CVSD Secondary Group

US Search and Rescue Task Force sponsors site on predicting weather. It includes information about What is the Weather?, Weather tools, Cloud types, Weather types.

Interactive from National Geographic - students create their own tornadoes based on appropriate conditions for a tornado. Also includes case study activities.

Visual with description.

Tracking Hurricanes E-sheet. Site includes questions for thinking and discussion, as well as, interactives and visuals.

National Geographic's lesson plan about tracking tornadoes. Under Related Links there are resources to more information and interactives.

National Geographic site covering forces of nature - volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.

At the home page Click Play link on left side, scroll down, then click Make Poems, then click Story Maker.

Magnetic Poetry on line.

Skype in the classrom is a free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms.

If you are interested in bring outside experts and guests into your classroom, then Skype in the classroom may be for you.

This covers music lessons, exercises and interactive tools to teach music theory.

This is a video that goes over 5 mindmapping tools: Bubbl.us, mindomo.com wisemap.com, mindmaster.com, mind42.com. All look interesting.

5 mindmapping tools you and your students can use.

Stories about time: Interactive timeline tools. This is a helpful resource that outlines a variety of timeline tools that could be used educationally.

This is a cool site to checkout and bookmark the tools that you may be able to use at some point. Timelines are great in that they provide a way for students to organize their thinking about a particular topic. Check out some of the timeline tools outlined in this link.

Start you own book club. You can invite your friends. Have discussions online or in person. Find other people with similar book interest.

This is pretty cool. What a great way to share what you are reading with your friends. What a great way for kids to discuss their books. Wouldn't it be cook if a teacher could set up a club and invite their students to it to discuss what they are reading online.

Education in 2030 developed by the Hoover Institution Stanford University. This is an interesting look at different aspects of education and what it is anticipated education may look like in 2030.

This information does not surprise me. I thought it was very interesting and 2030 is really not that far in the future.

Free music downloads. New added every few weeks.

Electronic Puzzles from National Geographic

Newsmap allows a user to choose countries from around the word and see the latest news in that country.

Powerpoint with 45 ways to support writing in the Classroom. This provides lots of ideas that teacher can use to have students write.

Off the charts Karoke is a PBS site. You can create your own song or poem and music will be put to it and you can sing along.

Google A-Z provides links to information about all the google options.

Good resource for those who are interested in google.

Edit Grip allows users to collaborate via the web on a spreadsheet. Works very much like Excel.