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March 2008

Algebra 2 and PreCalc Mathcasts

by knann (via)
Students solve problems using the Smartboard and Screencasting software. Students narrate and demonstrate how to solve various problems.

BAM! Body and Mind |

by knann, 1 comment (via)
From the CDC, a great interactive site for health topics: diseases, food and nutrition, physical activity, your safety, your life, your body. Resources for teachers here as well.

Simply Entertainment

by knann (via)
Accessible Learning/entertainment software Where to get those games, at low cost, or for FREE What to look for in selecting those games, quickly and with fewer costly mistakes How to apply those games to your learning objectives, without a lot of mystery Who to go to for FREE help

February 2008

Interactives: Geometry 3D Shapes

by knann
This website offers motivational and interactive class activities to learn more about 3D shapes. It also shows how to calculate surface area and volume, as well as other mathematical properties about the 3D shapes. Specific topics include surface area and volume, platonic solids, Euler's Theorem, and several others. The Test Your Skills link provides an interactive quiz complete with photos, illustrations, and animations. The About This Interactive link provides standards, goals, lesson ideas, and more.

Cell Biology Animations

by knann & 3 others
What happens when a biologist with a passion for art creates a website? This fabulous animation site shows the artistic side of biological processes along with a few surprises. View animations that demonstrate amino acids and proteins, cell anatomy, evolution time line, Krebs cycle, and photosynthesis, to name a few. Some animations are very simplistic but artfully done.

Harcourt Math

by knann
Interactive sites for math practice at all grade levels. The following textbook titles have activities HSP Math, Think Math, and Math Advantage Grades K-8

HyperHeart

by knann
Interactive animation of the heart with explanations

January 2008

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for Kids

by knann (via)
Interactive activities for ancient civiizlations:timeline and art activities

Resource: Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices

by knann
Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages

lingro: multilingual dictionary and language learning site

by knann & 5 others
lingro is an on-line environment for people learning languages. lingro's dictionaries remember all your translations and help you learn the vocabulary most important to you easier and faster

Verbix -

by knann & 4 others
Verbix is an independent non-profit organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity [UNESCO Observatory: Multilingualism]. This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages. Download the program or use WebVerbix

Cosmic Zoom

by knann (via)
This visual representation is to help give you an idea of the size and scale of the universe.(similar to the Powers of Ten site) Each image is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one that comes before it or after it. The numbers are written using exponential notation. This is a convenient way scientists use to write very large or very small numbers.

December 2007

BBC - History - Viking Quest

by knann (via)
Play the game of 'Viking Quest', which takes you back to AD 793. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to respond. Turn up your sound for the full Viking experience.

Historic Tale Construction Kit

by knann & 3 others (via)
Online writing tool with picture and text tools to complement the study of medieval themes

Activities and learning resources to accompany the Bayeux Tapestry

by knann
Create your own Bayeux Tapestry with the online interactive. Complete the missing final stages of the tapestry or recreate your favourite scenes. There are further fun activities for all, build a Norman ship and make the helmet of a Norman Soldier, alongside more teacher orientated material like the topic web.

Launchball Educators’ guide

by knann
Info and resources for the Launchball site

Science Museum - Launchball

by knann & 8 others
Slide, bounce, and spring your way through 30 obstacle filled levels using your creative problem solving skills. Need to register to save progress. Complete the training games first!

LoudLit.org

by knann (via)
LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player.

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein

by knann & 17 others (via)
THE books which defined the way The West thinks now... In their own words... but condensed and abridged into something like readable

Tom & Jerry Trap-O-Matic

by knann
Create Rube Goldberg-like contraptions in this flash game