ONline Graphing Tool!

Just found this little treasure- an online graphing tool that allows students to create a multitude of graphs and then email or download them in various formats. I think it will be nice simply for ease of access!

Biology Corner

This site has been a great help to me this first year of teaching! I can usually find some worthwhile stuff on here when I am in a pinch...

Gas Law Java

I have been teaching the properties and laws of gases to the 8th graders. We are going to do some graphs to show each of the gas laws and I wanted to find some neat Java applications that would show the relationships between temperature, pressure, and volume. It turns out there are quite a few so I am going to put them all out there for the students and have them let me know which one they prefer. Here is what I have so far:

Oklahoma State
University of Oregon
Ohio State
University of Colorado

There is also a company that has some free software available for running a multitude of science applets.

Screencast-O-Matic

I just found out about this and it totally "rox my sox" as the middle-schoolers would say! I was able to create a little movie of my computer screen as I talked my students through how to sign on to their account and access important information for class. I do this with the LCD projector on a regular basis, but it is nice to have the ability to create a series of tutorials for the students. I might try and do this for next year as I think it will save lots of time that was spent getting the kids to sign up. They had a paper to read as they worked through it, but I have found that showing them first, and then letting them do it goes much faster and they have far fewer questions about the process.