When you have a computer lab or technology class to decorate, you have limited choices when it comes to ready-made gear. My theory on this is that the way computers look changes so frequently that manufacturers couldn’t get their money’s worth out of a design before people were giggling… Continue reading
“Retrofuture” refers to earlier ideas about what our current time would be like. Now that we’ve hit the 21st century, we have lots to choose from — people making predictions in the 1900s often chose the 21st century to write or draw or make movies about. Have your students explore… Continue reading
Some of our favorite robot lesson plans… Robot Design You can certainly build working robots in your classroom, using Lego Mindstorm: LEGO 8547 Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Robotics Kit LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders: Ten Inventions to Spark Your Imagination The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner’s Guide… Continue reading
Meld science, art, and literature into a robot classroom theme this year — or just have fun with a robot themed classroom. Don’t miss the cupcakes at the end of the post! There’s plenty ready made: The Carson Dellosa Robots Classroom Collection includes desk plates, door sign, calendar, and borders.… Continue reading
National Geographic aerial photos of animals and people in Africa can be found in Google Earth by clicking the National Geographic icons, and there is a kmz file you can download that has the groups of animals labeled. The video above shows how it looks, but you can find them… Continue reading
Think of a lesson that combines careful observation, patience, art, technology, storytelling, and investigation. Photography! We’re excited to have some advice from Annie Griffiths, author of National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs and A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs. Griffiths was one of the first female… Continue reading
We’ve looked at the absolute basics for creating a teacher website that will make a positive impression and be useful to students and parents. We’ve given you some ideas for using your website for more than just a page with your name on it. And we’ve provided some resources… Continue reading
Upload a video from your phone to YouTube and you can easily add it to your school website. Remember, you can make your videos private. Continue reading
Yesterday we talked about linking to resources, but sometimes you may want to put classroom resources directly into the page. Here is one of the pages for my faculty website with a PowerPoint presentation embedded into it. My students are old enough to access it on their own, and I… Continue reading
Top 10 uses for your classroom web page! Continue reading
