Links, Resources and Downloads for HCPS Teachers
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.
art History Math Other science
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
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.
alarm art clock History Math Other productivity science
A huge online (and searchable) database of Jeopardy questions. A fun and instructional way to add some fun trivia to your topic of choice or just for fun.
art History science
The National Archives | Research, education & online exhibitions | Exhibitions | The Art of War
A very interesting and colorful look at the role art has played in war. It looks at propaganda uses as well as a number of other aspects.
art History propaganda war
altered books
The Idea
Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat.
A really cool idea and a fun way to work with found poetry.
I got the link and idea from Borderland which is written by a teacher from the state of Alaska.
art english hook poetry project
It’s flash based so it’s animated and interactive!
A really interesting look at the muscles of the face, how they create expressions and what those expressions mean.
I might use it in art, science or even in English. The students could pair up. One could choose different expressions and then the other could write for 2-3 minutes about what caused that expression.
art expressions face muscles Other science
What’s the Problem? Geometry & Art Through the Ages
A web site with an in depth exploration of geometry and its relationship with art. This is the middle school version.
art geometry hook Math Other