MS Tech Update
Today and Tomorrow
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Use Plickers for quick checks for understanding to know whether your students are understanding big concepts and mastering key skills.
Plickers Card Set
Assign Cards
Assign the cards to students in each class
Collect Responses
Games are specifically designed to engage ages 5-13.
Osmo's Teacher’s Guide features over 35 lesson plans and details about joining the Osmo educator community and earning rewards.
Tangram
Words
Numbers
Newton
Masterpiece
Websites & Apps to Check Out
Get the Math for MS & HS
Find “Algebra in the real world” for middle and high school students on Get the Math.
- Presents interactive challenges used by pros in many fields.
- Develops algebraic reasoning skills and awareness of use in “real world.”
Spice up your posters...
Piktochart is a web-based infographic software which allows users without experience as graphic designers to create professional-grade infographics, using templates.
Gap Minder
- Aims “to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview.”
- Depicts social, economic, and environmental development statistics over time.
- Videos, handouts and lesson plans, interactives.
- Download software for offline use
- Links to TED Talks by developer, Dr.Hans Rosling.
Breaking News Generator
- Create a newscast screen shot.
- Place a crawler at the bottom.
- Download, Embed or Tweet it!
- Great free tool from classtools.net
Human Biodigital 3D
https://human.biodigital.com is an interactive 3D environment providing a stunningly realistic way to examine the human body. Students can explore and manipulate the 3D images as they zoom in and out of the various layers of anatomical animations. Descriptions of health conditions related to each system of the human body are included. Grades: 7–12
Top Five iOS Apps for ELA & ALL from TCEA
Thinglink - Interactive Images and Videos
Educreations - Interactive Whiteboard and Screencasting Tool
Punfound - The Pun Quiz - 350 Pun Pictures to solve
Pic Pop Game - Spelling and Solving a Mystery Photo
YouTube Crash Course Channel
Tons of awesome courses in one awesome channel: Hank Green teaches you Anatomy & Physiology; Phil Plait teaches you Astronomy; Craig Benzine teaches you U.S. Government and Politics; Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford teach you Economics.
Check out the playlists for past courses in World History, Biology, Literature, Ecology, Chemistry, Psychology, and US History.