HCPS ITRT

"Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab." Interesting video resources for each element on the periodic table. This type of thing might be cool for students to produce/create. They could design an experiment around an element, videotape it, and put up the videos as a class/school.

Math behind health insurance. Interesting video that could be applied to math (probability, ratios, etc.) or social studies (government spending, incentives, role of government)

I don't know if aerodynamics is a field of study in high school, but this is pretty cool. You could take this video and do something interesting with it in Logger Pro to analyze wingspeed or do something else that I'm not thinking of currently...

"These maps, published in 1932 in the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States and available through the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, illustrate how arduous travel was in the country's early history. In 1800, a journey from New York to Chicago would have taken an intrepid traveler roughly six weeks; travel times beyond the Mississippi River aren't even charted. Three decades later, the trip dropped to three weeks in length and by the mid-19th century, the New York-Chicago journey via railroad took two days. And the introduction of regional airlines in the 1920s made it possible to travel 1,000 or more miles in a single day." Possible applications for Westward Expansion

"This video, taken at the direction of the US Air Force in March 1946 and now held in the National Archives, shows Hiroshima seven months after the bomb, when the city was under U.S. occupation and in the process of rebuilding."

"This map, made with data from the 1870 census, shows rates of wealth per capita in the settled United States. The scale stretches from white-"under $175 per capita"-to dark orange-"$1300 and over." (In today's terms, that range of per capita net worth would be $3,125 to $23,214.29.)" Possible uses when teaching Reconstruction

This seems like a fun and interesting way to discuss/learn several different math topics. Here's a sample lesson plan that popped into my head when I saw this post: 1. Show to students a GoogleMap/GoogleEarth image similar to the one on the website, but more meaningful to you/them. For example, several different grocery stores around your house. 2. Ask the students, "Which one should I go to?" Have the students justify their answers using the image and mathematical topics that they have learned up to this point. 3. With appropriate questioning you could work in several mathematical topics here (I know I'm missing others as well…) a. Overlay a grid on the GoogleMaps and have the students give each of the locations points on an x,y axis. Use this information to determine distance. Have a conversation if this is the best way to determine which location is easiest to access. When students start to bring up the fact that even though some points are technically closer, but could be slower to get to, bring in… b. Rates, ratios, etc. Discuss how fast you could possibly travel on each route according to number of stop signs, streetlights, speed limit etc. Have students use this information to calculate the appropriate answer.

"Mathsframe has more than 170 free interactive maths games. All resources are designed, by an experienced KS2 teacher, to help children to visualise numbers, patterns and numerical relationships and to develop their mathematical thinking. New games are added most weeks." Some of these seem more appropriate for elementary school, but there are definitely some that could serve as quick review for our 6th-8th graders. You could have students use these games for several minutes individually in the class, or have students use a Promethean board/slate to interact with the game in front of the class and discuss their reasoning for the answers they select. This could be a great informal feedback tool that would take very little prep time.

"Through connection and collaboration teachers can start down a learning path that parallels the one they try to create for students."

Google Maps for a variety of historical topics.

Wiki designed to connect TPACK with curriculum based learning activities. Aligned to specific content areas. Will be interested to see how this wiki develops over time.

Educational images -Access approximately three million rights-cleared images from the best collections in the world"

This framework helps was created to help drive instructional practice. Specifically, collaborative group work, writing to learn, literacy groups, questioning, scaffolding, and classroom talk.

activities based on TPACK

passed this on to a great English teacher - we both agree - it has great potential - focused collaboration is a great learning strategy - awesome if this help students become better readers!

a great resource for math assessment (both formative and summative)

Possible idea to encourage and celebrate student understanding of numbers/math

Possible base/tool for a future stats lesson

Many administrators want teachers to engage students in the learning - as such student engagement is pretty vague. Although this document is dated 1999, the indicators have value. Seems like a good place to start.