Internal/External Conflict - A PowerPoint designed by an English 9 teacher to cover extensively the topic with quizes.

Characterization Through Adjectives - a lesson designed to introduce through an activity the concept of literary characterization.

Analogies: This game by Sadler-Oxford is a great individualized option for practice. Quia offers a two player game to make the learning competitive. For a complete list of lesson plans and activities, look at the State of Missouri's eThemes page on analogies. Another great list of lessons and interactives is at Internet4Classrooms site.

Context Clues:  The Longman Vocabulary Website provides 3 categories of exercises that cover punctuation and word context clues. For a basic read and learn lesson, What Are Context Clues is an interactive option for students to self study. EThemes also gives a full range of options for lesson plans although for lower level than middle school.

Myvocabulary.com covers a huge variety of decifering techniques using Greek and Latin root words. Hundreds of exercises and puzzles that are self graded.

Larger grouping of activities at TV411.org. Offers reading, writing and vocab lessons and activities.

Making Inferences: BrainPop offers a free video that covers the concept and a lesson to go with it. Quia has an individualized quiz game called What Can You Infer?  There is also a theme at eThemes that is geared all the way up to 8th grade.

Point of View: Begining with Read Write Think, there is a whole unit here with lessons, literary selections and assessments. eWorksheets is a place to find a simple lesson either interactive or printable. This one is a 5 minute video lesson followed by a worksheet.

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Finding resources for these lessons are more difficult online. Students always need guidance when introduced to literature but these activities can be wonderful for supplements or lesson ideas.

Name that Literary Element - a Glencoe game that really is fun to play. The student goes on a futuristic mission.

Quia Short Story Elements Quick quiz based on parts of a story.

Interactive Literary Elements Handbook - Glencoe offers this online "dictionary" with some videos included.

My Literature Lab - offers a Glossary and interactive readings for students. Designed by Pearson.

Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - Many words here that are defined; each with an example.

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You just completed an amazing Smartboard activity with about 10 students in class. But what about the other 16??? They were passive learners. They observed and hopefully retained the content but as we know it is best if all students participate. So why not offer that notebook file for them at home? Now you can with the SMART Express viewer. Student can utilize this free version oneline from express. Express.smarttech.com allows students to view and interact with notebook files. Post the link on your Blackboard account for students.

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Video instruction is turning into the one of the easiest methods of differentiation. Sure a teacher may need to develop lessons around the video or provide the practice that follows, but having another delivery mode never hurts instruction. This list is geared for Math but a few will cover other topics.

The Khan Academy has been covered at this blog before but it is definitely getting lots of press now including promotions by Bill Gates. I include here an article titled "What Khan be Done With It?" that describes 12 ways teachers can incorporate the Khan Academy video instruction into their curriculum.  

MATHCASTS from Digital Learning Commons. This is simply a collection of lessons on video. They are slow, methodical explanations of problems but could be just the right pace for certain students.The tab at the top categorizes for Middle School.

Hippocampus has been around awhile but the design is phenomenal for algebra review lessons. The lessons are based on a handful of popular textbooks and they use the sequence of the texts to teach. Students not only hear and see but interact with the lesson and receive feedback. Each lesson starts with a warm up then gives instruction followed by practice. Students can read the text of the lesson as well.  Don't miss the math mini site located there too. You'll also find fantastic US History and American Government lessons.

MathLive is mainly for elementary lesson but does have a couple relevant for Middle School including interactives on Probability. Worth a bookmark.

MathTV is a YouTube channel and a website. The link is for the website. Basic Math and Algebra are covered. The best part of this resource is the number of people who solve the same problem. In other words, you'll get 3 or more explanations how to do the same thing. Different perspectives for different learning styles.

You may recognize Math Tutor DVDs from those annoying commercials to sell learning DVD's during late night TV. However they offer a few free samples online. If you download with RealPlayer and use the trim tool, you can produce a few mini lessons. If you are not sure how to do that, ask your local SBTS.

Math Definitions by eHow is truly just a teacher repeating a how to. The extent of the topics is good, however, so worth a look.

MathVids is yet another option with Middle School as a category. Still these are basic problems being solved by a teacher using a screen capture video. You may wish to preview the various teachers. For example, the user YourMathGal starts every video whispering, "Math is cool and you can do it."

Teacher Zone claims it is the largest compilation of math video on the planet. You will need to create an account to find out. That could make it problematic if you want to flip your classroom since students may have to log in to see the videos. However, they are definitely covering a variety of topics.

Math Train TV is a collection of videos mainly produced by students. There are also audio podcasts for teachers and students. The variety with music intros is intriguing. Be sure and preview so that the explanations are clear for students.

Other Math related resources: Interactives, puzzles, online quizzes and magazines all help. Here is a list:
Quia interactive lessons
Math Goodies puzzles and online activities
Interactivate Online activities
Plus Math themed magazine with puzzles
Yummy Math real world math problems based on current events
AAA Math online quizzes with lessons

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If you missed the Tech Tuesday demo, this is a recap of how one portion of Adaptive Release works.

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