Publishing student work

Publishing student work usually means photocopying multiple copies for the class.  What if you can create a FREE book of your students' work?  You could publish anthologies, books of poetry, or anything they have done.  Check out http://www.bookrix.com/.  You upload the file and then the book appears as a clickable book.  Read the book online or even download your own copy.  Great for those faraway grandparents.

Another student publishing outlet is LuLu  http://www.lulu.com  Again, upload your files and a book is created.  But LuLu allows you to purchase a print edition of the work.  So you can have your class project available as a free download or as a low-cost print edition.  Check it out.

Scientific American Podcasts

Applications for Education
Scientific American's 60 Second podcasts http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/ could be an educational, interesting, and entertaining way to start a science class. You never know when a student's curiosity might be piqued. Offering students quick lessons from a variety of science topics increases the chances that they may hear something that they want to explore further.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
The Why Files - The Science Behind the News
Planet Science - Science Games and Lesson Plans
Great Science Activities from Exploratorium

Educational Games

Now that classes are a bit longer, you may be looking for anchor activities for students. One thing many students love is playing a game on the computer. It can actually be educational. I've been updating the resources on my school page http://library-media-center.rms.concordnhschools.net/ to include many resources for you to use. As I find good educational games, I'll be adding them to the wiki page of games. If you have any that you would like me to include, just let me know.

http://rmsgames.wikispaces.com/

Give Funnelbrain a try

Looking for a fun way for students to review? Give FunnelBrain a try. Students can create their own "flash cards" or access those already made.

What is FunnelBrain?

FunnelBrain.com is an academic question and answer site that provides an environment for collaborative online learning.

What's special about FunnelBrain?

Students work in teams to create review questions and answers, paired with video explanations, for academic subjects. Users have access to wiki-style content creation tools, as well as a learning management application known as the "Funnel" that tracks and monitors learning progress and focuses the student's attention on a particular question at a particular time with a spaced repetition algorithm.

What is the FUNNEL?

The FUNNEL is a learning application that manages the review process to make it as efficient and effective as possible using a spaced repetition algorithm that presents the right question at the right time.

Free Teachers Printables

More than 60 teachers printables and classroom printables that you can download, customize, and print for free. Choose from attendance charts, grading sheets, lesson planning forms, parent communication forms, office passes, school calendars, and more. Or, download the entire collection for $27.00.

http://www.teachersprintables.net/

schoonoodle lesson finder

Tired of going to several different places to get ideas for your lesson plans? Want to save time? Use SchooNoodle to find new ideas to build your curriculum. You can easily locate lesson plans, videos, news and current events, images, and much more…all correlated to the standards for your state, subject and grade.

You need to sign up for this but it is free. It is a new website for K-12 teachers that is part lesson plan depot and part social bookmarking service. The intent of Schoonoodle is to be a place where teachers can find lesson plans and other resources that align to state standards. To build this collection of standards-aligned resources whenever teachers submit a new website they can fill in a form explaining which standards that resource aligns to.

http://www.schoonoodle.com

Good website for DI

If you have students who need a website written at a lower level, this website takes wikipedia articles and simplifies them. Give it a try.

http://againbutslower.com/