Blue Ribbon Readers: The Train Interactive Game
The Train Game is part of WPSU’s Blue Ribbon Readers, a collection of seven interactive games designed to help elementary school students gain reading comprehension competences. The Train Game helps students develop synthesis skills by asking them to group words together to form sentences.
Blue Ribbon Readers: Fridge Magnet Interactive Game
The Fridge Magnet Game is part of WPSU’s Blue Ribbon Readers, a collection of seven interactive games designed to help elementary school students gain reading comprehension competences. The game provides practice with the monitoring and clarifying strategies. It requires students to identify confusing words (by monitoring) and to replace them with words from an alternate word pool that make sense in the sentence (clarifying).
Blue Ribbon Readers: Make Connections (Interactive)
This WPSU interactive Make Connections Game gives students practice in making mental connections between the text and things the reader already knows. These connections can include things readers have read (text-to-text), things they've seen or heard (text-to-world), and things they've done (text-to-self). The game is part ofBlue Ribbon Readers, a collection of games designed to help elementary school students learn to read.
Blue Ribbon Readers: The Visualizing Game
The Visualizing Game is part of WPSU’s Blue Ribbon Readers, a collection of seven interactive games designed to help elementary school students gain reading comprehension competences. Throughout the game students may practice creating and recalling mental images of the text. Some of the challenges involve static images and others use serial images—or "movies in the head."
Blue Ribbon Readers: The Questioning Cube Interactive Game
The Questioning Cube Game is part of WPSU’s Blue Ribbon Readers, a collection of seven interactive games designed to help elementary school students gain reading comprehension competences. In the game students practice asking questions about short stories or passages of expository prose. The practice of generating and answering their own questions before, during and after reading, helps students actively create solid mental connections.
Learn about all Jobs and Occupations
Child will learn all about the jobs and occupations in this interactive game. Each worker names their job and briefly explains what their job is. Some of the jobs include chef, car painter, dentist, actress, farmer, etc. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and would work well in conjunction with a unit on community helpers. The speaker's voice is very robotic. (1:48)
Ocean Currents with Tim and Moby
Learn how and why ocean currents move in this BrainPOP animated movie. Link also includes a quiz. (approximately 2:00)
Nuclear Energy with Tim and Moby
How is nuclear energy created and why aren't we using it to replace fossil
fuels? Find out in this BrainPOP movie. A quiz is also included with this link. (Approximate run time 2:00)
L'Art en Question 3 : BOTTICELLI, la Naissance de Vénus
Découvrez les différents visages de cette Vénus, plus complexe qu'elle n'en a l'air...
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L'Art en Question 3 : BOTTICELLI - La 1ère minute en avant-première
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Authors@Google: Allen B. Downey
Professor Allen B. Downey of Olin College comes to Google Cambridge to talk about his new book: Think Complexity
Slides: http://tinyurl.com/tc0523
More information: http://allendowney.com/
Holiday in Estonia - 1
Holiday in Estonia - 1.
World Café: Omgaan met betweters Letterlijke output van het World Café, dat op de MoMo-dag 2012 met alle leerkrachten samen werd gehouden.
Marching Band: Tempo & Movement
This 1:20 video gives the basics of how to organize a band keeping in mind the tempo and steps. The video is in the form of a lecture. Other related videos are suggested on this link, including the following topics: writing choreography, dressing a line, reading a chart, and forward marching. (01:20)
What is Color Guard?.
This short video provides a brief overview of what a color guard is and how it works. Also of note is that there are several videos on the bottom on the link that provide information on how to make specific color guard moves. All told these videos provide a good introduction. (0:39)
Combotronic: -s- (Interactive Game)
Combotronics teaches players to build words by combining word parts. Players are challenged to make as many words as possible. The goal for this game is letter sound -s-.
Combotronic: -st- (Interactive Game)
Combotronics teaches players to build words by combining word parts. Players are challenged to make as many words as possible. The goal for this game is consonant blend -st-.
ISS Update - May 30, 2012
The International Space Station video update for May 30, 2012.
Moon Rise
Aboard the International Space Station in May 2012, Expedition 31 astronaut Don Pettit opened the shutters covering the cupola observation windows in time to watch the moon rise. The time-lapse scene was photographed from the airlock of the Station's Russian segment.
ISS Update: How Long-Duration Spaceflight Affects Health
ISS Update commentator Kelly Humphries interviews the Principal Investigator for the Pro_K and Nutrition experiments, Dr. Scott Smith in the International Space Station flight control room at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. During the interview, Smith talks about the Pro_K experiment, Nutrition experiment and how the microgravity environment of space can affect vision and health. Questions? Ask us on Twitter @NASA_Johnson and include the hashtag #askStation. For the latest news about the s
