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Project Britain

— Woodlands Junior School/Mandy Barrow

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How It Works

Project Britain is your guide to British life, culture, and customs, designed for even young readers to understand. Follow icons to learn more about the Royal Family, weather, folklore and traditions, and everything else British. Each topic has a short introduction followed by a series of questions with links to answers and further information. View answers to questions posed by the site’s young readers and by teenagers. One interesting portion of the site compares British countries to states and other countries.

In the Classroom

This is an excellent resource when studying British countries and culture. Allow students to explore the site on their own or view together on your interactive whiteboard (or projector). Have students choose a different portion of the site to become their area of expertise. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos on the topic. Share the videos on a site such as TeacherTube <a href="/single.cfm?id=9419">reviewed here</a>. Challenge your students to create a mini-version of this kind of site on a wiki, creating a guide to their own state or city. Each student could write a portion or page. Add to the guide from year to year using this model of organization (and perhaps some video or multimedia to spice it up a bit).

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Tag(s): england, great britain, folktales, cultures, cross cultural understanding, ireland, transportation, scotland,

Mr. Anker Tests

— Henry Anker

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How It Works

This "must-see" site includes many tests for Kindergarten through grade 7. Activities support California State Standards and Common Core Standards. Each activity includes a link with standards addressed. Choose by grade level or topic. Each topic has a drop-down box to further refine choice by grade level and content.

In the Classroom

Create a link to activities and tests on classroom computers to use for review. Share a link to the site on your class website or blog for practice at home. Assign the "tests" for homework practice.

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Tag(s): sign language, earth, keyboarding, compasses, reading comprehension, maps, decimals, number sense, map skills, vocabulary, addition, money, fractions, homophones, capitalization, subtraction, division, multiplication, alphabetical order, time, geometric shapes, spelling, synonyms,

Sky Diary

— Chris Kidler

1-6 0 favorites 0 promising practices https://www.chriskridler.com/skydiary/kids/ Last updated: Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:49 share

How It Works

Sky Diary offers facts for students about hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, and storm chasing. Choose the link to each of the topics to find quick facts such as how tornadoes or hurricanes form, measuring intensity of hurricanes and tornadoes, or safety precautions. The storm chasing portion of the site offers insight into a typical storm chase, reality vs tv, and how to become a storm chaser. This simple site contains a great deal of useful weather information for classroom use.

In the Classroom

Share information from the site on your interactive whiteboard during weather, career, or storm preparedness units. Challenge students to create an avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted to be reproduced). The avatars can be used to explain the development of hurricanes or tornadoes, or severe weather safety instructions. Use a site such as FotoFlexer, <a href="/single.cfm?id=14443">reviewed here</a>.

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Tag(s): hurricanes, weather, tornadoes, careers,

CiteThisForMe

— Cite This For Me

6-11 0 favorites 0 promising practices http://www.citethisforme.com/ Last updated: Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:49 share

How It Works

Building bibliographies drives us all crazy. Comma before the parenthesis, or after? CiteThisForMe allows you to enter the relevant information you want to cite and download a finished bibliography in MLA, APA, or Harvard styles. Turabian is coming soon, according to the site. You can either enter all the sources at once and complete the task at one sitting or save your bibliography-in-progress on your computer for seven days. You can also upgrade to a paid subscription that saves your sources indefinitely, allows you to work on more than one project at a time, and saves your work to the cloud where it can be accessed from any computer.

In the Classroom

A great site to recommend to students for use at home to build properly constructed citations. The free version is limited in the information saved to the user’s computer for only seven days, so it would not work well for classroom use where students use public computers. It is simple and easy, and until academics across the world decide on one format, this allows us to digitally "attach" a dynamic image of the resource to scholarly work: a great tool!

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Tag(s): citations,

Learn English Teens

— British Council

6-11 0 favorites 0 promising practices http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/ Last updated: Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:49 share

How It Works

This teens’ branch of Learn English, <a href="/single.cfm?id=14041">reviewed here</a>, contains interactives, short stories, poems, grammar bits, and a video zone with many short videos. You can also write captions for humorous photos. The vocabulary zone organizes words into various categories. The exam section gives advice on exam preparation for all types of tests including listening, speaking, and reading as well as study tips. Don’t miss the free time section and a magazine with articles written by peers. A free log-in allows teens access to printed versions of the stories (with questions), the ability to make comments, enter competitions, answer polls, and even submit writings. The videos reside on YouTube. If your district blocks YouTube, the videos may not be viewable. <i>Since this site was created in the UK, you will notice some spelling differences from American English.</i>

In the Classroom

Introduce this site to your class on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and have your ELL/ESL students use it as one of your learning stations. Short stories and other interactive features of the site would work well with weaker readers and learning support students, too. Encourage your ESL/ELL students to share their writings on Learn English Teens (if allowed by school policy).

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Tag(s): grammar, test prep, video, creative writing, vocabulary development,

Julian Germain Classrooms Portraits Project

— Julian Germain

6-11 0 favorites 0 promising practices http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/classrooms.php Last updated: Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:49 share

How It Works

View portraits of classrooms in many cultures 2004-2012, taken by photographer Julian Germain. The collection is actually from a book. As <i>Archive Magazine </i>reviewer Tom Shakespeare explains, "By presenting different pupils, different schools, different year groups, Germain asks questions about contemporary educational practices and social divisions." The photos are clearly deliberate portraits, not candids, but offer a glimpse into other cultures and a chance to ask questions about why a class ( and classroom) might look the way it does, inviting discussion about what we have in common and how each culture conducts and values education.

In the Classroom

Share these photos as a writing prompt about cultural differences in a world cultures class or as a way to get students thinking before writing an essay about their "dream" school. Use the common experience of school as an entry point into conversation about cross-cultural understanding. Share on a projector or whiteboard as students use powers of observation to notice what might be different about life in another culture and how school reflects a culture’s value systems. Have them write a blog post about what they see.If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Webnode, <a href="/single.cfm?id=15467">reviewed here</a>. Use this site in art class or even as a media literacy exercise. Have students jot down the words they would use to describe the emotions they see/feel in these images. What message is the photographer conveying about school? Extend the discussion by challenging students to take their own photos to portray "school." Share the photos on a class wiki, blog, or online scrapbook using a tool such as MyScrapNook, <a href="/single.cfm?id=16082">reviewed here</a>.

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Tag(s): images, media literacy, cross cultural understanding,

BiblioNasium

— Marjan Ghara

K-6 0 favorites 0 promising practices http://www.biblionasium.com/#tab/all-books&amp;notrack=false Last updated: Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:49 share

How It Works

BiblioNasium is a READING social platform for learners ages six to twelve. Students, teachers, and parents all have their own login on the site. Students need a parent (or legal guardian) to give permission to use this site. Teachers and parents can set reading goals and rate and recommend books. There are some similarities to Goodreads <a href="/single.cfm?id=9554">reviewed here</a> in that this is a reading club where you can read reviews about books, write reviews, and rate books, too. Students will treasure finding new books recommended by others. Reluctant readers will become avid readers because it is easy to find topics of interest. Flash is used only for the introductory video.

In the Classroom

Use BiblioNasium to manage an independent reading program from reading logs to tailored reading lists. Stack your virtual bookshelves with recommended or required reads: set reading goals, create challenges, and keep track of student reading by using BiblioNasium in your classroom. Your students can easily see what they have read, what they like, and what they plan to read. Be sure to have them evaluate the books they read using BiblioNasium to help others find their next book. Find books by Lexile reading levels with BiblioNasium’s Search Field. BiblioNasium is partners with MetaMetrics’’’’’’’’’®, developer of the Lexile’’’’’’’’’® Framework for Reading. Knowing the reading levels of your students, you can set up leveled small groups for literature circles or nonfiction reading.

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Tag(s): classroom management, independent reading, social networking, writing, descriptive writing,

The Mind is a Metaphor

— Brad Pasanek

6-11 0 favorites 0 promising practices http://metaphors.lib.virginia.edu/ Last updated: Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:49 share

How It Works

The Mind is a Metaphor is something like a dictionary for finding metaphors. There are over ten thousand of them. Though many are mental metaphors, there are some that don’t relate to the mind. This site originally started with an "expanded eighteenth century" list, but now has metaphors from as late as the 1990’s. Search for a metaphor by literary period, author, genre, gender, and several others. You may also enjoy the creator’s blog with his interpretations of his favorite metaphors at <a href="http://mind.textdriven.com/">Blog for The Mind is a Metaphor</a>.

In the Classroom

High school AP literature and history teachers or IB capstone classes will especially love this site. Share a metaphor a day as students are entering the class or on your class web site. Allow a student to choose one as today’s Metaphor Master! Discuss the meaning together or use it as a quick writing prompt. Use the time period to discuss the historical context of the metaphor. Use these in your own presentations or require students to create a presentation explaining the metaphors you assign. Younger students just beginning to study metaphors can benefit from trying to interpret the metaphors as a group and presenting them to the class. Challenge students to try to create their own metaphors. Develop a class Metaphor Wiki for students to share metaphors. Not familiar with wikis? Check out the <a href="/content/wiki/index.cfm">TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through</a>.

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Tag(s): literary devices,

Endangered Languages

— Alliance for Linguistic Diversity

6-11 0 favorites 0 promising practices http://www.endangeredlanguages.com Last updated: Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:49 share

How It Works

Learn about the endangered languages of the world. See samples of the languages, research about the language and culture spotlighted, or even record the language. A world map provides an overview of the location and status of each language under examination. The status criteria vary: at risk, endangered, severely endangered, vitality unknown. Each section of the map includes a figure indicating the number of threatened languages in the area. Find other names for the language, number and names of dialects, the number of its speakers alive today, and the location of the language. The language clips are fascinating excerpts of conversations with native speakers and the researchers interviewing them. The clips also include cultural information and film excerpts using the language. Note: Since this is an international project, a lot of the comments after the film clips are in the major language of the region where the endangered language exists and not in English. Information is available for professional linguists about how to prepare a language documentation project and about that field’s research methods.

In the Classroom

As part of a world cultures unit or study of langage origins, students ask their parents and grandparents what part of the world their ancestors came from and then explore this map to determine the number of endangered languages found where their ancestors lived. Gifted students may be fascinated by these unusual tongues. Have them explore to learn more about the culture behind the language. Compare words for the same thing across different languages to see how the languages are related.

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Tag(s): word study, cross cultural understanding,

Word Game Time

— Copyright ’’’’’© 2011 Fila, LLC

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How It Works

Join Word GameTime for language arts, geography, math, and typing activities. Find a variety of games including brain games, crosswords, vocabulary, world capitals, and spelling. Worksheets and educational videos offer further explorations.

In the Classroom

In your classroom, offer Word GameTime as a center. Have students keep a log of the games they successfully complete to earn classroom incentives. Find appropriate interactives by grade level or by subject area. Include this link on your class web page as a place for reinforcement or even enrichment.

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Tag(s): countries, spelling, keyboarding, states, logic, reading comprehension, grammar, capitals,
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