Exploratorium

The Exploratorium isn't your usual museum - it is a place to watch, play, and learn about science, art, and the human perspective!  There are tons of interactives, websites and activities to explore.  See how to create a Math Walk for your students, track the cabs in San Francisco, watch a dissection of a cow's eye, and find out your weight on other planets - just to name a few.  There are resources for educators and a special section just for teens.

Enjoy!

Check out this great new way to organize your web resources.  The video below is an intro into symbalooedu.com

Enjoy!

http://www.screenr.com/xg5s

TerraClues

TerraClues is the ultimate Google Maps scavenger hunt game! Your students can follow clues to find hidden locations on a google map. Students can enter the public classroom and play anonymously. Here are just a few of the hunts you can check out.

Grades 5 and under: continents, oceans, longitude and latitude, age of exploration
Grades 6-8: origin of North American settlers, satellite image find, North American landmarks, seven wonders of the ancient world
High school: American Revolution, famous quotations, natural wonders, American History

Teachers, you can create a private area for your students with hunts relevant to your age group and course matter. You can talk to other teachers in the forums and you and your students can create TerraHunts that can be played by students around the world. This is a fun way for your students to solve problems, search the world, learn about new places and learn about a variety of cultures.

Check it out at this link: TerraClues

Zoo Burst

Create your very own pop-up books, either using your own photos or images already saved. Zoo Burst allows you to create a book that is 3-D. What a great way to review content or introduce a new one! Visit Zoo Burst to learn more about how to create a pop-up book. Registration is free but of course, if you want more bells and whistles, there is a cost. A free subscription gives you the ability to create books that have up to 10 pages.

Go!Animate

Looking for a way to get your students' creative juices flowing? Why not have them create a movie using Go!Animate? Go!Animate is an online tool that allows students to create simple cartoon movies on any subject imaginable. The site is very easy to use. Students simply choose a setting and characters and then they create the dialogue. This can either be typed in or recorded. Although a full version can be purchased, you can make simple movies using a free account. Here's a sample movie:


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Although we might not have real snow on the ground right now, you can still make it snow on your computer!  The Make-a-Flake snowflake maker lets you create your very own unique flakes without all those pesky peices of paper all over the floor!

And don't worry, it's not just for fun...
You can use it:
as a planning activity before you actually cut out paper snowflakes
as a introduction to symmetry
to explore acute, obtuse, and right angles
to introduce the concept of unique crystalline structures in nature!

or you could just use it on the SMARTboard to grab your students' attention while they are thinking ahead to the break!

Check out Make-a-Flake:
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/

Enjoy!

1300+ Apps to Explore

We've all heard there's an app for that. This website may well prove it.

APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings. The apps are sorted in the following areas: Preschool, Themes (includes subject areas), Multiple Intelligences, Blooms Taxonomy, and Tools.

While you are exploring, you might want to check out our iTEACH blog for more ideas and suggestions.

Have fun!