Salem Witch Trial Videos
1. The Salem Witch Trials
2. theories about causes of the salem witch hysteria
GoNoodle
NY Math Curriculum Page
new links
clipart for teachers
Math Clipart
Websites for Sample Tasks Math ccss
response rubrics and samples from 2013 mcasGrade 5- English Language Arts
- Mathematics
- Science and Technology/Engineering
Science activities
Storyline Online - Celebraties read aloud Picture Books
A close reading of dr seuss, "oh the places you'll go"
7 Recommended tech tools
http://bighugelabs.com/
This free site includes over two dozen projects that can be printed and/or posted on the web. You can turn photos into magazine covers or puzzles, make mosaics and calendars, turn pictures into pop art ala Andy Warhol (a favorite at my school), write a letter to Santa and more. Most take only 2-3 steps and are so simple that my eighth graders got confused because they expect more steps!
Jing
This is a free downloadable tool that lives on your desktop. When you want to take screenshots or screencasts, all you do is click to activate. Once you've selected a screen portion, you can annotate it with notes, arrows, colors, then copy, save or print. There are no ads, but it does require registration to install software.
Using the same tool, you can take screencasts of your desktop and create quick how-to videos that are then available online. I use this with students in a project where they develop a video guide to solving the most common computer problems (i.e., What do you do when a precocious classmate turns the screen on its side?)
Nanoogo
A visual communication canvas that transcends the dated PowerPoint slideshows and de rigueur classroom plays, providing a method of sharing ideas with words, images, color, and even movement. Students can present book reports, biographies, an exploration of a classroom theme in a unique fashion.
Polldaddy
Users can create surveys and polls easily for free and online. Steps are clear and intuitive. Once created, polls can be customized to a size and look that fits student preference, then embedded into blogs, wikis, websites. Teachers can create a school account so all polls are collected with the same user name and password. No matter how many places a poll is embedded, all results are collected so students can use the information for a school project or analysis.
a playlist of common core ela resources
Jing
This is a free downloadable tool that lives on your desktop. When you want to take screenshots or screencasts, all you do is click to activate. Once you've selected a screen portion, you can annotate it with notes, arrows, colors, then copy, save or print. There are no ads, but it does require registration to install software.
Using the same tool, you can take screencasts of your desktop and create quick how-to videos that are then available online. I use this with students in a project where they develop a video guide to solving the most common computer problems (i.e., What do you do when a precocious classmate turns the screen on its side?)
Nanoogo
A visual communication canvas that transcends the dated PowerPoint slideshows and de rigueur classroom plays, providing a method of sharing ideas with words, images, color, and even movement. Students can present book reports, biographies, an exploration of a classroom theme in a unique fashion.
Polldaddy
Users can create surveys and polls easily for free and online. Steps are clear and intuitive. Once created, polls can be customized to a size and look that fits student preference, then embedded into blogs, wikis, websites. Teachers can create a school account so all polls are collected with the same user name and password. No matter how many places a poll is embedded, all results are collected so students can use the information for a school project or analysis.
a playlist of common core ela resources
Resources from Summer Courses
- Vocaroo - a voice recording service
- StoryJumper file
- StoryBird file
- Flix Time file
- Wordle file
- ePals - safe email for kids & classrooms file
- KidBlog: safe, monitored blogging file
- PrimaryPad: Collaborative Editor
- Voki - Talking Avatars file
- SafeShare TV file
- Tagxedo (like Wordle, but in a shape you choose) file
- Class Tools - Resources & Templates file
- Teacher Favorites - Technology Tips/Tricks
Animoto is a video editing tool that allows users to place photos or video clips into imaginative templates. Users can upload their own thematic music or choose from a musical library. In the classroom, students can use this particular application as a way to understand point of view or to demonstrate comprehension.
Tagxedo Creating word clouds and other various word images is a fun way to approach inferential text. Shifting text into a visual representation can often provide instructors with an engaging way to introduce the more abstract literary concepts.
Glogster This tool is an interactive poster maker, allowing students to demonstrate their understandings through multiple means including video, photographs, writing, animations, and sound in one place.
Bee Clip is similar to Glogster in that you can add video, images, and text to create an interactive poster or collage. The three big differences are: Bee Clip can be worked on by multiple authors, multiple pages can be produced (as a scrapbook), and those pages can be downloaded. Additionally it includes a bookmarklet called the BeeClipper that allows you to clip images as you browse the web. You want to register for the Bee Clip Education version.
BeeClip allows students to construct similar content but with of a scrapbook feel.
Karaoke
Use www.playlist.com to find and play the song, and www.songlyrics.com to display
the lyrics on the whiteboard.
New Songs - Lyrics Pages
50 ways to say goodbye
the lyrics on the whiteboard.
New Songs - Lyrics Pages
50 ways to say goodbye