Photos from Joplin

Here are some links to the damage in Joplin.

Missouri City Reeling In Twister's Wake

Joplin Mo Tornado

Deadly Tornado Rips Through Joplin MO

Joplin, MO Tornado Horrifying Video from, Inside the Twister

IMPRESSIVE video of Mo Levee

This is a video from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of the Birds Point Levee being breeched.  It is shown real time, six frames a second, and two frames a second.  It is impressive.

MO Flooding

The MO Department Agricultural has a good page with lots of info about the floods in Southeast MO.

Twister Videos

The Two-Way Blog post Stunning Tornado Videos Capture Storm's Power has lost of good videos of the recent tornadoes. 

Plant Worksheets

Edhelper.com had a large selection of readings, math work sheets, games and more about plants.  Check out their Plants Theme Unit.

Free Rice

I know that Freerice.com is not a new sight.  I had not been there in about two years and it has changed a bit.  There are still activities for art, com arts, math, language learning, world geography, and chemistry that earn free rice for developing nations. Now they have a login!  You can track your totals, create groups, and more.  What a neat way to help others and learn!  Think about how you could use this in your classroom.  I think that goal setting would work well with this.  A grade level contest maybe? Now that you can track your totals there is a lot more then it just being fun.

More on BP

NPR has a BP Oil Spill: One Year Later, A Look Back in Pictures.  There are two other stories as well 

After Oil Spill, Shrimpers Hope For Blessed Season and Drilling Oversight Agency Faces 'Troubling' Obstacles. 

BP spill 1 year later

It was a year ago today that the BP oil spill started.  I posted about the 100 days of the BP Spill from Time about a month ago but wanted to repost it today. CNN had a good story posted and several good videos of the spill. ABC news has a good video also.

Chernobyl & Fukushima

CNN World News has a large selection of videos about the Japan tsumami and nuclear disaster. The most recent is 25 years on, in Chernobyl's shadow.  It is worth a watch even if it is not something you can use in your classroom.

ResearchGate

If you are reading this you know how important social networking is to get new ideas, help with problems, and much more as an educator.  There is now a social networking sight for scientist.  The link to the story is below. 

Like, Share, Discover: Facebook For Scientists

NOAA

NOAA has a page of education resources for science. There is a lot of information to go over that you could use is your classroom.   There is also information on PD and funding opportunities.  You could spend a lot of time on this sight over the summer.

The chicken or the egg?

The chicks in one of the third grade classrooms started hatching today!  Made me wounder what kind of resources are out their about eggs and chickens. Below is a quick list of links I found....I am sure there are many more.

Egg Facts 101
Online games and activities 
Chicken Life Cycle
4-H Virtual Farm

Ustream - Live wild animals in your room!

A good friend of mine had links to some cool live feeds of animals on her Face Book pages last night.  They where form Ustream.  There was a live feed of an eagles nest and another of a nesting box with several (6 I think) owl chicks.  I think this would be so much fun to incorporate into a science lesson or for an enrichment project with the kids. I would pick a time of day that you log on and watch the birds for 5 min and then you can keep a journal about what they do.  You could use the journal for a story prompt later.  It would also be fun to see if they are doing the same thing at the same time every day. I do not know a lot about Ustream but I will be finding out more to pass on. Do be aware that there is a chat feature on the owls and you can see what others are saying. I am not sure if you can had that or not. As with any live feed you never know what you are going to see.  I did not see much last night.  The chat on the owls said that they had a live cricket for dinner the night before!

Tsunami

With the earth quake in Japan that has set off a tsunami waring for the entire west cost of North and South America and Hawaii there may be some students that have questions.  Below are some pages will you explain what a tsunami is.  The pages would also work well for an Earth Science or weather lesson.

FEMA for KIDS - Tsunami

NOAA - Tsunami for Kids - This page has links to several activities including games, coloring pages, and a video.  The video is very good and gives a lot of good information.  I know more about tsunamis after watching it. 

Tsunami - Derby Ridge Elementary Columbia, MO - This page also has several kinks to more information about Tsunamis.