Archive for the 'Science' Category
Differentiation Meets Digital Technology is a blog post on the Literacy Beat blog that I just recently started to follow. Literacy Beat is a blog written by five teachers and researchers in the field of digital literacy. What I like about this particular post is how it uses the UBD model to plan for differentiation […]
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Fizzy’s Lunch Lab is a site created by the PBS to help students learn about the importance of good nutrition and physical activity. The site contains entertaining videos, games and recipes for healthy meals and snacks. This site is most appropriate for elementary students.
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ScienceFix is a website that contains videos related to middle school science. The videos are created by Darren Fix, a middle school science teacher. He uses these videos to teach his middle school students various science concepts.
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108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom is a blog post by the award-winning blogger Michael Gorman. As the title suggests, the post offers more than 100 ways to use work clouds in the classroom. What I like about this particular post is that the ideas are organized by subject area.
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Weight2Rock is an interactive website, created by a pediatrician, designed to help young people maintain a healthy weight. Weight2Rock provides a variety of resources to help children lose weight. The resources are organized by age level: pre-teen, teen and 18 Plus. Children, who remain anonymous, can get weight-loss buddy through the site for support and […]
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MIT + K12 is a site created through the partnership of MIT and Kahn Academy. It contains videos created by science and engineering students at MIT. The purpose of these videos is to help students in grades K-12 understand basic science and engineering principals. The videos are organized by strand and grade level. In addition […]
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Would You Eat That? is an online game designed by the Museum of Science and Industry. To play the game, they present you with a food and ten ingredients. Your job is to choose which of the ingredients are in the given food. If you guess incorrectly, you are given clues and additional guesses.
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Science News for Kids is a site for middle and high school students that provides articles about interesting and current science topics. The topics are organized by categories which include health, earth science, life, tech, math, forces and atoms.
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My Garbology is a acute, interactive site for helping students learn about disposal of waste materials. In addition to the interactive game offered on the site, there are lesson plans and resources for Grades K-12.
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Simple English Wikipedia is an online wiki-style encyclopedia geared for students, children, and anyone trying to learn the English language. The articles are shorter than those you would find on the regular Wikipedia, and the articles are written in more basic English. Like Wikipedia, the articles available through Simple English Wikipedia are written and edited […]
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