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National STEM Centre eLibrary - National Stem Centre (UK)
Grades
K to 12tag(s): STEM (387), engineering (136)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free activities, videos, and other resources throughout the year. Be sure to bookmark this site to search for resources for any lesson. Share a link to specific lessons and activities on your class website for use at home.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Intel Teach Elements - Online Professional Development Courses - Intel
Grades
K to 12tag(s): professional development (317)
In the Classroom
Gain a better understanding of digital learning tools and techniques by taking Intel's professional development courses. Share with other faculty members as part of your school's professional development. Take a course together with fellow staff members and discuss content and how it works in your teaching situation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Technology Integration Matrix - Florida Center for Instructional Technology
Grades
K to 12tag(s): rubrics (40)
In the Classroom
Use the matrix to evaluate how you use technology in your classroom. Share with administrators and peers as part of your ongoing professional development. View videos to understand different ways to incorporate technology in your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Creative Educator - Tech4Learning
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (136), creativity (95), Teacher Utilities (234)
In the Classroom
Creative Educator, designed for teachers, helps you move past stale worksheets to get inspired! Be sure to look at this site to help you discover ways to integrate technology and creativity into lessons. Work with a partner to make the lessons fit in your situation. Share at staff meetings and offer new ideas. Look for ways to bring a new focus to your gifted students. Give as a resource to students, so they can choose a multimedia product to share the content knowledge they are learning. Once you and your students are familiar with the site use Padlet, reviewed here, to list out student interests. Then use Nearpod, reviewed here to assign lessons to groups with the same or similar interests. Older students, once they have determined their interests, can select their projects/lessons. After several selections, ask older students to choose the topic they were most interested in, find resources to learn more about the topic, then extend their learning by presenting their findings using a multimedia tool such as (click on the tool name to access the review): Canva Infographic Maker, Marq (formerly Lucidpress), Powtoon, and FlexClip.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Teacher Toolkit - The Region 13 Educator Certification Program (ECP)
Grades
K to 12tag(s): Teacher Utilities (234), back to school (57), classroom management (155), reading strategies (85)
In the Classroom
Keep lessons engaging and interactive with these Tools. For instance use the Quiz, Quiz, Trade activity to get students up and to interact with questions for review before a test. To structure a meaningful discussion try the 5-3-1 activity. Use the Gallery Walk to review and get students discussing the unit or topic just finished. With the Gallery Walk, student groups could create posters (maybe a picture summary of something just read in class) and walk around observing and taking notes from others' posters. Or, to enhance learning, have students use Genially, reviewed here, to create digital posters that can include maps, surveys, video, audio and more. Then, have students complete a digital Gallery Walk, reviewing posters on each others computers. There are dozens more strategies for you to try at The Teacher Toolkit.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares - New York Times
Grades
10 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): demographics (12)
In the Classroom
Have students explore the interactive map on their devices in small groups or display it for a whole-class discussion. Ask students to compare locations and consider how opportunities and outcomes may differ by income and gender. Invite them to examine the source and date of the data, identify what the statistics do and do not reveal, and write three questions about possible reasons for the patterns they notice. Encourage students to consider what additional information they would need before drawing conclusions. In a civics class, discuss how community leaders and policymakers might use this information to make decisions. Educators and administrators may also use the map as a starting point for conversations about opportunities and outcomes in their community.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Hott Notes - Joel Riley
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): note taking (35)
In the Classroom
A teacher's life is full of many things to remember. Keep sticky notes wherever you go on your computer desktop, in a folder, and on a USB mini-drive. Students love technology so encourage sticky note reminders. Use as a way to have students vote for choices. Allow students to add a sticky note to your computer after finishing an assignment. List all materials needed for lessons and labs on your sticky notes. Gather them from multiple places and still keep track. Use as a way to brainstorm with your class and later eliminate unneeded ideas. Keep weekly vocabulary or spelling words on Hott Notes for all of your student computers. Use as a method for tracking behavior.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Squirt - Squirt io
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): independent reading (85)
In the Classroom
Want to take away the distractions of advertising or annoying graphics on a page? Use Squirt to only look at one word at a time. Squirt can also help struggling readers to practice their speed and accuracy rate. Squirt aids readers who may have problems with tracking. Use as an example of speed reading versus comprehension. Discuss the difference between reading with and without illustrations, tables, pictures, and the difference they make to comprehension. Use as a way to challenge students for reward certificates or extra computer time using an interactive they love. Use Squirt yourself, to get caught up on articles you need to read.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NovoEd - NovoEd, Inc
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K to 12tag(s): professional development (317)
In the Classroom
Sign up for courses with your peers as part of your professional development goals. NovoEd is perfect for professional development on your own, choose courses of interest and interact with others across the world in this online platform.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TeachThought - Teachthought
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): professional development (317), reading strategies (85), flipped learning (9), critical thinking (194), blooms taxonomy (7), classroom management (155)
In the Classroom
Think beyond your everyday lessons to something that makes you a teacher that kids always remember. Interesting ideas challenge you to do what you want most in your teaching, inspire you, and motivate you. Subscribe to the newsletter and follow the latest articles. Use the resources for enrichment or information. Share with colleagues, and the collaboration begins. Share at a professional development meeting for many relevant ideas.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Is It Down Right Now? - isitdownrightnow.com
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Mark this one in your Favorites and remind your student to use it before they call out, "The page isn't opening!" in the middle of class. Make it one of the required tools as part of "ask three before me." If you have a class web page, this is a handy way to find out if your web page service (or district-provided web page server) is having trouble "serving up" the class page. Tell savvy students who are unable to access web sites to use this tool and take a screen shot of the results if a site assigned for homework is "down" for prolonged periods. This is simple "proof" worthy of a get-out-of-homework-free card if they can show that the site was down for three hours on the night of the assignment!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sherry Parrish: Number Talks: Building Numerical Reasoning - Scholastic
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): problem solving (284), number sense (75)
In the Classroom
Gather your colleagues to watch the video introducing the process of Number Talks, using the Standards of Mathematical Practice. Use this video for a Professional Learning Community. Be sure to document for your professional development. Scroll down the page to find many Number Talks videos not produced by Scholastic.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Common Core Conversations - Kristina Holzweiss
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): commoncore (63)
In the Classroom
Common Core Conversations provides ideas and resources to assure your lessons contain Common Core Standards necessities. Investigate a resource for yourself every week or to share at your professional growth development. Be sure to document your new ideas under professional growth for your evaluation. When hosting professional growth development, begin here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Shmoop Common Core Standards - shmoop.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): commoncore (63)
In the Classroom
Use Shmoop to find materials correlated directly to individual Common Core Standards in Math and English. Share a link to student activities on your class webpage or blog for students to practice at home. Link to activities on classroom computers for use as centers. Use assessments for planning Common Core related lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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edX - Anant Agarwal
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8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): computers (101), religions (118), electricity (62), magnetism (40), speech (65), psychology (61), nutrition (140), statistics (127), civil rights (230), environment (248), aeronautics (10), engineering (136), medicine (52), terrorism (40), shakespeare (98), china (78), poetry (195), architecture (80), circuits (19), evolution (85), folktales (34), solar energy (35), greeks (44), artificial intelligence (369)
In the Classroom
Share with students on your interactive whiteboard and take the demo course together. This is perfect for use with gifted and advanced students as an option for college-level courses and enrichment. Allow gifted students to enroll in courses that interest them or that provide enrichment beyond classroom content. Share with others in your building, as a resource for professional development. Explore topics yourself to find new, engaging ones to round out your expertise. Allow students to enroll in a course that aligns with their career goals as an exploratory opportunity in that field.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cubing and Think Dots Strategy - Eulouise Williams
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): differentiation (105), learning styles (23), professional development (317), blooms taxonomy (7)
In the Classroom
Use ideas from this PDF to differentiate and offer a variety of learning opportunities to students. Share this site and the strategies with peers during professional development sessions. Have students create cubes or think dots of their own for use when reviewing material for tests and quizzes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Common Core Math - Grade by Grade View for Parents - Tricia Bevans & Dev Sinha University of Oregon
Grades
K to 12tag(s): commoncore (63), parent conferences (21), parents (54)
In the Classroom
Share this Common Core Math handout with parents on meet the teacher night or at conferences. Be sure to include the last two pages sharing tips for parents to help students with math. Share with co-workers as a resource for parent information.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Young Men's Health - Boston Children's Hospital
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5 to 12tag(s): fitness (36), nutrition (140), adolescence (9), mental health (65)
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Share this resource with parents and school counselors dealing with teen issues. Use articles and information from the site as part of any health unit. Post this site on your class internet page for parent use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Center for Young Women's Health - Boston Children's Hospital
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7 to 12tag(s): mental health (65), adolescence (9), nutrition (140), fitness (36)
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Share this resource with parents and school counselors dealing with teen issues. Use articles and information from the site as part of any health unit.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What is Mathematics? - Dr. Robert H Lewis
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8 to 12tag(s): professional development (317), problem solving (284), logic (174)
In the Classroom
Have your students ever said, "I'll never use this in real life"? If so, that is the time to pull out this article for classroom discussions. Provide different sections of the article to groups of students to present to classmates as a way to understand the importance of developing mathematical understanding, not just a way to put numbers together. Share this article with parents to help them understand the importance of developing mathematical understanding. Share this article with other math teachers in your building.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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