Unusual and useful sites.

Here is an interesting article on how Generation Y students are harder to teach. You can read the post here.

For those doing current events, or just interested in the headlines, Newsmap takes the latest headlines and creates a map of them. You can zoom in and click on the story you want to read and it takes you to that link. Stories are color coded according to topic and you can select from major regions of the world. As well, the size of the story box is related to how recent the post was placed there. A creative way to look at the news!

For the artsy types, Zoomquilt takes you on an never ending tour through artistic landscapes. You zoom in on the landscape and it changes to another, and then another, and then another for en eternity. Pretty cool!

If you want your students to be familiar with an excerpt from a movie, but either can't find it or don't want to show it, they can listen to an excerpt at Listentoamovie.com. They have about 1500 movies you can choose from and students simply listen to a section of it. You could have your students visualize what is going on - great for Drama or Art.

Finally, here is a great site for Chemistry teachers. Chalkbored.com lists assignments and links that can be used in Chemistry classes. Probably worth a look.