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Tristan C

BrainPOP Jr. - K-3 Educational Movies, Quizzes, Lessons, and More! - 3 views

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    This site provides educational movies for K-3 students. Homework Help, leveled quizzes, games and activities for kids. Exceptional resource for teachers and homeschools. I use this site very often.
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    What a great resource! Unfortunately, I don't think many high school students would enjoy this too much haha, but I appreciate it none the less. I've found that I have always struggled with creating things like the web site for young children so having this resource will only make it easier in the future to base any projects I have on it.
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    I forgot to mention that there is another site called www.brainpop.com , which covers more in depth topics. If you go to http://www.brainpop.com/educators/state_standards/ the site says it addresses SOLs up to 12th grade. This is not my area of expertise, but it might be worth a look.
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    After I wrote the comment, I saw the brainpop.com site and was impressed with it none the less.
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    I like Brainpop for starting conversation in my AP classes.
Anna S

Virtual Chemistry Experiments - 3 views

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    Great resource if you have students needing makeup or home-bound. Virtual Chemistry Experiments are a collection of interative web-based chemistry tutorials. The tutorials employ Physlets and Chemistry Applets to simulate experiments or depict molecular and atomic structure. The guiding concept is to involve the read in making observations and acquiring data, and then using this information to draw conclusions and infer chemical principles.
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    I was a T.A. for a genetics lab course in college, and after an unexpected fruit fly massacre after they had made their second generation crosses I turned their lab into a virtual experiment like this one. These virtual chemistry experiments could be useful, just in case something malfunctions! Thanks for the good site.
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    What do you guys think "virtual experiments" do better than real ones?
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    They are cheaper and safer. I like the idea of virtual field trips. Some of them are ok. They aren't always entirely directed at an SOL though.
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    I find these are best as additional to traditional lab experiences or, as I posted earlier, I use these for the students that can't be at school for usual labs. Understanding limitations of their own lab technique and evaluation of errors does not occur with simulations. Similar to difference between multiple choice assessment and free response.
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    I agree with Anna, virtual experiments wouldn't be my first choice in methodology for lab experiments, but there are somethings that you just, can't do in the classroom. Whether it is from limited resources, limited class time, or simply the experiment is too dangerous for the classroom, virtual experiments are a good alternative. I had a chemistry professor in my undergrad who was making a dvd textbook with lectures and experiments and there was a lot of cool experiments on the dvd that he would have never been able to do during his lectures.
Dipali Patel

Earth Science - Creative Lessons for both kids (K-8) and educators! - 2 views

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    This site provides lessons on a wide array of earth science topics that kids can access at home which includes interactive videos, games, activities and lessons. It also provides great resources for teachers that can help foster creative lessons with the content. The website is a little confusing at first because each link (topic) will redirect you to another website (i.e. National Geographic) but it exposes you to different approaches to teaching the content.
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    Wow! There is a lot of information on this link directly related to Earth Science. I am currently going through each link and writing down notes to help me with some of my future lectures. Thanks so much for the link that brings it all together so that I don't have to have a search overload for some of these great resources!
Eric Byers

STEM - Flipping the classroom - 4 views

What an awesome idea. It completely rethinks everything about how the traditional classroom is supposed to work. Just the chance to give more lab time in the classroom is worth trying this let al...

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Eric Byers

eGFI - For Teachers - 0 views

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    I just came across an amazing resource. This link has lesson plans, class activities, k-12 outreach programs, web resources, you name it, it is probably on the website. And best of all it all has to do with engineering and is broken down into grade level appropriate activities.
Eric Byers

webcast.berkeley | UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events - 1 views

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    This resource is webcast from UC Berkeley Lectures, maybe not the most practical for the classroom but its always interesting to look out how others are teaching similar content.
Eric Byers

Technology for Math, Science & Engineering - 1 views

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    Thinkport is a product used in Maryland to help integrate technology in the classroom. The specific link that I am attaching is simulations of a multitude of subjects that could be incorporated into any lecture or free time that the student has. The topics covered vary from mathematics, an interactive art museum, anatomy, construction of different satellites, to literacy skills. It's goal is to increase technology use in the classroom regardless of the subject matter.
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    Have used this for years! A resource for my Epidemiology enrichment course in conjunction with Johns Hopkins.
Tristan C

MathinScience Index - 0 views

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    Activities Short instructional tools to be woven into lesson plans. Lesson Plans Plans for explaining a topic in a few class sessions; includes student activities, PowerPoints, assessment materials. Multimedia Resources Collection of archived MSiC videos, PowerPoints, and podcasts. Tutorials Step-by-step instructions for use of various calculators, computer software, and web applications.
Stephen Demoratz

Monday's assignment - I am posting here in case I cannot access Lore. - 8 views

I like that Comcast is doing that. many people feel that internet access should be run almost like a public utility (water, electric) to ensure it can reach all that need it. What was a brilliant,...

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Rachael Fulop

Computational Thinking - 2 views

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      Love this site because you can choose whether to use certain pieces of the app flow or use it in it's entirety!  Awesome resource!!
  • Computational Thinking Using coding applications to develop computational thinking skills
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    This is one of the many awesome "app flows" that graphite has to offer for secondary math. graphite.org is a plethora of awesome lessons for educators of all core contents, but I especially like their math flows!
Heather Causey

Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory - 0 views

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    Wolfram Alpha Demonstrations with Interaction
Eric Byers

100 Best YouTube Videos for Science Teachers - 1 views

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    I don't have too many go to sites yet (I hope that improves in the near future) but I did run across this compilation of youtube videos related to science that I think will be helpful in the future. Given some of them are way too basic to use, but there used to be really cool look inside the cell type stuff. The original site shut down so I had to find where someone else posted the links on their blog so my apologizes if you can not access it at this time.
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    Hey Eric- Thanks for posting this website- I was looking through the videos and happen to come across some that I think might be useful for me when I start teaching very soon!
Dipali Patel

Where learning comes together - SMART Technologies - 0 views

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    Innovation to me is the enhancement of education using customized tools. Recently, there has been great buzz about promoting SMART technologies- a collaborative leaning software that accommodates a variety of learning styles- promoting varied instruction. The SMART notebook collaborative learning software is the world's leading lesson creation software that opens options for interactive lessons that support student-centered learning. Of the vast technologies within this field I seemed to find SMART boards as a very innovative tool for classroom instruction. A SMART board is basically an interactive white board that allows teachers to project a website or image from the laptop to the white board. These SMART boards are capable of storing and saving lessons as well as turning simple lessons into more interactive and customized ones geared to enhance student learning. I think this application is more useful in disciplines such as Science because science changes all the time and has the ability to be much "active" using the web- this is not to say that it cannot be useful in the other disciples however.
sessiem

What is STEM Education? - 1 views

    • Heather Causey
       
      This links are fabulous- Check a few out
  • There is more; STEM Education attempts to transform the typical teacher-centered classroom by encouraging a curriculum that is driven by problem-solving, discovery, exploratory learning, and require students to actively engage a situation in order to find its solution.
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