Jer-Share 12-15-2017

                                                     

Welcome to the Jer-Share!

This blog will bring you k-12 Ed-Tech to help enhance your classroom!

8 math-and-science-simulation-resources

PHET Interactive Simulations https://phet.colorado.edu/ -The mother of all simulators. There is something here for every science and math content area. On the surface it might look like it's only middle and high school but they have an elementary section that is perfect for our little learners. They also have apps for Apple and Android. 

CK-12 Flexbooks-https://www.ck12.org/student/ -One of my favorite resources on this list, these are open source, editable textbooks that come with tons and tons of simulations. You can create your own textbooks and resources or use what they have as a framework. And it's all completely free. 

Molecular Workbench-http://mw.concord.org/modeler/index.html This is an installed program that is more for the upper high school student but still valuable as a demonstration for lower levels as well. Lots to choose from here. 

Google Sky-https://www.google.com/sky/ -Ever wonder what the stars are in the sky? Or have you wanted to see the planets up close? Google Sky is the place to do it. You can even tour the moon and see the original landing sites of the Apollo missions. Take even Google Sky further but using it inside Google Earth. 

Gizmos-https://www.explorelearning.com/ -Another one of my favorites, there are over 400 simulations for math and science at all grade levels. Some are available for free while others due require a paid account. Definitely worth it. 

Virtual Chemistry Simulations-https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/activities/simulations.html -Looking to see how chemical reactions happen and work without the threat of burning down your classroom? Then this is the place!

NASA Simulations-https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html -This is a collection of apps from NASA for all things science and astronomy. A wonderful collection. 

Visual Fractions-http://www.visualfractions.com/ -This site won't win any design awards but does have lots of great simulations and activities for Elementary and Middle School students on all things fractions. 

How to ReMake Your Classroom and Inspire Hands-On Learning in the New Year.

Google Calendar: Create a Curriculum Planning Calendar

Become a google search pro! Google search has many options you may not know about to enhance your search. 

Getting Started with Google Classroom for the first time. (Video) Ask me if you would like help setting up, or a better understanding of what google classroom is. 

Liven up your instruction with gif pictures! 

Not finding it in google images? Check out this free image search engine!

Create polls and quizzes within videos! Make your own video, or find one on youtube and quiz or poll your students while they watch! 

Please email me if this is something you would like on your computer, or in your schools' computer lab. (It's an install.)

Jer-Share 12-8-2017

Welcome to the Jer-Share!

This blog will bring you k-12 Ed-Tech to help enhance your classroom!

Click here for links to programs shown above. 

Introduce the learning game "Oregon Trail" to your students!

Check out the NatureSound Map. Experience nature sounds from around the world! 

Learn simple coding!

Grade 1 -8 Electronic Classroom Resources

Click to see a breakdown of each element. 

Seven Tips for New Google Classroom Users

Google Classroom is a great way to organize your lessons and resources. However, for new users it can be a little overwhelming. Here are some practical tips to help you get going.

• Use the Topics feature to help students find assignments and questions quickly and easily. Topics act like a filter and allow students to see only the assignments they are searching for and not the entire stream of assignments.
• Post materials that students will need access to throughout the year on the About tab. Be careful not to overload this page with resources, but it is a good place to share links to resources students will need to use all of the time.
• Create all of your discussion questions on individual Google Slides. When you need a question during a unit, just download the slide as a jpeg and post it as an image. This is an easy way to have a bank of questions ready to go that are visually appealing as well.
• Email all or a few of your students at once using the email feature on the student tab.
• Adopt a consistent naming convention for your classes. You can always rename classes if you change your mind. If the classes are not in the order that you want them to appear, simply drag them into the order that fits your needs.
• Create a class in Classroom for your department or grade level. Use it for planning, meetings, and announcements to get a feel for what Google Classroom is like from the student perspective. 

Be on the lookout for the Google Science phone app!

The Google Science Journal is a digital science notebook that provides users with one location to store notes, photos, and observations. It works with Android devices, iPhones, iPads, and Chromebooks.

The Google Science Journal allows users to conduct experiments involving light, motion, sound, and air pressure using sensors that are already built into the phone. External sensors can be used to connect to several Bluetooth-enabled devices from Arduino and Vernier. All of the data collected using this app is turned into graphs and charts which are easy to interpret.

8 Tips For Making Movies with Google Photos

Top four tools to teach students typing!

Jer-Share 11-17-2017

Welcome to the Jer-Share!

This blog will bring you k-12 Ed-Tech to help enhance your classroom!

This is a nice EdCamp that's being put on by our local SLICE chapter. 

Do you ever suspect plagiarism? Here are 6 ways you can fight it.  

                   Click here to show your students a really good PSA on Bullying. 

Should Schools Ban Laptops?

Why Computer Science Belongs in Every Science Teacher’s Classroom

Communication

 Remind: A communication tool that continues to make changes. It helps teachers connect instantly to students and parents. Teachers can post announcements, attach files, add co-teachers to send messages and see when students or parents are accessing messages.
 Seesaw: A digital portfolio system that allows teachers to captor information in a variety of formats. Students have the ability to post information
 Schoology: LMS
 Google Classroom: LMS

Collaboration

 Padlet: Discussion board
 Spiral: This site contains 4 apps (Quickfire: formative assessments, Discuss: interactive presentations, Team Up: students create and share collaborative presentations, and Clip: Turn a public video into a live chat with questions and quizzes.)
 Explain Everything: It is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool with real-time collaboration that lets you animate, record, annotate, collaborate, and explore ideas, knowledge and understanding. Explain Everything provides teachers and students an opportunity to share thinking, reflect upon knowledge building, and assess both products and processes of learning.
 TodaysMeet: An easy way to promote out of classroom discussions. Teachers can monitor and guide students using this site.
 Edmodo: Allows to share content, manage discussions with students and parents.
 Schoology: Allows to share content, manage discussions with students and parents.
 Popplet: mind-maps
 Google Docs: Collaborative word processing
 Nearpod
 Prezi: Presentation tool

Critical-Thinking

 Instagrok: This is a mind-mapping site that allows students to gather information regarding a topic, create notes, write an outline and share with others.
 Breakout EDU: This has real life games where students must follow clues and solve puzzles to escape from or break into the box before time runs out.
 Scratch: programming
 Coding.org: programming

Creativity:

 Boom Writer: Reading, writing and assessing content

 Storykit: Multimedia storytelling mobile app . It allows its users to create electronic storybooks and share them with others. They can use it to create their own storytelling books and share them with their students. It is all free and anyone can use it easily.

 Folding Stories: It is a game in which players write one line of a story, fold the paper, and pass it to the next person. Write. Fold. Pass It’s as simple as that.

 Story Mash: A collaborative writing community. People come together to collaborate on a short fiction story, novel screenplay.

 Explain Everything: It is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool with real-time collaboration that lets you animate, record, annotate, collaborate, and explore ideas, knowledge and understanding. Explain Everything provides teachers and students an opportunity to share thinking, reflect upon knowledge building, and assess both products and processes of learning.

 Google Draw: Students can create diagrams, charts at no cost.

 Canva: It is an easy to use tool that allows you to design/create graphics, presentations, covers, posters, invitations.

 Pixir Express: This is a photo editing program.

 Vacaroo: Voice recording-podcasting

 Haiku Deck: Presentation tool

 Emaze: Presentation tool

 Tagul: Word clouds

 Tagxedo: Word clouds

 Six Word Memories: Free form writing (only using 6 words)

 iBook: e-book authoring

 Live Binder: Writing

 Google Story Builder: Create mini-movies or video stories