Free access to amazing resources (from a variety of medias) for you and your students!
LearnNC's awesome series of videos and articles on differentiation in the NC classroom. Great for all teachers!
Help Governor Purdue balance the NC budget. Add programs, cut spending. It's up to you!
Ready made assessment rubrics for digital presentations, group work, Podcasts, blogs, video/mulitmedia, and LOTS more!
NC's Zoo Conservation Education Site. Want to take a field trip to Papua New Guinea? You can now! Awesome multimedia tools for your class and great educator's ideas.
Using archives of Google Earth street view, you can tour the world at street level. See street art in NYC, go down a South African highway, check out an apartment complex in London--the sky's the limit!
Click Advanced Search on Google's page and check out all the options to sort information. The newest tool there- search by reading level!! Too cool:)
From World View: The World Wide Web brims with excellent education resources in global studies. No matter your discipline, there is good information out there that can help you bring an even stronger global perspective to your classroom or school. World View has compiled many strong web sites in the categories provided below. We will be adding new categories and links in the future, so be sure to visit our website again.
21st century learning tools for ALL students-is the purpose of this site. Tech Tools for Success provides teachers and special education students (and the rest of your students too) access to the curriculum of the 21st century. The site is organized with an easy to use menu of 20+ categories.
LEARN NC offers a collection of more than 2,000 high-resolution photographs and audio recordings from Asia and Latin America, with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans. Very cool way to integrate internationalism and 21st century learning into learning.
Clear strategies to help students comprehend as they read online. (a LearnNC tool)
Games, extra practice, math vocabulary, and my favorite- eManipulatives! (Houghton Mifflin textbook alignment) A great way to differentiate for students that need to do at, above, or below grade level work.
Browse by reading level (starting with Kindergarten), subject, author, etc. Great tool for differentiation, subject integration, research, or just for something different. Use an inexpensive adapter and up to 6 kids can listen at once.
Not familiar with Google forms? Use this site as a starting point! Many templates are ready to use by your students.
There are countless books online that are free and easy to show the students in your room. Most books and magazines that are no longer protected by copyright are available in complete format (Hans Christian Andersen) and many other books in pieces-including Caldecotts, Newberys, magazines. I have used this for a 'paperless' fairy tales project and the LIFE magazines for social studies.
Anita Cardona shared: You can read the front page of many newspapers in the world in their native language. You can use it to see how different countries view the world and what they consider important (things that made the headlines). Even if you can't read the words you can have students look at just the titles and/or pictures.
Anita Cardona shared: Similar to gapminder minus the timeline. It shows the country's shape. The countries expand or contract to show the comparisons.
Anita Cardona shared: Is a website that allows you to compare the different countries in the world in a graph form. The cool part is that you do it as a timeline. For example, you compare life span from 1900 - 2010 in the world. You click play and the countries move in the graph showing how lifespan changes over the years in each contry. Great for inquiry since it will have kids questioning why. The countries size is represented by different size circles.
Anita Cardona shared: Has short video clip testimonies of people from all over the world on different topics. The testimonies are in their native language and you can select English translation subtitles. You can search by country, by topic, by language, etc. Important: Do preview them before you show them since some of the things they say might not be appropriate for kids.
Multimedia resource to learn about climate change's effects on our global ecosystems.