http://samoset1.edublogs.org A Commitment to Excellence Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:52:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Free Technology for Teachers Blog Kids Past has put together an easy-to-read World History "textbook" for kids. Kids Past also offers five history games to which students can apply the knowledge the find in the textbook. The textbook and games correspond to each other. Applications for Education The Kids Past World History textbook could ... http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/10/18/kids-past-history-ebooks-and-history-games/ Neok12.com is a website that lists educational videos by subject. All videos can be viewed directly on sites such as Youtube as well, but Neok12 makes it much easier to find them. The videos illustrate a wide array of subjects including math, social studies and science. Visit NeoK12 http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/10/17/neok12-education-lessons-and-videos/ From Instructify One of the first lessons I learned as a kid was not to look at the sun. As lessons go, it was a pretty easy one to learn, since ignoring it kinda hurts. Extreme astronomer Gary Palmer wants you to disregard that advice and take a good long look ... http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/10/15/see-the-sun-up-close-at-the-sun-in-motion/ Math Tool Chest is an interactive site for teaching mathematics. http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/math-tool-chest/ From Teachers Love SMART Boards Blog by James Hollis I found a fabulous interactive website that lets students explore our solar system to get a much clearer understanding about planet orbits, size, and relative position to one another. The site is simply calledPlanets and it's a fantastic resource for the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. The ... http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/smartboards-and-viewing-our-solar-system/ Great videos for all subject areas. http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/10/03/neok12-videos/ This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools. http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/10/03/freezeray-interactive-science-lessons-for-smartboard/ From Free Technology for Teachers Once again, Open Culture has discovered a real gem for education. Khan Academy has a YouTube Channel on which they have posted hundreds of mathematics and science tutorial videos. The videos range in length from five minutes to 20+ minutes. The videos that I previewed had clear spoken ... http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/hundreds-of-math-and-science-video-tutorials/ by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) From Free Technology for Teachers a great resource site. Manga High is a new site offering free mathematics games for K-12 students. There are four games and a quiz program that offer graduated activities. Students earn gold, silver, and bronze "coins" to track their progress. While the games ... http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/manga-high-free-mathematics-games/ by James Hollis from Teachers love Smartboards Blog If you're a teacher looking for a good online resource for studying vocabulary, you might want to review the WordAhead Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards site. One of the reasons I like this site is it allows students to take a greater role in their ... http://samoset1.edublogs.org/2009/09/22/smartboards-and-wordahead-vocabulary-review/