Visual+Simulations+collective

Physical Education Theresa Michalski: []

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Theresa Michalski: [|http://www.dole.com/#/superkids] Jamie Stille: [] Kimberly Price: []

Nikki Gettelman []

Nikki Gettelman [] (health) Steve Schendt [] Drew Kornish [] Jenna Randerson []

Math Lindsey Smith: []

Music Julie Ringlien: [] Heidi Boelk: []

Science Andy Del Ponte: [] - Great comprehensive list for chemistry but others are good as well Andy Del Ponte: [] Andy Del Ponte: [] - Allows students to act as members of mission control. Five students prepare to launch a space shuttle.

English Alisha Harris: [] Alisha Harris: [] Kayleigh Benson: [] LeAnn Knuth: [|http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm#grammar] LeAnn Knuth: []

ESL

Spanish Claire Staats: [] (Note: Materials in the middle column of this web site could also be incorporated into a social science curriculum and discussions on Latin American and Spanish culture.)

Art Lindsey Smith: [] Sonja Higgins : [] interactive collage making activity

SOCIAL STUDIES Angie Metke: [] It is an interesting site where you tavel as a slave to your wanted destination in the North (similar to Oregon Trail) David Strouf: [] Cool geography game. Compete against against an opponent online or try and beat your personal best! Justin Budiac [] Robin Speidel: [] Sadly I don't think I have the link right because I'm techno challenged but what a super cool website! You pick where you want to land, what type of community you'll build, what types of crops you choose to grow, etc and it gives you a rating for survival. Then you can add/alter! Alex Seidel: [] Cool site, explore the colonial beginnings of America hands on. Crystal Riemer: [] This is the home page of the Library of Congress and while I've been doing research for our thematic unit I found some cool primary sources that could be used. Although the website is not as cool as a simulation, they have quite a few sources that could be used for visual literacy; i.e., they have pages upon pages of black and white photos from the Civil War or images from WWI posters that could be incorporated into a history classroom. Robert Larson: [] This is a cool site that has interactive games and quizzes in a lot of subject areas. The geography games are the ones that I like best. Rachel Wallace: [] I thought this was a really cool site for a way to introduce the idea that not everyone has the same ideas of "proper" manners and that each country is different in their customs and traditions.

=__442 Interim__= Art Peter Lee: http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/explore.cfm This is an interactive website where students can learn about the principles and elements of art, such as line, shape, color, movement, etc. There are videos that give different descriptions of the "tool" that artist use, as well as giving the viewer opportunities to experiment and play using the principles and elements of art.

Tosha Tessen: This website is pretty cool. This website has links to 8 other interactive art websites that allow the student to learn about pointillism, abstract art, and artists such as Jackson Pollack, Matisse, and Picasso. They can practice pointillism, abstract portraiture, still lives. 2. Stephanie Schaefer []# This site allows students to explore The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is a great site for elementry students because it has a fun little story line that has you go explore the museum and along the way you can learn about art, the artists, and create your own art.
 * 1) [|http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/kbosch/2009/04/06/eight-great-interactive-sites-that-let-you-paint-like-a-famous-artist/ >]

Molly Zornow [] Imaginary City allows students to make their own scenes and destinations that might not ever exist. They can pick their landscape, then add in roads, bridges, signs, natural elements such as trees and flowers, and fun forms of transportation like a hot air baloon and a pirate ship. This gives students insight to landscapes. When placing objects into their scene, they are learning about porportion, foreground, midground and background. This will be a great tool to use as ab introduction to a landscape project.

Lewis Oleksy [] This interactive site allows students to change the colors of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Prints and then print it out. It also explains the Pop Art movement and why Warhol used non-representational colors in his prints.

Brittni Phelan http://www.getty.edu/gettygames/ This site is linked to the Getty Museum and provides interactive games for kids. There is also a Getty link to Whyville, were kids can create a character in an environment and interact with others. The Getty site is full of information for educators and parents as well. Kasey Saeger:

[] I found this website that you can create your own exhibition. The website is based on American History but you can make an exhibition about anything. This website would be great in an art classroom. Students could find images of artwork and put them in an exhibition. Included could also be a writing assignment. This is a great tool for students to create something of their own and learn how to explore the internet for images. You have to sign up to use this website but it is free and it is pretty great. I also like the idea of taking pictures of students work and having them create a virtual exhibition of their own work. I played around with it and you can add and image and put a text box with it. This is where students could write descriptions or just information about the work.

Music FL Health/PE 1.) Andrew Lindsay: []- this is an interactive website that allows the students to click on certain categories in health/PE to learn about that topic. There are detailed pictures that go along with the lesson. After learning about a topic the students are able to test their knowledge in the self quizzes. 2.) Ellyn Will: [] Kids quiz is a fun, daily trivia quiz designed for kids between the ages of **8** and **18**. Each day students are provided with a daily trivia quiz question about nutrition, health, physical activity, sports, and a host of other topics. Many of the questions students will have to guess at the answer. 3.) Josh Pecoaro: [] This is a fun website for kids to explore how the body works. This would be a great site for health students to go and interact and figure out how the different systems of the body work. It talks about the different organs of the body and their functions, different diseases and illnesses, and even has a children's dictionary of medical terms. 4.) Aaron Erickson [|**PE Central's LOG IT Program**] > Log It invites students, teachers, schools, classes, and parents to record their physical activity steps, miles, or kilometers online! Features include a virtual hike across the United States; feedback about daily goals; compare your progress to others; and you can view your weekly and monthly progress. Teachers must register their school and class first and then they can offer it to their students. 5.) Aaron Konitzer [|Fiternet] Fiternet is an interactive website where it helps you walk through proper lifting technique, developing goals for fitness, and making an exercise program to help them reach their fitness goals. It also helps you keep track of how you have progressed in terms of weight loss and strength gain. Students can sign up for free on the homepage. 6.) Dustin Blackburn [] Kids health is a great site as Josh mentioned above but I have a particular activity that I thought was really cool for kids who are going through a growing stage. This visual shows the differences in height of professional athletes in the same sport. I think this is good to show because then it shows the students that it is okay to be short or tall and that people can still be physically active and successful. 7.) Sam Engelland [] This website is great for health and physical education programs. It gives you great ideas for staying fit and managing ones weight. You are able to watch videos and go to other links, and type in your calories and weight and find out information about your health.
 * 1) Jon Delray [] It's a cool sight that offers a lot of educational tools for kids. It's made by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. It even has some really neat games including one called Beethoven Baseball.
 * 2) Craig Heckner [|Classics For Kids] This website has many games for students in elementary school to play, such as rhythm, note names, composing, and a composer time machine that students can try out. It allows students to learn about music while playing fun, interactive games.

8.) Ryan Heath @https://www.choosemyplate.gov/SuperTracker/default.aspx The super tracker website allows students to track the food they eat, the activity they participate in, and their own weight. They can also create goal sheets that will help them stay on track and print reports of their progress to show to their parents, teachers, or to keep for their own personal satisfaction.

9:) Jake McCarty [] this is an interactive website for students, similar to the one from the task list. it has different levels of activities for students to try. the first level has them being timed doing 10 jump jacks, sitting up and back down 10 times, jumping up and down, and so fourth. this is a great way to get students involved who may need alternative ways of being motivated to be active. It also provides tips for eating healthy along games for students to play regarding eating healthy.

10) Brad Stegmann [] This is an interactive site that allows students to pick out any body part and learn more about it. Every body part has articles, a quiz, a word find, and other activities associated with it. This is a great way for students to learn more about the human body and a great way for them to research questions that they may have about a specific body part.

11) Eric Glaum http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids.php - this is slightly more elementary based with its information but I still believe that it could help younger students on picking healthy food choices. I think this is important at this age because if they learn at this age then it will help them make better choices later down the road.

=__435 Interim__= __Math__
 * 1) Danielle Nabbefeld - //Figure This// is an interactive math site launched by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that challenges students to use math outside of school. It's geared towards family exploration in the home. Each challenge features the importance of the problem, a note on where it's used in the real world, gives a hint to get started, has complete solutions, a "Try This" section, and also gives fun facts related to the math. Looking over the site, I don't think it'snecessarily just a family thing-- it looks like it would be a really great site for use in the classroom. @http://www.figurethis.org/index.html
 * 2) Taylor Kloehn - //Glencoe/McGraw Hill// offers a virtual manipulative that lets students create whatever they want on a blank canvas. Students can select their grade level, standard backgrounds, and objects to place in the workspace that range from simple shapes to customizable probability spinners. It also offers tools at the bottom of the screen that let you measure, draw, and time the activity. []
 * 3) Jason Ulman - //Illuminations, Resources for Teaching Mathematics.// This is actually one of the sites I used for my thematic unit. Honestly, this site have everything on it. I showed just a couple things about it for lesson planning in class, but the link I am posting takes you right to the activities page. Illuminations currently has 107 different interactive activities across all the topics and grade levels. One of my Favorites is "Dynamic Paper" which allows you to create all sorts of images, graph paper, number lines, etc. If you need a 5x5 graph paper, no problem. A tetrahedron that's 6 inches tall, it can do that too. Then you can download the image you made as a PDF or JPEG. It's an excellent resource for math teachers. []
 * 4) John Dewitt- Cut the Knot- [|Cut the Knot] This site has an incredible amount of interactive math activities and games for students. When I say a lot, I mean over 1,200! They are first organized by content area and then are listed in alphabetical order for easy reference.
 * 5) Tanner Wild - Hot Math TI-83/84 - []. Finally, we have a simple and an interactive Flash website where students can more easily learn to use a TI-83/84 graphing calculator. The calculators functions are broken down with titles, so students can click on the link of the task they are trying to perform. When I took calculus in high school, I found using a graphing calculator to be more difficult than learning the calculus. Today many secondary schools require non-calculus students to use graphing calculators as a way to introduce a TI-83/84 at an earlier stage. I also tutored a gentleman in Advanced Algebra last semester who was required to use a graphing calculator for the first time. We often spent more time learning to use the calculator than actually learning the math. This site would have saved us much time several months ago!
 * 6) Sara O'Connell - Math by Design - @http://mathbydesign.thinkport.org/. This is a really great website to connect math to the real world. It is all about design, such as how many woodchips are needed to cover a playground, and it requires students to make math calculations to complete the tasks. Of what I explored, there were two main environments to work in, a town park and an environmental center. The tasks required are perfectly related to units studied throughout all of math, such as percents, areas, and volumes. It is a fun and meaningful way to practice math skills!
 * 7) Sara Mata - MathsNet - @http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry.html . This a site is a way for students to use interactive constructions, transformations, etc. Students have the option of choosing their level of difficulty, so students that want to take it slow can do so and students that want to push themselves also will benefit from the site. The site also uses mathematical terminology, which will help build the students vocabulary and understanding of mathematics.

__Science__ __English/ELL__
 * 1) Jackie Weis - This was actually one of the online sources I found to be used with teaching my topic, which is malaria. I showed this one in class already, but basically students have to tap into their prior knowledge and follow a mosquito while receiving an introduction to malaria. []
 * 2) Kelli Parr- This website allows students to get a closer look at a variety of cellular subjects ranging from mitosis to the functions of the different organelles. My favorite feature of this website is the cell model interactive activity. Students are able to see the different organelles that are found in different cell types and learn more about their functions.[] Another webiste that offers interactive biology activities is []. This website extends beyond just the cell and covers content from PCR to glycolysis. This website offer features an interactive cell activity. My favorite portion is the "build a cell" activity where students have to put the correct organelles in the correct cell type.
 * 3) Elyse Ford- This website has a couple interactive games about science but also has interactive games for history, people, nature etc. What is really interesting about this site is that it is put out by the National Park Service. So the interactives have a lot to with the parks in America themselves but there are still some really good science interactives about the Earth and nature in here that I really like, @http://www.webrangers.us/search.cfm?search=Science&Submit=Search&t=415 This interactive site is but out by the state of Utah's Education Program, []. The website has a lot of good interesting interactive games and quiz about all subject areas in science.
 * 4) Melissa Gilmore- This is a website I used for my thematic unit that has a game to help students visualize natural selection:[] This one I found on edutopia.com blog. You are offered a free 30 day trial but after review some of the interactives, I think it would be worth exploring more. []
 * 1) Tracy Goetsch-This interactive site allows students to write or draw on a board, creating visual representations for an assignment, for their own notes, or other reasons. The website requires registration but registration is free. (The site could technically be used for any subject area). Here is a second site I found as well which is to help students write proper papers.[][]
 * 2) Jessie Goldner- Here's an interactive website that delves into the dimensions of reading, writing, and thinking all in one! It provides tons of interactive activities for students to practice many different reading, writing, and thinking activities and allows them to print out their final products to save for future references. It would be a great tool to use as an assignment or as an assessment. []

3. Brynn Wessberg- This website (have discussed a little in class) is very informational and appealing to students and teachers. It has various content areas and activities that students and interact with!!! Check it out!!!!!@http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/student-activities

4. Abby Halverson- I think this website is a lot of fun (I was distracted and I just got done playing about three games on it). It looks like it is tailored to younger students, but I think many of the activities would be useful for introducing and reviewing topics in upper grades as well. []

5. Danielle Sommer- Although the 60+ links to interactive games and activities related to language arts is geared toward young kids, I think students up the the 7th grade level or so could find these useful review strategies. I tried several of the games, and while they are extremely easy for me, they're fun too! We must also remember that some of our students are going to be at a low level of achievement in reading, and these interactive sources could benefit them. There are so many different topics and games! Try some: []

6. Brandon Orser - This is a cool website that focuses on English grammar. It has lots of games, practices, quizzes, etc that students can use. It is a very big site so if you are teaching it there is probably at least a couple links for it. I played a few games and they are pretty fun. There is hangman and a basketball game where if you get a correct answer you get to shoot the ball. It is a cool and fun interactive site that allows students to learn and practice their grammar skills. []

7. Lori Dolezal - This website is also probably most appealing to upper elementary and middle school students, although I am sure that high school students who either are struggling in an area or merely want to refresh some of their basic skills, or compete against themselves in the unique games, would learn from it and have a lot of fun. Like Abby, I began playing many of the games. I might just use this site to review some things before I take the Praxis II! Under each topic, such as "Figurative Language" there are at least a dozen or more choices of games to click on. The site also has several links to other resources. [|Gamequarium]

8. Beth Klandrud- This website is from the United Kingdom, but it has a bunch of way games to learn English. The website has listening activities, games and tips for those who want to learn English. Those this website is meant for those who want to learn English, many native English speakers have trouble with grammar and vocabulary. @http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

9. Dana Wielgus- In order to play full versions of this website you need to sign up, but it's completely free! I played around on this website for about 15 minutes; I can't wait to use it on my students! This website provides a variety of interactive games and exercises geared towards ELL students. Some examples include **Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes** and more. This site is dedicated to helping ESL teachers by providing interactive games and activities for classrooms! []