Resources

1. Resources

2. Resources • Make sure students are exposed to different types of sources • Written • Visual • Visual with oral • Live performance • Technological

3. 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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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/

12. Teacher Websites • www.surfaquarium.com • Differentiated Learning Styles: Visual, Linguistic, Logical, Naturalist, Kinesthetic, Existential, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Rhythmic • www.users.muohio.edu/romanots • Multigenre Writing Site • Rubrics for grading • Research designs • Social Studies and ELA

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. Green Websites for Teachers • http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org • Free on-line tool that provides teachers the ability to upload and share sustainability-focused lessons. • www.facingthefuture.org • Curriculum available for middle school math, science, ELA, and Social Studies • http://shoutlearning.org/ • Shout connects educators with rich content, tools and expertise that get students to take action on global issues.

15. 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

16. Student Science & Math Websites • Ology – American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org/ology • Windows to the Universe http://www.windows.ucar.edu • NY Hall of Science http://www.tryscience.org/ • 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

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

18. 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

19. 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/ • http://www.extranormal.com - Animation

20. 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 • EUGENE- https://projecteugene.org- Evaluation for students’ environmental knowledge

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