Jerry’s Web Pick of the Week: Edition Number 20

IT’S BAAACK!!!

After a few weeks hiatus, the picks have returned. I wanted to take a few weeks off to gather a bunch of sites that I was excited about. Now is the perfect opportunity for me to share these great resources. As you’re browsing the various links, think about how they can be used in your classroom next year and think about how I might be able to provide assistance to you and your students.

Without further ado, here is Edition Number 20: (To get to the site, click on the image or the link in the description)

English:

Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.

Science:

This site contains Darwin’s publications, thousands of his private papers, the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and much more.

Social Studies:

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past.

The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.

Math:

At TuLyn, we have hundreds of video tutorials on math. Our video clips cover most math topics you learn from kindergarten to high school. Our math video clips provide you all the math help you need.

Physical Education:

iStats is a new web-based fitness tracking application that makes exercise fun and exciting. iStats allows you to visually track your performance in workouts per week, weight and per exercise. iStats Teams allows you to find others to help motivate you, compare progress & organize workouts.

Foreign language:

lingro is an on-line environment for people learning languages. lingro’s dictionaries remember all your translations and help you learn the vocabulary most important to you easier and faster. When you need a powerful dictionary, use lingro’s instant search dictionary, which shows you results as you type! If you want to read a web page or document in a foreign language, you can open it in lingro web viewer. Then click on any word to display its translation or definition.

Business/CDE:

Create, share and store your resume online for free. Creating a quality resume is a difficult task. Keeping track of your various versions is a hassle. Once you have it all figured out, there’s the worry of formats, hard drive failure and viruses. Emurse allows you to focus on what’s most important — writing quality content and selling yourself.

Have anything you’d like to add, feel free to leave a comment and the site you’d like to share!

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