Tech Tip Tuesday #24

Today's Tip:

Check out these three resources to supplement your curriculum. 

Google Arts & Culture Experiments

experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/arts-culture

This resource was featured in Cult of Pedagogy's 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2022:

"This is a site worth visiting just for pure entertainment and curiosity, but it might end up lending itself to one of your lessons or inspiring students to try creating experiments of their own. If nothing else, it would be an excellent place to send students when they finish work early."

I enjoyed Paint with Music, An Atlas of Emotions (fun SEL resource), and Climate Change Impact Filter (I must find a place to work this one into my math curriculum). 

Checkology

get.checkology.org

This resource was featured in an interview on Truth for Teachers' Educator tools for media literacy and how to advocate for truth with Peter Adams from NewLit. Checkology has 14 lessons and a collection of supplemental exercises and challenges to help teach middle and high students about news literacy. 

Even as a math and computer skills teacher, I found some good resources. (Bias for our sampling unit in Pre-Algebra and Algorithms for Computer Skills.)

TED-Ed

ed.ted.com/educator

This resource is utilized in SCRED's Be Good People Curriculum, as many of the videos in the lessons come from Ted Talks. According to the website, you can "Browse hundreds of TED-Ed Animations and TED Talks - designed to spark the curiosity of your learners. You'll also find thousands of other video-based lessons organized by the subjects you teach." You can find several of these videos in EdPuzzle as well, just search "ted ed" and your desired topic.

I definitely found some fun math ones to work into lessons. I also found some short math ones that might not be standards-related but would be great for a 2-3 minute brain break. The TED-Ed lessons are great because there are questions, additional resources, and discussion prompts provided to go along with the video.

What are your favorite resources for supplementing lessons or for "early finishers" activities?