Animations and Classroom Web Resources

Animations and Classroom Web Resources

Be The Beat - New with the American Heart Association is an Interactive heart and virtual CPR simulation.  Students can explore the differences between a healthy and unhealthy heart as well as to see what happens during cardiac arrest.  This would be great when you study the circulatory system.  

Medial Animations Library  - The University of Pennsylvania has an animations Library of over 200 videos.  These are defiantly worth a look before you teach your next science lesson. 

Internet4Classrooms - An organization of excellent and free online Language Arts and Math resources that can be used in the computer lab or in your classroom with your projector.  Internet4Classrooms also has some great assessment resources you should explore.  I found some percent resources that I am going to use this coming week. 

 WolframAlpha - One of Nancy's favorites, WolframApha is an excellent way to search for a quick "facts sheet" for a person or location.  A quick search of Grand Rapids pulls up population, weather, influential people, cost of living and more.  

AlphaMaps takes the power of WolframApha and Google Maps and overlays them together.  Next time you are looking for some quick fact, try WolframApha and AlphaMaps instead of or in addition to your google search.  

Three Great Resources

Hi Elementary Teachers,

Online Conference 

For those of you wishing to extend your abilities using Google Apps, there is a free online conference on May 2.  The conference runs from Noon - 10 PM and you can pick and choose which session to virtually attend.  Here is the link to the conference site.

You will need to have a personal gmail account established to fully utilize all of the online features of the conference.  Your current school account does not have all of the features of a personal account.  Need help getting set up to attend a session let me know. 

Fraction Tools

Yea another cool way to help student understand Fractions! Helping students understand fractions requires us to use models and allow students to work with models.  Often students just follow the exact steps we tell them to, but miss the conceptual understanding... plaguing them as they move on.  Well, I was really excited to find Conceptua Math Free Fraction Tools to help me show models to students and allow students to interact with the problems.  4th and 5th grade math teachers... In your unit plan for fractions write down "comceptuamath.com" "check out the laptops" to use when you teach fractions or do one of these activities the next time you go to the computer lab in the next couple weeks.  I would love to work with you and your class as you have students use one of these interactive tools!  Let's find a time to work together. :) 

Math Pickle

Explore curricular math games, puzzles and mini-competitions for the classroom.  Really cool videos and PowerPoints with ways to get your kids involved in doing math.  You will need to spend a bit of time looking around first.  Again, I would love to look around with you and find something that would work with your class.