Free Venn Diagram Creator
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Free Venn Diagram Creator from ReadWriteThink. Students can save and print results. Nice Tool!
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Communicating Ideas Superb Interactive!
Children’s Poetry Archive
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The Children’s Poetry Archive is an ever expanding archive of poets for children reading their own work…
KB…Konnected’s insight:
Wonderful resource! Nice archive of poetry that can be explored by subject, theme, author, or form. Many of the poems have audio so kids can read along. Students can also learn about poets through biographies featured on the site.
I’ve added this to Kool Kids Write Poetry.
See on poetryarchive.org
Aesop’s Fables
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A collection of Aesop’s famous fables.
KB…Konnected’s insight:
Nice collection of fables. Some have audio and video.
See on umass.edu
U.S. History: Free streaming history videos & activities
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American History Videos
KB…Konnected’s insight:
Unique resources. Plenty to discover and share with students.
See on havefunwithhistory.com
We’re Crazy About Publishing: The Top Ten Tools We Love
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KB…Konnected’s insight:
Awesome, well thought out list. Not a bad tool in the bunch.
To make it a Top 11 list I would add Youblisher. It’s a free page-flip book/magazine generator.
http://kbkonnected.tumblr.com/post/1023251114/youblisher-pageflip-book-generator
See on reading.org
Strange Matter
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Play and learn online with the Strange Matter of Materials Science.
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“What’s materials science? You could call it the study of stuff! Just about everything you use every day - the shoes you wear, the dishes you eat from, the CDs you listen to, the bike or skateboard you ride - it’s all made of different kinds of stuff.”
This is a really interesting site geared for kids gr. 5-8. “Strange Matter” features online interactives as well as fun things to do in the classroom.
Downloads and guides included for teachers.
See on strangematterexhibit.com
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ClassBadges - Free Online Tool to Award Badges…Customize for Your Class!
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ClassBadges is a free online tool where teachers can award badges to students for accomplishments or academic mastery. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. Badges can easily be aligned to academic goals or associated with existing school awards.
KB…Konnected’s insight:
Very nice visualization tool to help students keep track of their achievements/accomplishments. If you’re interested check out the Teacher’s Guide to Using Badges in Your Classroom from Edudemic. It gives lots of ways to use this tool.
http://edudemic.com/2013/05/teachers-guide-to-using-badges-in-your-classroom/
See on classbadges.com
5 Great Video Tutorials on How to Create Podcasts Using Audacity
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KB…Konnected’s insight:
Well worth viewing if you want to use Audacity to create classroom podcasts. Step-by step tutorials that also include advice, tips and tricks.
See on educatorstechnology.com
Teacher Appreciation Sale at TpT Starts Tomorrow! May 7-8
#clipart #TpT #teacherappreciation
All of my products will be included in the sale including my new “Mix and Match Collections”!
Click on images for more details.
My clip art, frames and papers are regularly $3 or less including my newest collections. During the sale they will $2.16 or less. Amazing deals if I do say so myself.
Hope you stop by my store and check out my products.
All clip art products are commercial/personal use. Check out my TOU for details.
Don’t forget the coupon code: TAD13
IfItWereMyHome.com
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IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.
You can also use our visualization tool to help understand the impact of a disaster. The Pakistan Flood and BP Oil Spill are currently featured.
Screenshots below.
Comparison of U.S. and Japan.
Map compares the size of countries with overlay.
KB…Konnected’s insight:
Excellent resource! Easy to use tool that lets you compare 2 countries of your choice. Results based on 10 key statistics are compared. Google maps are also used.
I’ve added it to Countries for Kids LiveBinder
Lame to fame: 4 tips for optimizing presentations for Twitter
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Presentations and slideshows have been historically one of the most boring and standard corporate media currently available to employees and management.
KB…Konnected’s insight:
Some unique ideas. Many of which can be used in classrooms using Twiter. Perfect ideas to jazz up a professional development presentation too.
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ScienceDump - video, resources, demos
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KB…Konnected’s insight:
Science videos. Not all appropriate for classroom use but most are. Interesting collection.
See on sciencedump.com
Paperless Admin for Teachers – Some Tips and Tricks to Get You Started
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Aside from having a somewhat tidier desk, going paperless has been enormously beneficial. I can now access student information anywhere and at any time.
See on fractuslearning.com
So you want to be a critical thinker?
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KB…Konnected’s insight: Great to hang in any classroom.
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My Top 43 Weather Resources for Kids
#meteorology #scichat #weather
List includes interactives, games, kid-friendly information, online quizzes, how-tos, videos, raps, ideas, crafts, calculators, projects and more!
- Weather Wiz Kids
- Tree House Weather Kids
- Weather Report for Kids
- Weather Spark
- Weather Calculators
- EdHeads: Report/Predict the Weather
- The Farmer’s Almanac for Kids
- Weather Channel Kids
- Space Weather Center
- Fossweb: What’s the Weather?
- Web Weather for Kids
- Weather Watch
- What is Weather?
- SciJinks Games/Interactives
- Interactives: Weather
- Weather Dog Quiz
- Franklin’s Forecast
- Storm Watch
- Bad Weather Joke Machine
- Weather Cams
- National weather Service: Playtime for Kids
- Global Climate Change for Kids
- MythBusters Weather Quiz
- Interactive Weather Maker
- Citizen Science Project: Precipitation
- Fact Monster: Weather
- The Weather Game
- How Fast is the Wind?
- Make Your Own Weather Station
- Weather Proverbs
- Make a Rain Gauge
- Take the Wind Speed Challenge
- Temperature Charts (printable)
- Owlie Skywarn’s Weather Book (printable)
- Readers’ Theater: The Water Cycle
- Weather for Kids Part 1 (video)
- Weather for Kids Part 2 (video)
- Bill Nye the Science Guy Weather Rap
- The Weather Rap (Use this great idea and create your own.)
- Weather Poetry
- My Weather Report (printable)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Official Trailer (Fun intro to a weather lesson)
- Weather Blog Hop (Lots of weather related ideas shared by others.)
Check out this freebie! The Daily Scoop! Includes a space to report the weather.
Includes a space to report the weather. 
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