“A History Of Poverty” A History of Poverty is an animated world map showing where poverty (and prosperity) have been most present over the past two hundred years. You can narrow it down by continent or county, too. It’s from the Christian Aid charity. After showing it to ...
“Learning a foreign language literally changes the way we see the world” I’ve previously posted about the benefits of learning another language (see The Best Resources For Learning The Advantages To Being Bilingual). A related article on a new study was just published headlined Bilinguals See the World in a Different Way, ...
Houseplants “boosts one’s ability to maintain attention” — Glad I Have Them In My Classroom! I’ve previously posted about studies that have shown student benefits to having plants in the classroom (see Do You Keep Plants In Your Classroom? — it received a number of good comments). Since that time, I expanded the number of plants I have in my ...
“The Books Everyone Must Read” The Guardian newspaper created a great word cloud infographic showing The Books Everyone Must Read. They used “the results of over 15 notable book polls, readers surveys and top 100’s.” It’s definitely worth a look…
The Best — And Easiest — Ways To Use YouTube If, Like Us, Only Teachers Have Access To It I’ve previously mentioned that our district recently loosened up its content filter to allow teachers to access many previously-blocked sites, like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. This has created some great learning opportunities for our students, ...
More Japan Resources Here are the newest additions to Part Two of my “The Best…” list on the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (you can see Part One here): The Weekly Reader has free materials on the disaster. Understanding Japan’s Nuclear Crisis is an interactive from The ...
