wide collection of lessons and web resources for teachers, students, and parents. Materials are easily access by subject area and then you can use them to create lesson plans or at-home activities. There are many multimedia (video) presentation of contents as well.
The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content.
Quizlet allows users to find or create virtual flashcards for studying practically any subject. There are different study modes like spelling, test, scatter etc that help students learn content independently or in groups.
This site offers tutorials and games for science and math from kindergarten to high school levels. Teachers and students can use these tutorials to increase content knowledge and then the games and quizzes to increase motivation and assessment. It can be used as a supplement in the classroom or students can work on it at home.
This is an online translation from one language to another, or machine translation, and can be helpful to students and teachers.
This is useful for teachers teaching ELLs and FLs, teachers can look up important words in the student' native languages or translate some simple instructions on a project. It is helpful for students as this site function like bilingual dictionaries and help them find the meaning of a word both in context.
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). The GLOBE Program is an authentic online project involving students in scientific inquiry-based learning. GLOBE is an environmental science project that has students investigate the weather, land cover, soil, and hydrology, and record their observations at the GLOBE site. In effect, they become collaborators in a real scientific investigation.
Visual learning strategies such as graphic organizers, concept mapping, mind mapping, diagrams, outlines and more are being used in classrooms. These strategies help students or all ages better manage learning objectives and achieve academic success. As students are required to evaluate and interpret information from a variety of sources, incorporate new knowledge with what they already have learned, and improve writing skills and think critically, visual learning tools help students meet those demands. Together with the brain's capacity for images, visual learning strategies help students better understand and retain information. This Website offers a variety of resources for better understanding the use of visual learning methodologies and tools to incorporate into your classroom.