school stuff

The Fisher School's projects, links and cool ideas.

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Parallel and transversal lines

Math is Fun website explains parallel and transversal lines with Flash

Kahn Academy video on this topic

Very clear diagrams on Math Warehouse

Great interactive worksheet

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Geometry: 2 column proofs

Videos on doing two-column proofs

Another video on 2-column proofs

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Spanish online worksheets

Check out these Spanish online worksheets for verbs and grammar

Take the quizzes on StudySpanish.com

learn spanish online.  phrases and verbs

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World War II

World War II poster study guide from history.com

National Archives lesson plan on World War II posters

National Archives: Documents related to FDR and Churchill

World War II in HD.  supportive website with interactive images, texts & more

World War II in HD. YouTube. part 1

World War II study guide with quiz.  

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Great Depression in video

Woody Guthrie singing "This Land is Your Land".  Woody Guthrie "Talking Dust Bowl Blues"  Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly & Friends "We Shall Be Free"

History video on the Depression. "The Road to Rock Bottom"

Student's AP video on Great Depression (11 min)

Opening to the film "Paper Moon"

1930s music, video.  Top hits of the 1930s.

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Scientific Notation

Watch this video on scientific notation.  You can watch this Kahn Academy video, too.

Do the worksheets on scientific notations.  Finish as many as you can.

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1930s

WPA Writer's Project. Voices from the Thirties.   Read some of these.  Create four cards, like baseball cards, that have a photo of the person, a quotatation, the person's job, and a few other facts.

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Economics

FinanceFreak (from CoolMath.com) has a great introduction to basic finance and economics

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solving inequalities

Math is fun explains solving inequalities

Cool Math's Solving Inequalities.  Start with the first one.

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Sound waves

Introduction to waves. test this out.

virtual waves plunger

Science waves song on YouTube

"Baby, I Love Your Waves" youtube video

Viewing sound waves with fire.

How do sound waves travel.  find some videos that are interesting to you.

Explaining Earthquake” video from KQED in San Francisco Earthqauke seismic waves.

Amazing water and sound experiment

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electromagnetic spectrum

Electromagnetic spectrum.  use this site to complete worksheet.

Cosmic colors from NASA

Infrared telescopes

Play these NASA games

Catch the Waves

Make magazine: Imaging across the EM Spectrum

Universe of light from Berkeley

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1920s

Multimedia slide show of the 1920s, from the Harry Ransom Center

Record labels from 1920s

Greenwich Village bookshop, a portal to 1920s Bohemian New York City

Duke Ellington “I Must Have That Man” 1928.  Youtube

Fanny Brice “I’d Rather Be Blue” 1929. YouTube

Bessie Smith “I’m Wild About That Thing” 1929 YouTube

Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” YouTube

Al Jolson singing “Swanee” in black face YouTube. singing “I’m Sitting on Top of the World” from 1928

Buster Keaton in “One Week” film

Website devoted to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Website devoted to William Faulkner

1920s Paris, YouTube video, no sound

The Century America’s Time 1920

Louise Brooks, segment from “Pandoras Box” 10 min YouTube

Film on the U.S. World War I to the Great Depression.  for the 1920s start at 26 minutes.

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Intersecting lines

Intersecting lines worksheet

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ARchimedes principle

Explained by submarines and the Navy

Physics video for kids demonstration

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Math Games

Super Maths World

Perpendicular lines notes

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PowerPoint techniques

Basic digital storytelling/animation in PowerPoint

Black and white to color video

Create a cube in PowerPoint

Tesla vs. Edison debate

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Digital storytelling

Best free digital storytelling tools.

Animoto

Pixton

Domo animation

Pic-lits

Digital storytelling cookbook

Storyboard generator

Shidonni

Stage'd

Virsona (using historical people)

Voice thread

Langwitch blog about digital storytelling.  How to create a techno-tale in iMovie

stop motion animator directions

aviary myna.  Review of free sound editing software 

xtranormal, animation software.  cool

Jewelbeat. royalty free music. 99 cents each.

digital storytelling resources.  thorough

How to make an animated PowerPoint movie