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S I D N E Y C I T Y
S C H O O L S
SHS Library News
J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 4 V O L U M E I I , I S S U E 5
S P E C I A L
P O I N T S O F
I N T E R E S T :
Educreations
GoalBook
PE.Links.4u
Lessonopoly
Vialogues
Phet Interactive
Simulations
Online CPR
Courses
New Year’s Resources
The New Year is a great time for setting goals, reflecting,
looking ahead, and making some resolutions! This web-
site of reviewed resources offers ideas to incorporate
New Year’s activities in the regular curriculum. Whether
you focus on a specific activity or simply share these for
enrichment outside of class, your students will find some
refreshing new ideas!
http://www.teachersfirst.com/holiday/newyear.cfm
BetterLesson
This is a website where you can find
lesson plans, classroom materials,
and instructional resources from high
performing teachers. You can browse
through thousands of documents,
presentations, lessons, units and
courses.
http://betterlesson.com/
P A G E 2
Lessonopoly
Hot Stuff: and other things!
Teach what you know, learn
what you don’t know! This
website allows you to create
and share amazing video
lessons with your iPad or
browser. You can create your
own videos or share videos
that others have created.
Goalbook empowers teachers
to adapt instruction using re-
search-based strategies. The
online toolkit of learning goals
and teaching strategies, along
with their best-in-class profes-
sional development, empowers
teachers to adapt instruction for
special populations.
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation and Gooru have partnered to host Les-
sonopoly content on the Gooru site. Gooru is a free search engine for learning that
makes it easy for teachers to discover educational content, organize it into learning
playlists, and teach and share it with students to study. Gooru indexes over ten mil-
lion online resources, making it easy to discover topic relevant and standards-
aligned content. Gooru lets you save your favorite resources into sharable playlists
that you can assign to your students. Gooru is a non-profit organization with the
mission to honor the human right to education.
Over 5,000 lesson plans from Lessonopoly can now be found on Gooru, includ-
ing the popular lesson plans on the:
Science of NFL Football,
Science of the Olympic Winter Games, and
SVEF's Stepping Up To Algebra!
We recognize that there are a number of websites with lesson plans and we want to
make it easier for you to find what you need for the classroom so that students have
a great learning experience! Lesson plans have been placed onto the Gooru Les-
sonopoly partner page and are also searchable via the main search engine.
http://lessonopoly.org/
S H S L I B R A R Y N E W S
“The best teachers are
those who show you
where to look, but don’t
tell you what to see.”
-Alexandra Trenfor
This website has a plethora
of resources regarding phys-
ical education, health, fit-
ness, nutrition, and athletics.
Phet Interactive Simulations
PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. To help students
visually comprehend concepts, PhET simulations animate what is invisible to the eye through the use of
graphics and intuitive controls such as click-and-drag manipulation, sliders and radio buttons. In order to fur-
ther encourage quantitative exploration, the simulations also offer measurement instruments including rulers,
stop-watches, voltmeters and thermometers. As the user manipulates these interactive tools, responses are im-
mediately animated thus effectively illustrating cause-and-effect relationships as well as multiple linked repre-
sentations (motion of the objects, graphs, number readouts, etc.)
To ensure educational effectiveness and usability, all of the simulations are extensively tested and evaluated.
These tests include student interviews in addition to actual utilization of the simulations in a variety of set-
tings, including lectures, group work, homework and lab work.
All PhET simulations are freely available from the PhET website and are easy to use and incorporate into the
classroom. They are written in Java and Flash, and can be run using a standard web browser as long as Flash
and Java are installed.
Online CPR Courses
This website allows you to take CPR, First Aid, and Blood Borne Pathogen Training online for a minimal
cost. The courses enable you to learn in your preferred learning modality whether it be reading, listening, or
watching. After you complete a course you are able to print your own certificate of completion.