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The Global Bookshelf is a book search and recommendation engine. The purpose of The Global Bookshelf is to help people find travel stories. The books you'll find aren't travel guides, they're travel stories that could inspire you to visit a new place and experience a new culture. You can browse The Global Bookshelf by region, genre, and book format (Kindle, PDF, physical book). Students can add their book reviews to The Global Bookshelf. If you have students who have read some travel narratives, consider having them write a review to share on The Global Bookshelf. This is a great way to provide an authentic audience for your students' work. The Global Bookshelf is good place for your students to find books that they may enjoy reading. Maybe they'll read a story that sets them off to explore the world.

The Great Energy Challenge is a National Geographic feature that offers some nice interactive posters for evaluating personal and global energy consumption. Global Electricity Outlook is an interactive display of electricity consumption across the globe. You can view the global picture or click on the map to view regional consumption. The display shows the means of electricity production globally and regionally. To see how shifting production sources would impact the world or a region use the sliders below the map. Read more about the Great Energy Challenge posters here.

8th grade science

Share this French and Spanish teachers. We are having a difficult time finding informational texts that are age appropriate while being skill level appropriate with content that is engaging and interesting in the target languages. This could be a great way to solicit materials/resources in the target language. Also, it is a great way for our students to connect globally with an authentic audience!

The noun project has as its aim the creation of a global visual language through symbols and icons. This could be used for all kinds of vocabulary activities in Communication Arts, Foreign languages, ESOL, etc. Not only can teachers and students use the icons for things like flashcards or presentations, they can create new one and upload.

Showcases what students are doing around the world to become positive, responsive, and productive citizens in the global community Good for heroes theme in ELA

8th grade science

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.

Like Pinterest, you download their toolbar which allows you to quickly capture content that you're looking at online.Then, you can add comments while they're still fresh in your head. Once you're done, you export your facts, citations, and notes to a word document to use later when writing a paper

Personal Energy Meter Would be interesting for students to use this in 8th grade science to create an infographic about their energy consumption and carbon footprint

8th grade science