Useful Information In and Out of the Classroom 5/8/15

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

Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature –   “Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Czeslaw Milosz, and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Kurt Vonnegut read from their work at the Library of Congress.”    (L:G; SA:LA)

Analyze My Writing – free; “an online text content and readability analyzer. Copy and paste a text into the homepage and gain a wealth of information about your text including word and character counts, word and sentence lengths, the readability of your text, and other analyses.” (L:T; SA:A)

What We Pay For - This is your federal budget. We think it’s hard to relate to “billions” and “trillions”, so we break it down by how much you pay in taxes. (L:H; SA:M,SS)

Summer Math Program For Families – “The free TenMarks Summer Math Program builds a strong math foundation and reduces summer learning loss for grades 1 - Algebra 2.” (L:G; SA:M)

The Tiniest Fossils – “The 6th episode of the series, The Tiniest Fossils explores how Museum scientists use them, and what they can tell us about how the world used to be.” (L:G; SA:S)

Original photo by Pat Hensley