Creating Muppets out of household materials with Jim Henson
Absolutely delightful!
Source: Seterra Geography Games Seterra Geography Games is a great site for helping you teach geography. There are games and resources for all sorts of geography related lessons. Best of all, everything is free, including the iOS and Android apps. The site consists of online games, printables, and the ability to create your own quizzes….
You can now read the entirety of sci-fi magazine If for free According to BoingBoing, all 176 issues of If have been made available via the Internet Archive, including the ones edited by Hugo Award-winning Frederik Pohl. His greatest contribution to the magazine was, perhaps, the introduction of the “If-first” series, which showcased new authors. A number of…
A Principal’s Reflections: Waving Goodbye to Drive-By PD There has been a great deal of knocks on professional development as of late and rightfully so. More often than not, professional development is something that is done to educators as opposed to an experience that they truly value for growth. For many, district professional development is…
Source: Programming for Kids | Kodable Kodable offers both free and paid resources for teaching programming in primary and intermediate schools, from grades K-5. I really like how their curriculum moves to actually writing code in 3rd grade, moving beyond the drag and dropping of blocks like in Scratch. The use of blocks hasn’t convinced…
I recently came across a book published in 1968 entitled “How to Build a Working Digital Computer” by Edward Alcosser, James P. Phillips, and Allen M. Wolk. Believers in the “learn by doing” philosophy, they show how to construct such a computer using “simple inexpensive components usually found around the house or in a neighborhood…
Source: Lineicons One of the benefits of using graphics in writing or other works is that they can help to convey a message or story more effectively. In some cases, graphics can be used as icons to help students with their school projects. Teachers can also point their students in the direction of free graphics…