Science & Math Animated GIFs

Check out these fun sites with animated GIFs to help explain math and science concepts. The science website also has information about how to get your students to create their own animated GIFs over topics covered in your class.
Math: www.mathwarehouse.com/animated-gifs
Science: www.amoebasisters.com/gifs.html 

iNaturalist

This summer you might be planning on a trip that includes time in the outdoors. If so, check out iNaturalist, an online community for sharing pictures and observations of animals and plants. Take pictures of your findings and post them to their collection. You can also explore through their free app (iTunes, Google Play). Enjoy your summer as a Citizen Scientist!

Google's Science Journal App

Google’s Science Journal App looks to be a new and promising app. The students’ phone features limit the data that can be collected through it but it could be fun to see what they can do.

Check out this article talking about the app and read more on the app download pages for iTunes and Google Play.

Chemistry Rap and Periodic Table resources

Check out Richard Byrne's post at Free Tech 4 Teachers with a Chemistry Rap and Periodic Table resources. Science is fun!

Common Sense's Top EdTech Eleven

Common Sense publishes a Top EdTech Eleven list and updates it often. Check it out to see what they say is the best of the best in the world of EdTech.
If you have any questions or want someone to investigate with you, please contact your DLC, Penney Matos!

Google Classroom: Share from Gale

Any resources found through Gale (access through MackinVia) can be shared directly with your students through Google Classroom.

Instructions for adding a Gale item to the Google Classroom linked here.

Instructions for downloading a Gale article (with notes and highlights) to Google Drive linked here.

Video tutorial on using Gale with Google Classroom linked here.

Video tutorial on adding Gale resources to Google Drive linked here.

Histography - Timeline of History

This is one of the coolest websites I've run across.

histography.io

Every dot is a historic event from Wikipedia.

Resize the bottom bar to view any time period or era.

Use navigation on the left to narrow by topics including literature, music, wars, politics, construction, inventions, riots, women rights, disasters, art, nationality, discoveries, empires, assassinations, and religion.

TED-Ed: Superhero Science and more cool topics

Superhero Science is a playlist of science lessons published by TED-Ed. The lessons in the playlist feature explanations of what would happen in various scenarios if you had superhero powers like flight, strength, and speed. Each lessons explains the mathematics and science of scenarios frequently found in superhero stories. For example, in the lesson on strength we learn what would happen if a superhero did catch someone falling from the top of a skyscraper.

On that same link, there is alist of all the other TED-Ed lesson series that are available.  Some fantastic stuff!

Actions and Reactions

Animation Basics

Awesome Nature

Before and After Einstein

Behind the Curtain

Click You Fortune

Cyber-Influence & Power

Discovering the Deep

Ecofying Citites

Everyone Has a Story

Exploring Theories

Getting Under Our Skin

Government: Declassified

How Things Work

Ingenuity in the Developing World

Inventions that Shape History

Making the Invisible Visible

Mastering Tech Artistry

Math in Real Life

Mind Matters

Mysteries of Vernacular

Our Changing Climate

Out of This World

Periodic Videos

Playing with Language

Questions No One (Yet) Knows the Answers To

Reading Between the Lines

The Artist's Palette

The Big Questions

The Way We Think

The World's People and Places

The Writer's Workshop

Things they Don't Teach in School (But Should)

Troubleshooting the World

Visualizing Data

What Will You Do with Your Life?

You Are What You Eat

You Graduated... Now What?

If you have never used TED-Ed before, if you create a FREE teacher account, you can customize the questions and activities that go with the videos and you can assign them to your students.

Let me know if you are interested in learning more about it.  I’d be happy to help set it up.

FREE Graphic Organizers through Google Drawing

15 FREE Google Drawings Graphic Organizers - and how to make your own

Khan Academy revisit

Khan Academy has grown over the past several years and now includes even more subjects. Check out the full list: 

Khan Academy also now includes not just videos but also interactives, assessments, articles, handouts and more!

Overview of KhanAcademy.org: An overview of the different ways to use Khan Academy

PBS Learning Media

PBS Learning Media now offers over 100,000 digital resources in its library for educators!

Read this article for more information or access PBS LearningMedia directly.

Plot.ly: graphing in education

Plotly for Educators

Finally: a scientific graphing tool for students and teachers. Import data from experiments or enter it manually into an online spreadsheet. Make scatter plots, bar charts, lines-of-best fit and much more.

Check out our quick-start to make your first Plotly graph!

Types of charts:

Plotly’s Learn page

GeoGebra

“GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.”

It looks worth investigating more…

Website

Chrome Add-On

iTunes App

Google Play App

Windows Store

From today's Google for Education newsletter:

Rockin' around the Geome-TREE

Educator Tom Rose of Chowchilla High School in California uses Geogebra, a free web app, to bring complicated math concepts to life. “The app’s ability to move things around and dynamically see what changes and what doesn’t goes much further than the most well-written lecture notes,” Rose says. “Students love working with GeoGebra, and have no problem loudly saying ‘YES!’ when I tell them it’s ‘a GeoGebra day’ rather than another slideshow from Mr. Rose.”

PhET Sims

The University of Colorado has an awesome collection of online simulations covering topics including physics, biology, chemistry, earth science and math called PhET Sims. 

Use the links on the left side of their page for helpful resources.

Check out this page for an up-to-date, downloadable list of simulation compatibility by device.