The VIBE October 2012 Teacher Edition

Shore Regional High School

October 2012 William J. Valenti Educational Media Specialist

Teacher Edition

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Help celebrate the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Teen Read Week which encourages area teens to read for the fun of it.

This year’s theme is “ Picture It @ your library.” This year’s theme challenges teens to find out what titles are lurking in the library stacks. It encourages students to read magazines, graphic novels, magazines, books, and e-books, just for the fun of it.”

Please take some time this month and share with your students what you are currently reading and why reading is so important in your life.

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Lessons can be adapted to suit most curriculum areas.

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” ~Winston Churchill

TRY THIS GREAT RESOURCE At ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

Lessons can be adapted to suit most curriculum areas.

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OCTOBER 2012

Business/Technology

Money Metropolis, Financial Football, and More Money Skills Games http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/moneymetropolis/ Applications for Education The Practical Money Skills games require students to have some prior knowledge of financial basics. These games could be good review activities after a lesson that you teach about budgeting, saving, borrowing, and spending. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

English Toasted Cheese http://www.toasted‐cheese.com/webcal/webcal.cgi Toasted Cheese is a daily writing prompt site that publishes prompts on a monthly calendar. The whole month is laid out for you with a different prompt each day. Don't see anything you like on the current calendar? That's okay, click through the previous months to find old prompts. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Write Rhymes http://www.writerhymes.com/ Write Rhymes is a fun little site where you can find a word to rhyme with just about any other word. I tried to use words for which I couldn't think of obvious rhymes, but each time Write Rhymes came up with something. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Pin-a-Tale - A Map of British Literature http://www.bl.uk/pin-a-tale/pin-a-tale-map.aspx Applications for Education Pin-a-Tale could be a good resource for lessons in British literature. Beyond that it is a nice model for a Google Maps project that your students could do for any other genre of literature. Teachers of American Literature might have students map the places that have influenced famous works in American Literature. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

7 Good Sources of Creative Writing Prompts

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/7-good-sources-of-creativewriting.html ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Faculty An Updated 63 Page Guide to Google Drive and Docs http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/an‐updated‐63‐page‐guide‐to‐ google.html ~ From Free Technology for Teachers The Best Resources For Learning About “Psychological Effects” Useful To Teachers http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/09/17/the‐best‐resources‐for‐ learning‐about‐psychological‐effects‐useful‐to‐teachers/ ~ From Larry Ferlazzo

7 Places to Find & Watch Documentaries Online http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/7‐places‐to‐find‐watch‐ documentaries.html ~ From Free Technology for Teachers The Best Theory Of Knowledge Resources In 2012 — So Far http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/09/06/the‐best‐theory‐of‐knowledge‐ resources‐in‐2012‐so‐far/ ~ From Larry Ferlazzo

Books That Shaped America http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/books-that-shaped-america/pages/objectlist.aspx This is a significant resource for both AP History and AP Language teachers

Science All My “The Best….” Lists Related To Science http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/09/08/all‐my‐the‐best‐lists‐related‐to‐science/ ~ From Larry Ferlazzo

Social Studies Advanced Placement U.S. History Lessons http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/advanced-placement-us-history-lessons#node22393

Civil War 150 New Resources from Gilder Lehrman http://www.thinkfinity.org/community/hub/blog/2012/09/30/civil-war-150-newresources-from-gilder-lehrman ~ From Thinkfinity

37 Crash Course History Videos http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 ~From Free Technology for Teachers U.S. History Teacher's Blog http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.ca/ This is a webpage written by high school teachers for those who teach US history who want to find online content as well as technology that you can use in the classroom 75 Primary Document Lessons http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.ca/2012/07/75-primary-documentlessons.html A group of Stanford University grad students have been working hard on digital learning projects. They have teamed up with the Library of congress and have created lesson plans built around 75 primary documents. The plans are broken up into