Archive for the 'Wellness' Category
Text 2 Mind Map is an easy-to-use tool for converting an outline into a mind map. Students type in their outlines right on the site. After the outline has been created, they click on the “Draw Mind Map” button, and the outline is presented on the screen in mind map format. The map can then […]
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Share My Lesson is a site created by the AFT and the TES (a worldwide network of teachers). The site allows you to use its over 200,000 lesson plans and other teaching resources at no cost (free registration is required to download lessons). It also allows you to upload lessons that you have created and […]
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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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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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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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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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Sugar Stacks is a site designed to help us understand how much sugar is contained in the foods we eat. Sugar Stacks uses regular sugar cubes as a visual aid to showing the amount of sugar as listed on the product labels.
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VocabGrabber is part of the Visual Thesaurus website. VocabGrabber creates a word cloud of vocabulary words from any text you copy and paste into their text box. Each of the words becomes a link that, when clicked on, displays the definition of the word in both written and web format.
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