Upper+(3-5)

Language Arts * Math * Units of Inquiry

Language Arts

 * Apps for K-5 core language standards
 * Oxford Owl - a FREE website built to support you with your child’s learning. To help you along the way, you’ll find age-specific [|reading] and [|maths] tips and activities, FREE eBooks, and lots of fun ideas to really bring your child’s learning to life. You will also find support and advice on a range of questions you may have – including helping your child with their phonics, motivating boys to read and ensuring your child is doing their best in maths.

Math
> **(**//www.pbskids.org/lab//**)** > The company has announced 60 new cross-platform games that help children aged two through eight build critical math skills. Available free on the PBS KIDS Lab Web site, the games feature a colorful cast of characters, from Curious George to the Cat in the Hat. Each game suite links to a set of games that are accessible through computers, mobile devices, and interactive whiteboards.
 * [|Kids Teach Kids with Mathcasting] - I can across Eric Marcos' work when he was mentioned at the Schools of the Future Conference a couple weeks ago. He has students create tutorial movies/podcasts for the concepts he teaches in math. He also announces that the tutorials will not just be geared for fellow classmates, but students the world over. Magically, student motivation, engagement, and retention skyrockets. The great thing about working at IPA is that we have the tech tools to produce these tutorials easily. If your game, go for it! If you're interested but would like a bit of coaching, let me know.
 * [|Mathalicious] - Mathalicious is transforming the way math is taught by providing teachers with the most relevant, engaging, and effective math lessons anywhere. We do this by designing lessons around real-world topics that students care about, from sports to technology to health & wellness. This contextual approach helps students make sense of the math, and develop both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. Learn more about the site by clicking the link, take a tour, and check out their lessons.
 * Rhyme 'N Learn produces clean rap songs about math and science.
 * **PBS KIDS new games**
 * **Johnnie's Math Games**: You can now find over 1000 activities for JK-8 through this site! @http://jmathpage.com/

Units of Inquiry
> Old Maps Online is a good use of Google Maps that I recently learned about through Google Maps Mania. Old Maps Online is designed to help you find historical maps of where you live or any other location that you enter into the search function. By default Old Maps Online searches for maps near your location. You can refine your search to a specific time using the timeline slider on Old Maps Online. Old Maps Online doesn't host the maps that you find through their search box. Old Maps Online refers you to the host of the maps. One of the frequently used hosts is the David Rumsey Historical Map collection. > ** Applications for Education ** > There are other ways to find historical maps online, but Old Maps Onlinemakes it very easy to do. The maps that you and your students find could be used as overlays in the Google Earth layers. You might also use the maps for a local history comparison activity by comparing your students' current vision of where they live with what it looked like in the past. //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.// > Source: Free Technology for Teachers - Richard Byrne > History Engine is an educational project developed by The University of Richmond for the purpose of giving students a place to explore stories of American life and publish their own stories based upon their research. > > I was initially drawn to History Engine by the map and timeline that was featured on Google Maps Mania. The History Engine map allows students to search for stories by selecting a decade on the timeline then clicking a location on the map. Students will find stories about ordinary citizens making minor news in their communities as well as stories about famous Americans like George Washington. > > ** Applications for Education ** > History Engine provides an extensive guide for teacherswho want to have their students research, write, and publish stories. History Engine offers an easy-to-follow style guide that students can use to format their writings. If you're looking for some good ideas and resources for getting students to use primary sources in their historical writings, History Engine is a website that you should give a good look. //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * ===Images to support inquiry and understanding===
 * Fotopediais a collaborative photo encyclopedia that hosts high-quality images whose subjects are matched to Wikipedia articles. For subjects that don't have a Wikipedia entry the community can build one. Some images are linked to a map so that you can see where the image was taken. You will find that some Fotopedia contributions are Creative Commons-licensed (copyright friendly) and others are not.
 * Integration example: Browse Fotopediafor a Creative Commons-licensed picture of a Zebra (to be posted on a class website about animals). Browsing is a great visual way for students to discover information about animals. While browsing the collection of Zebra images students can read the article about Zebras, click and see where the images were captured, and then jump into browsing images and information about where those images were captured. In the Zebra example, a student can begin with looking at pictures of Zebras and go to browsing pictures of Tanzania and reading about habit in Tanzania.//(This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//)
 * ===Old Maps Online - Find Historical Maps for Your Area===
 * ===History Engine - Explore Stories of American Life ===

> > On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five, Paul Revere made his famous ride, memorialized by Longfellow’s poem, which took certain liberties with the truth. Perhaps Revere rhymed more readily than Dawes or Prescott, who also were involved with the warning about the British troop movements. At any rate, [|here you will find the real story of Paul Revere’s ride] and the actions of William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott, who were also with him that night. Examine interesting maps, one of which is interactive, Revere’s own words about what happened that night, and, of course, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s unforgettable poem. There is also a link to a biography of Paul Revere, which explores more than that few hours of that fateful night before the shot that was heard around the world.
 * ===The Paul Revere House: The Midnight RideFrom Tech&Learning===
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General
This morning Google announced the release of a new way to view images in Google Maps. 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps is a collection of public Panoramio and Picasa images of famous landmarks arranged into 3D panoramic tours. You can take a tour of places like the Grand Canyon, Buckingham Palace, and Fenway Park. Here's a complete list of the places for which 3D photo tours are available. To access these new views you do have to have to be using a modern browser that supports Web GL technology. The video below highlights the new 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps. > > >  > > > ** Applications for Education ** > > If you don't have access to Google Earth on your school's computers, the 3D Photo Tours in Google Maps is a great alternative for showing students what some of the famous landmarks they may have studied look like. > //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * Kid-friendly Search Engines
 * ==New 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps ==