MOMA for Teachers

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Modern Teachers connects educators with MoMA’s resources and collection.

Download PDFs of educators guides, browse images, or search lessons by subject, theme, medium, or artist. Text and images can be printed, projected, or saved into a presentation. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to download PDFs.

http://www.moma.org/modernteachers/

What YOU Know About Math?

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What can I say? I’m a fan of cheesy math videos! This You-Tube gem has two students rapping all about what they know about math. Funny! Your students will get a kick out of it! A great way to start class one morning!

Use The Gateway

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Looking for good lesson plans? Need something new to add some ZING to your content? Visit The Gateway to 21st Century Skills and browse through thousands of online lesson plans, or just use the search engine to find what you need by grade level, content area, or keyword. A great resource for teachers! Some of the cool lessons you’ll find include:

  • Fastball Physics - using baseball to teach aerodynamics and more
  •  Macbeth 2000 - bringing classic characters into contemporary times
  • Not Big, Not Bad - Just a Wolf - This National Geographic Geoguide lesson explores the reality of the gray wolf—not its mythical or fairy tale cousin—and its relationships with animals, humans, and the environment.

There are thousands more to see…go now…don’t wait…

http://www.thegateway.org/

270 To Win - Predict The 2008 Elections

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A great site for students in Governement and Economics, or anyone interested in politics and the 2008 election, 270towin offers you the opportunity to predict how you think the 2008 elections will unfold. You click on states to mark them as a Democratic or Republican win. You can also look at past election results, state voting histories, and more! Then, save your prediction and see how close you get in 2008!

http://www.270towin.com/

A Timeline for Scientists

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From DNAI, this interactive timeline is fun to use with photos, video, and lots of information on the progression of study about DNA. A must have site for Science teachers!

http://www.dnai.org/timeline/index.html

Create Your Own Timeline!

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Students become historians as they use this interactive tool provided by ReadWriteThink to create their own timelines. Easy to use and applicable to all content areas. Students can create time lines for literature, science, mathematics, social studies, fine arts, music, health and medical discoveries, sports evolution, and even one about themselves or their family!

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/

Evolution of Black History

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Scholastic brings you this incredible, interactive timeline of the Evolution of Black History. A must have resource!

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/timeline/game.htm

WhoWhatWhen

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This interactive timeline allows you to select your dates, or view timelines by keywords or descriptors. You can find information on mathmeticians, musicians, kings and queens, sports figures, scientists and much more. Each entry allow you to view the timeline, google the individual/event, or visit that entry in Wikipedia. Fun to see!

http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/index.php

What Was His Name?

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Want to learn more about the historical figures of Britain? This interactive, alphabetical list of the famous - and infamous - will give you an inside look at the people who made history! Brought to you by our friends at the BBC!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/

History Trails

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Another gem from the BBC treasure chest, this site offers:

Articles, games, activities and quizzes that help make sense of the past and the sources that made history.
Pick a trail and start your journey.

You can chose from eight different topics (most with a British twist - it is the BBC after all):

  1. Church and State: Track the history of Britain’s historic institutions and their turbulent relationship.
  2. Victorian Britain: Who were the winners and losers in the race for industrial supremacy in Victorian Britain?
  3. Family History: Take the first steps to uncovering your family history; what can documentation and memorabilia reveal?
  4. Local History: Discover how history happens all around you; enthusiasts and experts offer their top tips for reading the past.
  5. Wars and Conflict: Discover more about the personal experience of battle. Chart the emergence of a British standing army.
  6. Conquest: What was the impact of the Vikings and the Normans? Michael Wood charts the legacy of invasion.
  7. How to do History: Follow in the footsteps of professional historians and find out how they bring the past alive.
  8. Archeology: Find out more about the world of archaeology. Join Julian Richards as he goes digging for clues.

Are you ready to get historical? Visit the site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/

Interactive Time Lines

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Part of the expansive BBC site, the Interactive Timelines bring audio, video, and Web 2.0 Flash integration to the classroom. The site boasts six active time lines that will engage and amaze your students (and your peers, parents, etc.).

You can explore:

  • British History - Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline.
  • Ages of English  - From a West Saxon dialect to a global phenomenon, from runes to rap, the development of English follows a fascinating trail.
  • Ages of Treasure - Explore artefacts from the Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest
  • Kings and Queens Through Time - A timeline of dynasties and key events in England
  • Prime Ministers and Politics - Three hundred years of high ideals and low cunning

And the particularly harrowing

  • Genocide Under the Nazis - This timeline takes you through all 12 years of Nazi rule. But it deliberately deprives you of the benefit of hindsight or a view of the future, ensuring you experience events in the sequence they happened to those who lived through them.

You don’t want to miss this site. Visit it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/

Interact with History

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The BBC brings you phenomenal resources for exploring history.

This section of the extensive site - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/ brings you scores of interactive history activites.

You’ll find games, galleries, timelines, virtual tours, audio and vidoe clips…and much more.

This is a MUST SEE site for all teachers!

Digital History Interactive Timeline

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Visit the Digital History Interactive Timeline at

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm 

and watch history appear before your eyes. Focused on U.S. History, the timeline bar starts in 1590. As you slide the bar, you can watch icons pop up all over the U.S. (with sidebar activity for Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central America). Click on an icon and read about the event.

Not all inclusive, but definitely a fun way to learn!

Library Zen

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A great blog, search engine, and portal site for librarians and all bibliophiles!

http://libraryzen.com/blog/

LibraryHQ Resources

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This incredible site offers links and resources for a variety of topics:

  • Library technology and the internet
  • Library education and library development
  • Library management issues
  • Books, journals, publishers
  • Legal concerns, library access

and much, much more! A must see site for Librarians at http://www.libraryhq.com/resources.html

Resources for Librarians

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A large collections of links for librarians to help with administrative and creative functions in the library.

http://www.sldirectory.com/

Who Said…A Literature Game Podcast

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It’s a literature game delivered as a podcast. Listen to the passage from a novel, then guess the character, novel and author via a web form.

http://www.whosaid.org/

Eduism brings 3-D to the White Board

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What is the Edusim?

The Edusim is an educational 3D interactive virtual environment platform (Metaverse) built on Croquet with resource packs being developed for the K-12 classroom by the Greenbush Education Service Center.

The goal of the Edusim project is to provide a safe 3D interactive environment for classroom activities (interactive white boards, modeling, machinima, and MORE).

The Edusim on an interactive whiteboard surface is an extremely powerful way to engage your students. Students can connect to the interactive whiteboard from the Edusim running on their desktop computers, or by connecting several interactive whiteboards together using the Edusim and the school network to create a collaborative 3D interactive environment where students from multiple classrooms can connect and collaborate virtually!

Here’s an example…

Students Become Scientists at HiRise

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The HiRISE Image Suggestion Challenge is a collaboration between MRO’s HiRISE Education and Public Outreach and the NASA Quest program. Students are tasked with the responsibility of submitting an image suggestion for the HiRISE camera, analyzing the returned images and writing a figure caption that will be posted on the HiRISE Web site with the release of their image. The HiRISE Challenge provides students an opportunity to experience being virtual members of the science team and participating in cutting-edge Mars research.

View some images at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/nea.php

Phoenix Mars Mission

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The University of Arizona is honored to be the first public university to lead a mission to Mars. The Phoenix Mars Mission, launched in August 2007, is the first in NASA’s “Scout Program.” Scouts are designed to be highly innovative and relatively low-cost complements to major missions being planned as part of the agency’s Mars Exploration Program.  Learn More

THE PHOENIX CLASSROOM: Download activities and materials to facilitate student understanding of fundamental concepts related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The Phoenix Classroom

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