Non-Content Specific Sites:
Correlations- Ridiculous correlations that shouldn't be paired together
Desmos: Do your students find Math too hard to learn? If yes, then Desmos is the perfect tool for you. By using it, you can make Math more interesting and enjoyable for your students. Desmos is intuitive and best part is it is free of cost.
Fun Friday Photos- Science Spot's photos
Natural Heroes: Wildlife experts, inventors, soil scientists, Native American elders, and others who are making positive contributions to the environment.
PBL World- Investigating inventions from a project based standpoint.
Publicize---Write your Scinopsis today, so that fellow Scientists and Enthusiasts can discover it from our searchable and easy-to-navigate database of science directly from the source.
Read Works--- Physical Science passages that teach K-8 Reading Comprehension
Scientific Method- Why reasoning is important...same evidence, different
Textbook Study Videos: snapshots of textbooks, videos, study prep, and practice questions from multiple textbook companies. This is geared more towards chemistry, O. Chem, physics, calculus, and statistics.
The Student, The Fish, and Agassiz- A reading about a smelly fish one student was forced to look at and found with time, someone begins to notice the details.
Tuva Labs--- Data sets galore. This site helps with gathering current and relevant data. It can even pull data sets, not listed, by filling out a short form.
Video Science: A series of videos that can be recreated for inexpensive demonstrations on a variety of scientific concepts.
MIT JV IntenTeams Activity Guides
Anatomy Study Guide app for Android; iTunes download here: 10 High-resolution 3D diagrams of the human body. This app allows for study groups, take notes, share with others, and quiz yourself on what you've learned.
Human Microbiome Project- NIH's repository of the human flora and fauna and how it may change in response to disease outbreaks.
The Stirring Pot- Science Friday explores adults misconceptions and understandings of Evolution.
Correlations- Ridiculous correlations that shouldn't be paired together
Desmos: Do your students find Math too hard to learn? If yes, then Desmos is the perfect tool for you. By using it, you can make Math more interesting and enjoyable for your students. Desmos is intuitive and best part is it is free of cost.
Fun Friday Photos- Science Spot's photos
Natural Heroes: Wildlife experts, inventors, soil scientists, Native American elders, and others who are making positive contributions to the environment.
PBL World- Investigating inventions from a project based standpoint.
Publicize---Write your Scinopsis today, so that fellow Scientists and Enthusiasts can discover it from our searchable and easy-to-navigate database of science directly from the source.
Read Works--- Physical Science passages that teach K-8 Reading Comprehension
Scientific Method- Why reasoning is important...same evidence, different
Textbook Study Videos: snapshots of textbooks, videos, study prep, and practice questions from multiple textbook companies. This is geared more towards chemistry, O. Chem, physics, calculus, and statistics.
The Student, The Fish, and Agassiz- A reading about a smelly fish one student was forced to look at and found with time, someone begins to notice the details.
Tuva Labs--- Data sets galore. This site helps with gathering current and relevant data. It can even pull data sets, not listed, by filling out a short form.
Video Science: A series of videos that can be recreated for inexpensive demonstrations on a variety of scientific concepts.
MIT JV IntenTeams Activity Guides
Anatomy Study Guide app for Android; iTunes download here: 10 High-resolution 3D diagrams of the human body. This app allows for study groups, take notes, share with others, and quiz yourself on what you've learned.
Human Microbiome Project- NIH's repository of the human flora and fauna and how it may change in response to disease outbreaks.
The Stirring Pot- Science Friday explores adults misconceptions and understandings of Evolution.
Articles: A place to find a number of different readings and articles for free.
Buck Institute---BIE offers professional development on how to design, assess, and manage projects that engage and motivate students.
21st Century Skills- resources and links for 21st century skill sets
California Science Project--- The California Subject Matter Project seeks to improve student achievement and learning by providing comprehensive, content-focused professional development for teachers, by building teacher leadership, and by creating and maintaining collaborative networks of K-12 teachers and university faculty.
Copyright Do's and Don'ts- a kid friendly version of what copyright is and isn't allowed.
Dipity—Create visually appealing and interactive timelines. Each event can have an image, and a link to more information. Users can scroll through the timeline and click on the events that interest them.
Edmodo---Edmodo offers best platform for teachers to interact not just with students but also with their parents. Its interface is very easy to use; teachers can easily edit the documents as well as check student’s assignment and can give instant feedback.
Learnzillion: Learnzillion is an online community that is dedicated to educators. The online community helps teachers in better learning of resources and implementing it in the curriculum. Some of the products include Math and English Language resources for grades 2-12.
Nearpod: Nearpod is the best example of mobile technology combining with education. This tool can be best used by the teachers to monitor classroom activities, sharing contents as well as interacting with their students instantly.
**News ELA---Updated daily with real-world news from major publications, students can participate in conversation about the most urgent topics of our time, all while becoming stronger readers. This site will change the same article into 5 different reading levels!!!
NGSS Middle School Released Performance Task Questions- Performance tasks released for public viewing
NGSS Cross Cutting Symbols- a file that contains all the CCC symbols to printout and post around the room.
Poll Anywhere- Set up quick multiple choice questions that are answered using student cell phone numbers. Their numbers are private, just like Remind.
Poll Daddy—Quickly and easily set up a survey or poll for your students. You can see the answers instantly—no tallying required!
Prezi—Are your PowerPoint presentations putting kids to sleep? Prezi has fun and interesting slide transitions to keep your kids guessing about what will happen next.
Problem-Attic- A question bank with 1,000's of questions from released state examinations from around the country.
Quora—If you have a question, Quora has an answer. Users can post questions and other members suggest and debate answers.
Rubik's Cube: A question, waiting to be answered- a very good tool to remind teachers of who will solve the next big problem, and/or inspire students to begin to question and answer their own questions.
Science Video Clips- BBC's archived website that has short videos, cartoon videos, about many science concepts. This web site sorts by age, not grade.
Skitch—Skitch is a quick and easy photo-editing app. Language teachers might find it particularly useful. Load up a photo and have the student label everything in it with correct the vocabulary.
Smithsonian Institute 3-D: Images that can be manipulated to show all of the sides of the object. Very cool!!!
Student Science Articles: Web site provides current, and student friendly language on various science topics.
Teacher Tube—Is YouTube blocked at your school? Or worse—did you use it, only to have a less-than-appropriate video pop up as “suggested?” Teacher Tube has classroom-approved videos.
Thing Link—Turn a picture into a visually appealing cluster of links. Tag people in a photo and link to articles about them, or cover an infographic in links for further information. Then post the image to your class’s web page!
Tools For Teaching Science---Great teaching can be learned. This web site provides tools and resources that support ambitious science instruction at the middle school and high school levels. Ambitious teaching deliberately aims to get students of all racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds to understand science ideas, participate in the discourses of the discipline, and solve authentic problems.
Understanding Science- UC Berkeley's site talks about how scientist use the scientific method, and how scientists kept changing the theory of dinosaur extinction as they learned new information.
Wordle—Is your class interested in a particular topic? Type some of their comments into Wordle, and see a visual interpretation of all the words they used.
Wordpress—Do you find your district’s web host hard to use? Make your own page using Wordpress. If your students subscribe, they’ll receive an email every time you post something new.
You Tube Downloading: Video grabbing and Keep vid both allow you to download videos to show without videos.
Buck Institute---BIE offers professional development on how to design, assess, and manage projects that engage and motivate students.
21st Century Skills- resources and links for 21st century skill sets
California Science Project--- The California Subject Matter Project seeks to improve student achievement and learning by providing comprehensive, content-focused professional development for teachers, by building teacher leadership, and by creating and maintaining collaborative networks of K-12 teachers and university faculty.
Copyright Do's and Don'ts- a kid friendly version of what copyright is and isn't allowed.
Dipity—Create visually appealing and interactive timelines. Each event can have an image, and a link to more information. Users can scroll through the timeline and click on the events that interest them.
Edmodo---Edmodo offers best platform for teachers to interact not just with students but also with their parents. Its interface is very easy to use; teachers can easily edit the documents as well as check student’s assignment and can give instant feedback.
Learnzillion: Learnzillion is an online community that is dedicated to educators. The online community helps teachers in better learning of resources and implementing it in the curriculum. Some of the products include Math and English Language resources for grades 2-12.
Nearpod: Nearpod is the best example of mobile technology combining with education. This tool can be best used by the teachers to monitor classroom activities, sharing contents as well as interacting with their students instantly.
**News ELA---Updated daily with real-world news from major publications, students can participate in conversation about the most urgent topics of our time, all while becoming stronger readers. This site will change the same article into 5 different reading levels!!!
NGSS Middle School Released Performance Task Questions- Performance tasks released for public viewing
NGSS Cross Cutting Symbols- a file that contains all the CCC symbols to printout and post around the room.
Poll Anywhere- Set up quick multiple choice questions that are answered using student cell phone numbers. Their numbers are private, just like Remind.
Poll Daddy—Quickly and easily set up a survey or poll for your students. You can see the answers instantly—no tallying required!
Prezi—Are your PowerPoint presentations putting kids to sleep? Prezi has fun and interesting slide transitions to keep your kids guessing about what will happen next.
Problem-Attic- A question bank with 1,000's of questions from released state examinations from around the country.
Quora—If you have a question, Quora has an answer. Users can post questions and other members suggest and debate answers.
Rubik's Cube: A question, waiting to be answered- a very good tool to remind teachers of who will solve the next big problem, and/or inspire students to begin to question and answer their own questions.
Science Video Clips- BBC's archived website that has short videos, cartoon videos, about many science concepts. This web site sorts by age, not grade.
Skitch—Skitch is a quick and easy photo-editing app. Language teachers might find it particularly useful. Load up a photo and have the student label everything in it with correct the vocabulary.
Smithsonian Institute 3-D: Images that can be manipulated to show all of the sides of the object. Very cool!!!
Student Science Articles: Web site provides current, and student friendly language on various science topics.
Teacher Tube—Is YouTube blocked at your school? Or worse—did you use it, only to have a less-than-appropriate video pop up as “suggested?” Teacher Tube has classroom-approved videos.
Thing Link—Turn a picture into a visually appealing cluster of links. Tag people in a photo and link to articles about them, or cover an infographic in links for further information. Then post the image to your class’s web page!
Tools For Teaching Science---Great teaching can be learned. This web site provides tools and resources that support ambitious science instruction at the middle school and high school levels. Ambitious teaching deliberately aims to get students of all racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds to understand science ideas, participate in the discourses of the discipline, and solve authentic problems.
Understanding Science- UC Berkeley's site talks about how scientist use the scientific method, and how scientists kept changing the theory of dinosaur extinction as they learned new information.
Wordle—Is your class interested in a particular topic? Type some of their comments into Wordle, and see a visual interpretation of all the words they used.
Wordpress—Do you find your district’s web host hard to use? Make your own page using Wordpress. If your students subscribe, they’ll receive an email every time you post something new.
You Tube Downloading: Video grabbing and Keep vid both allow you to download videos to show without videos.
NSTA Resources
NSTA position statements to help explain to 'outsiders' why the shift in the thinking for the standards
NSTA position statements to help explain to 'outsiders' why the shift in the thinking for the standards