E-town Secondary

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

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

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.

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

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

A community of practice for teacher using edmodo

Classroom posters Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.

Presentation- Good suggestions for google docs and PLCs

The Redistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting. Currently, the political system in most states allows the state legislators themselves to draw the lines. This system is subject to a wide range of abuses and manipulations that encourage incumbents to draw districts which protect their seats rather than risk an open contest.

Information Literacy Workshop/Wiki from Joyce Valenza Support and resources for Librarian's role in information literacy

WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.