CK-12 Free lessons and videos

CK-12 is a website that offers free textbooks, video, and activities.  They can be used in your lessons.  CK-12 can be customized and shared in Google Classroom for easier use.  Site is American but some lessons can be used in our classrooms.

Project Noah....Connect with the Natural World through Investigation

I love it when I stumble upon sites like this!!!

Project Noah help students experience nature through which they solve real-world problems.  This site is for students to share their experiences with wildlife and they are given oppotunities to make a difference.  Students make observations and investigations on key concepts in the Life Sciences and share their work with the Project Noah community. 

Teachers can sign up and set up their classroom. Resources and teaching materials are available.  Great enquiry based curriculum and critical literacy.

There is an app available as well. 
http://www.projectnoah.org/education

Watch Know Learn........Educational Videos

Free educational videos from elementary to secondary schools from ages 1-18.
These videos are reviewed, approved and organized into appropriate categories of subjects. 
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/About.aspx

Time for Kids

Teachers can access some articles, lesson plans, videos and more, for free. A good place to find news from around the world and content specific information and bring into the classroom. 
 http://www.timeforkids.com/

The Environment

Game on Green Challenges
http://pbskids.org/fetch/games/green/


Young Voices for the Planet is a film series featuring young people who are making a difference! They are shrinking the carbon footprint of their homes, schools and communities.
http://www.youngvoicesonclimatechange.com/

Zero footprint youth calculator

http://calc.zerofootprint.net/youth/ 

Virtual Field Trips

Virtualfieldtrips is a guided exploration through the world wide web that organizes a collection of pre-screened, thematically based web pages into a structured online learning experience. (Foley, 2003) Below are some sites I found that may be of interest.


http://lib.utexas.edu/geo/onlineguides.html

http://www.simplek12.com/virtualfieldtrips

http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm

http://www.uen.org/tours/

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/index-eng.jsp;jsessionid=ED9AAFB5DAB7C603979E6A09591BF69B

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listvirtualgr.html

Environment

As part of my unit on the environment and conservation of energy, my students and I viewed work created by students for students on think quest, the site I mentioned on a previous post.
http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/00877/

The Environment--Critical Literacy--Loop Scoops

On PBS Kids Go, there is a link called Loop Scoops. This link has videos to get kids thinking about things in life and what they can do to the environment. The videos on this site are only viewable in the US HOWEVER, underneath the video box there is a link that is viewable for countries outside the US. The link takes you to youtube. Below is the link to the videos:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMZerTyvyMs


• Kidfriendly sites about helping the planet: http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/resources/harmless_holder.html