Did you know that birds are a government conspiracy?
Here is another website you can use with your students on learning critical thinking skills when evaluating websites. Who knew that Birds Aren’t Real?
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library has 150,000 images and sketches available for free
Source: About BHL – Information about the Biodiversity Heritage Library Their Flickr album is probably not the best way to find images, but their Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal has a search feature. The publications are pretty high level, so the site is more of a resource for teachers and high schoolers instead of elementary students.
Check out these awesome science animations from Maxwell Helmberger!
Amazing claymation! Check out more of the videos on his channel: Maxwell Helmberger – YouTube
The Surprising History of the Infographic | History | Smithsonian
We live in an age of data visualization. Go to any news website and you’ll see graphics charting support for the presidential candidates; open your iPhone and the Health app will generate personalized graphs showing how active you’ve been this week, month or year. Sites publish charts showing how the climate is changing, how schools are…
Free vector illustrations from DrawKit
Source: DrawKit – Beautiful free illustrations I think I find a new free illustration site about once a month, and here’s another one. DrawKit offers a bunch of illustrations for free, just scroll to the bottom of the page. The illustrations offered by DrawKit are in .png and .svg format. PNGs are graphic images you…
Trollfactory is another resource to help teach about misinformation online
Source: Troll Factory I’m pretty apprehensive on sharing this site. It was designed to teach people on how social media can be used to enrage others, but the language and themes are very inappropriate for 10 graders and below. Juniors and Seniors may see value in the site, but I would get parental permission first….