Byrd Links http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links Links, Resources and Downloads for HCPS Teachers Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:09:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 en SIMILE | Exhibit | Presidents http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/12/19/simile-exhibit-presidents/ http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/12/19/simile-exhibit-presidents/#comments Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:46:31 +0000 twwoodward HistoryHistorypresidents america history time line maps http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/12/19/simile-exhibit-presidents/ SIMILE | Exhibit | Presidents

The best President Page ever.  See their places of birth/death plotted on Google Maps and  their terms of office on a time line.

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Need music, pictures or more without worrying about violating copyright?  This is your place. It is quite interesting.
I’d suggest pre-downloading files from here and sharing them with students via VirtualShare as this site isn’t restricted.

, , , , ]]> http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/12/13/creative-commons-search/feed/ Road Sign Math http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/24/road-sign-math/ http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/24/road-sign-math/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:24:38 +0000 twwoodward Mathextra creditinterestMathreal world http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/24/road-sign-math/ 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.
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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.

, ]]> http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/10/mathcasts-wiki/feed/ Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006 http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/05/science-and-engineering-visualization-challenge-2006/ http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/05/science-and-engineering-visualization-challenge-2006/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:25:28 +0000 twwoodward Science Artartgraphicsinterestingsciencevisual http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/05/science-and-engineering-visualization-challenge-2006/ 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.

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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.

, , , , ]]> http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/10/04/maps-of-war/feed/ Harvard’s Inner Workings of the Cell http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/09/25/harvards-inner-workings-of-the-cell/ http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/09/25/harvards-inner-workings-of-the-cell/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:12:35 +0000 twwoodward Sciencebiologycellhealthscience http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/09/25/harvards-inner-workings-of-the-cell/ A very interesting movie detailing the inner workings of the cell.

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A nice alternative to an egg timer (which I would either break or lose) is this online alarm clock. Display it through your TV as a way to let students know when tests will end, tasks will change etc.

, , , , , , , ]]> http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/09/14/online-alarm-clock/feed/ An interactive math dictionary http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/09/07/an-interactive-math-dictionary/ http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/09/07/an-interactive-math-dictionary/#comments Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:19:48 +0000 twwoodward MathdictionaryinteractiveMath http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/2006/09/07/an-interactive-math-dictionary/ From the math maven, Ms. Chapman, comes this great link to an interactive math dictionary.

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