Agent SmithChallenging the matrix of traditional, boring education.

• Nourish: Food + Community – Curriculum

  The Nourish Middle School Curriculum Guide offers a rich set of resources to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability. Beautifully designed and brimming with big ideas, the materials contain a viewing guide, six learning activities, action projects, student handouts, suggested resources, and a glossary.

  tags: food lessonplans nutrition lifeskills

  • The Nourish Middle School Curriculum Guide offers a rich set of resources to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability. Beautifully designed and brimming with big ideas, the materials contain a viewing guide, six learning activities, action projects, student handouts, suggested resources, and a glossary.

• Tip 98 – Pixel Picture

  Google docs activity using spreadsheets to create “pixel” style pictures

  tags: pixel spreadsheet pictures

• Planet Makeover

  I like the creative aspect of this game – Students can design a planet and set all kinds of criteria to see what happens.

  tags: space science

• Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Resources for Teaching & Learning Web Safety

  Great article about several options for teaching web safety to kids.  The one I’m most interested to check out is “Welcome to the Web.”

  tags: internet safety lessonplans lessons

• YouTube – The Story of Bottled Water (2010)

  Thought provoking, while obviously liberal, video about the mass production of bottled water.

  tags: youtube video ecology economics water

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• Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally, Andrew Churches

  Bloom’s taxonomy with new digital terms added to each level.  See if the technology assignments your students are doing are really challenging or just regurgitating information.  ”21st Century” doesn’t just mean using computers.  It means using them EFFECTIVELY

  tags: 21stcentury digital blooms taxonomy

• Voki for Education

  finally! voki comes out with an education version! can’t wait to try it…

  tags: voki avatar web2.0 education

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• Free Technology for Teachers: 3 Clutter-free Ways to Display YouTube Videos

  How to display youtube videos without exposing your students to rude comments and inappropriate related videos.

  tags: youtube videos

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• iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » How to make a 2 computer classroom work for you: tech integration and classroom management

  Great idea for managing centers in tight classroom spaces.

  tags: teaching centers classroom management

• Planet Orange – Home

  What is Planet Orange? It’s an exciting new planet in the deepest reaches of outer space that helps kids, from 1st to 6th grade, learn about earning, spending, saving and investing.

  tags: money economics

• Eyes on Bullying

  Great site with lots of relevant information for teachers, parents, and kids!

  tags: bullying

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• Help us connect all US schools with international communities. | Connect all Schools

  Stories of global communication and collaboration from all around the world.

  tags: connect schools collaboration global

• Shout! Explore. Connect. Act.

  collaborate with other classrooms on projects involving environmental issues.

  tags: environment collaboration science

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• The most powerful multiplication games ever created.

  fun and educational math games!

  tags: math games

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• Monticello Explorer courtesy the Thomas Jefferson Foundation — History.com Interactive Games, Maps and Timelines

  How cool- a virtual tour and exploration of Monticello.  If you’ve never been there, you don’t know what you’re missing.  More than just beautiful or historic, Thomas Jefferson’s home is fabulously innovative for its time and extremely interesting.

  tags: monticello history home interactive virtual fieldtrip

• Ideas to Keep your Kids Entertained During the Winter

  tags: kids winter fun play creative

• Issue Interactives

  Interactive guides to hot-button issues.

  tags: global economics cultures interactive

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• The Teacher Report: 2011 New Year’s Resolutions – WeAreTeachers

  New Year’s Techie Teacher resolutions

  tags: technology teaching resolutions

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• Grading Class Participation

  Often, the more ethereal things we do in class are difficult to grade.  Here’s a research paper on grading a class discussion

  tags: classroom discussion grading

• Sync.in

  collaborative document creation similar to the defunct EtherPad or TypeWith.me

  tags: collaboration writing tools web2.0 sharing

• YouTube – motivational! john foppe

  Very motivational video about a man born with no arms who doesn’t let it slow him down one bit.  Makes us all realize how ridiculous our own excuses are.  If you like this video, look up Nick Vujcic- another great guy and inspirational speaker.

  tags: youtube motivational inspiration

• Toshiba America Foundation – Grants for Grades 6 – 12

  gr 6-12 STEM grants available

  tags: grants

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• 7 Photography Projects to Jumpstart your Creativity

  ideas for photography challenges

  tags: photography projects

• Historical Facebook Lesson – Google Docs Templates

  make a fake facebook for a historical figure! fun!

  tags: facebook history lesson SocialStudies

• FASTEN SEAT BELTS 2 – Travel by Continent – Asia

  A light-hearted guide to social norms around the world.

  tags: culture travel social norms

• YouTube – The Actual ’73 Giving Tree Movie Spoken By Shel Silverstein

  love this book- to see it and hear it read by Shel Silverstein himself is nice…

  tags: youtube poetry

• YouTube – Learning about Stickershop for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (money math)

  My students often balk when I ask them to teach the class how to use a program or complete a task.  Here, a seven year old teaches a room full of adults how to use an i-phone app.  If she can do it, I know a Middle Schooler can!

  tags: youtube learning teaching howto

• 60second Recap | Learn literature’s finest in fun 60-second videos

  interesting and entertaining recaps of literary classics

  tags: literature reading books recap

• In Graphics: What Is a Stock? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice

  Informative and easy to understand description of stocks

  tags: stock math economics infographics

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