Free History Online Videogame: For Crown Or Country

Play Crown for a Country videogame until you are ready to evaluate it to let teachers and students know: 1.) what they will learn about history and 2.) how well the game is designed. Post your analysis of the history video game and recommend three improvements for the game on your blog.

Challenge: Create a photoessay in Smilebox or Animoto about what you learned about history from playing the game.

Teacher Tube Math Channel

Check out these math videos on the Teacher Tube Math Channel. Find five math videos about the same subject and compare the lessons. Rate them from best to worst and let us know what you learned. Pick something that challenges you in math. Post your analysis on your blog.

Challenge: Share the best math video you found and share it with a teacher. Ask the teacher to let you know how they could use this video in class. Post the video link andthe teachers ideas to your blog. Create a 30-60 second commercial for this website and post the commercial to your blog.

Assorted Math Lessons

Here is a list of many Math websites. Find five math websites on the list and evaluate them. Find at least three math websites you would recommend to your math teachers. Paste the links to the math activities on your blog and explain why you selected them.


Challenge: Find a teacher that might be interested in new math ideas. Share your selected math websites. Ask the teacher to pick one of the ideas to try with his or her classes. Go back after the assignment is complete and ask the teacher to give you their analysis of the lesson. Post the analysis on your blog. Add pictures of the student work and post the math link to you blog.

Math In Action

Watch out you just might need to use math on the job! Check out the Math In Action website to see how cake decorators, architects, urban planners, and more use math at work. Compare two of the people in the series and explain how they both use math on the job, is it the same or different?

Challenge: Find someone who uses math at work and create a short movie about it. Post your movie to your blog.

Dimension U

Math + Videogames = Better Grades

Math + Videogames = More Learning

Try out any demo Dimension U videogames and report back what you learned. If you think this is a great way to learn tell us in your comments on this blog.

Challenge: Get your mom and dad to play the Dimension U games and have them leave us their comments. Who knows, if enough people like Dimension U we might be able to bring them to our school district for everyone. Check out the math competition video. Pretend you were in charge of the Dimension M competition for our school. Devise a plan with three other classmates and post your ideas to your blog. Remember to include in your plan: who? what? when? where? why? what time?

Create-a-Graph

Figure out what you would like to know, ask a bunch (minimum of thirty) of your friends and collect the data. Go to Create-a-Graph and decide if it would be best to use a pie, bar, or line graph for your data. Go to the Internet and find some other data to graph for each kind of graph. For example, one student chose to collect data about favorite videogames used by classmates and another chose to collect data about favorite spiders. Have fun making graphs with a click of a button.


Challenge: Use graphs in all your classes and post them to your blog.

WATCH THE TUTORIAL ON THE CREATE-A-GRAPH WEBSITE.

More About Brain Based Learning

Learning about the brain is fascinating and necessary if you want to live a long and productive life. Look at the Brain Based Learning Posters on his website. If you were given $200 to buy posters for the Fillmore Middle School which ones would you choose. Post your selection to your blog and explain why you chose them. Check out what Mr. Jensen has to say about the brain and learning and then email him a question. Post your question and any response to your blog.

Challenge: Create your own poster about Brain Based Learning using online art tools or paper. Post a picture of your poster on your blog. Find a teacher and introduce him or her to Mr. Jensen's website. Give the poster to the teacher and ask if he or she might have the students take the quiz and create posters of their own. Offer to return to take pictures of the posters and post them to your blog.

Oh and go to cartoonme to create your own avatar and post a picture of it on your blog.