Valuable Resources/Websites
Dr. Eric H. Chudler provides a free newsletter is chock full of activities, quizzes, brain icons, brain facts and figures, quotes, jokes, riddles, cartoons, free stuff (like posters) and research announcements.
http://brainconnection.positscience.com/
Articles, brain teasers, research and Scientific Learning e-newsletter.
Activities for kids including comics, games, arcade games and academics to explore, create and compete.
Numerous articles on neurosciences, newsletters and education generally.
Graphic Organizer Templates: 100s for Downloading:
The following 3 sources are a mother load of charts such as KWL, brainstorming, story map, 5Ws, venn diagrams and hundreds more:
A 2006 series for trainers by ASCD. It consists of the Facilitators’ Guide and four videotapes. This professional set has all the tools (exercises, transparencies, articles) a trainer needs to conduct workshops on working with the adolescent brain in schools.
Offers an extraordinary range of resources about the brain including free publications and newsletters, including Brain in the News and Brainworks.There are book reviews, links to latest news and sites, as well as long printable articles. It features a section on arts education and another on immunology. It provides a schedule of webcasts, podcasts, radio and television programs.
An excellent quarterly with well-written articles and exciting findings. The August/September issue focuses on the teen brain,and one on our natural highs, in addition other topics. Highly recommended.
Brain Fitness News and Postit Science
Variety of articles and reports of research. Managed by Postit Science, the same people that do the Brain Connection. Some commercial products to energize adult brains.
Helping students make decisions about college: Bachelorsofscience.com was created in 2009 by Aileen Stillman to help potential students, in particular other women, explore the Bachelor of Science degree. The purpose of Bachelors of Science is to provide a simple one page resource where future students can peruse a list of schools as well as basic degree information and logistics so that they find enrolling in a BS program more accessible. http://www.bachelorsofscience.org/
Web Sites about Brain-Based Learning
Principles: http://www.unomaha.edu/coe/moec/brainbased.php
Resources: http://www.newhorizons.org/
http://www.dana.org/resources/brainykids/
Benefits: http://www.funderstanding.com/brain_based_learning.cfm
http://www.newcityschool.org/MultipleIntelligences_67.aspx
Web Sites about Simulation, Games, Puzzles, and Quizzes
Historical: http://multimedialearning.org/games.php
K-12: http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/edusims.html
http://quizstare.4teachers.org
Games and activities: newsletter@fitbrains.com
Web Sites about Reading and Literacy
Disability issues: www.bookmark.org.uk
Encouraging children: www.children’spoetrybookshelf.co.uk – .
Lesson plans and kids’ blog: www.comicsintheclassroom.net
Children and young adults: www.guysread.com
Book reviews: www.smartgirl.org
Web Sites about Arts Education
Web Sites about Math and Science
Graphic organizers: www.inspiration.com
Simulations: www.explorelearning.com
www.mos.org/events_activities/virtual_exhibits
http://webfiles.unci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.htm
www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/wis
www.jce.divched.org/JCEWWW/Features/eChemists/index.html
www.osti.gov/sciencelab/ScienceCompetitions.html
www.exploratium.edu/ls/pathfinders/scifairs