Useful Information In and Out of the Classroom 3/18/22

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

eStory - “eStory is a wide range of free, simple and dynamic timelines, submitted by our eStorians! You can access almost any topic, such as Art, Sciences, History, Lifestyle, Celebrities and Sports. You can also access a selection of related media content for each event in the eStory timelines. Anybody who is willing to contribute can become an eStorian and share their stories with the world!” (L:T; SA:A)

NASA virtual tour - Take a virtual tour of Langley Research Center (L:G; SA:S)

CanvasMol - see 3D representations of different molecules (L:M,H; SA:S)

Word Wanderer - “We are experimenting with visual ways in which we can enhance people's engagement with language. By fusing the information we can obtain from corpus searches, concordance outputs and word clouds we are aiming to enable and encourage people to notice and wander through the words they read, write and speak. To try an early prototype of the WordWanderer just select a text below or paste your own and take it for a walk.”(L:T; SA:A)

Ziplet - “Ziplet makes gathering and understanding student feedback easy.” (L:T; SA:A)

Original photo by Pat Hensley