General Secondary Curriculum

Today's post, however, is about a great work that has been done by our colleague Tom Barret. He has created awesome example forms for different topics. He has also , thankfully , made all these forms availabe for us to download and use with our students. I have checked all his forms and I was really amazed by the great efforts he has put into them. You can use these forms with your students for sure but remember to keep in mind the great things you can do with Google Forms if you give it a little time. Check out this list of forms below and click on any title to access its corresponding form. The pictures you see below are only  half snapshots of each form:

A great collection of student and teacher made videos

civilization is a popular series of strategy games where players must build empires, trade and wage war. This free downloadable version  could be useful in many areas of the curriculum, including money and area in maths and learning about cultures from the past. 

Martin Burrett 06 Apr 12 05:45:48 This is a beautifully made quiz maker. Make your own multiple choice quiz and add images and files. Quizzes can be access through a free android and iPhone App.

Scholastic free free resources for teachers across subjects

 list of ebook collections

"The Gateway has been serving teachers continuously since 1996 which makes it one of the oldest publically accessible U.S. repositories of education resources on the Web. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items. "

SafeShare.TV is the Safest Way to Watch and Share YouTube videos.

"This list is provided by SmartTeaching.org, a leading online resource for current teachers, and aspiring education students and student teachers."

Welcome to Piazza-a place where students can come together to ask, answer, and explore under the guidance of their instructor. It'll save you time, and your students will love using it. It's also free, and easy to get started. Learn more...

"Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. While many teachers are spending hours a day creating their own activities for their interactive whiteboards, there are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students."

useful links to ideas for blogging with your class as well as links to class and subject blogs.

Gone are the days when students complete a paper worksheet and then put it in the wire box on the teacher's desk. In today's world, students are creating digital projects using a variety of tools on computers and mobile devices. It can become difficult for the teacher to find and keep track of all of the students' digital products/projects. One solution is to have students use tools that will provide a URL for their finished product, and then to collect those URLs using a Google form. (See Tip 112 for a list of web tools that will provide a URL for the finished product.)"

Google plagiarism detection service

"Welcome to the Triptico website. The Triptico resource application currently contains 23 different interactive resources - all of which are easy to edit, adapt, save and share. Welcome to the Triptico website. The Triptico resource application currently contains 23 different interactive resources - all of which are easy to edit, adapt, save and share. You can access them all with one simple download... everything is completely free - and you will receive updates whenever new resources are added! You can access them all with one simple download... everything is completely free - and you will receive updates whenever new resources are added! Please contact me if you have any questions or feedback, David. "

"Classtell can help you create a beautiful, easy-to-use website for your classes and students in minutes."

" Take a look here for a more detailed introduction and guide to using and creating a Google Form - this was written prior to Google bringing forms into the NEW menu."

"Do you use the strategy Think-Pair-Share in your classroom? The Think-Pair-Share strategy is a three-step collaborative learning structure developed by Dr. Frank Lyman in 1981. It is a relatively low-risk and is ideally suited for instructors and students who are new to collaborative learning. Each component is equally important in the process and shouldn't be short-changed."

"Check out http://wegivebooks.org. Simply by reading the books available online at the site, you can not only teach and entertain your students, you provide books for needy children at the same time. Doing good couldn't be simpler. Sign up for a free account, select a literacy campaign who will receive your donation, read one of the many books online, and when complete, press a button to donate a book. That's it!"

Virtual field trips challenge and expose students to new types of technology. It is a great way to spark their interest and motivate their learning in a specific content area. Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor! In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments. While virtual field trips offer a great learning opportunity, they can be hard to organize and time consuming. Take advantage of our free virtual field trips and engage your students even more!