martes, 25 de diciembre de 2018
When the Puritans banned Christmas
In
1659 the Puritan government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned
Christmas. This religious minority considered that such celebration
was unnecessary and that it distracted from religious discipline as
the
daily celebrations often led to drunkenness, promiscuity, gambling
and other forms of excess. They also felt
that celebrating Christmas would be idolatry due to this holiday's
pagan origins.
domingo, 23 de diciembre de 2018
Pixabay (@pixabay)
With a total of 1.5 million free images, most of them photos (1.2 million) and several hundred thousands of illustrations, vector graphics and clip arts, Pixabay is the largest collection of free quality images.
You
can search public domain images by using keywords or by browsing
through the libraries. You can download them in different sizes.
Pixabay
is one of the best choices to find free quality images for classroom
projects avoiding copyright violations.
Webpage:
App
on GooglePlay:
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on iTunes:
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sábado, 22 de diciembre de 2018
Lilu's House. Language Skills through Experiments
Brochure
in English.
Additional
materials:
Other
free of charge teaching materials developed by European STEM teachers
and offered by Science on Stage:
sábado, 15 de diciembre de 2018
DeepGrammar
DeepGrammar
is a grammar checker that integrates deep symbolic processing and
deep learning (artificial neural networks). It uses deep learning to
learn a model of language, and it then uses this model to check text
for errors in three steps:
- Compute
the likelihood that someone would have intended to write the text.
- Attempt
to generate text that is close to the written text but is more
likely.
- If
such text is found, show it to the user as a possible correction.
The
following page demonstrates a prototype of DeepGrammar.
Grammar Gamble
Simply
log in, answer 10 questions and build the highest score you can. At
each question you can bet some of your 'money' on the answer. If you
choose right, you win the money. If you choose wrong, you lose it.
Grammar
Gamble is aimed at Intermediate English learners, although all
learners will enjoy it. (Source Grammar Gamble).
domingo, 9 de diciembre de 2018
ReadWorks
ReadWorks
is a nonprofit that provides K-12 teachers with the largest,
highest-quality library of curated nonfiction and literary articles
in the country, along with reading comprehension and vocabulary
supports, formative assessments, teacher guidance, and more.
Everything ReadWorks does is based on proven cognitive science
research, not unproven academic theory.
(Source
ReadWorks)
https://www.readworks.org/
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https://www.facebook.com/ReadWorks/
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/readworks
On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ReadWorks/
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/readworks
sábado, 8 de diciembre de 2018
MIT Blossoms @MIT_BLOSSOMS
You can browse and download lessons to use in your classroom. Every lesson includes video segments, a teacher's guide, downloadable hand-outs and a list of additional online resources relevant to the topic.
Find
it all on:
On
Twitter:
On
YouTube:
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Facebook:
domingo, 2 de diciembre de 2018
Understanding Science
The Understanding Science site was produced by the UC Museum of Paleontology of the University of California at Berkeley, in collaboration with a diverse group of scientists and teachers, and was funded by the National Science Foundation.
The mission of Understanding Science is to provide a fun, accessible, and free resource that accurately communicates what science is and how it really works.
Its immediate goals are to (1) improve teacher understanding of the nature of the scientific enterprise, (2) provide resources and strategies that encourage and enable K-16 teachers to reinforce the nature of science throughout their science teaching, and (3) provide a clear and informative reference for students and the general public that accurately portrays the scientific endeavor.
(Source: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/about.php).
(Source: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/about.php).
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For teachers:
KinderArt.com @KinderArt
Created in 1997, KinderArt makes teaching art easier for teachers, parents and artists with art lesson plans art curriculum and tips for all ages.
It offers thousands of ideas and activities which can be viewed by category or by grade (Preschool, Elementary, Middle and High School).
Visit:
Blog:
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/kinderart
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kinderartcom
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kinderartcom/