Archive for the 'For Fun' Category
Myoats is an online drawing site that allows the user to easily create symmetric geometric shapes. It provides a variety of tools, colors, and effects to make the drawings more original. Drawings can be downloaded without a user account. What a fun and easy tool for helping students with the concept of symmetry!
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Your Life On Earth is a fun site in which you enter your birth date to find out how the world has changed since you were born. In addition to reporting the number of times your heart has beaten and how far you’ve traveled through space, you can also find out how many earthquakes have […]
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Just Books Read Aloud is just like the title implies — a site through which users can have books read to them. The books on the site are read by a variety of readers. Books are categorized by length, author, narrator, reading level and topic. Just Books Read Aloud also includes books read in Spanish, […]
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The Chemistry of Cookies is a TED-Ed video that shows the chemical reactions that take place when cookies are made. It also talks about salmonella and why we shouldn’t eat raw cookie dough.
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American Car Brochures is a site that contains archived car brochures and ads from cars dating back to the early 1900’s. The brochures are organized by manufacturers, then by years. Check out American Car Brochures to see if they have information about your first car. The site can be used with students studying 20th century […]
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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of online logic games that can be played by a single player. These are the kinds of games that you might play when you want to take a break from working on something or have a couple of minutes to kill. They are easy to learn but […]
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Vintage Ad Browser is a site at which you can peruse print advertisements from as early as the 1700’s to the present. There are over 100,000 ads available to browse through. The ads are organized by category (Sports, Clothing, Cigarettes and Tobacco, TV and Electronics), then organized by years. There is a search feature that […]
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Flight Attendant Doing Raps is a YouTube video of a Southwest Airline flight attendant adding some creativity to the standard safety presentation. While it can be argued that this has no direct tie to education, I think it can be used to encourage teachers to try something new and attention-grabbing when presenting the same old […]
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