MSC Differentiated No 5

MSC Differentiation Email No 5
Monday August 3rd- Monday August 17th.

Links
How do I use these links?
These links are added for use by your students and by yourselves. Many are effective tools for IWB’s or offer engaging activities or reflect students’ multi intelligences.

Intel
Intel continues to add more exciting classroom resources to their website.
http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/education/apac/eng/au/teach/teach3/383847.htm

Collecta
Is a real time search engine that draws information from Web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, blogs and the like. Launched just recently it offers much potential for users looking for the most up to date references from around Web 2.0.
http://collecta.com/

Humantites-Maths/Statistics.
http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/
Gapminder works to increase understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. ‘Dollar Street’ download offers some sobering images of what life is like on $1 per day in Africa.

History
http://www.historywiz.com/index.html
Numerous pages of primary sources and images from a wide range of eras.

Museum Box http://museumbox.e2bn.org/index.php
This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others

Art
http://www.artisancam.org.uk/pages/activities/zone/index.php
A range of online games and activities relating to art and photography. Could have potential in a number of subjects in particular the page relating to comics
http://www.artisancam.org.uk/flashapps/superactioncomicmaker/index.php?PHPSESSID=bd504af6ced601e9cadd9e2a043880a8

http://bighugelabs.com/
Tons of cool tools here. Have students create their own motivational posters, dvd-cd covers, ‘Warholesque’ pictures.

Image manipulation tools
http://www.dumpr.net/
Has a range of tools that enable images to be manipulated in many different ways. A good site for making presentations look anything but standard.

Business Studies
A Californian jelly bean factory has created an online virtual field trip of their factory.
http://www.jellybelly.com/Virtual_Tour/virtual_tour.aspx

Science
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/
A range of online experiments that use the shockwave platform.

Within this site is a simple explanation of tectonics that could be useful for Science and Geography-
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/#

A range of famous scientists can be found here-
http://www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/learn/subjectlinks/science/famous.htm

English
Get students to design their own trading cards based on their own imaginative stories
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/trading_cards/

PowerPoint games
A number of templates for creating classroom quizzes/home group activities based on popular tv quiz shows. http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/

Text into speech
http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en Type in text and turn into voice and save as an mp3. Also look closely at the additional links that enable web speech activation. A similar program is here http://www.readthewords.com/


BookR
Students (or yourselves) can create online books about any topic. Here is the archive of examples http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/archive.php
To create your own bookr click here http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/

Looking for collaborative projects outside of Australia? Check out this site-
http://onlineproj4tchrs.ning.com/

Geography
A game role play situation where students have the opportunity to reduce the effects of disaster. http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html
Strongly recommended that you familiarise yourself with the game before having students start it. The games range from easy to difficult.

Google Earth
Has it’s own blog that has heaps of ideas about using Google Earth in your classroom. Google Earth 5.0 download now has the capacity to take you to the moon and see a simulation of the Apollo 11 Landing site. This blog contains lots of information regarding Google Earth-
http://gearthblog.com/

Music
A website that deals with educational rap songs for a range of CPA’s.
http://www.educationalrap.com/music
Here is a textual example of maths rap relating to fractions and decimals-
http://www.educationalrap.com/115/fractions-and-decimals.html
Albums are not free, but can be purchased via iTunes at US$. The Maths album via iTunes comes with PDF lesson support and is advertised on the website at $US 19.00.

Maths
The Maths tool chest would suit the junior levels especially on an IWB. A range of different Maths exercises can be found here:-
http://macmillanmh.com/math/mathtoolchest/mtc_online/
Decimal squares has a wide range of interactive maths games-
http://www.decimalsquares.com/dsGames/
And a site that has a lot of Maths interactive IWB or workbook activities can be found here:-
http://www.mathebook.net/

and if you still don’t get where technology is taking us try this site for yourself with heaps of up to date information on Web2.0 and other trends
http://mashable.com/