HCPS ITRT

"Since demolishing 78 traffic signals and installing 80 roundabouts, the northern Indiana city of Carmel has reduced the number of accidents by 40 percent and the number of accidents with injuries by 78 percent." There's a great lesson in here somewhere. I'm not sure of the exact structure for it, but here are some of my random thoughts. Let me know if you have others: Use Googlemaps and GoogleEarth in order to determine how many traffic lights are in a specific location in a county/city. Using the calculations in this article/video, how much could the county/city that you researched in Google maps have saved if they installed traffic circles rather than traffic lights. Extension - Research the number of accidents and injury/fatality stats for the area that you've researched. Using the calculations in this video/article, how many lives would traffic circles save in this area?

Online, interactive, standards-based science curriculum www.science4us.com

"My hosts asked for a list of some science apps that their middle school and high school students can use. This is part of the list that has free apps. " List of iPad apps that could be useful for Science.

Interesting video on the water cycle Interesting video on the water cycle Made me stumble on this science website as well, which seems promising: http://www.untamedscience.com/science-videos

"When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses." Interesting video/animation on how we get the flu. Could be an interesting resource in a unit or lesson on viruses.

free images from creative commons and other free image site

An easy to use template for the Frayer Model made in Google Presentation. Use it for warm-ups or anything else that can help literacy.

Elementary Training Blog

Rewords vocab for easier understanding

illustrated vocabulary

Words taken from frameworks and released SOL items.

looked at the curriculum framework for the reading words

Animated gif creators could be used for students to illustrate verbs. This is a simple one that allows you to upload pictures and automatically creates a gif.