Free Academic Tools for the Classroom
The link below is for 60 Second Recaps: It gives short (60 second) video explanations of different parts of literary analysis for literary classics. I highly recommend this site.
The blog below has a number of excellent articles and tools. Teachers.net
http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/james-wayne/a-month-of-writing-prompts/
In the following link make sure to click on the first words of the article that say, The Top 100 Speeches. That will open the link to the 100 mp3’s for those speeches sarting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream,” speech.
American Rhetoric – 100 Great Speeches
Gapminder – Explore Countries, maps, boundaries, and video
Toss Out Your Textbook – use Learner.org
Math
Academic Vocabulary Links
Visuword an online graphical dictionary
Vocabulary Games by grade level
Following is the link to a site that combines Marzano’s strategies and provides links to online graphic organizers, videos and more.
Vocabulary Strategies and Graphic Organizers
Grammar Girl – Quick and Dirty Grammar Podcast
Skillwise English skills from the BBC
How to Improve Study Skills in Middle School
Great Powerpoints on almost any subject
The Elements of Fiction-ReadWriteThink Powerpoint
Global Warming
Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat, and Hot, Flat and Crowded
A video presentation about global warming, oil, politics and other important issues facing us today.
