Science Links

Science
http://www.sciencebob.com/index.php
ideas for science fair projects
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
The size of our world
http://activities.macmillanmh.com/science/ca

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

http://www.fossweb.com

simple machines
Planet Science
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/photomicrography/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/photomicrography/
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/archive.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jul/21/china-india
path of the moon in solar eclipse 7/22/09
http://www.hunkinsexperiments.com/
cartoon experiments

http://www.aip.de/groups/galaxies/sw/udf/swudfV1.0.html
night eye sky telescope vision

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
Windows to the Universe

http://www.legoeducation.com/forms/activitycontest.asp

http://ted.coe.wayne.edu/sse/wq/nick/claymation.htm
claymation

http://fossweb.com/

http://www.eskeletons.org/

http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/
kindergarten health lesson

http://www.cellsalive.com/

ESL/ language learning links

http://www.123listening.com/
listening vocabulary
http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?Games
Dave's ESL Cafe has his list of great games to play
http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/
http://www.ohio.edu/linguistics/esl/
make a picture dictionary
English Trailers
Tapestry for Teachers of English Language Learners

http://www.literacycenter.net/
pre K counting, alphabet in four languages.
http://reading.ecb.org

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm

http://www.speakaboos.com

http://www.soundguideweb.com/soundguide/?lang=en
Great Britain video clips dialog written
learn about news
http://www.listen-and-write.com/audio
dictation practice
http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/10/international_day_of_non-violence.html
http://www.mingoville.com/en.html
Larry Fazzio's top choice for 2008
http://www.talk-and-learn.com/
online community more for adults to learn ESL

http://www.rong-chang.com/lsnplan.htm

links to lesson plans
http://www.yakitome.com/
web talker
http://www.myenglishimages.com/Home.html
http://www.go4english.com/qg/archive.php?cid=10031001
http://www.readthewords.com/
read text
talking cards
six pairs of contradictory proverbs
http://usalearns.org/index/welcome.cfm?CFID=837533&CFTOKEN=62783027&jsessionid=2c302b74780482afcd135274717f72354472
free site for older students to learn English.
http://capl.washjeff.edu/index.php
This is a site with pictures in categories (also in a few other languages)
http://www.hello-world.com/index.php
learn English. Teachers can keep a grade book. Learn other languages, too
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddp4xrwh_85frrkgtgv&hl=en
this is a test prep site for ELLS
http://lyricsfly.com/search/search.php
http://www.englishexpress.ca/
http://mixturtle.com/
song search
http://rwp.qia.oxi.net/embeddedlearning/interactivesearchresults.cfm
English (and math) for adults
http://www.soundflavor.com/
search songs by theme
spelling bee
words used in context
http://www.esl-lab.com/
listen to conversations and answer questions
site words with Samson
listen and copy and record words
http://www.raphappy.com/
http://www.eslvideo.com/
http://ow.ly/M279
adjective quiz

Comprehension

During our Focus Instruction Group (FIG) started in October I have been reading with a group of mostly girls that speak Spanish at home that have been asked to read and comprehend in English all day long for the last couple of years. I decided that I'd read stories that they already read in English, in Spanish, talk through what I am thinking, how I am relating it to my own prior knowledge, having to suspend my disbelief, wondering about author's purpose, looking for metaphor and simile, personification, alliteration and other literary elements. I can do this fairly quickly and bilingually because most of the literary elements are cognates that they have to learn anyway.

Some global connections

rockourworld.org
www.oxfam.org.uk/education/gc
isb21.wikispaces.com
www.ascasociety.org/education-learning
teacherswithoutborders.org
usiearn.org

Arts in Education Personal symbols

In August 2009 I went to an Arts in Education workshop. The first day we studied with a story teller, the second day we worked with dance and creative movement. The last day we did visual arts and created our own personal symbols that we then connected three different times to others' symbols. It was a lot of fun.

Gathering sites

I have been gathering sites that I run across and adding them to a Google document that is a work in progress, for sure. It all started before I heard about any online sites that gather bookmarks like deci.ous.com that I haven't visited more than once. I just got tired of switching computers and losing the link to sites that I might share.

I have had some issues with collaborating using Google, like the people couldn't get to the document that were invited. If you stumble on this blog and want to check out my doc so far, see you can access it by going here http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddp4xrwh_85frrkgtgv&hl=en
I don't know that you can, but if you sent me an email at etickner at gmail.com I'll invite you to collaborate.

Since I teach English, Spanish and ukulele at an Elementary school, most of what I have gathered are websites to help younger students, time wasters that could be used for mousing skills, links to safe photo or video sites since YouTube and Google video are blocked, sites that have some interesting music interactiveness or even lessons, math, social studies and science links are there and some art, too. I like having kids draw so when I find a site that helps them learn about that, it is added, too.

I have strayed away from linking to sites that have tons of links like Schrock's guide http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/ because I figure everyone knows about it and uses it if they want to. There are a couple of those sites, though, because when I started gathering, I saw value in not reinventing the wheel. I guess I could have a whole bold heading for that kind of site. That way I don't have to Google search when I want to use them.