NASA Kids' Club

NASA Kids’ Club is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. You will find games of various skill levels for children pre-K through grade 4. These games support national education standards in STEM.

Their games and interactive activities are arranged on five skill levels. The activities range from simple things like coloring pages and pattern recognition games to more difficult tasks like identifying planets based on clues provided in written and video form. 

(Source NASA Kids’ Club)

https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html 

Writing Sparks (Writing prompts)

Writing Sparks is a series of inspirational writing challenges for elementary school students. 

It offers timed writing prompts to share with your class. 

Access this educational resource through the following link:

https://writingsparks.com/ 

Through this video you can see how it works and its usefulness as a way to encourage writing.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. More than a quarter of a million nature images in this library free to download and reuse.

Visit:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums 

Web of stories

Web of Stories offers you the chance to listen to some of the greatest people of our time who have influenced our world telling their life stories. 

YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/webofstories 

Web of stories

https://www.webofstories.com/ 

#WorldReadAloudDay

World Read Aloud Day is celebrated on the first Wednesday of February. This campaign was founded in 2010 to advocate for access to literacy. It celebrates the power of reading aloud, a powerful activity with a powerful impact on children development. 

Check out the following links to discover activities and fun resources for all ages:

https://www.litworld.org/worldreadalouddayactivities/ 

https://www.litworld.org/worldreadaloudday

https://www.litworld.org/worldreadalouddayblog 

Exploratorium.edu

Exploratorioum.edu offers a vast collection of resources for teaching and learning and experiences that transform learning, Located in San Francisco, California, it is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception.

Visit Exploratorium.edu on:

https://www.exploratorium.edu/

I Have a Dream #MartinLutherKing

Our entry today commemorates the birth of Martin Luther King, a prominent leader of the civil rights movement, on this day in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Freedom’s Ring is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, animated. Here you can compare the written and spoken speech, explore multimedia images, listen to movement activists, and uncover historical context. 

An amazing educational resource that you will fall in love with.

http://freedomsring.stanford.edu/?view=Speech

Ginger. A grammar checker

Ginger is a grammar checker that edits and displays errors as the text is written. It also provides guidance on other issues such as punctuation and sentence structure, has a dictionary to expand the vocabulary and a text reader that is very helpful to improve listening skills. 

It can be used free of charge by adding it to Google Chrome or by subscribing to one of its plans for further customization.

Get Ginger on:

https://www.gingersoftware.com/

Storybird

Storybird is a cool educational online platform for children from age 3 to 14+, parents and teachers. It offers short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Students can express themselves and develop creatively their writing skills

Lit2Go #literature #audiobooks

Lit2Go is a free online collection of public domain fiction, poetry, and nonfiction audiobooks in MP3 format . An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages.

Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom. 

Stories can be searched by author, book, genre, collection, and readability.

Lit2Go is an ongoing project of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology 

Find Lit2Go on:

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ 

Breaking News English by @SeanBanville

EFL / ESL English lesson plans & podcast to learn English based on current events and news. There are 7 levels, from elementary to advanced.

Every two days a new lesson is added. Each lesson has up to 26 pages of printable activities.  All lessons are downloadable PDF format. There are graded listenings with each lesson. Multiple audio files (that can be downloaded in mp3 format) are provided for each story. 

Find this amazing resource on:

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/ 

Learn-English.Org

Learn-English.Org is a free website for learners of English to develop competence in these four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

You can navigate the activities by category, by skill, and by level (CEFR A1-CEFR C2).

Learn-English.Org has articles relating to a variety of different topics. 

https://www.learn-english.org/

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Project supported by the National Science Foundation that developes a library of interactive virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction. 

Accessing the collection requires a java plug in that is compatible with Firefox and Safari browsers, but not Chrome. 

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html ç

3M Young Scientist Lab #YoungScientist

Educational portal filled with engaging activities and teaching tools. Young Scientist Lab is a very interesting place to explore the world of scientific innovations and opportunities  for teachers, students and parents. 

It offers lesson plans, interactives, support materials and student and family activities.

(Source Young Scientist Lab)

https://youngscientistlab.com/ 

Tools for Clear Speech (American English)

The Tools for Clear Speech (TfCS) program improves the pronunciation, fluency, and pragmatic abilities of English language learners (ELLs) and non-native English speakers at Baruch College (The City University of New York). 

On the Consonants and Vowels section you’ll find in-depth practice with each individual sound in Standard American English, as well as various combinations of sounds

Find it on:. 

https://tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu/consonants-vowels/ 

Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition

Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition is an educational nutrition game that will help teach students about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from countries around the world! 

Play it on:

https://ssec.si.edu/pick-your-plate 

MakeBeliefsComix.com

Make Beliefs Comix is a creative writing platform, a useful resource in helping students  express themselves and communicate. It offers a free set of tools and hosts free ebooks that the can use onlne or download. 

These printables can be used with students enrolled in literacy and ESL programs and provide an educational resource for teaching language arts.

If you are interested, visit:

https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ 

City Walks

With this website you can take virtual walks through large cities. You can walk during the day or at night, with or without city sounds and during COVID or before the start of the pandemic. 

You will find it interesting to describe the environment of various cities, build dialogues that can take place in these spaces, etc.

On Twitter

https://twitter.com/AristomenisGeo1

Visit:

https://citywalks.live/

Gender balance in Science

Issue to Action resource on Science by scotdec.org.uk. It was produced as part of the Global issues, Global subjects project funded by the European Union. 

These materials were created by Science teachers in Scotland and are designed for use at BGE levels 3 and 4. All the activities connect to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The lessons and worksheets in the booklet are supported by PowerPoints

PowerPoint:

https://scotdec.org.uk/download/gender-balance-powerpoint/ 

Action Cards

https://scotdec.org.uk/download/action-cards-pdf-14mb/ 

Female Scientist Information Cards

https://scotdec.org.uk/download/female-scientists-information-cards-pdf-6mb/ 

MASSOLIT

MASSOLIT works with university academics to produce high-quality, curriculum-linked video lectures for GCSE and A Level. 

They offer more than 3,000 lectures across six subjects: English literature, History, Philosophy, Classics & Ancient History,Psychology and Government & Politics. Most lectures are between 8-12 minutes in length.

They have a regularly-updated YouTube channel where you can check out some of their videos. They provide free access to one lecture from each their lecturers, so you can see what they're like.

https://www.massolit.io/ 

On YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWITMkkllOYZmyVWzQm5kuw/featured  

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/themassolit