American TESOL Webinar: Virtual Trip Resources and Lesson Ideas – American TESOL Institute of Florida's Lexical Press Blog. Teach with Artstor - Artstor. Words Without Borders Campus. Dirtmeister Science Lab On Ecosystems. The Dirtmeister is your personal guide to hands-on science exploration in the classroom.
By participating in Dirtmeister's Science Labs, kids have the opportunity to experience science firsthand. The steps in completing the challenge follow the same methodology used by scientists in solving problems. After reading the question, students are encouraged to formulate hypotheses. With science expert Steve Tomecek (the "Dirtmeister") serving as facilitator, students complete the hands-on investigation and check their results against their predictions. Teachers who participate in the challenge also have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in teaching inquiry-based science because each new challenge helps reinforce basic science concepts. Background Information on Ecosystems This month, we explore ecosystems in nature by making two mini-ecosystems in the classroom. Materials: Dirtmeister's Science Lab Home Page Learning Outcomes/National Standards Correlations Managing Time and Students.
The Amazing World of Volcanoes. Did you know that there are more than 600 active volcanoes on Earth?
To explain their origins, it helps to hold up an apple: If our planet were the size of the apple, its crust would be about the same thickness as the apple´s skin. Below Earth´s thin, hard crust comes the mantle, which—just like the white flesh of the apple—surrounds the core. Earth´s mantle is made up of thick, hot rock in liquid form, called magma. The molten magma layer is under intense pressure. When magma seeps or rises through a crack in Earth´s hard crust, it forms a volcano. Earth's Crust Experiment. An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island: An Immigration Activity. The Interactive Tour of Ellis Island offers students a foundation of American immigration history.
With the help of historical photographs, film footage from the time period, and the oral histories of real immigrants, students tread the path that all immigrants at Ellis Island followed in the process of entering the United States at the beginning of the last century. The tour includes these stops. Stop 1: The Passage.
3 Interactive Virtual Field Trips for Social Studies Students. With funding problems and increased liability issues abounding, interactive virtual field trips are the most likely way many students today will experience environments outside their classrooms.
While actual field trips can give students some hands-on experience and a different perspective on their lessons, these trips are limited to nearby destinations and can take entire school day. A virtual field trip has none of these limitations. Students can study almost any site in the world via the Internet and even view live images from webcams. The tours can last half an hour or students can study their target area for most of the day. Anne Frank’s Secret Annex Social studies students who are studying World War II will learn about Jews hiding in Nazi Germany. Educational Activities You Can Do at Home. Lesson Plans. Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Printable Lesson Plan On National Zoo Virtual Field Trip 1.
Take your class on a virtual field trip of NYC! – Teacher-Created Lesson Plan. 360° Virtual Field Trips & Lesson Plans. Let's Be #GridPals □□□ — Flipgrid. Flipgrid was created for a single class, (Charlie’s University of Minnesota PHD students, to be exact), but it didn't take long for educators to begin using Flipgrid to connect with classrooms around the world.
A Kindergarten class in Iowa connected with Kindergarten students in Sudan.Three Norwegian educators connected their students with classes in South Dakota.A high school English teacher in New York connected his students with a middle school Science class in Ohio. Educators have made thousands of connections, using Flipgrid to increase social learning, global empathy, and cultural understanding. They inspired us to create CoPilots so you can collaboratively manage your Grids and Topics with a fellow educator. Lesson Library. Provide teachers with expert-derived, experience-rich, and tech-enhanced professional development to maximize the impact of Nearpod for students.
“Our teachers are using Nearpod to access thousands of high quality digital lessons to enrich student learning. Nearpod's features amplify already great teaching and, as a result, students are magnifying their learning capacity.” Louis Algaze Ph.D., PrincipalHialeah Gardens High School, Miami-Dade County, FL Provide teachers with expert-derived, experience-rich, and tech-enhanced professional development to maximize the impact of Nearpod for students. “Our teachers are using Nearpod to access thousands of high quality digital lessons to enrich student learning. Google Expeditions & HyperDocs. A Perfect Pairing. A few weeks ago I had the honor of being a guest on the new Google Teacher Tribe Podcast hosted by Kasey Bell and Matt Miller.
In the episode I shared a few of the exciting things we have going on at my school (Sun Terrace Elementary) with respect to integrating technology. I decided to share two big game changing tech tools that happen to pair perfectly with one another to create an exciting and truly engaging learning experience, HyperDocs and Google Expeditions. HyperDocs, are "a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. " Hyperdocs.co With the HUGE community of educators sharing resources all the time there are tons to choose from to edit and share with your class. Just go to "file" then "make a copy" and an editable copy is saved to your Google Drive. Maybe you have found a really great Expedition but can't find a HyperDoc to go with it. Take a Virtual Field Trip.