Website Resources

Hey all, I've been muddling around on the good ol' internet and have found some of these websites helpful...

http://www.omsi.info/teachers/k8chemistry/resources.cfm

This is a part of a science curriculum that OMSI puts out. I know that none of us probably have the actual curriculum, but these resources seemed liked they might be valuable for doing science stuff later on. (If we ever really have science time... Oh Kip... I feel as though I've failed you.)

http://www.donorschoose.org/

I'm sure many of you have heard about this website, but it's pretty cool and I definitely plan on using it when I'm a teacher!

http://www.life.com/

I've had some teachers/books suggest this website to look at for photos you can share with your class or to make things like those emotion cards we read about in some book.

http://legacy.lclark.edu/dept/ccps/courage_future.html

I definitely plan on attending this during one of my first five years of teaching.

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/

I liked some of these ideas as send home things that can be addressed in the classroom, but make science fit in somewhat! They would probably need to be adjusted and differentiated depending on your classroom community.

http://www.sandia.gov/ciim/ASK/documents/fsn-homeactivities.pdf

More easy at home experiments... Maybe send some home and have kids share their findings in class? If more than one kid did the same experiment, you could graph and write out the similarities and differences of what happened?

http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/binary-data/NoNameCalling_ATTACHMENTS/file/90-1.pdf?state=&type=antibullying

I have mostly looked at this in terms of the adaptations for lower grades and like the walk through idea. I think it depends on your classroom and school, but my mentor and I have done similar things with our class and it's been responded to really well. My mentor has made a big point when talking about bullying and other things that we're talking about "what happened" not "who did it" because one is appropriate for the whole class and one is appropriate for telling a teacher or adult who can help. Lots of discussion and role-playing has made activities like this pretty awesome.