E-town Secondary

Awesome for soil science units!

A community of practice for teacher using edmodo

Short videos on working in Smart Notebook..... from 30 seconds to 6:45... Getting Started Getting Connected Use your computer in a new way A whiteboard but smarter Creating Engaging Lesson Activities

The GeoGebraWiki is a free pool of educational materials for the dynamic mathematics software GeoGebra. Preview a few dynamic worksheets created with GeoGebra, these and other worksheets can be found in the English section of GeoGebraWiki.

Although YouTube has been blocked from many/most schools, for obvious reasons and not so obvious ones. YouTube does provide great resources and content for teachers and students. View the list of the Top 100 Videos for Teachers. This list is provided by SmartTeaching.org, a leading online resource for current teachers, and aspiring education students and student teachers.

collections of media ranging from primary source documents to books to the law library

edmodo Teacher Hub is a wikispace created by Bianca Hewes and Nordin Zuber to provide a working repository of ideas, experiences and resources working with edmodo. We work at two different NSW (Australia) Department of Education & Community secondary schools so the initial articles and contributions will probably reflect this context, however given edmodo's international reach, it is likely this wiki will go beyond our school system and locality. This space is open to all contributors - create a wikispace account and apply to join the wiki - everyone is welcome.

Forming the possessive forms of nouns can be one of the most difficult concepts to teach and to learn. VocabularySpellingCity provides lists to help teach how to correctly spell and use the singular and plural possessive forms of many nouns and how to distinguish them from simple plurals and from contractions.

This classroom guide is intended to inspire and expand your thinking about effective assessment for project-based learning. The tips are organized to follow the arc of a project. First comes planning, then the launch into active learning, and then a culminating presentation. Reflection is the final stage. Download this today and get started!

The Biography Maker is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well.

i-SAFE's education component provides students with dynamic, interactive, up-to-date e-Safety curriculum in the classroom, online and in the community. These prevention-oriented lessons employ peer-to-peer communication and cooperative learning activities to help students retain this valuable information.

SAFE-Net, a Cyber Safety Awareness program of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, focuses on raising the awareness of students, parents, and educators about cyber threats, measures of protection, and cyber ethics. Through this website, it provides materials to teach teachers, parents and students about cyber security issues. All materials can be downloaded free of charge. However, you will need to create a SAFE-Net account in order to access them. When you are logged in and agree to the Terms of Use, you will be given access to the materials.

link library

Welcome to Windows to the Universe - your portal to discovery! Explore the wealth of information available here to learn about the Earth and Space sciences and related topics in the humanities including mythology, art, poetry, and more.

resources for teaching Wars and Conflicts in American history Includes links and pictures

Concept lessons will use Google Earth to present math topics, such as rates or scientific notation in unique ways. Project-Based Learning activities will include lessons that will require the collaborative efforts of students in pairs or groups. These lessons may be of a longer duration and require additional outsource materials. Measurement lessons will make extensive use of the ruler tool in Google Earth to accomplish problem solving activities. Exploratory lessons will follow non-traditional math topics such as fractals, topology, or modern geometry.

Unbelievable slider/interactive of Joplin, Mo.

Excellent visual literacy instruction- Guides students to answer questions and think critically about photos and images. Super site for social studies: Photos include immigration, the west, women and suffrage, children, WWI, etc., cities, industrialization

Word posters for vocab development

OBJ: Calculate elapsed time. Calculate time from oe time zone to another. usae a formula to calculate differences in time zones. Students will take part in a series of consecutive plane trips around the world while keeping track of the time for each time zone they land in.