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Resources. Free Write. Essential Question: What are some essential tools and experiences students need to learn? What are your favorite resources?. Resources. Make sure students are exposed to different types of sources Written Visual Visual with oral Live performance. Resources.

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  1. Resources

  2. Free Write Essential Question: What are some essential tools and experiences students need to learn? What are your favorite resources?

  3. Resources • Make sure students are exposed todifferent types of sources • Written • Visual • Visual with oral • Live performance

  4. Resources • School Grounds • Neighborhood • Museums • Queens Museum of Art, • NY Hall of Science • Queens Historical Society • Metropolitan Museum of Art • American Museum of Natural History • Botanical Gardens, Central Park

  5. Resources • Our Selves • senses, knowledge, understandings, and experience • Interviews with family members, classmates, faculty, professionals

  6. Resources • Literary Books • Fiction, Drama • Non-Fiction • Poetry • Picture Books • Textbooks – Non-Fiction • Primary Documents • Anthologies: Single/Multi-Genre; Single/Multi-Themed

  7. Resources • DVDs – movies/clips from movies • Music • Websites • Research – Visual Search Engines, Websites • Sharing Knowledge: Wikis, Blogs, googledocs • Games, Competitions • Tools: Rubrics, Quizzes, Bibliography Makers • Always cite your sources.

  8. Textbooks are Useful For • Basic information and overview • Information relative to other information • Teach and review features of non-fiction • Table of Contents • Index • Bibliography • Text and style changes (bold, italics, color, etc.) • Glossary • Subheadings • Sidebars • z

  9. Books and Anthologies • Books and anthologies can be used to help students understand content, skills, Big Ideas/Themes/Concepts, Enduring Understandings. • Magnet Library Books. Some schools developed a magnet-themed Literacy library. Some books can be used across disciplines. • Develop annotated bibliography

  10. Mentor Texts • Expose students to good writing. • Expose students to advanced vocabulary. • Help students read above their independent reading levels. • Expose students to complexity and ambiguity. • Can be used to practice reading skills. • Mentor texts can be short quotes, longer excerpts, whole texts.

  11. Websites • Think about your audience. Is the website beyond your students’ understanding or is it too simplistic? • Is the website biased ? • Teach about website reliability. • Always determine website reliability.

  12. Websites for Teachers • www.npr.org • http://www.sciencefriday.com/ • http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ • www.nysed.gov • http://vital.thirteen.org/vital2td.html • Edsitement - http://edsitement.neh.gov/ • Talks by Amazing People - ted.com – • Create Class Blogs - • www.blogger.com • www.wordpress.com • http://edublogs.org/

  13. Websites for Teachers • http://www.4teachers.org • Rubrics • Quiz Maker • Creating webquests, and more • Writing Rubrics – www.thetraits.org/scoring.php 6+1 Traits of Writing – Education Northwest. • Download videos from Youtube - www.savevid.com • E-mailing large files: www.transferbigfiles.com

  14. Student/TeacherVISUAL SEARCH ENGINES • http://search-cube.com/ - creates a cube with relevant websites • http://www.quintura.com/ • http://www.curriki.org/ - places to find/share units, often created via UbD • http://www.yolink.com - must be downloaded. Shows information in double window, zooming in on search results • http://www.viewzi.com/ - allows for different views and specialized searches

  15. Student Science & Math Websites • Ology – American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org/ology • Windows to the Universe http://www.windows.ucar.edu • The Globe Program – http://www.globe.gov/science • Math Playground http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html • Middle School Portal • http://msteacher.org/math/explore/default.aspx

  16. Student Information Websites • CIA World Factbook– • https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook • Infoshare – demographics by zip code: • http://www.infoshare.org

  17. Teacher Support Sites http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do?ESP=TBW/ib//acq/tbw_slimnav_Teachers///nav/txtl/(Find books that are like books you already have and level books). http://www.brainpop.com/ (Animated videos on a variety of subjects). http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ (Collection of videos to support subject matter) http://eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ (Collection of pdf graphic organizers to print and use in the classroom) http://www.schooltube.com (Video files created and shared by educators and students) www.edutopia.org http://www.middleweb.com/10TeachingSites.html

  18. Websites for Students • Share and correct each others’ papers: http://docs.google.com/ • Online painting software http://www.sumo.fi/web/?s=3#/home/ • Create cartoons http://www.toondoo.com/ • Create posters, movies, etc http://edu.glogster.com/

  19. What are your favorite sites? • What websites or resources do you know that would be helpful for other teachers to use? • www.quia.com • www.usgs.gov • www.noaa.gov

  20. Sources • “Anthologies” image: http://news.clas.virginia.edu/english/images/AnthologyBooks0605.jpg • Michael Leung’s Powerpoint - Resources

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