Teaching+Tools+and+Ideas

Tools and Ideas
We can post different teaching ideas and resources here. It might be helpful to include and name and email address at the end of each post so people can contact one another for more information.

**Alice**
Alice is visual 3D programming tool designed to teach computer programming concepts through creation of animations, interactive games and stories. This software is free and the main website with download links is [|http://www.alice.org]. The website suggests using Storytelling Alice with Middle School students; however, I have successfully used regular Alice with my MS students. There are more resources available for regular Alice and you can find some of them at [] -Heather Kloer hkloer@stmga.org

Google Sketchup
Google Sketchup is a free 3D modelling program available at []. There are zillions of educational applications, and I have used it with grades 2-8. [|Self- paced] tutorials are available as well as videos from [] and []

I have used Google Sketchup for our [|Family Math Night] and you may find some of the ideas and resources worth looking at. You can also find ideas and resources on the [|Google Sketchup for Educator's Site] The books and email newsletter available at [] are also very suitable for K-8 education. -Heather Kloer hkloer@stmga.org

Google Earth
Again, free and fabulous. Get [|here] There are a lot of great resources, including [|Google Earth Tutorials] and other training resources at [|Google Earth Outreach], the [|Google Earth Blog], and the [|Google Earth for Educators Site]. -Heather Kloer hkloer@stmga.org