Fun Google Slides Backgrounds

Do you ever wish your Google Slides had more pizazz?  Now there is an answer!  Check out Slides Carnival!  When you find a template you like, just click the "Use this Presentation Template" button.
Check it out: http://www.slidescarnival.com/category/free-templates

Crayola Fun

This might be a great gift for your favorite kid, a way to designate that your crayons are YOUR crayons or just a fun way to play around on the Crayola site.  Personalize your crown box with your own picture!
http://www.crayola.com/splash/product/personalizationSplash

Cyber Telephone Museum

I found a book from "way back" in 2000 that shares things to do on the internet.  As I was looking through some of the suggestions, I stumbled upon the Cyber Telephone Museum-it's a bit year-2000-cheesy, but for those kids that don't understand the days of a phone being tied to a wall, this could be fun for them to see!

Then, I figured there might just be some other sites out there dedicated to the telephone and I found this: Telephony Museum.  And finally, if you want to know the history of hold music, check out this site.  If that's not a boredom buster, I don't know what is!

Biblionasium

Biblionasium is a classroom based tool used to help excite students about reading. It has many great features including:

• Allows the teacher to create reading challenges to  focus your students on an appropriate pathway
• Allows the students to proudly display what books they have read or are reading
• Has options to allow the students to create  review of the books they have read.
• Students can share book recommendations to their friends.
• Rewards can be given to students for accomplishing tasks.  

This is just another fun way to track and motivate your students.  And, it's free!  Try it out!

https://www.biblionasium.com

A MUST HAVE for Google Classroom Users

Share to Classroom is an extension that allows you, as the teacher, to send out a link to all of your students.  When you "push" it to them, it forces their screens to open with the link that you want them to visit.  It's so easy!!  Get the extension for Google Chrome today: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/share-to-classroom/adokjfanaflbkibffcbhihgihpgijcei

Video Notes made easy!

Video Notes allows your students to watch their own video and take notes at the same time.  It even timestamps notes to the timestamp in the video so they can easily go back (or for teachers, it is a great way to make sure the students actually watched the video and went along with it).  
Check it out now: http://www.videonot.es/
See my sample:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0f7-MTxsakzdHB4cVJLVmlLWU0/view?usp=sharing 

Google Slides: Fancy Templates

If you feel like getting extra fancy with your Google Slides, be sure to check out Slides Carnival!  Lots of fun themes and one click of a button will open the them so you can save it (file....make a copy) to your drive!  

Check it out:  http://www.slidescarnival.com/

FREE! Epic Books

Epic! has unlimited books for FREE for educators!  You as a teacher are able to create 30 student accounts which will allow you to track your students' reading too!  Check it out today! https://www.getepic.com/app/

Veterans Day Activities

From The Mailbox (includes freebies and prize drawings too!)

From Scholastic

From Kahoot:
Beginning to High and ESL or Citizenship students
Fifth grade and up

Discovery Education Veteran's Day Program (K-12)

Biology, Medical and Engineering Interactives

EdHeads interactive games is a neat resource for high school biology, Engineering or medical classes.  Take a peek at some of the games included in this FREE resource:

Simple Machines	2-6	Identification of simple and compound machines.
The Compound Machine	2-6	Compound machines, understanding/predicting forces.
Weather	4-9	Weather symbols, predict the weather.
Design a Cell Phone	5-8	Engineering design, charts and graphs, careers.
Trauma	7-12+	Anatomy, critical thinking, prescription drug abuse, consequences
Deep Brain Stimulation	7-12+	Anatomy of the brain, Parkinson's, careers.
Virtual Knee Surgery	7-12+	Anatomy of the knee, bones, careers.
Choose the Prosthetic	7-12+	Critical thinking, anatomy of the knee.
Virtual Hip Replacement	7-12+	Anatomy of the hip, careers.
Virtual Hip Resurfacing	7-12+	Anatomy of the hip, careers.
Aortic Aneurysm Surgery	7-12+	Anatomy of the torso, circulatory system, careers.
Sickle Cell DNA	9-12+	DNA, genetic diseases, protein folding, family history, Punnett square
Crash Scene	9-12+	Forensics, physics, trigonometry, critical thinking, careers.
Create a Stem Cell Line	10-12+	Stem cell basics, vocabulary.
Stem Cell Transplant	10-12+	Current application of stem cells, new research.
Stem Cell Heart Repair	10-12+	New research with stem cells, evaluating research.
Nanoparticles and Brain Tumors	10-12+	Chemistry, engineering, careers.

Researching Fun with Instagrok

I've mentioned this one before way back in 2013 but I think it is time to bring it back up again.  This site is great for research either as an individual or as a whole class together on the board.  Just plug in your search term and it will create a visual map of the data you need.  
You can even change the difficulty level so this resource is great for all age levels!  

Visit Instagrok and give it a try!

Get Ready for Turkey!!

I wanted to take a few moments now that it's November (Can you believe it??!!) and share some fun activities for Thanksgiving.  There will be more to come but I know some of you are making your plans now!

Middle/High

What Really Happened? Lesson Plan comparing stories of the first Thanksgiving

Black Friday Financial Literacy Unit

An 1895 Article about Thanksgiving

A Kahoot Quiz about Thanksgiving

Elementary

Math Drills for Thanksgiving (all levels) Printables!!

The First Thanksgiving: A site by scholastic

Kids History: Kids tell the story of Thanksgiving

Go Noodle's Maraca Turkey: Get moving and shake your turkey! And maracas!  

A Kahoot Quiz about Thanksgiving: Always fun in the classroom!

ABCYa's Thanksgiving Word Search: Just a fun way to introduce some Thanksgiving Terms

ABCYa's Thanksgiving Challenge: Best for 4th grade and higher!

ABCYa's Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle: Can you guess all of the words! This one might be better for grades three and up.