In the News

Newspaper Map is a great website to locate and read newspapers from all over the world. The interactive map allows you to move around the world and select newspapers. Placemarks show you locations of newspapers and are colored according to the language the paper is written in. Once you select a newspaper, you can then choose to view it in its original language or translate it into another language.

Newseum's Today's Front Page has made agreements with over 800 world newspapers to be able to display the front pages of these newspapers on their website. Once on the website you will see a map that you can easily navigate. Small orange dots correspond to the newspapers' locations. Hove your mouse pointer over an orange dot, and you will get a preview of that newspaper's current front page in its original form. Please note that these newspapers are unedited so discretion is advised.

Virtual Artifacts Creation

Museum Box

Want a great way to create a virtual display of artifacts that you find online? Museum Box is a great tool for organizing images, text, links, and video and audio clips. When students have finished collecting their artifacts, their "boxes" become digital dioramas.

Below is a great Museum Box tutorial from Adam Bellow at EduTeacher.

Get the Math

Get the Math is a great website that teachers and students can use to solve Algebra-based mathematics challenges. These challenges come in the form of "real world" scenarios such as music production, video game design, and fashion design.

Short videos of professionals explain and show how math is used in their profession. Students watch the videos and then try to complete a series of challenges based on the work these professionals do everyday. One example is after watching the Math in Fashion video, a challenge is for students to create a shirt that meets a specific price point.

Check out this video of Get the Math in action in a classroom.

Watch Get the Math: An Intro on PBS. See more from THIRTEEN Kids.

Habitats

Here is a great list of resources to use when you are studying habitats with your students.

Websites:

1. Draw a habitat- a favorite from PBS!

2. Plant and Animal Habitats from BBC has students working with the Sarah Jane Adventures team to complete a habitat interactive activity where students match aliens with the best habitat based on clues about both creature and habitat.

3. Learn about habitats with this virtual text from BBC.

4. Create a butterfly habitat by adding and removing plants.

5. Explore the Deep Sea habitat with this interactive from National Geographic.

6. Explore the Antarctica habitat with National Geographic’s Critter Cam.

7. Build an online habitat with Switch Zoo.

8. Design a Habitat with ARKive education.

9. The Great Habitat Match with the Magic School Bus Gang.

10. Walk in the Forest helps students learn about layers of habitats in the forest.

11. Animal Homes (this is a good one for kindergarten or younger).

12. Frog habitats- students help a frog find a new home.

13. e-Learning for kids habitat interactive.

*Resources from iLearn Technology

ClassTools

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Use them on your Smart Board or host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge unless you would like a Premium account that gives you access to advance features.

Here are some of the things you can create:

• Fakebook
• QR Game Generator
• Arcade Game Generator
• Random Name Picker
• Countdown Timer
• Twister
• Keyword Checker
• Plagiarizr
• Dustbin Game
• Telescopic Topic
• Post It
• Diamond 9
• Fishbone (Ishikawa)
• Venn Diagram
• Animated Book
• Timeline
• Lights Out
• Target
• Hamburger
• Living Graph
• Learning Cycle
• Jigsaw Diagram
• Priority Chart
• Source Analyser

Dipity

(Information taken from the Dipity website)

What is Dipity?

Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

Why use Dipity?

Dipity allows users to create free timelines online. Digital timelines are a great way to increase traffic and user engagement on your website. Dipity is the fastest and easiest way to bring history to life with stunning multimedia timelines.

Wikipedia's Sisters

Wikisource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by our community. We now have 273,676 texts in the English language library.

Wikiquote is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information.

Wikispecies is a free species directory that anyone can edit.

Wiki Commons is a database of over 12 million freely usable media files including images, audio, and video.

Wikibooks is a collection of open-content textbooks.

Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.

Explainia

Explainia has hundreds of animated explanation, interactive tutorials, and instructional videos of technology, work, and science. You can even embed them in your web pages.

Planetarium

http://neave.com/planetarium/

Put in your location and use Planetarium to see a map of the night sky for your location and date. You can enter any location in the world. You can also just "wander around" the night sky to look at all the constellations.

Calculators Galore

This website offers 43 online calculators that have a variety of functions.

Categories of Calculators

1. mathematics
2. measurement & conversion
3. saving & investing
4. capital budgeting
5. cost of capital
6. wages & taxes
7. financial analysis
8. health
9. loan & leasing
10. stock ananlysis

Lit Charts

This website provides condensed summaries of Literature. Each summary is about 10 pages. They are available to read online, to download, or you can download the iPhone app. The LitCharrs are color coded by the themes that are addressed and by symbolism within the work. This makes it easy to pick our themes and symbols in each chapter.