Sixty Symbols

Here is a terrific website that tells the story behind the symbols of physics and astronomy. Each of the symbols is linked to a video explanation. The information and videos are created by experts at The University of Nottingham. The site self-describes itself thusly: "Sixty Symbols is a collection of videos about physics and astronomy presented by experts from The University of Nottingham. They aren't lessons or lectures - and this site has never tried to be an online reference book. The films are just fun chats with men and women who love their subject and know a lot about it!" Definitely worth a look.

Sixty Symbols

Assess and Visualize Multiple Intelligences

Have is an outstanding tool for easily assessing the intelligences of your students. The site asks them a series of questions and once answered provides a visual representation of their preferred intelligences. (See example in the gallery below) The site also provides a "secret code" for each test taker that allows for the regeneration of that individual's chart. It also allows a teacher to create a graph of students in a particular grouping by entering the codes of the desired students. If you are in a 1:1 school students can quickly take the assessment in class and then send you their code. Copy and paste them into the site a visual representation of your group's intelligences appears before you. You can also simply enter one student's code to regenerate their graph. This might be helpful knowledge for adapting instruction for struggling students.  This site is a most terrific tool for helping to differentiate instruction.

Birmingham Grid for Learning Multiple Intelligences

Google Art Project

Google has unveiled a new site called Google Art Project that uses its Street View technology to offer tours of several major art museums. Within the site there are over 1,000 pieces of art from 385 different artists captured at 17 different museums. In addition to the ability to walk through each gallery the site also lets you view exceptionally detailed images of several pieces of art from within each gallery. Each of the images is zoomable allowing you to see exceptional detail. There are also some images captured with what has been called "gigapixel" technology which has been said to reveal details that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

Google Art Project

Yad Vashem's Holocaust Photo Archive

In honor of UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day Google partnered with Yad Vashem, a Jerusalem-based center devoted to Holocaust remembrance, to create a digital archive of the organization's photo archives. There exist within its pages 138,327 photos arranged into albums. You will find full resolution images of families, towns, soldiers and the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. This site contains a wealth of images that will help to make the events of the Holocaust and World War II real for students, to help put a human face on the events that transpired, and to help enrich lessons and engage students in remembering and learning from the Holocaust's victims.

Yad Vashem Photo Archive