I had never heard of EdCamps before until this week’s class. Having an event like EdCamps to have meaningful discussions on areas of education that I’m interested in, sounds amazing. Furthermore, these discussions provide differing perspectives from a variety of people in the field of education. From our own sample EdCamp in class, I joined the Gender Identity, Classroom Management, and ELL Learning Support discussions. All of these conversations were really enlightenting, but in the Classroom Management talk, the discussion on TOC preparation stood out to me the most.

Just in the past 2 months, my cohort has been told on multiple occasions that as substitutes, we could be called to high schools too, despite having graduated from the Elementary BEd program. This definitely scares me, but the emergency sub bag idea from Joanna, made me think of possibly creating an online emergency sub bag with tech ed resources for all grade levels including high school grades. With this thought (which I also wrote about in my comment on Nova’s “Week 7: The Tactical TOC” blog post), I thought I should actually try starting an emergency online resource collection. Below, I’ve curated a list of possible resources for the grade 10-12 level, which are the most daunting grades to me. I’ve tried to select resources that could be used in any class of any subject.

Photo illustrated by Yireh Park

HIGH SCHOOL TechEd RESOURCES (Grades 10-12)

1. Kahoot: Trivia Kahoots to use for a whole class activity

2. Countries of the World Quiz: Students challenge themselves to name as many countries as possible within the time limit. This can be done as a class as well (no internet help allowed).

3. Films

  • The Pursuit of Happyness (Movie 2006)
    • Accessible through Netflix
  • Dead Poets Society (Movie 1989)
    • Accessible through Disney Plus
  • The Rescue (Documentary 2021)
    • Accessible through Disney Plus
  • My Octopus Teacher (Documentary 2020)
    • Accessible through Netflix

4. GeoGuessr: Students can play individually or as a class to find the location of 360 image on a map.

https://www.geoguessr.com/

These are just a few resource options, but I’m sure there are so many more! Comment on this post with more ideas for a high school class or add onto the ones I’ve mentioned with more movies or documentaries, kahoot games and online games. Thanks for reading!