Useful Information In and Out of the Classroom 4/29/22

Here are some interesting sites that I’ve found this week, thanks to my PLN. As a teacher, I feel we have to keep up to date concerning research in our field and current issues in the education system. I hope some of these inspire you, inform you, and even have you asking questions. Thank you for coming by and visiting!

Note: Each resource is labeled with a level and subject area to make it easier to use.

Levels: E: Elementary; M: Middle; H: High; G: General, all levels; SN: Special Needs; T: Teachers

Subject Areas: LA: Language Arts, English, Reading, Writing; M: Math; S: Science; Health; SS: Social Studies, Current Events; FA: Fine Arts; Music, Art, Drama; FL: Foreign Language; PE: Physical Ed; C: Career; A: All

DewWool - “Dewwool is a free science education website for K-12 students. Dewwool offers interactive quizzes, research content, animations, videos, comics and much more.” (L:G; SA:S)

Phideo - “Choose your photos/images. Annotate your photos with text, shapes and images and save your slideshow as a video file (.mp4 or .webm) or animated GIF. Optionally, add background music. Free, online, safe and fast.” (L:G; SA:A)

How Do Worms Reproduce? - “The love life of an earthworm is more complex than you might expect. Dr Victoria Burton explains how worms can be picky when it comes to finding a mate.”(L:M,H; SA:S)

Post It App - “Stop spending hours transcribing notes after a brainstorm. When you download the free Post-it® App, you can instantly capture and share notes with the team without recaps or delays.” (L:G; SA:A)

Color Blindness - “Color blindness (or colour blindness — or more specific color vision deficiency (CVD)) is well known but hard to imagine if you are not suffering from it. So usually people are either looking for more information to learn about color blindness and all its details, would like to better understand the vision by simulating it or want to test themselves with some form of color blindness test. All this you can be found here on color-blindness.com — and much more.” (L:G; SA:S)

Original photo by Pat Hensley