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Differentiating Homework Using Edmodo « Periods of Reflection
“Edmodo is a secure learning management system that can be used to form groups, share links, embed videos/projects, track progress, organize uploaded content, join support communities, share folders and resources, distribute parent codes, connect with others around the world, back channel, and so much more.”
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Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment
“1 The Language of Mathematics
2 Function Tables and Maps
3 The Negative Numbers
4 Function Tables with Negative Integers
5 The Rational Numbers
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About Explorelearning | ExploreLearning
“ExploreLearning Gizmos, the world’s largest library of interactive online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12.”
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DragonflyTV . Episodes . Living Things . Biodiversity | PBS KIDS GO!
“We went to the Bronx Zoo, where they have animals and plants just like those in the African Congo. We’d heard how many different kinds of animals and plants live in the rainforest (that’s called biodiversity), so we wanted to see for ourselves how that could be. Our question: How can so many different kinds of animals live together in the rainforest?”
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Institute For Global Environmental Strategies | 2012 IGES Art Contest on Biodiversity
“Biodiversity is not just the total of species in an ecosystem. It is also about how different they all are. Imagine all of the living things where you live and how different they are—people, bugs, birds, trees, fish, and frogs. Scientists use biodiversity to help figure out how healthy an ecosystem is. The more diverse it is, the healthier it is. An ecosystem that is sufficiently diverse would be able to survive even if one of the species within it disappeared. If a species disappears in an ecosystem that does not have enough biodiversity, the ecosystem can collapse.”
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Acid Rain and Our Nation’s Capital [USGS]
“Acid Rain and Our Nation’s Capital – marble column capital volute, Jefferson Memorial
Marble surfaces exposed to rain develop a rough “sugary” texture because the calcite grains are loosened as the edges dissolve in the rain water. Column capital volute, Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.” -
Acid rain, from USGS Water-Science School
“Geographic distribution of acid rain – Acidity in rain is measured by collecting samples of rain and measuring its pH. To find the distribution of rain acidity, weather conditions are monitored and rain samples are collected at sites all over the country. The areas of greatest acidity (lowest pH values) are located in the Northeastern United States.”
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Acid Rain – Air Quality, Air Pollution and Climate Change
“The term ‘acid rain’ means any form of precipitation like rain, fog, snow, or hail that contains harmful substances such as nitrogen and sulfur oxides. The major human sources do come from the industry, transportation, and a variety of power plants. Strictly speaking these industrial amounts of nitrogen, sulfur oxides and general pollutants from the air cause a drastic increase of the acidity of the precipitation and do also harm plants, humans, and buildings.”
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Learning About Acid Rain – A Teacher’s Guide for Grades 6 through 8
“Learning About Acid Rain – A Teacher’s Guide for Grades 6 through 8 (PDF, 56 pp. 4.81 MB) – This revised guide is designed to help students better understand the science, cause and effect, and regulatory and citizen action that are part of understanding and addressing acid rain.”
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Educational Resources – Learning Activities | Acid Rain | US EPA
“Learning Activities
The following activities allow students to learn about acid deposition in new and interactive ways—both in and out of the classroom:”
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Educational Resources – Science Experiments | Acid Rain | US EPA
“Color pH indicators provide only an approximate measure of the pH, or the strength of the acid or base. They are not as accurate as the expensive instruments scientists use to measure pH, but they are adequate for the experiments below. “
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Measuring Acid Rain | Acid Rain | US EPA
“normal rain is slightly acidic because carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolves into it forming weak carbonic acid, giving the resulting mixture a pH of approximately 5.6 at typical atmospheric concentrations of CO2”
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Acid Rain Facts, Acid Rain Information, Acid Rain Pictures, Acid Rain Effects – National Geographic
“Acid rain has many ecological effects, but none is greater than its impact on lakes, streams, wetlands, and other aquatic environments. Acid rain makes waters acidic and causes them to absorb the aluminum that makes its way from soil into lakes and streams. This combination makes waters toxic to crayfish, clams, fish, and other aquatic animals.”
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Acid rain – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The most important gas which leads to acidification is sulfur dioxide. Emissions of nitrogen oxides which are oxidized to form nitric acid are of increasing importance due to stricter controls on emissions of sulfur containing compounds. 70 Tg(S) per year in the form of SO2 comes from fossil fuel combustion and industry, 2.8 Tg(S) from wildfires and 7-8 Tg(S) per year from volcanoes.[24]”
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HowStuffWorks “How can adding iron to the oceans slow global warming?”
“propose adding iron to the world’s oceans to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and, in turn, to decrease temperatures. The idea of dumping iron in the oceans to lower temperatures has been around since the late 1980s and has been known variously as carbon sinking, ocean seeding or iron fertilization.”
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Bryan Berg : Cardstacker : Projects
all done with playing cards
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EVIDENTIAL REASONING: Visible Thinking Routine 2 | Socrative Garden
“encourages students to share and explain their perspectives by asking,
What’s going on?
What do you see?
What do you know?
What makes you say that?Because the basic questions in this routine are flexible, it is useful when looking at objects such as works of art or historical artifacts, but it can also be used to explore a poem, make scientific observations and hypothesis, or investigate more conceptual ideas. “
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Fun Essential Question Project for Small Groups *FREE* – Freedom to Teach – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“This is a great tool for kids to work cooperatively to research the answers to essential questions. Groups answer questions, search for information, and create a project. Once the project is complete, it is their job to teach the others. “
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Scientific Method Questions – Lisa Michalek – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“various multiple choice and short answer questions on the topic of the scientific method.
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Plate Tectonics–A Dice Game – Skipper Coates – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“A critical concept in Earth Science is that students understand how one part of the earth affects all the others. After you have taught your students about tectonic plate movement you can use this simple game to have them predict what will happen to other parts of the world when certain plates move.”
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Add It Up – Math or Science Review Activity – The Engineer – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“This activity helps students to determine if their answers are correct without asking the teacher. Students can use this sheet to check their own work.”
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“unit on ecology and the environment. This thought-provoking activity requires the student to work through a series of questions about their local environment and their efforts to protect and conserve it.”
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FREE Fact Swap Review Game for Any Subject – Rachel Lynette – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“Use this with your whole class to review a unit you have been studying. “
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Interactive Learning Sites for Education – Home
“All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place! These activities work great with your SMARTboard or interactive whiteboard for whole group or small group instruction or use in the computer lab or at home for individual learning.”
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Food Chains – Science Games & Activities for Kids
“Learn about various living things such as animals and plants, sort them into different categories and discover where they fit into the food chain with this fun science activity for kids. Look out for animals such as the fox, owl, squirrel, snail, bird & caterpillar as well as trees and other living things.”
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“Every living thing needs energy in order to live. Everytime animals do something (run, jump) they use energy to do so. Animals get energy from the food they eat, and all living things get energy from food.”
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Food Chain for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
“Play the tastiest puzzle game on the market! Match up food in a ‘chain’ for delicious destruction. But work quickly; if the food hits the top of the screen you’ll be going home hungry. Play through story mode and help Just-Eat’s Belly and Brain search for the mythical “Golden Spoon” as you face off against six fiendish food loving villains. “
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Science Video : Foodchain: Secondary Consumers
Take the next step up the foodchain to take a look at predators.
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“EcoKids Glossary. In here you’ll find definitions for many ecological and environmental terms.”
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Chain Reaction – Build a Food Chain
“The order that animals feed on other plants and animals is called a food chain. Do you think you can put a food chain together? give it a try and learn why every animal within a food chain is so important.”
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Literacy Journal: Reading on the iPad: 6 Elements of Instruction APP’d
“apply the six elements of instruction identified by Allington and Gabriel to reading with – or on – the iPad. Whether today’s teachers have one iPad for individual instruction, a 1:1 program, or something in between, it is important for them to understand the power of using this tool to support reading in the classroom. (It is equally powerful, perhaps even more powerful, as a tool to support reading outside of the classroom).”
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“address some of the simple day-to-day things that we never thought would be an issue. So let me tell you what I wish I’d done, and maybe I can save you a little bit of time and frustration if you are planning a deployment for next year.”
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“Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) are open-ended, engineering-based interdisciplinary problems (e.g., science, mathematics, English language arts) that requires students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models that reveal their thinking about concepts embedded in the problem. Engineering is the applied context for MEAs as students work in teams to iteratively develop, test, and revise their models to provide a solution for a fictitious client. These engaging problems encourage students to utilize a variety of skills including critically reading texts, applying problem-solving strategies, working mathematically, and communicating effectively with teammates to arrive at a solution, or model. “
