General Secondary Curriculum

Resources for all subjects (Canadian) with great illustrations and demonstration applets.

free courses and documentaries

the Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a remarkable range of other fields.

"Schools Build Community with Student News Programs Schools are using digital video production in their efforts to foster 21st century skills in their students. Administrators are finding that these programs can also reach out to disconnected students and strengthen school community, with kids as young as 5 years old contributing."

"159 stories of 137 internationalized U.S. schools connecting with 98 countries."

A Generic Rubric for Evaluating ePortfolios"

"Rubric for Assessing Electronic Portfolios "

"Welcome to Grey Olltwit's Online Personal Learning Area. A unique and growing selection of online educational games covering maths, English, science, geography, history, information and communications technology and life skills. Click the link below to enter the main menu. This area is free and requires no registration but it is supported by advertising. If you are a Grey Olltwit Member you can login to the Grey Olltwit Online Private Learning Area using the member login link above or below. This area is the same but contains no advertising."

"Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools."

An interesting concept, uploading model lessons from schools and classrooms all over. They are starting with grades 3-8 and will soon have kindergarten to 12th.

"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."

"Effective storytelling can serve anyone in leadership who seeks to persuade others to his or her point of view. Opinion-based rhetoric is often more polarizing than persuasive, while statistics are often go in one ear and out the other. But a careful blending of rhetoric and facts, woven into the right story, can change minds."

what it is, how it works and how to understand and deal with cyberbullies

The old Teachers' TV website resources

" Here are some of my favorite PPT Templates I have collected over the years. I did not create some of these, but I have tweaked and improved a few of them. Please feel free to use them, but remember where you got them :)"

answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge-and much more.

answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge-and much more.

Worksheets for all subjects. This might be useful in creating interactive overlay activities where answers are hidden away and revealed.

Displaynideas for bulletin boards

"Schools Global Footprint is a teaching resource that helps you to explore and to reduce the environmental effect your school has on the planet. The global footprint calculator is a great tool for helping you reduce your schools' ecological footprint by taking action on six topic areas including: energy, transport, food, waste, water and buildings."

A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators Every day, you see how cyberbullying hurts students, disrupts classrooms, and impacts your school's culture. So how should you handle it? What are the right things to do and say? What can you do today that will help your students avoid this pitfall of our digital world? We created this free toolkit to help you take on those questions and take an effective stand against cyberbullying. So start here. Use it now. Rely on it to start your year off right.