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Great kid friendly site that outlines the differences in commonly confused space objects.

Take a learning styles inventory. This should make you more aware of the ways you tend to present information in your classroom. It should also make you more aware of other things you should try to meet needs of students with different learning style other than yourself.

How computer games can be used to teach different topics

Nice. There is a lot of interesting research in this area. One place to follow some of the latest research is the Game Learning Society at UW-Madison. http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/ Read about some of the interesting games they have developed. http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/games.php

Good article outlining the similarities and differences of ferns and gymnosperms. The screenshots capture the main points.

This article goes into depths about various definitions of differentiated instruction and how to correctly implement it into your classroom.

This article outlines different ways journaling can be useful in elementary science classes.

Why not use Haiku for students to keep their journals? Discussions or Wikiprojects in Haiku could be used for this. In fact, the Bridge Building teams at Tupelo Middle School are using Wikiprojects to keep their journals, collect their data, and compose their portfolios for competition.

Good point. Wiki/discussion boards are great for students to converse back and forth and work collaboratively in groups, but there are a few advantages to the old fashioned type journal as well. Drawings as well as charts and graphs for science are sometimes more beneficial to student learning and expression when done on paper and pencil. Ultimately, you would want to have both. It is also important to note that with the software we have available on the Macs, you could use the Photo Booth to capture drawings and graph and upload them to Haiku/Wiki or wherever you were sharing/storing them electronically.

this site provides an abundance of links and other resources that can be used for differentiated instruction

Smart Board Resources

Thanks Dorie! These look good. It is important to remember that SMART notebook files can be imported into Promethean ActivInspire or Mimio Studio for those who don't have a SMART board or the SMART software. The reverse is true as well, Promethean flipcharts and Mimio notebook files can also be imported into the SMART software, but in this case, they must first have to be exported as .iwb files. It is important to remember, however, that when you export and import files into different software, some of your formatting may be lost and will need to be restored. See this blog entry on the subject, for example: http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2012/01/an-experiment-with-the-common-iwb-file-format-in-smartpromethean/