HCPS ITRT

"Teachers: A Simple (Not Easy) Pedagogy Assessment" A lot of these questions could lead to interesting discussions with teachers.

A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, podcast, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other web 2.0 projects

I was reading a blog this morning and ran across this link to a search engine for pictures and graphics that let's you search in a variety of ways including creative commons and flickr. It's a little easier to use than searching there for me. Try it and see what you think.

Digital History is a database of primary sources from America's past. The website contains images, videos, and written word that are easily searchable by era. In addition, there are pre-made lesson plans and activities that could be used or modified in order to meet your specific instructional goals.

"In my honors Algebra II class of sophomores, I always look forward to doing a culminating project on quadratics.  We start at the beginning of the chapter with introducing the project and having the kids break up into groups of 3 and 4 and start designing and building a catapult outside of school.  " This seems like a fun activity that could be enchanced by Logger Pro and/or Desmos (www.desmos.com). Logger Pro would allow the students to video a sample shot of their catapult and then break down the distance of their shot at specific intervals/times. Desmos would allow the students to graph the quadratic and place their catapult at the correct location in order to hit their target.

"I guess dragons love gold. In the recent trailers for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (YouTube clip) you can get a glimpse of all the gold Smaug has. Why does a dragon need this much gold? I don't get it. Maybe Smaug doesn't actually like gold but he just wants to keep it away from other people. Whatever his motivation for hoarding, I am going to try to get an estimate for just how much gold is in the Lonely Mountain." Talk about a fun math problem...

"Draw an interesting curve, then click 'Correlate!' to find query terms whose popularity over time matches the shape you drew."

Kagan Structures are instructional strategies designed to promote cooperation and communication in the classroom, boost students' confidence and retain their interest in classroom interaction. The Structures work in all teaching contexts-regardless of subject, age group, and number of students in class.

Kagan Structures are instructional strategies designed to promote cooperation and communication in the classroom, boost students' confidence and retain their interest in classroom interaction. The Structures work in all teaching contexts-regardless of subject, age group, and number of students in class.

A real world example of the perpendicular bisector. ""The model says that if you have two gangs that are equal in their competitive abilities, the boundary between them will be equidistant and perpendicular between their anchor points," Brantingham says. "It's a nice, simple, geometric organization.""

ThatQuiz is a free testing service for teachers to use with their classes. Multiple choice tests and math tests can be administered to students using this website. All grades are immediately reported to the students. Teachers receive complete record keeping of test results, including all grades and wrong answers. Teachers can create math assessments with images and video. Students login with a username & password and a code for each assessment. There are some ready-made activities as well.

ThatQuiz is a free testing service for teachers to use with their classes. Multiple choice tests and math tests can be administered to students using this website. All grades are immediately reported to the students. Teachers receive complete record keeping of test results, including all grades and wrong answers. Teachers can create math assessments with images and video. Students login with a username & password and a code for each assessment. There are some ready-made activities as well.

"NOAA View is a new project from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. On NOAA View you can explore visualizations of data sets in the categories of Ocean, Land, Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate. Each category has multiple subsets of data from which to choose. The data sets can be displayed in weekly, monthly, and yearly units. A basic explanation of each data set is available." Resource for discussing climate and weather.

One of my PE teachers sent this to me. She saw it in today's Diigo digest and got excited about it. "First 15 minutes provide an overview of technologies that can be used in K-12 PE. Many examples are provided."

passage banks are used by teachers for comprehension assignments. Schools who did not pass the SOLs are being asked to use them

Nice set of Internet Safety assessmnet + drag and drop for practice for SOLs

5 minute template based lesson plan