The tour features the following regions:
Western Cordilleran
Interior Plains
Canadian Shield
Great Lakes/St Lawrence Lowlands
Appalachian Region
Arctic/Innuitian Regions
In the Google Earth file, the tour features one prominent/representative stop in each region, with information and pictures!
Also included is a worksheet to work through, so this is a good standalone lesson to compliment the learning.
This nicely designed powerpoint presentation covers most of the important aspects of staying safe online. Touches upon popular platforms such as facebook, instagram, and snapchat. Easy to understand yet 'scary' so kids will be sure to pay attention!
This is a real-looking passport template students can fill in and print out. NOTE: If you're not that great with printing, contact me and I will send you a double-sided version for printing on a regular printer. Otherwise, you'll need this one so you can edit the pages, add new ones, or customize it to your liking! :)
This is a demo of a book trailer done in Windows Movie Maker and an instructional powerpoint.
Students were assigned to make a 'trailer' of their book using Windows Movie Maker and this package includes a demo video as well as a powerpoint outlining how to replicate it and basically everything to do with 'working with windows movie maker'.
This is a worksheet and answer key for the NOVA-produced video, 'Riddles of the Sphinx'. It is an hour long and can be found here:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1390312942/
If that doesn't work, here's a mirror: http://vimeo.com/13402076
It is a great video in terms of entertainment and education.
Enjoy! :)
This is a presentation designed to be done in multiple sessions. It covers the basics of doing a data analysis project:
1. Plan
2. Gather/Measure/Collect
3. Analyze
4. Interpret and Present
I touch on using multiple collection sources and give examples of good and bad data, introduce excel and what it can do (and make some graphs with it), and SurveyMonkey for collecting data.
This is a set of 8 cards with thought-provoking questions about facebook privacy for kids. It has a nice design ready to be printed double-sided I made for a class.