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Branching Scenario - Genially
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4 to 12
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Step into the world of interactive storytelling with Genially's Branching Scenario template, where every decision leads to a new path of discovery. This customizable tool empowers educators...more
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Step into the world of interactive storytelling with Genially's Branching Scenario template, where every decision leads to a new path of discovery. This customizable tool empowers educators to create immersive, choose-your-own-adventure experiences that simulate real-life situations and decision-making processes. By integrating multimedia elements such as audio, video, and animations, teachers can craft engaging narratives that challenge students to think critically and explore various outcomes based on their choices.
tag(s): digital storytelling (181), graphic organizers (58), Teacher Utilities (222)
In the Classroom
Let students explore key character choices from a novel or short story. Each decision in the branching scenario leads to different consequences, helping students analyze character motivation and plot development. Develop a branching timeline and assign students to explore alternate historical outcomes (e.g., "What if the colonies didn't declare independence?"). For SEL or health education, create branching stories about peer interactions, bullying, or decision-making under peer pressure. Students can see the impact of different choices in a safe, guided format.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Branching Scenario 3 - Genially
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6 to 12
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Genially's Branching Scenario 3 template is a powerful tool for educators aiming to simulate real-life situations and enhance decision-making skills in the classroom. This interactive...more
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Genially's Branching Scenario 3 template is a powerful tool for educators aiming to simulate real-life situations and enhance decision-making skills in the classroom. This interactive template lets you create immersive learning experiences by adding questions, videos, and audio, enabling students to explore different outcomes based on their choices. Ideal for developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, it offers a customizable platform for designing engaging e-learning resources that mirror real-world challenges. Whether you're focusing on ethical dilemmas, historical events, or scientific processes, this template provides a dynamic way to bring content to life and foster active learning.
tag(s): concept mapping (15), critical thinking (191), game based learning (320), gamification (89), problem solving (285)
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Begin a unit by presenting a branching scenario that introduces a real-world dilemma related to your subject (e.g., a historical decision, scientific ethical issue, or peer conflict). Let students vote on choices and discuss outcomes as a class. In small groups, have students map out possible decision paths and consequences before playing a branching scenario, predicting outcomes, and practicing critical thinking. Assign students to design their own branching scenarios using Genially, applying their knowledge to simulate historical events, scientific experiments, or literature-based moral choices.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Break Your Own News - Jon Cresswell
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4 to 12
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Break Your Own News makes it easy to customize and download a personalized breaking news image without registration. Use the customization boxes to add a headline and text for the ...more
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Break Your Own News makes it easy to customize and download a personalized breaking news image without registration. Use the customization boxes to add a headline and text for the ticker, select image size, and upload an image. When finished, select download to save the JPG image to your device.
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tag(s): digital storytelling (181), images (273), newspapers (87)
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This site contains some ads that may be distracting; however, a quick lesson on avoiding them and engaging with only the desired content is all that is needed to keep most students from following advertising links. Add a link to the Break Your Own News Generator to your lists of other tools to use with images for many different purposes. One excellent tool for organizing and sharing resources with students is Padlet, reviewed here. Create columns in Padlet to organize different resources and then add links to make it easy for you and your students to find what they need. For example, engage students at the beginning of a new lesson or unit by creating a breaking news image to introduce the content. One example might be for a science lesson featuring simple machines with a headline sharing a runaway object that leads into your study of inclined planes. Extend learning and ask students to become creators and share breaking headlines to discuss new information they learned, share important information about story characters, or create a made-up headline about historical events. Include breaking headline images as part of multimedia presentations built using Google Slides, reviewed here, or Canva Edu, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Breaking News Generator - Russell Tarr
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4 to 12
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Design professional looking front pages for a newspaper with this tool. Simply fill in the pertinent information (headline, date, place, and more) and an image. Share via URL, Twitter,...more
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Design professional looking front pages for a newspaper with this tool. Simply fill in the pertinent information (headline, date, place, and more) and an image. Share via URL, Twitter, or download to your computer. Be sure to view the several samples available, and click on the little question mark at the end of the title to see ideas for use of this tool. No registration is necessary.
tag(s): digital storytelling (181), images (273), newspapers (87), noregistration (74)
In the Classroom
Assess students prior knowledge by creating a Breaking News piece to introduce a new unit. Replace paper and pencil and ask students to fill in an interactive KWL chart from Holt, reviewed here, or discuss in small groups what they know about the topic. Transform student learning by using their "Breaking News" in presentation slides by downloading the image from your computer. Then upload the image to a slide presentation creator such as Slides, reviewed here. Suggest to students that they do the same for their presentations. Use as a timeline of events for lab experiment, a novel study, historical event, and more. You might want to think about using this tool as a storyboard for digital storytelling as this tool could work well for storyboarding.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Bridge to Terabithia - Study Guide - Glencoe
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6 to 8
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Here's a well organized PDF reading guide by Glencoe. The lessons are grouped in four chapter reading segments, each group of chapters is divided into three parts: Before You ...more
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Here's a well organized PDF reading guide by Glencoe. The lessons are grouped in four chapter reading segments, each group of chapters is divided into three parts: Before You Read, Active Reading, and Responding. The guides are well thought out and will prompt students to write, create cluster diagrams, and complete comparison charts for the story's characters, plot, and climax. After completing the novel, students are asked to read five extension assignments in various other forms of literature and relate them to the book's central themes. Teachers will be able to use this guide as a 'turn key' approach to teaching this thoughtful novel.
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BridgeURL - BridgeURL
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K to 12
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Share a number of URL's easily with just one link. Simply enter a title, enter the URL's, and click "Create Link." BridgeURL makes it easy to share the URL's. ...more
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Share a number of URL's easily with just one link. Simply enter a title, enter the URL's, and click "Create Link." BridgeURL makes it easy to share the URL's.
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Create a simple link with this free resource. No sign up is required for use. Use the sliders in the two sections to navigate between the links. Hover the mouse over sections to see the 'Next' or 'Previous' link. Click on the box icon on the top of the slider to open the link in a new page. Use BridgeURL for anytime that many links need to be shared such as for projects, research, or webquests.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Brisk Teaching - Brisk Labs Co.
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1 to 12
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Brisk Teaching is a versatile Chrome extension that transforms how you manage instructional tasks directly within your existing Google Docs, Slides, and web browser workflows. The AI...more
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Brisk Teaching is a versatile Chrome extension that transforms how you manage instructional tasks directly within your existing Google Docs, Slides, and web browser workflows. The AI assistant serves students in grades K-12 by instantly adapting the reading level of any online article or document to match your students' specific needs. In addition to supporting differentiation needs, the tool generates high-quality lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, and presentations based on the content you are already viewing. The free version includes a variety of feedback modes, such as the "Glow and Grow" style, which helps you provide personalized and actionable comments on student work without leaving the document. It also features a writing inspection tool that provides a replay of a student's drafting process, offering transparency into their revision history and helping to ensure academic integrity.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (347), assessment (140), differentiation (100), gifted (64), multilingual (82), Special Needs (45), Teacher Utilities (222)
In the Classroom
Use Brisk to quickly adapt and differentiate text or content by reading level and language needs, or to translate text into the native language of multilingual learners and generate comprehension questions. Differentiate text for special-needs students or gifted students based on their abilities. Use the quiz creation tool to quickly generate quizzes that include multiple-choice or short-response questions based on the website's information. After generating quiz questions, copy and paste them into an online quiz creation tool such as Formative, reviewed here. Use Formative to engage students through teacher-paced or student-paced activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Brother Against Brother: Books to Help Teach Civil War - TeachersFirst
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4 to 12
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Share stories and events about the Civil War using the books, virtual field trips, and videos shared on this curated list. Each book includes a summary and suggested teaching activities....more
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Share stories and events about the Civil War using the books, virtual field trips, and videos shared on this curated list. Each book includes a summary and suggested teaching activities. In addition, browse through the extension activities to find additional suggestions to support student learning about the Civil War. Information is correlated to AASL National School Library Standards and ISTE Standards for students.
tag(s): book lists (166), civil war (145), help article (47), underground railroad (15)
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Create a list of suggested books for students using Padlet, reviewed here. Encourage students to add comments in short book reviews for other students to use as a resource. Enhance learning by incorporating books found on this list into your other resources to create a learning unit using Curipod, reviewed here. Use Curipod to add videos, articles, quizzes, and more to create engaging multimedia lessons.
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Bruce Cameron Novel Study Guide - Macmillan
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6 to 12
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Bruce Cameron is the author of the popular book series, A Dog's Purpose. This printable document contains a reading guide that incorporates the series's novels into an integrated lesson...more
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Bruce Cameron is the author of the popular book series, A Dog's Purpose. This printable document contains a reading guide that incorporates the series's novels into an integrated lesson plan. The materials incorporate the three books to use as teaching opportunities for lessons in compare and contrast and to teach about following a plotline throughout a book series. Content includes chapter-by-chapter vocabulary, chapter summaries and questions, and extended learning questions.
tag(s): guided reading (32), reading strategies (87)
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Take advantage of this free reading guide to use as a book study in your classroom. Engage students using Baamboozle, reviewed here, to introduce and assess student understanding of vocabulary words. Baamboozle is an easy to use game creation site designed to be played in teams. Extend learning of point of view concepts by asking students to use Witty Comics, reviewed here, to create comic strips sharing different points of view. As a final project, ask students to choose one of the themes found in the study guide as a project-based learning activity. Provide options for sharing their learning such as creating a podcast using Buzzsprout, reviewed here, create a learning game using Scratch, reviewed here, or use Odyssey, reviewed here, as a map-based storytelling tool.
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Bruce Cameron Study Guides and Activity Kits - Macmillan
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2 to 6
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This site for educators includes study guides and activity kits to accompany Bruce Cameron's A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales series. The activity kits include printable activities for students,...more
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This site for educators includes study guides and activity kits to accompany Bruce Cameron's A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales series. The activity kits include printable activities for students, such as word searches, mazes, and coloring pages. The teachers' guides share before, during, and after reading and writing activities that accompany each of the books.
tag(s): book lists (166), guided reading (32), reading strategies (87)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the reading guides and activity kits to engage students and enhance reading skills. As a pre-reading activity, create a collage using PhotoCollage, reviewed here, of your students' pets. Ask students to share stories of why their pet is important to them and create a digital class book with Book Creator, reviewed here. Be sure to share a link to your book for students to read and share at home.
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Brush Ninja - Ben Gillbanks
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4 to 12
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Create animated GIFs using Brush Ninja's paint tools and online editor. Use the paintbrushes to draw and color each frame. The toolbox contains a variety of features, including pencils,...more
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Create animated GIFs using Brush Ninja's paint tools and online editor. Use the paintbrushes to draw and color each frame. The toolbox contains a variety of features, including pencils, text, shapes, and more. Use the control panel to adjust and play the animation. The timeline lets you see the frames that make up an animation, and you can drag and drop any frame to change the order. When finished, export your GIF as an image for each frame, an animated GIF, or as an animated GIF adjusted for X (formerly Twitter). Clicking the Resources tab at the top, you'll find Lesson Plans, Videos, Free Downloads (i.e., educational clipart), and more.
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Use Brush Ninja in a variety of ways. Share this site with students and give them time to explore and experiment. When working with troubled students, use this site to let students share their thoughts and emotions through an animation. This is an excellent site for students who love art and enjoy sharing their learning through creative expression. Take a look at the images created by other users in the gallery as inspiration for how to use animations. Ask students to create animations that demonstrate science concepts such as erosion, weathering, or chemical reactions. Use this site to have students create animations demonstrating events from stories, share their thought process in math, or animate an event from history. Have students include their animations when creating multimedia projects in an online tool like Sway, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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bubbl.us - Kirill Edelman and Levon Amelyan
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K to 12
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This simple and free online tool allows you to brainstorm ideas and create concept maps with no special software! Bubble.us offers several highly interactive features: saving your mind...more
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This simple and free online tool allows you to brainstorm ideas and create concept maps with no special software! Bubble.us offers several highly interactive features: saving your mind map as an image, sharing (emailing) your work with a friend, printing your organizer, creating colorful mind map organizers, embedding your work on a website or blog, and collaborating with friends. You can "play" on this site without registering; however, registration is required to save, embed, email, and use other features. NOTE: The free version only allows you to SAVE three maps, so you will want to save your completed maps as images, then delete them from your membership to make room for more freebies.
tag(s): brainstorming (17), graphic organizers (58), mind map (31), noregistration (74)
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Click "Start Here" to type the subject of your concept map. Hitting your Enter key creates a new level (branch) within the map. Tab creates an additional branch on the same level as the current topic. Experiment with the small icons on each "element" to change colors, drag, make new connections, etc. Save and set sharing (read-only or open access) in the area at the right. You can "send" a read-only link via email or copy the embed code from the Menu at lower right), but you cannot find the URL directly from your map. "Send" it to yourself via email to copy the actual URL.There are countless possibilities at this mental mapping site. Demonstrate the tool on an interactive whiteboard or projector, and then allow students to try to create their own graphic organizers. Use this site for literature activities, research projects, social studies, or science topics of study. Use this site to create family trees. Have students collaborate together (online) to create group mind maps or review charts before tests on a given subject. Have students organize color-code concepts to show what they understand, wonder, question; map out a story, plotline, or LIFETIME; map out a step-by-step process (life cycle); map a real historical event as a choose-your-own-adventure with alternate endings(?) based on pivotal points; plan a "tour" for a "thought museum." Use this mapping website as an alternative to a traditional test, quiz, or homework assignment in literature or social studies: have students demonstrate their understanding by completing a graphic organizer about the main points. To minimize the number of maps on a free account, have students screenshot or print their results to turn them in. See more ideas in the linked example above!
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Bubble Test Form Generator - Answer Sheets - Catpin Productions
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K to 12
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Do your students have trouble filling in the bubbles? Create free bubble sheets for assessments. Carefully fill in the fields as you scroll down the page. Blank boxes will not ...more
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Do your students have trouble filling in the bubbles? Create free bubble sheets for assessments. Carefully fill in the fields as you scroll down the page. Blank boxes will not appear on the test form. Change font sizes for the text, and provide directions in English or Spanish. Format your bubble columns and styles that best meet your assessment needs. Select a variety of other graphic styles that are not necessarily "normal" looking bubbles. Various styles of math grids are available. Choose from a menu of miscellaneous options to add some creativity to your test form. Include scoring boxes for evaluation and comments. Include registration marks for automated test marking machines. Select the "Test ID" option to reprint your form at a later date. The ID number will appear on your form. All data is saved for future retrieval (1-2 months). Create a test key by printing a bubble sheet on a clear transparency. Use a permanent pen to mark the correct answers on the test key.
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tag(s): assessment (140), test prep (67)
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Are your students in trouble with the bubble? Provide them with a daily double bubble form. Introduce your students to the many testing styles early in the school year. Create forms that mirror graphics, a feelings chart, fact/opinion, music staffs, and many other options. Go beyond the bubble and have students analyze assessment results. Tired of grading? Use the registration marks to create forms for automated testing machines. Students can self-correct using test keys. Get instant results for faster analysis. Give your younger students regular practice with bubbles by creating a "lunch count" bubble sheet, a "packing" or "buying" sheet, or a daily attendance check-in sheet.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Buffer - Buffer
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K to 12
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Buffer is a social media management platform that simplifies planning and sharing content across multiple networks. The free version allows you to connect up to three social media channels,...more
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Buffer is a social media management platform that simplifies planning and sharing content across multiple networks. The free version allows you to connect up to three social media channels, such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or LinkedIn, and maintain a queue of ten scheduled posts per channel at any given time by clicking the Manage Channels button at the bottom of the dashboard and authorizing each platform. Navigate to the Posting Schedule under each channel's settings to designate specific days and times for your updates to go live automatically.
tag(s): communication (125), social media (64)
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Use Buffer as a time-saving resource to maintain a professional, consistent social media presence for a classroom or school organization without having to post manually throughout the day. Teachers can dedicate a single planning block to batch-scheduling a week's worth of reminders, student shout-outs, and curriculum updates, ensuring parents and the community stay informed. To create visuals for these updates, design custom graphics or short promotional clips using Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here. Once these visuals are ready, users can upload them to Buffer with captions that link back to a more detailed classroom site created with Google Sites, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Building AI Knowledge: A New AI Literacy Curriculum from Quill + aiEDU - Quill and aiEDU
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8 to 12
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Take advantage of this year-long curriculum to teach students in grades 8-12 about AI and develop critical thinking skills within daily literacy and STEM instruction. The course includes...more
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Take advantage of this year-long curriculum to teach students in grades 8-12 about AI and develop critical thinking skills within daily literacy and STEM instruction. The course includes 21 instructional models, grouped into packs of 3; each pack features a different theme. Following a ten-minute warm-up activity, read and respond to a nonfiction text about AI, and respond to three open-ended writing prompts. After completing the prompts, students then use Quill, reviewed here, to revise their writing. Exploration topics include animal conservation, the impact of AI on music and the arts, and the ethics of using AI image generators with copyrighted artwork.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (347), critical thinking (191), digital citizenship (110), logic (176), reading comprehension (146), STEM (381)
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Take advantage of this free curriculum or choose individual lessons to teach students how to use AI and consider digital citizenship guidelines when utilizing AI, either as a stand-alone technology lesson or by integrating the lessons into language arts, science, or computer science lessons. Extend learning and continue to promote critical thinking skills using Kialo Edu, reviewed here to structure student debates about AI ethics. Kialo's structure offers mapping tools that facilitate constructive debate and provide opportunities for viewing information from different perspectives.
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Building Bases Board - Wordtorque
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K to 3
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Students should regularly utilize various tools to explore word formation and discover related words. The Building Bases Board helps young learners see how words are structured by adding...more
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Students should regularly utilize various tools to explore word formation and discover related words. The Building Bases Board helps young learners see how words are structured by adding prefixes and suffixes to base words. This tool allows students to build words with different base words, prefixes and suffixes.
tag(s): prefixes (10), root words (10), sight words (22), spelling (92), suffixes (8), word study (58)
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Have students use this site to create words and categorize them based on common prefixes or suffixes. Challenge students to see how many words they can make in a particular time. Up the challenge by requiring a specific prefix or suffix to be used. Play a word detective game where you give clues about the word, and the students use the site on their devices to try to guess the word. Use the site for individual assessment. Provide a word and have the student spell it using the board.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Building Schoolwide Literacy With Free Web 2.0 Tools: A Grade by Grade Elementary Model - TeachersFirst
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K to 8
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The Source for Learning offers this model for elementary (or middle) schools to build skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening systematically in a schoolwide model including...more
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The Source for Learning offers this model for elementary (or middle) schools to build skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening systematically in a schoolwide model including students, teachers, and parents. The free Web 2.0 tools suggested here are by no means the only tools that might work. These exemplary tools were chosen by the TeachersFirst Editors for ease of use and versatility in classroom and home use and could easily be implemented at grade levels other than those suggested here. As students and teachers master a new tool at each grade level, they develop rich literacy skills and vital technology skills, all in the context of reading, writing, speaking and listening across the curriculum.
In the Classroom
Explore the tools and project suggestions by grade for your individual use as a teacher or work together with others in your school to build literacy across all subjects and grades by systematically adopting and repeatedly using a fixed collection of tools so students master the tool skills as an aside to reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Try the practical suggestions for implementing this model in your school or grade level team.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Building STEAM Skills with Hands-On Activity Collections - Cody Caltharp & Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Art
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K to 12
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These six activity collections from the Smithsonian Center provide engaging, hands-on activities for integrating technology and developing STEAM skills. Activities include creating...more
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These six activity collections from the Smithsonian Center provide engaging, hands-on activities for integrating technology and developing STEAM skills. Activities include creating a 3-D insect model, a trading card game for discovering patterns and connections, and creating wearable tech. Each activity includes a complete lesson plan along with additional ideas for extending learning and reinforcing content. Choose any collection to view resources and download the PDF lesson plan.
tag(s): design (77), engineering (141), flight (33), insects (64), patterns (78), plants (143), sculpture (17), STEM (381)
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Save activities from this site to use as hands-on STEAM lessons throughout the year. Introduce the Smithsonian collection resources on an interactive whiteboard or projector and explore the included items together. Flip your classroom and include a link to museum resources for students to explore before your lessons, and have them create online stickies sharing their thoughts on collection pieces using lino, reviewed here. Instead of having students complete written responses during your lesson, ask them to respond to questions using a video response tool like Gravity, reviewed here. Gravity offers users the opportunity to submit video responses to questions and add comments to other users' responses. At the end of your STEAM activities ask students to create a multimedia presentation sharing their activities and reflecting upon learning opportunities provided. Use a tool like Sway, reviewed here, or Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education , reviewed here.
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bulb - Bulb, Inc.
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Use bulb as a portfolio tool to showcase your work, share ideas, and ask for feedback. Sign up with your Google, Microsoft, or Clever account or enter your email. With ...more
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Use bulb as a portfolio tool to showcase your work, share ideas, and ask for feedback. Sign up with your Google, Microsoft, or Clever account or enter your email. With a free account you get all of the standard features, and can choose to publish ten portfolio pages and upload up to 2GB of content. After creating your account, click to take a tour, then in 140 characters tell members who you are, create a cover image (optional), and then choose to create a page or a collection (multiple pages). You can also create groups (with or without Google), and lots more. Click symbols at the top right of your name to get help, search, create pages or collections, and more. On the home page in the top menu bar, look at projects students and teachers have created. bulb is easy to use due to its drag and drop interface. Besides creating text, you can embed images and videos, and integrate with your Google Drive. bulb offers educators a special account that integrates your LMS, has a teacher dashboard, and dedicated manager and tech support for a very minimal fee per year.
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tag(s): multimedia (70), portfolios (20), writing (309)
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Use bulb for student portfolios in any subject. Set up an account with your teacher name, email, password, and some basic information. Once you and your students' accounts are set up, share how to get around bulb on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector to get students started. When you (or your students) create group pages, anyone you invite can publish to the group. However, students will also have their own account and can keep pages private. Science teachers could have students write up their lab reports in a portfolio, and history teachers could set up portfolios for student report writing. Have teens and older students upload work throughout the year to create their own "me-portfolios." Create portfolios (with permission) to share younger students' work with parents and students during conferences. Use this tool to show finished projects or to show changes in a project from start to finish. Make a work prototype site and upload examples of exemplary work to share with students to set expectations for completed products before beginning a project. Create a link to this tool on your class website for students to share projects and information. (Get parent permission before posting students' work!) Have students take ownership of their own portfolios to show progress and products across several years. Have older students build portfolios to share as part of career and college preparation. Art teachers will want to share this as a portfolio option for their students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Business Insider Chart of the Day - Business Insider
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7 to 12
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This site is dated but still has fascinating info found in chart form.
Find a new chart each day, based on real world events in different formats. Some days include ...more
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This site is dated but still has fascinating info found in chart form.
Find a new chart each day, based on real world events in different formats. Some days include more than one graph! The newer charts are shown first. Older charts are available on the site by following the "older" link. Topics vary from world news to sports to economics and more. There is a great variety of topics and chart types. When you click on the chart, a new page opens containing the chart and a description with difficult vocabulary underlined. Click on a word to learn the definition. You can also sign up to receive the daily chart by email.
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tag(s): charts and graphs (184), cultures (293), data (212), financial literacy (92), infographics (73), sociology (24), sports (89)
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Share a daily chart on your interactive whiteboard or projector and have students recreate the chart into a different format (bar chart to pie chart or line graph). Have students use a tool such as Hohli. Ask students to analyze information included on the daily chart as a math journal entry. Create a class chart comparing student information to the daily chart provided. Use the daily chart as a class warm-up - discuss trends, information provided, information not included that might be useful, etc. Social Studies teachers may want to use the charts as a tie-in to current events. Reading teachers charged with teaching about charts as part of informational texts will find a treasure trove of examples here, especially as prep for BIG reading tests.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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