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resources quickly and easily.
THIS MONTH'S FEATURED RESOURCES:
May Resources - Lessons, projects,
and resources to bring May into the classroom!
Environmental
Resources – Created to gather
resources, lesson plans, activities and related links that cover the
topics of waste reduction, water management, energy consumption, recycling,
reusing, and reducing consumption.
- Consider using a digital projector to project the multimedia
items for entire class viewing (Flash movies, interactive tours, graphing
activities, etc).
- Many of the sites have printable resources for students
and teacher facilitated lesson plans.
- Send home website addresses connected to your classroom
topics in your newsletters or list them on your classroom websites.
Parents and studebynts can explore the sites from home.
- Use online resources as CARE partner activities.
Web Sites for Teachers and Students
- Bloom’s
Taxonomy Poster for Elementary Teachers - Downloadable poster
- Blooming
Orange: Bloom's Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster - Downloadable poster
- Applying Bloom's Taxonomy – A list of “potential activities and products”
for each level.
- Developing
Questions For Critical Thinking - Learn how you can use the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy to develop learning objectives, questions
to challenge your students, and assignments.
- How the 2011 Japan
tsunami happened - An excellent documentary on the recent Earthquake
and Tsunami in Japan. It is amazing to see how much data in various
forms is now available almost immediately after disaster –
- Sky
News Video clips of the Japan Tsunami
- Holocaust Encyclopedia - Many resources
for teachers and students to learn about the history of the Holocaust.
Containing articles, film, photographs, individual histories, survivor
testimony, chronologies, maps, artifacts, music, and links to many
other resources.
- Math Central – Has a new updated look!
- Rainforest Maths - Interactive Flash activities reviewing
a variety of math concepts. Choose from counting, measuring,
sorting, graphing, rounding numbers, comparing fractions, examining
statistics, measuring areas in square units. Other topics include
time, operations, probability, volume and more. Activities designed
for K-Gr. 6 students.
- Vocabulary
Games and Resources
- Online word games
- The Magic Schoolbus
- Joanna Cole’s Magic Schoolbus book series has it own website.
Play games, try out simple science experiments and check out other
resources.
- Physics Podcasts - Weekly
podcasts provided to students. Each podcast is a summary of
what they covered in class that week and an introduction to the following
week.
- Awesome Stories – Uses the Internet to link
its story content to thousands of the world's best on-line primary
sources.
- Graphica
– “A medium of literature that integrates pictures and words and arranged
them cumulatively to tell a story or convey information; often presented
in comic strip, periodical, or book form.”
- Make Your
Own Graphix - Goosebumps Graphix (from Scholastic) - Make
your own graphic novel with haunted characters and spooky settings.
Students can choose the characters, setting, and speech bubbles,
as well as adding their own text.
- Make Your
Own Captain Underpants Comic
- It is similar to the Goosebumps comic creator, this one is limited
in that users have to choose the text and dialogue from a set of
options rather than creating their own.
- Make Beliefs Comix! Online Educational
Comic Generator -
Students can create original, kid-friendly comics. Offers a wide
range of options to choose from. It is a terrific writing
activity that would make a great workstation!
- Comics in
the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study - In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore
a variety of comic strips and discuss the different components and
conventions of them. Comics can
be used to teach a variety of things--character development, dialogue,
transitions, conclusions, and much more. This lesson incorporates
student interactives and links to Web resources.
- Comics and
Graphic Novels - This activity from ReadWriteThink invites student to respond
to a book they have read by creating a comic strip of the book.
This can be an excellent alternative to traditional book reports.
- Comics in
the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure - In this lesson from ReadWriteThink,
students examine the plot and narrative structure of a story through
the use of comic strip frames. They then write their own original
narratives after creating comic strip storyboards as a prewriting
exercise.
- ReadWriteThink:
Student Materials: Comic Creator
- Comic Life - Create original comics using your
own photos! Drag in your pictures, captions, lettering text. Try
the 30 day trial.
- The Graphic
Classroom - A resource for teachers and
librarians to help them gain a better understanding of graphica’s
possibilities.
- Successful
Teaching: Using Comics to Teach Reading in the Classroom
- Innovative
Teaching - Comic Books in the Classroom
- Comic-Based Instructional Unit
– Rubric for Form from Comics in Education
If
you would like to contribute websites, lesson plans or ideas on how
you have used
online
resources in your classroom, send your ideas to byersj@spsd.sk.ca
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