Hockey in the Classroom

While watching the Bruins game the other night (what work stoppage?) the ticker on the bottom of the screen mentioned hockey lesson plans created by the Bruins for use in the K-8 classroom.  All the lessons are aligned to the Common Core and the few I looked at seemed to be quite complete and engaging (and more importantly had to do with hockey).  The following subjects have lessons available - ELA, Math, Science, PhysEd, and French.

 

To check out the lesson plans, you just need to sign up at the ICE School page.  Let me know what you think by posting a comment below.

How to use in Education:

Clearly students are more engaged when they are learning about a topic they can relate to; since the Patriots collapsed in the playoffs again, its time to focus on hockey and this seems like the perfect opportunity.

Doodle 4 Google

While most people visit Google to search for information, some people visit just to see the Google Doodle of the day (simply go to www.google.com to see today's doodle).  Here is a list of the 2012 Google Doodles.  (One of my alltime favorites is this one - make sure to hit play and have the sound up).  What is your favorite Doodle?  Please let us know in the comment area.

Anyway, Google has announced their 6th Annual U.S. Doodle 4 Google competition, inviting K-12 students around the country to create their own doodles.  This years theme is 'My Best Day Ever ... ".  The winning student will see their work on the Google Homepage for a day, win a $30,000 college scholarship and win a $50,000 technology grant for Medfield (I mean, for the winning school).  More information can be found at the Google Blog and at the Doodle4Google page.  Also check out the video below:

How to use in Education

Please share this information with your students and their parents in case they are interested in submitting their Doodle4Google.  The deadline is March 22nd.

Quick way to share bunches of links with students

Like me, I bet you find it annoying when teaching and you ask your students to go to one website, and then to another and then another.  Inherently there are issues with typos and backslashes, etc.  How about if you have a teacher website or blog post and you have to list 5 links for people to visit?  This takes up a lot of real estate and usually people get tired of clicking on all your links.  

Well, there is a solution to both these problems as there is a new service out there that allows you to bundle links together.

Bundlenut is a simple service for organizing links and sharing them with others.  Here is the bundled link I created for Medfield Technology Support.  Creating your own bundle is simple and takes seconds.

How to use in Education:

• Anytime you have the laptop cart and are going to send students to multiple websites during a class, it would make sense to bundle your links.  
• If you were having students do a research paper and you want to allow them to only use specific resources, you could provide that list to them in a bundle.  
• Students could use this to create a works cited page (with all their research links) and could provide that to you with one url, rather than a laundry list of urls.  
• If you ever present at a conference, you could post all the links you talk about in one bundle and then participants would only need to know the one bundled link.

Make sure to let me know how you end up using this in your class!