Classroom Freebies

Check out Classroom Freebies for all kinds of printables to use in the classroom.  It looks like most of the content is at the elementary level, but there are also some classroom management printables that might work across middle and high, too.

Happy Friday, friends!

Today’s Links 01/27/2012

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Today’s Links 01/26/2012

  • “The Big Apple Circus’ jugglers, clowns and high-flying acrobats provide an entertaining and engaging way to introduce basic physics concepts to high school students. Eight videos feature footage from the series and interviews with the performers to illustrate the laws of physics at work. For deeper exploration, each video has a corresponding Study Guide for students and an Activity Guide for teachers, as well as raw video clips of performances which can be used for analysis in the classroom.”

    tags: science physics videos lessons circus high

  • “The founding members of this wiki consist of “old” therapists, with over 200 years of experience working with special populations and technology. We hope that people will use this site to make informed decisions before downloading. Our purpose in creating this wiki is to foster collaboration around how applications can be used in unique ways to support learning in home, school, and therapy settings.”

    tags: sped apps ipad elementary middle high wikis

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Digital Learning Day – Feb. 1st

“The marquee event of the first-ever national Digital Learning Day, the National Town Hall will feature live interaction with school sites around the country, profile great teachers who effectively use technology to deliver instruction, and focus on successful education innovation projects that demonstrate how technology can be used in the classroom to improve student outcomes.

Join thirty-six states, 10,000 teachers, and more than 1.5 million students who have already signed up to participate in Digital Learning Day by registering to participate in this special live internet broadcast of the National Town Hall on Wednesday, February 1 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., ET.

Click here to register!

Today’s Links 01/25/2012

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Get The Math

Get The Math provides algebra-based real-world challenges for middle and high school students. The challenges focus on fashion, videogame design, and music production and give students an interactive problem to solve. Students watch video segments where professionals encounter algebraic problems, then are given interactive tools within the website to try and solve the problem themselves.  Students then return to the video to see the professional team’s solution.

This site includes lesson plans and related resources for teachers as well.  Watch this short video to see how you can use Get The Math to support algebra instruction in your classroom. http://www.thirteen.org/get-the-math/teachers/overview-of-the-lessons/26/

 

(Thanks to Richard Byrne for his awesome blog, Free Technology For Teachers, where I found this resource.)

Today’s Links 01/24/2012

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You Are Your Words

Check out You Are Your Words for a fun way to combine writing, art, and images.  Create your artwork by uploading and image of your face. You can make simple edits to move, adjust size, and rotate the picture to center it. Then, choose your text by copying/pasting, typing in original text, or connecting to your Facebook or Twitter account to have the text from recent posts pulled in.  (In the example above, I used my personal Facebook account.) Then, edit your image by adjusting the background color palette, contrast, and font. Once you are done, you can share your artwork via Facebook or Twitter or download the image to your computer.

This might be a neat activity for students to do as a way to create a visualization of words. One activity idea might be to upload an image of a book character or historical figure and have students write about the character or story as the body of text.  Or have students use self-images with a description of themselves.

 

Moms With Apps


Moms With Apps is a site for family-friendly app developers to share apps that are educational or suitable for children.  Most apps seem suitable through elementary age.

On Fridays, the site highlights FREE and discounted apps.  These deals are usually only good on Friday, unless the app developer extends the deal.

I’ve found some great apps for free (or discounted) on this site and I try to remember to check the site every Friday for new deals.  (Must. Add. Reminder. On. Calendar…)

So, if you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, go check out Moms With Apps!

Today’s Links 01/21/2012

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