Long-standing List member, Lorne Cooper, showed me a @gc_science site that provides a series of downloadable Science Activity Books. These are real treasures that each contain dozens of experiments that cover elementary, middle and senior high ages. This is activity book number five but you can download all of the previous ones as well to boost your experiment repertoire.
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The URL: http://www.science.gc.ca/ab
It’s World Water Day today! The topic of Water Cooperation has been a growing discussion across the globe. 2Learn.ca has released a complete collection of resources, articles, videos and other links that are of use to teachers in its latest Special Edition: Water Cooperation.
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The URL: http://www.2learn.ca/specialedition/watercoop/
Later today at 3:10 p.m. MST, “Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian ever to assume command of the International Space Station (ISS), a historic milestone for our country. A transfer of command ceremony will be conducted aboard the ISS. NASA Commander Ford will pass responsibility for the Station on to CSA Commander Hadfield. The crew will ring the ceremonial bell to mark the official change between Expedition 34 to Expedition 35. The transfer of command will be broadcast live on the CSA Website.” There is more info at http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca but the broadcast will be on NASA TV.
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The URL: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/asc-csa
The Computer History Museum maintains this interactive calendar. Landing on the current date, students are informed the anniversaries of events both well-known and obscure. There are other features on the site such as a timeline of computer history, a look at Internet history from 1962-1992, an examination of microprocessors from 1971 to 1996 and many other resources.
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The URL: http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/
There are a few graph paper generators out there but this one caught my eye for its customization features. Students can set the paper size and then control the margin, the size of the graph as well as stroke color and thickness. There are also dotted and lined designs available. When you’re all set, click the download button to save a PDF version.
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The URL: http://paperkit.net
This is a fun interactive where students can set up scenarios for a meteor hitting the earth. They can set projectile parameters, impact parameters, target parameters and distance from impact to calculate the impact of a, hopefully theoretical, meteor.
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The URL: http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/
One way you can help me out is to use my link to sign up for DropBox. If you sign up from here by clicking the link above, the bonus for me is that I get a bit more space to use in my work. And I'm eternally grateful for the boost! -Pete
Pete MacKay has taught in Alberta since 1990, across all grade levels, all of which have had a technology-based approach. Currently seconded to the 2Learn.ca Education Society from Edmonton Public Schools, he applies his range of experience to professional development activities for teachers across the province of Alberta.
In November 2012, members of the Belize Ministry of Education, principals, and lead teachers met in each of the six districts for two days of conversations and discussions around the challenges and next steps in integrating technology to support teaching and learning in Belize. The sessions highlighted global trends and challenges from the K-12 Horizon Report, the National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for students, teachers, and administrators, as well as an overview of the content from the August 2012 technology workshop for teachers.
Learn more about this Rotary initiative
The archival version of the iPad App I created for this conference in August 2012 in Banff, Alberta is available at the iTunes store.
Are you looking for those telecollaborative projects that I used to do with Sandra Gluth? We've gathered up as much as we could find and put them in a final resting place.
Check it out here:
http://projects.resco.ca
