Monday, May 31, 2010
Education vs. Employment
Simply a great, brief site for showing how education affects employment and salary later in life. Very easy to read and interesting. Not sure who would use it outside counselors and business teachers, but good information for all to know.
Tons of Biodiversity Sites!
I was going to try a few of these sites and recommend the best, but there are so many, I figured I would just post the whole linkful of sites and let you try what you want. Anyway, the link I am pasting below is a link to Ferlazzo's blog. In this blog, he makes a list of the best resources for learning about World Biodiversity Day with a focus on endangered species around the world. Hopefully, some of these sites are useful to science teachers. Enjoy!
Having Students Visit Multiple Sites and Research? Use this!
This website allows you to make a list of websites, videos, pictures, etc. and place them all in one spot. If you want students to use one or more of 5-10 or even 20 sites, put them all in a list and give your students the link to this list and they can go to the sites from there. Maybe you want them to do a webquest and visit each of 5 sites? Put it in a list and give them the link to the list and have them begin. Lots of possibilities.....maybe even just for you to keep track of your favorite websites. Enjoy and let me know if you use it and how it works!
What if the World had just 100 People?
I have used the Village of 100 video in my Life Skills class before when talking about diversity and tolerance, but the video and stats are getting out of date. Here are some newer sites that might be better, yet still show basically the same thing. I will likely use some of these next year when talking about Diversity and Tolerance.
http://www.miniature-earth.com/ has video that has been updated for recent stats
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-09-02-america-village_N.htm USAtoday site is about our country if reduced to 100 people. Interesting stats and article.
http://www.toby-ng.com/graphic-design/the-world-of-100/ This site has posters/graphics of similar stats.
Want to show just part of a Youtube clip?
And you don't like the words, graphics, etc that are below your video and to the side? Well, Tube Chop may be for you. I just tried it out and chopped up a Youtube clip (not educational, just one of my favorite clips) and it worked great: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/71730
I have not tested the site at school to see if the TubeChop site can be viewed at schools, but you can definitely use it on your school computer and play it on your school computer to the class. I see this being a great site for some long Youtube educational videos where parts are good and parts are not so good. I am definitely going to use this site next year!
Original Tube Chop website:
Sites where students can Write and Post Book Reviews
For language arts teachers who have students read books and then write reviews, a couple of these sites might be for you. You could still read their reviews and give them grades, but these sites can give your students a bigger (worldwide?) audience. Also, some of these sites might see their preferences and suggest future books for them to read. Give it a try and tell me what you think!
Sites to learn about the Oil Spill
These links will likely change over the summer, but if you want to start the new school year learning something about the oil spill, you might want to try these sites. Hopefully, the oil spill will be "old news" by September, but I have a feeling that we will be talking about this oil spill for many years to come.
Blog site with many links about oil spill:
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