Apps are available for some online databases so you can help student on the go—hallway, lunchrooms, by their desk, etc. You might want to share these with students, too.
• Gale / AccesMyLibrary (chose the green app)
• EBSCOhost
• Teen Hotlines
iPad Apps, K-12
Get an A+ in PowerPoint, K-12
Engage students using a PowerPoint presentation. Here are some new Atomic Learning tutorials.
Effective Presentation Design Workshop
In addition to looking at some things that go into visual presentations, you’ll take a look at why color is important, why big photos are good, and why clip art isn’t. You’ll also learn more about how good storytelling is at the heart of a good presentation, and how you can structure and organize your presentation and handouts to most effectively communicate your idea to your intended audience.
PowerPoint 2011 - Intermediate Training (Mac)
Learn how to correct and improve text; format text placeholders; work with shapes, SmartArt® and clipart; and more.
Social Media in Teaching, K-12
Here are some new Atomic Learning tutorials to help you get up to speed.
Collaborating with a Global Community Spotlight
• Identify how teachers and students can connect themselves to a global community
• Reflect on the best global project(s) to introduce into the classroom
• Plan the necessary steps for implementing a project
Connecting with Others Using Google+ Tech Integration Project
This project will show you how to get started with Google+™ - a social networking site that strives to simplify the process of sharing of information with others. In this online project, learn how to invite people and create circles, upload photos and video, share information, and encourage students to connect and communicate online with you and with their fellow classmates.
Obesity, K-12
Here are some online resources to incorporate into teaching and learning, share with parents, and use in guidance and school nurse programs. The school online database username/password is needed—it can also be shared with parents.
• Share informative websites for parents to learn more about healthy eating. Post hyperlinks on the class website or send links to parents via email.
• Differentiate with journal articles at various reading levels.
• Learn the personal stories of teens with health issues related to obesity.
• Share videos with students who want to learn how to eat healthy.
Learn 360: videos for students and parents, individual hyperlinks to video clips, create playlists
Teen Health and Wellness: information for teens including the social, personal, and medical aspects of obesity
netTrekker: reviewed websites appropriate for K-12
Gale magazines: differentiate and search for articles by Lexile level
SIRS Researcher and Points of View Reference Center: investigate and discuss the social, economic, personal, and health-related issues associated with obesity
DVDs available from Heartland for checkout:
Body Image: Are you Seeing the Real You?
Childhood Nutrition: Preventing Obesity
Creating Health: Childhood Obesity
The Dangerously Big Bunny (Obesity)
Good Food/Bad Food: Obesity in American Children
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in the New Millennium: Fiber
Heart Disease
Let’s Do Lunch
Lifestyle Diseases and How to Avoid Them
Obese, Not Me!
Obesity and Your Health
Obesity & Health
Overcoming Eating Disorders
Overweight in America; Why Are We Getting So Fat?
Preventing Obesity: Fat Chance
Ten Reasons to Get in Shape
Weighing the Risks: Gastric Bypass Surgery
Why Are Thin People not Fat?
Young and Overweight: Helping Yourself Change
Bullying Videos, PreK-12
Below are some sample videos from Learn 360. Some titles are editable so students can create mashups and remixes. Teachers can create their own playlists and link to the class wiki.
See a Bully, Stop a Bully, PreK
Real Kids: What We Learned about Bullying, 3-5
Silent on the Sidelines: Why We Ignore Bullying, 6-8
End the Silence: Stop the Bullying, 9-12
7 Ways to Block a Cyberrully, 6-12
Real Life Teens: Cyber-Bullying, 9-12
Math Activities and Standards, K-12
Click here to preview some of the new math professional books from the Heartland library. It is a link to Google Preview where you can read the first one or two chapters and do a keyword search in the full text of the book. If you see a title that you’d like to read, call the library to check out the book. Go to
http://books.google.com/books?uid=114211930252885464367&as_coll=1004&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list
Big Kids Videos, PreK-2
http://www.learn360.com
There are 90 videos for the early childhood curriculum on music, science, beginning reading, family, food, animals, seasons, Spanish language, and lots more.
Prohibition, 6-12
The Ken Burn documentary “…raises vital questions that are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago – about means and ends, individual rights and responsibilities, the proper role of government and finally, who is — and who is not — a real American.” http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/about/
There are numerous online resources available to expand students’ learning. For example:
• Debate prohibition and larger issues of constitutionality and civil discourse.
• Explore correlations and themes presented by Burns and contrast/apply to today.
• Discuss Gandhi’s campaign for prohibition in the context of poverty. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=17947141&site=ehost-live
Try these resources. You’ll need the school online database username/password. Students can search History Reference Center, SIRS Researcher, and Points of View Reference Center at the same time (like Google) at http://comcat-agent.auto-graphics.com.
• 96 videos--Learn 360
• 62 videos—American History in Video
• 8,400 hits—History Reference Center
• 959 hits—SIRS Researcher
• 5 hits—Points of View Reference Center
Create Better State and Country Reports, 3-12
http://online.culturegrams.com
CultureGrams is a rich resource for information on states and countries. Integrate higher level skills and have students generate online charts and graphs; interpret data and draw conclusions; and explain their new learning. Use the school online database username/password.
Examples:
• Create a table or graph with any number of states and compare area, population, economy, education, travel time to work, capitals, children below poverty level, popular baby names statehood order, and lots more.
• Print a PDF of the U.S. in an outline, physical, or political map.
• Create a CSV file to compare country maternal mortality, caloric consumption, real GDP, population, doctors, literacy, communications, and lots more.
• Create a table or graph to discover statistical extremes in a top-ten-list format. It covers more than 50 topics such as highest oil consumption, most cell phones, most military spending, most doctors, population, most imports, most spending on education, etc.
President McKinley, Anarchists, and Video, 9-12
http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com
The President and the Assassin by Scott Miller is about the election, anarchists, Emma Goldman, Cuba, Philippines, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion, and, of course, Czolgosz. You can create a video playlist featuring newsreel footage from American History in Video to complement this book or any other event. Better yet—have the students create the playlist. It includes a keyword-searchable written transcript next to the video on the screen. Use the school online database username/password when prompted at the “Trial” access screen.
Audiobooks for Check Out, K-12
Audiobooks (cassette, CD, and Playaway) are available for checkout. Most include two copies of the book for shared reading. You can reserve titles online. Go to http://media.aea11.k12.ia.us/HAEA11Media/, click Advanced Search in the second column, enter a keyword, and make a selection from the Format pull-down menu.
Letters About Literature, 4-12
http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/letters
LAL challenges students to become independent readers. Students write a personal letter of reflection to an author whose work inspired them or changed their view of the world or themselves.
Last fall, eight-five Iowa teachers coached 2,253 students in grades 4-12 who entered their work into a pool of 70,000 student letters nationally. Iowa had a 24% increase in entries! Juliana Osgood of Lenihan Intermediate School in Marshalltown made it into the final round at the national level. Over the nine years that Iowa has participated, five Iowa students have won at the national level, achieving extraordinary recognition for themselves and their teachers.
Iowa’s 2011 participation and our statewide results:
Level 1 (grades 4-6) 532 entries; 30 semi-finalists; 30 finalists; 3 honorable mentions; 3 winners
Level 2 (grades 7-8) 1,376; 19 semi-finalists; 30 finalists; 3 honorable mentions; 3 winners
Level 3 (grades 9-12) 345 entries; 21 finalists; 3 honorable mentions; 3 winners
Information about the 2012 Letters About Literature program is now available on the Iowa Center for the Book website. Entries must be postmarked by Friday, January 6, 2012.
Iowa judges will select first, second, and third place winners plus three honorable mentions at each of the three competition levels. Letters of Iowa first place winners at each of the three levels will be submitted for judging at the national level. Judges at the national level select two winners for each of the three competition levels plus four National Honor Winners (Honorable Mention). Monetary prizes are given at the state and national level. A reception is held in Des Moines in the spring to recognize the Iowa winners, their families and teachers.
If you have any questions, contact Robin Martin, Coordinator, Iowa Center for the Book, at coordinator@iowacenterforthebook.org
Standards-Based Projects, K-12
http://tinyurl.com/69k5heg
Atomic Learning regularly releases new training tutorials and resources to help keep you up-to-date on the latest and greatest technology. You can search for projects in:
• Communication
• Geography
• History
• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Reading
• Science
• Science and Technology
• Science, Math, and Technology
• Social Studies
• Technology
• Writing
1939 World’s Fair iPad App, 6-12
http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/17/nypl-biblion-ipad-app/
Biblion includes over 700 items from the Fair from the NY Public Library. This is a great opportunity to use narratives, story lines, primary source documents, and videos to understand the economic crisis, war, pop culture, and technological innovations during this time in history. A three-minute overview video is at http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/17/nypl-biblion-ipad-app/
Online Database Poster, 6-12
A secondary school version poster lists the online databases (Gale, netTrekker, CultureGrams, Learn 360, Britannica Online, etc.), mobile apps, available primary source documents, embedded video, and Com Cat federated searching. Click here to view a sample PDF. Order from the Heartland library, no charge.
Online Database Poster, K-5
A new poster lists the elementary online databases and why/when students might want to use them. Click here to view a sample PDF. Order from the Heartland library, no charge.
Examples:
CultureGrams
http://online.culturegrams.com
Learn about people around the world and what their lives are like. Find customs, maps, songs, recipes, and interviews with kids. There is even information about the states.
NoveList K-8 Plus
http://search.ebscohost.com
Don’t know what to read next? Want to read more books just like the one you finished? It’s like having your own librarian show books you might want to read next.
Iowa Core Videos, K-12
http://aea111.eduvision.tv
As you “unpack the Core”, check out the videos that illustrate best practices, essential concepts and skills, and the universal constructs. Iowa teachers are shown in the classroom.
P21 Common Core Toolkit, K-12
http://www.p21.org/P21Toolkit
You can download this toolkit to learn how Partnership for 21st Century Skills and Common Core State Standards are aligned. Includes examples and lesson plans.
Mobile Access and Apps, K-12
Apps are available for some online databases so you can help students on the go—hallway, lunchroom, by their desk, etc. You might want to share these with students, too.
• Gale suite of magazines/journals/newspapers (Academic OneFile, InfoTrac)—Search: Gale / AccessMyLibrary (choose the green app)
• EBSCO (Advanced Placement Source, History Reference Center, Literary Reference Center, Newspaper Source Plus, Points of View Reference Center, Science Reference Center)—Search: EBSCOhost
• Rosen Teen Health and Wellness—Search: Teen Hotlines
New Online Database Usernames/Passwords
Each school has a new username/password for the online databases such as Gale, EBSCO, Learn360, netTrekker, Encyclopedia Britannica, etc. Contact your school teacher librarian or call the Heartland Library. The new access also works with Com Cat so you can search most of the databases at the same time, http://comcat-agent.auto-graphics.com.
CultureGrams, K-12
http://online.culturegrams.com
Learn about people around the world and what their lives are like. Find customs, maps, songs, recipes, and interviews with kids. There is even information about the states. Students can compare country data side by side. View tutorials at http://www.proquestk12.com/landings/Vids_CultureGrams.shtml
Ideas:
• Build a graph or table that compares data for countries such as literacy, life expectancy, population, Internet access, survival probability, and caloric consumption. Examples:
• Obesity paper--include a graph comparing European countries caloric intake with the U.S.
• Econ--create a table comparing real GDP with population and life expectancy in African countries--what questions do the data bring to mind?
• Extremes--create a top 10 list of statistical extremes on more than 50 topics (most cell phones, most military spending)
Rituals of life: What is important or celebrated in a culture/society (birth, coming of age, marriage, death.) Go to Africa, click Egypt, and click the Life Cycle section.
Lifestyles: Find recipes, holidays, favorite foods, schools, games and sports.
C-SPAN Classroom, 9-12
http://C-SpanClassroom.org
C-SPAN features video clips for social studies, civics, and U.S. history. Users can navigate by subject; find clips that pertain to topics such as education, campaigns and elections, or military. The clips are all from news programs and pertain to current and major events. It includes varied points of view. The video player embedded in the site is simple to use and allows the videos to be increased in size to full screen without a loss in resolution.
Science Videos and Images, K-12
http://www.arkive.org/education/
ARKive includes thousands of videos, activities, and lessons, games, images, and fact files in a wide range of science, ICT, art and English projects. It promotes understanding of global biodiversity and the conservation of threatened species. Use the ARKive multimedia materials to engage the class in key biology topics, such as variation and adaptation, habitats or life cycles, or use them as creative inspiration for art and design projects. Teachers can embed a link in their class website or wiki. http://www.arkive.org/about/arkive-video.html
The World of Business, 9-12
http://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu/
Knowledge@Wharton High School is an online journal for students interested in finding out more about business. Students can explore feature stories about teen-run companies and business trends; read articles on how the economy works and how careers take shape; listen to and view audio and video podcasts about business’s most creative and color characters in sports, entertainment, retail, and hi-tech. Students can choose a portfolio and compete against other students in simulation games. It also includes a video glossary where Wharton professors explain the terms using examples high school students can relate to. For example, one professor tells students what an “angel investor” is, using Justin Timberlake’s character in The Social Network.
iPad Digital Storytelling Apps, K-12
https://sites.google.com/site/digitalstorytellingwiththeipad/apps-for-digital-storytelling
This site has links to apps for digital storytelling such as storyboard and layout, scripts and writing, images, and audio. It can help transform students’ writing into a visual masterpiece.
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