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Happier Holidays - Van Andel Institute for Education
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K to 8
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Van Andel Institute for Education's Happier Holidays program encourages students to spread kindness, explore diverse cultural traditions, and engage in fun STEAM challenges. Featured...more
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Van Andel Institute for Education's Happier Holidays program encourages students to spread kindness, explore diverse cultural traditions, and engage in fun STEAM challenges. Featured activities include Twelve Days of STEAM, Holiday Traditions, Kindness Bingo, and Cards of Care. Lessons are available for three grade bands: K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. Each activity is delivered through Google Slides and includes a teacher guide, estimated duration, targeted skills, and reflection opportunities.
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Students can use Seesaw reviewed here to post all the information that they learn while researching holiday traditions around the world. Have students create heartfelt cards for individuals in hospitals, nursing homes, or the military during the holiday season. Connect students with senior citizens to learn about their life stories and holiday memories.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Thinksgiving - Van Andel Institute for Education
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K to 8
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Van Andel Institute for Education provides four free "Thinkgiving" lessons designed to promote gratitude, self-reflection, and curiosity. The topics include STEM Parade, Think Outside...more
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Van Andel Institute for Education provides four free "Thinkgiving" lessons designed to promote gratitude, self-reflection, and curiosity. The topics include STEM Parade, Think Outside Yourself, Think Inside Yourself, and The World of the First Thanksgiving. The lessons encourage students to explore big ideas in engaging ways. Each topic includes three separate lessons that are organized by grade bands: K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. The activities link to a Google Slides presentation that includes a teacher guide, estimated time, targeted skills, and reflection prompts.
tag(s): holidays (285), STEM (370), thanksgiving (25)
In the Classroom
Students can use Figma, reviewed here to compare and contrast Thanksgiving from long ago to now. Students can use Book Creator, reviewed here to create a class book after completing the perfect Thanksgiving meal. Finally, students can post what they are thankful for on Padlet, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Games and Activities - Van Andel Institute for Education
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K to 8
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Van Andel Institute for Education provides free, engaging games and activities for students in grades K-8. The website is organized into four main sections: Content-Specific, Cross-Curricular,...more
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Van Andel Institute for Education provides free, engaging games and activities for students in grades K-8. The website is organized into four main sections: Content-Specific, Cross-Curricular, Artificial Intelligence, and Social-Emotional Learning. The content-specific games support science, ELA, and engineering skills. Cross-curricular games include Baboon's Dilemma, Fact or Funny, Persuasion Contagion, and Twin to Win. In the AI section, students can explore AI Discovery Quest, Beat the Bot, Right or Wrong, and What is AI?. The social-emotional learning section features resources such as daily SEL activities, social stories, "Diving into CASEL," and "Be Kind to Your Mind" Bingo. Each game links to a Google Slides presentation that includes a teacher overview, estimated time, targeted skills, and reflection prompts.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (300), engineering (141), social and emotional learning (195)
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Students can engage in the activities that are available on the site. Students can use Seesaw, reviewed here to answer the reflection questions. Students can use post answers to questions associated with the different activities using Padlet, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Room Escape Resources - Room Escape Resources
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4 to 12
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Discover resources to create a digital escape room. Resources include encryption tools, fake generators, simulators, digital imaging and mapping tools, puzzle creators, timers, tutorials,...more
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Discover resources to create a digital escape room. Resources include encryption tools, fake generators, simulators, digital imaging and mapping tools, puzzle creators, timers, tutorials, and premade escape rooms. Some encryption tools featured include a QR code creator, Morse code, an Alphabet Generator, and an Anagrams Generator. Examples for fake generators are Receipt Maker, Eye Chart Maker, Facebook Post, Newspaper Clippings, and more.
tag(s): digital escapes (30), mysteries (27)
In the Classroom
Teachers can create their own digital escape rooms using the tools offered by the site. Students can rate the tools used in the digital escape room using Dotstorming, reviewed here. Finally, students can create their own digital escape rooms for their fellow students to solve using at least one resource per featured section.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Christmas Escape Room - Genially
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K to 7
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Using this template, you can create an engaging and interactive Christmas escape room with animations, questions, and videos. This escape room includes multiple-choice, drag-and-drop,...more
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Using this template, you can create an engaging and interactive Christmas escape room with animations, questions, and videos. This escape room includes multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, and true/false questions to guide students to victory during their missions and decorate the Christmas tree. After editing the template, publish and share with students using the provided links.
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tag(s): christmas (38), digital escapes (30), gamification (93), hanukkah (22), holidays (285), kwanzaa (23)
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Edit and personalize the questions in this escape room to create an engaging activity for students to complete during holiday parties. Include other December holidays, such as Kwanzaa and Hannukah, to create a multicultural holiday escape room. Visit TeachersFirst Special Topics Pages Kwanzaa, reviewed here, Christmas Resources, reviewed here, and Hannukah Resources, reviewed here to find resources to include with a multicultural holiday escape room.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Let's Learn - Thirteen PBS
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K to 2
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Let's Learn is a free educational website packed with engaging video resources. Covering subjects like reading, writing, math, science, art, social studies, STEM, and mind and movement,...more
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Let's Learn is a free educational website packed with engaging video resources. Covering subjects like reading, writing, math, science, art, social studies, STEM, and mind and movement, it offers a well-rounded learning experience. The site also features over 150 picture books by diverse authors and illustrators, promoting representation and inclusion. Educators can easily search resources by subject, full episodes, themes, activities, or "Show What You Know" segments, making it a flexible and valuable tool for early childhood classrooms.
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Students can compare and contrast picture books featured on the site using Google Drawing reviewed here. Students can use Seesaw reviewed here to complete a Show What You Know after watching a video. Finally, students can complete one of the Show What You Know activities featured on the website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mind and Movement - Let's Learn
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K to 3
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Let's Learn Mind and Movement provides free, engaging videos that encourage children to stay active and practice mindfulness through "Let's Move" and "Let's Be Mindful" segments. Perfect...more
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Let's Learn Mind and Movement provides free, engaging videos that encourage children to stay active and practice mindfulness through "Let's Move" and "Let's Be Mindful" segments. Perfect for brain breaks or transitions, these short videos--ranging from 1 to 10 minutes--help support physical wellness and emotional regulation. Educators can sort content by themes such as Transformation, Feelings, My Five Senses, Animals, Plants, Colors, and more, making it easy to integrate movement and mindfulness into daily routines.
tag(s): emotions (71), social and emotional learning (195)
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Students can use Book Creator, reviewed here to create a book about their feelings. Students can use Aha Slides, reviewed here to create word clouds to generate synonyms for feeling words.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Horror Escape Room - Genially
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4 to 12
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This horror escape room and its included template will give you a spine-chilling experience. Play the game as shared to gather inventory: a key, musical notes, a briefcase, and a ...more
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This horror escape room and its included template will give you a spine-chilling experience. Play the game as shared to gather inventory: a key, musical notes, a briefcase, and a magnifying glass. As you enter the different rooms, use the items in your inventory to move further through the room. The topics for the questions include characters from horror movies, superstitions, and mythical creatures. Use the provided template to change questions as needed to fit the age of your students. Share this escape room using the share link, which includes a URL link, embed code, and links to share on social media.
tag(s): digital escapes (30), gamification (93), halloween (46), holidays (285)
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Share this escape room with students as designed, or modify the template to match the interests and ages of your students. For example, change the questions for younger students to include Disney villains, scary Halloween costumes, or Halloween candy. For older students, use questions from age-appropriate movies and books or take students on a virtual journey to "scary" places such as Transylvania. Find ideas to include in your escape room at The Halloween Collection reviewed here. Include this escape room as an activity for students to participate in during your Halloween or Fall parties.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Musical Escape Room - Genially
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4 to 12
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Design a musical escape room using this template from Genially, reviewed here. The escape room features four rooms to visit and answer questions;...more
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Design a musical escape room using this template from Genially, reviewed here. The escape room features four rooms to visit and answer questions; each room presents questions in a different format, such as multiple choice and true/false. Follow the link to use the template, then add questions and images to personalize the escape room. Share with students using the provided URL on your whiteboard, or share the link with students to participate on their devices.
tag(s): digital escapes (30), gamification (93), jazz (17), music theory (47), musical instruments (60), musical notation (34), rhythm (22)
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Share this template with your school's music teacher to use in many different ways, such as exploring music genres, musicians, and instruments. Incorporate a music sound room into math lessons by asking students to solve problems using musical notation (e.g., a quarter note is '''?, a half note is '''?) or as a social studies activity to match songs to different periods, like the Roaring Twenties or the Civil Rights movement. As an extension activity, share Blob Opera, reviewed here with students to enjoy experimenting with pitch through interactions with traditional, classic songs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Charm Words - Charm Words
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K to 12
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Charm Words is a daily affirmations podcast for children of diverse backgrounds that inspires and brings self-worth at the start and end of the day. Help your students cope with ...more
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Charm Words is a daily affirmations podcast for children of diverse backgrounds that inspires and brings self-worth at the start and end of the day. Help your students cope with emotional distress while learning new self-care skills. Episodes include I Have Endless Strength, I Can Say 'No' to Protect Myself, I Have Good Qualities, I Am Important, and more. On average, podcasts are two to five minutes in length. Access the episodes via iHeart Radio, TuneIn, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
tag(s): charactered (86), podcasts (163), social and emotional learning (195)
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Students can use Miro, reviewed here to post how their feelings/emotions have changed after listening to a podcast. Students can use WordClouds, reviewed here to create word clouds regarding feeling/emotion words. Finally, students can use Seesaw, reviewed here as a journal for daily reflection.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Online Escape Room Templates - Genially
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3 to 12
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Genially's Escape Room Game Templates provide educators with interactive and customizable digital escape room experiences. These templates allow teachers to create engaging, gamified...more
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Genially's Escape Room Game Templates provide educators with interactive and customizable digital escape room experiences. These templates allow teachers to create engaging, gamified learning activities where students solve puzzles, answer questions, and unlock clues to progress. The platform supports multimedia elements such as images, animations, and clickable objects, making lessons more immersive. Teachers can use these escape rooms for review sessions, team-building exercises, or subject-specific challenges across various grade levels.
tag(s): digital escapes (30), game based learning (304), gamification (93), puzzles (163)
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Create an escape room where students solve riddles and match definitions to unlock clues. Use synonyms, antonyms, or context clues to reinforce vocabulary skills in a fun, interactive way. Design an escape room where students "travel" through different historical events, solving primary source analysis puzzles, decoding ciphers, and answering questions to unlock the next time period. Students must solve multi-step word problems or algebraic equations to advance through a mystery-themed escape room. Each correct answer reveals a key to "unlock" the final solution. Simulate a science experiment gone wrong! Students analyze data, interpret graphs, and solve scientific riddles to find the missing formula or save the lab before time runs out. After reading a novel or short story, students could navigate an escape room based on key events, themes, and character motivations. They solve puzzles related to symbolism, figurative language, or plot twists to escape.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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How to Make a Digital Escape Room for the Classroom - Nearpod
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3 to 12
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The Nearpod blog post "How to Make a Digital Escape Room for the Classroom" provides educators with a step-by-step guide to creating engaging and interactive digital escape rooms. Learn...more
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The Nearpod blog post "How to Make a Digital Escape Room for the Classroom" provides educators with a step-by-step guide to creating engaging and interactive digital escape rooms. Learn how these activities can enhance critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills while making learning more immersive. The guide walks teachers through backward design planning, setting learning objectives, crafting clues and puzzles, and using digital tools like Google Forms, reviewed here and Nearpod, reviewed here to create an interactive experience. By following these strategies, teachers can design customized digital escape rooms that align with their curriculum and keep students actively engaged.
tag(s): collaboration (112), digital escapes (30), game based learning (304), problem solving (275), puzzles (163)
In the Classroom
Start the lesson with a quick digital escape puzzle related to the topic. For example, students solve an equation in a math class to reveal a clue, or in an ELA class, they decode a sentence to find a hidden theme. After experiencing a digital escape room, have students design their own using Nearpod or Google Forms, reviewed here and Nearpod, reviewed here. They can create puzzles based on a novel they read, a historical event, or a math concept, reinforcing learning through creation. Combine multiple subjects into one escape room experience. For example, students solve a math puzzle to get a clue, analyze a poem for another, and answer a science question to unlock the final key--blending critical thinking across subjects. Design a digital escape room focused on real-world skills (ex., financial literacy, digital citizenship, or environmental science). Students must apply knowledge to solve practical challenges and unlock the final "escape."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Maths Escape Room - Twinkl Educational Publishing
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2 to 8
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Twinkl offers a variety of math escape room resources designed to enhance student engagement through interactive problem-solving activities. These resources present students with themed...more
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Twinkl offers a variety of math escape room resources designed to enhance student engagement through interactive problem-solving activities. These resources present students with themed challenges where they must solve a series of math puzzles to "escape" or complete a mission. The activities cover various mathematical concepts and are available for different age groups, making them adaptable to diverse classroom settings. Teachers can utilize these escape room games to promote collaboration, critical thinking, and application of mathematical skills in an enjoyable and immersive environment.
tag(s): angles (52), collaboration (112), counting (66), critical thinking (179), digital escapes (30), equations (132), fractions (179), game based learning (304), negative numbers (13), numbers (120), order of operations (32), problem solving (275), puzzles (163), pythagorean theorem (20), ratios (53)
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Start the class with a mini escape puzzle where students solve a quick math problem to "unlock" the day's lesson. Divide the class into small teams and use a Twinkl math escape room challenge. Teams work through math puzzles, decoding clues to "escape" first. After completing a Twinkl escape room, have students design a math-based escape puzzles for their classmates, reinforcing math concepts through creative problem-solving. Connect escape room puzzles to real-world math applications, such as budgeting for a trip, measuring distances, or calculating time zones, to show students the practical use of math skills.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rebus Generator - festisite
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2 to 8
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The Festisite Rebus Generator is an online tool that enables educators to transform text into engaging rebus puzzles, where words or phrases are represented through images and letters....more
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The Festisite Rebus Generator is an online tool that enables educators to transform text into engaging rebus puzzles, where words or phrases are represented through images and letters. This interactive resource supports multiple languages, including English, German, Danish, and Dutch, allowing diverse classroom applications. Teachers can input text, and the generator instantly creates a rebus puzzle, which can be customized further by using emoji characters or adding hints. Print the generated puzzles or share digitally, making them versatile for various educational activities, including digital escape rooms. Incorporating rebus puzzles into lessons can enhance students' problem-solving skills, reinforce vocabulary, and add fun to language learning.
tag(s): digital escapes (30), game based learning (304), puzzles (163)
In the Classroom
Have students create rebus puzzles for their weekly vocabulary words or spelling lists using the generator. They swap puzzles with classmates to solve, reinforcing word meanings in a fun way. Students write a short story or paragraph and replace keywords with rebus puzzles. Classmates decode the rebus to reconstruct the whole story. Use rebus puzzles as hidden clues in a classroom escape room or scavenger hunt. Students must solve them to unlock the next challenge, incorporating problem-solving and critical thinking.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Purring Test - TED
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3 to 12
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Looking for a quick, engaging brain break? TED's "The Purring Test" offers just that and more. Perfect for adding a playful twist to your classroom, TED's first game, The Purring ...more
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Looking for a quick, engaging brain break? TED's "The Purring Test" offers just that and more. Perfect for adding a playful twist to your classroom, TED's first game, The Purring Test, began with a curious question: "What would it be like to play Pictionary with an AI?" Intended to help understand different types of minds when challenged with quirky associations and unexpected twists, the outcome is usually hilarious and fun. This interactive game invites players to compete against friends and family with new puzzles daily, making it a playful addition to your classroom or a fun way to spark curiosity about AI and communication.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (300), gifted (63), puzzles (163)
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Use this game as a brain break during those long lessons or indoor recess. Turn the daily puzzles into a friendly competition or debate and pair students to play a Pictionary-inspired game, mimicking how AI might interpret their drawings. After playing, lead a discussion on how AI "thinks" compared to humans.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Little Inventors - Little Inventors
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K to 8
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Little Inventors is a free website that offers STEM activities for students. Little Inventors allows children to develop and showcase their creativity and problem-solving skills and...more
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Little Inventors is a free website that offers STEM activities for students. Little Inventors allows children to develop and showcase their creativity and problem-solving skills and build their confidence, curiosity, and resilience to become caring citizens of our planet. Challenges include Climate Champion, Ocean Challenge, World of Pollution, Pioneers Inventor log, and Food Waste. Inside the challenges, you will receive challenge cards, visuals, planning pages, curriculum fit, and PowerPoint explaining Little Inventors; note that challenges have deadlines.
tag(s): inventors and inventions (88), STEM (370)
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Have your students participate in the challenges or the open challenge. Students can run an after-school Little Inventors club, which gives teachers/adults information on how to organize the club. Finally, students can share their Little Inventors activities/ideas at a schoolwide showcase.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Emily Arrow Playlist - Emily Arrow
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K to 2
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This is the YouTube channel for Emily Arrow, who provides resources for children's learning. She offers a blend of children's music and books aimed at fostering creativity and learning....more
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This is the YouTube channel for Emily Arrow, who provides resources for children's learning. She offers a blend of children's music and books aimed at fostering creativity and learning. Her mission is to inspire a young generation of artists, learners, and change-makers through the joy of music. Helping young people navigate *big feelings* the Arrow way: with heart, through art. The videos are hosted on YouTube. If your district blocks YouTube, then they may not be viewable.
tag(s): interactive stories (22), musical instruments (60), poetry (196), social and emotional learning (195), stories and storytelling (75)
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Inspired by Emily's use of the ukulele, students can build simple instruments from recycled materials and then play along with her videos. This engages students in hands-on creation, enhances their understanding of sound and music, and extends to environmental awareness. Have students pick a song from Emily's YouTube channel, write a short story or poem inspired by the song, and share it in class. Use Emily's videos for sing-along sessions. Students can learn the songs, discuss the lyrics, and explore themes. Use the videos during the day to offer brain breaks to your students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Tumble Podcast - Lindsay Patterson and Marshall Escamilla
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K to 8
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Tumble is a science podcast for kids; however, it is entertaining and informative for the entire family. Topics include timely events like a solar eclipse and thought-provoking questions...more
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Tumble is a science podcast for kids; however, it is entertaining and informative for the entire family. Topics include timely events like a solar eclipse and thought-provoking questions like whether dinosaurs burped. Each podcast episode includes a blog with a transcript and supplemental information such as videos, images, and links to additional resources. Most podcast episodes run between twenty and thirty minutes and are available on several podcast-hosting resources, including Apple, Google, and Amazon Music.
tag(s): animals (275), bacteria (19), birds (47), dinosaurs (48), insects (63), listening (117), molecules (42), oceans (143), planets (123), plants (143), podcasts (163), stars (78), sun (87)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site to find informative podcasts. Podcasts can be an engaging way to promote interest in science topics as part of a listening center rotation or to enhance your current lessons. Enhance learning by downloading the transcript and creating a set of questions using an AI resource such as MagicSchool, reviewed here. Visit MagicSchool, select the Text Dependent Questions generator, add the requested information, and upload the PDF transcript to generate a set of comprehension questions based on the information in the podcast. Extend learning by asking students to create an infographic using free templates found in Adobe Infographic Creator, reviewed here or Canva Education Templates, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twin Pics - Chris Sev
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4 to 12
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Use your AI prompting skills to find how closely you can match an image. Every thirty minutes, a new image appears, and users have up to one hundred characters to ...more
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Use your AI prompting skills to find how closely you can match an image. Every thirty minutes, a new image appears, and users have up to one hundred characters to match the image as closely as possible, using up to one hundred characters in the prompt. After generating the image, Twin Pics provides a percentage indicating the similarity between the original and the generated image. Scroll down the page to view the current leaderboard of user-generated images.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (300), descriptive writing (42), images (266), writing prompts (55)
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Understanding how to write effective prompts using generative AI is an important skill, and Twin Pics is an engaging way to learn how to create a short prompt to create images. Use this site as a five-minute time filler to engage students in descriptive writing activities. If students don't have individual access to the site, ask them to write a 100-character prompt, then select a random prompt to view together as a class. Use this site as a model for demonstrating how to write a prompt to create an image, then use Image Creator by Designer, reviewed here to extend learning by creating images and asking students to try to replicate your design. Use images for creative writing projects or include them with multimedia projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Barefoot Computing - BT in partnership with Computing At School
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K to 5
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Discover a variety of computational thinking resources for elementary students including lessons, activity sheets, PowerPoints, and downloadable classroom posters. Register for an account...more
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Discover a variety of computational thinking resources for elementary students including lessons, activity sheets, PowerPoints, and downloadable classroom posters. Register for an account using your email to access and save materials found on the site. Browse through activities by grade level or topics. Topics include programming, collaboration, logical thinking, and more. Be sure also to check out the Teacher Resources to find professional development to bring you up to date with the latest computing concepts.
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In the Classroom
Take advantage of the lessons and materials on this site to introduce computer and computational skills to elementary-age students. Several activities incorporate music and art concepts; collaborate with your school's special area teachers to teach lessons found on the site. Use a portfolio tool such as Seesaw, reviewed here, to have students enhance and share their learning successes through sharing pictures of projects and written reflections on learning activities. Work together as a class to modify classroom technology by creating a digital book using WriteReader, reviewed here, to feature class learning of computer concepts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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