Jody Oliver's List: Level: Middle School

In honor of October's most awesome of holidays, I am going to begin a three-part series about the gentlemen zombie's choice of cuisine: the 'tween brain. However, I need to be frank. I'm not going to be able to teach you deeply about the 'tween brain here. I'm not a neurologist. What I am going to do is make an argument, hopefully a darn good one, as to why you should educate yourself further about it.

During early adolescence (ages 11 to 16), the body experiences more physical changes than it has since infancy, and as rapidly as in infancy. These changes manifest themselves in behaviors that are often difficult for adults to understand (even though they all experienced them) and that are usually bewildering for the adolescents. To cope with the challenges of these new behaviors, it is useful for both adolescents and the adults in their lives to understand the changes and the resulting behaviors.

This highly interactive text is perfect for the high school classroom, covering all Algebra I topics, including but not limited to equations and functions, real numbers, equations of lines, graphs of equations and functions, solving systems of equations, and polynomials. The base content comes from CK-12 Algebra I FlexBook and is enhanced by Wolfram technologies including Wolfram|Alpha, Mathematica, and Computable Document Format (CDF).

looks like all free!

This is the Six Sounds in Search of an Author Project. The goals of this project is to teach students and educators how to create and mix audio for a podcast, as well as demonstrate how this technical skill can help students develop important 21st-century skills.  It's a project I've done in classes from 3rd grade to graduate school and as an educational promotion for ISTE and NJAET. 

"Showbeyond is a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform and story sharing community.

With Showbeyond, you can easily grab your images, add your sound and text to create multimedia stories. Then, you can share your stories with friends or post to blogs and social networking sites."

"Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free!

* Flubaroo works with Google docs."

"Algebra, math homework solvers, lessons and free tutors online.Pre-algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Physics. Our FREE tutors create solvers with work shown, write algebra lessons, help you solve your homework problems. Interactive solvers for algebra word problems. Ask questions on our question board."

Great resources for detecting plagiarism. Use with your students!