Qwiki - A New Search Engine

 QWIKI is not a search engine like Google. Instead it’s more like a picture dictionary. For every search term entered, QWIKI responds with a definition which is read aloud plus a series of pictures, gathered from the Web and presented as a kind of slideshow that illustrating the search term. While the pictures actually come from many different web sites, the text for each item or article is written by QWIKI staffers.  Test it with a search "water cycle" you will see a visual of the process as well as an audio description.   Then click the "contents" tab and you will get a print visual of all the content and links at the bottom to a variety of related Quiki files.

Teacher Vision

TeacherVision® is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 20,000 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources. There is a subscription rate for some materials but there are also a lot of materials that are free.  k-12.

More Moodle Tutorials @ Adventures in On-line Learning

Here’s a great set of resources, including sample courses, videos, blogs, books and step-by-step tutorials. It’s not necessarily an exhaustive list, but if you’re just starting out and want to create your own repository of great Moodle help and content then Fran’s Adventures in Online Teaching blog is a great place to start.

The Science of Football

The Science of Football is a series of ten videos from NBC Learn explaining and demonstrating math and science concepts as they relate to football.

The Science of Football could be a good way to get students who enjoy sports, but don't necessarily enjoy math and science, interested in learning math and science. Lessonopoly offers lesson plans corresponding to each video to support your use of the videos in your classroom.

Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:

The Science of Skateboarding, Bicycling, and More

Sport Science - The Science of Baseball

ESPN's Sport Science

3M and Discovery Education Launch Interactive Web Portal for Families and Teachers Celebrating the Science of Everyday Life

Science of Everyday Life provides teachers, parents and students with a fun and interactive platform to explore the surprising and important role that science plays in our daily lives. Science of Everyday Life introduces a new opportunity for fun and creative learning with family activities and interactive tools designed to encourage exploration and engagement with the science that is part of the most relevant “laboratories” in our world – our homes, classrooms and communities.

Science of Everyday Life provides content to empower teachers and engage families and students including:

• Innovations from yesterday to today through brain teasers, virtual labs and an interactive timeline.

• Unique inquiry-based lessons, aligned to national standards, addressing key areas of science and the technology and innovation behind them.

• School-to-home family activities encouraging students to discover the real-world science around them and make connections to what they are learning in school.

Lets Crate File Sharing Web

Let's Crate is very easy to use. To use Let's Crate just drag a file from your desktop to the Let's Crate page. After a short uploading period they'll be stored on the cloud. Let's Crate then creates a unique url that you can send to others so that they can access your file. The unique url expires after 30 minutes unless you create a free Let's Crate account in which case you can keep files on Let's Crate as long as you need them. Let's Crate is a nice alternative to sending mass emailings of large files. Instead of emailing documents to students and parents you can just direct them to a URL. This frees up space in your email application and in your recipient's email application.

Writing Prompts Designed To Use with Elementary and Intermediate Students

The Teacher'scorner.net has writing prompts designed to use with elementary and intermediate students. Each selection has a good visual (If you choose PDF and print) as well as the prompt. There is a list of links for prompts for each month about halfway down on the page.
Thanks to Andy Weik, CES at Mount School for the website.