Links, Resources and Downloads for HCPS Teachers
Here’s an interesting idea to get you kids thinking about math outside of the classroom and it works well for differentiation as it can be as hard or easy as you’d like. The basic idea is to take a group of road signs and turn it into an equation of some sort. The link below is pretty complex but there are lots of easy ones as well. It’d make a nice extra credit assignment.
Jasper
extra credit interest Math real world
An interesting site with movie versions of whiteboard explanations (with and without audio). Some of the films are a little too advanced for middle school (and for me) but the idea is great.
If you’d like to create movies like these for your students to be able to reference any time I’d like to make some. It’d be great for reviewing key skills that students needs. We might even be able to figure a way to get students making these movies and that would provide double the reinforcement.
Math movies
Slide Show: Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006
On 22 September 2006, Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation honor the creators of dazzling scientific images and animated presentations, in the fourth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. This year’s winners — in categories including photography, illustration, informational graphics, and multimedia — captured inner details of a child mummy, mathematical surfaces rendered as glass objects, the highest mountain on Earth, air traffic by night, cellular dynamics, and the vasculature of conjoined twins.
art graphics interesting science visual
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on.
A really cool map that shows the range of empires ruling the Middle East over the last 5000 years. It’s animated and attached to timeline. A nice way to review time lines, geography, colonialism etc.
geography History map online resource