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In the science section of Kathy Schrock's website I found a great online exploration of the heart found at http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/index.html.
ReplyDeleteThe reason I feel this site is so great is that it is comprehensive and written at the level of secondary students. I really thought the history and development of the heart were sections that textbooks may not include, yet is important to understanding how the heart works and what we as humans know about it. I also thought the section about monitoring the heart is great for students who are looking into medicine. This website can offer higher-order thinking to those students who may not be challenged by the material in class.
The health of the heart can also be brought into the classroom to show students how important it is to take care of your heart and what it means to do so. The site offers healthy eating tips and exercise activities that the students can apply to their lives to care for their heart.
Lastly, this website has great pictures to show the students of the heart and chest.
Good site. I went to many of the links and looked at the award winners and they seem to be OK sites. I had to be the first to go to the SPORTS link and I actually found a soccer site that I was not aware of. What seems a bit strange about the Schrock site is that it seems to exclude many of the common place site and focuses more on boutiques. While I have no problem with that as a whole, and it is probably for the better as it gets us out of the "main stream", it also seems (from the sites I visited) that some of the information is purposefully outside of the norm.
ReplyDeleteAll in all I liked the site. And at least I found a new soccer site, though I think that are about a doze better.
I also checked out the organization and gov site. There are some very good links on this. I especially liked the "Core Documents of the US Democracy". Awesome site... If anyone has interest in governmental affairs check it out. May be a bit dry but a great idea of all the legal madness found in legislation these days. Check out H.R. 1 as a perfect example... i.e. the stimulus bill passed in Feb.
I checked out the Guide to Grammar and Writing. It had tons of quizzes and worksheets for grammar and writing instruction. Another aspect I liked was the Grammarlogs, which are articles with grammar tips. One other, and maybe the most exciting, is the PowerPoint presentation section. It provides several different pwpts related to teaching Grammar and Writing. This site is perfect for English teachers to pull from when a short grammar/writing lesson needs to be taught. Several of these could be printed and kept in a folder for when there are 5 minutes extra of classtime, or even in a folder for substitutes to use for filler time. I definitely bookmarked this site!
ReplyDeleteThe Kathy Schrock site is unbelievable as to the amount of materials for educators. I found Environmental Health Perspectives, specifically the EHP Science Education Program. The lessons here, available to be downloaded, for free, are aligned with National Science Education Standards in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology and Physical Sciences, targeted to students in grades 9-12, and some would work for undergrads.
ReplyDeleteWhen you click on "Download" an Excel Spreadsheet file comes up with 103 different student activities, all categorized by the integration areas. Again, all can be downloaded from the Excel spreadsheet for free.
I visited 'Tennessee Bob's Famous French links'. This is a mega-site of MORE links to French language websites. This site has over 10,000 links to "French" sites. Obviously this is a treasure trove of possible sites that could be useful to me in the future!
ReplyDeleteI found a very awesome Mexica history site as I swam through the "World Info and Foreign Languages" section into very bottom Latin and South America area for the "LANIC K-12 Latin American Studies" link. After checking out the huge list of country-organized links, I found the "Ancient Mexico" link, which brought me to this webpage: http://www.theancientweb.com/explore/content.aspx?content_id=19#
ReplyDeleteThis article "The Civilizations of the Ancients" is very thorough, with lots of good pictures of ancient artifacts, historical places, drawings of cultural acts, and armor. This article goes into the main pre-Columbus tribes and gives some account to the deeds and culture. This would be awesome to do a history lesson with!
This was a really good website for resources. I was able to find math sites that I had already been to and new ones that I will probably use in the future. There were even website links that contained videos on teaching math lessons.
ReplyDeleteI explored algebrahelp.com some and found worksheets I can have the students use. Lesson plans that I can use. The website has information for basic equations all the way to calculator help and using the quadratic equation.
Kathy's website is a portable to a plethora of helpful and useful websites for a multitude of subject areas.
WOW what a huge list of resources for any subject!!! Kathy's website is awesome. Currently the students are working on Ecology. Specifically, biodegradeable and non-biodegradeable and renewable and non-renewable resources. I found Kathys Schrock..Garbage: How Can my Community reduce waste intriguing. Today more and more kids are concerned about their envronment and more and more recycle.
ReplyDeleteThis particle link would allow the students to obtain a higher level of thinking and try to create and discover ways to help their family and friends elminate un-necessary waste.
I also looked at some of the other biology sites, she has a lot of them. I went to open the heart interactive online site, but continued to get errors today. I previewed it last week and feel that it could be great for a review or included into lecture during class.
Under Arts and Architecture the resources were expansive. I chose to look at this site: http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/
ReplyDeleteThe site is easy to navigate and elegantly designed, with a well thought out and cohesive design and interface. The information available is clear and concise, and would be helpful as a web-quest site for an intro to art course or has a follow up to a lesson on the elements and principles of art.
The lesson plans available are also great tools for customizing to the specific curriculum within your district, or to build upon or integrate into existing lessons.
Elementary art scares the heck out of me, so this site will be very helpful for me!
Jody ;)
I visited a couple of the sites on this link. I am going to be teaching a unit on Astronomy in January and one of her links called "Amazing Space" is going to be quite helpful. It allows students to enter the site to see various objects from the Hubbel telescope. I will definitely earmark Kathy Schrock's site to explore new areas and to grab some great ideas for future lesson plans. It seems this site has been pretty valuable for many of the TAPpers. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteGreat, great website. I went to the Mathematics link and then to Algebra and then to Word Problems. It was a great site giving strategies to attack/attempt word problems. I will use it in future lesson planning. Carol
ReplyDeleteWow, what a great website. There is so much valuable information. The Chinese New Year information was really interesting and suppplies so much information. No matter what you are teaching this website has information for you...great!
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This website was really good. I looked at the link that was history and social studies. This took me to a site with a lot more links. It had every link a history teacher could want. I looked at the site that was labeled biographies. I could search and find a short biography on any person I tried. I thought this was great. The biographies were short and percise. They would be great to introduce students to a new person in history. I really liked this site.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the art and architecture link, though honestly I wasn't sure what I would find. Many sites are not very comprehensive in my area when it comes to educational sources. This was a very pleasant surprise. Although I have been to quite a few of these sites, there were some I haven't seen before. I chose the Time and Life Photo Site. It is a site with photos and essays from Time and Life magazines. Lots of good information. This would be a great resource, especially when presenting a photography lesson. I'm definitely bookmarking this site. :)
ReplyDeleteI explored under the topic "Regions of the World and Foreign languages". This led me to a Kathy-recommended website called "Foreign Language For Travelers". The website is useful because it provides the most basic phrases that you might need when starting to learn a foreign language. Each phrase or word is linked to a pronunciation. These resources are provided for nearly every language! Unfortunately, the website has lots of pop-ups and ads. The vocabulary offered is not very extensive. I would not recommend this website for anyone who wants to learn a language fluently.
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