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return to subject listingGrades 3-5 Research Resources for Teaching Remotely on Short Notice - TeachersFirst
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3 to 5tag(s): professional development (407), Research (84)
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Incorporate videos, articles, and quizzes found in the National Geographic link as part of an overall learning experience using Curipod, reviewed here. As students complete their research projects provide a variety of options for sharing their learning. Ideas to include as options include Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here, Clipchamp reviewed here, and Spotify for Podcasters, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Grades 3-5 eBooks Resources for Teaching Remotely on Short Notice - TeachersFirst
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3 to 5tag(s): ebooks (40), professional development (407), Research (84)
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Share a link to the eBook resources with parents and students. Create a list of student suggestions and reviews to help students choose books that match their interests and ability. Encourage students to share book reviews by creating online books with images, video, and audio using Book Creator, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Coronavirus Resources: Teaching, Learning and Thinking Critically - New York Times and Katherine Schulten
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3 to 12tag(s): diseases (69), Online Learning (42), professional development (407)
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Be sure to bookmark this site as an important resource for lessons about the coronavirus and also as a resource for implementing online teaching activities. Incorporate ideas and activities found on this site into a blended learning system such as ActivelyLearn, reviewed here or Curipod, reviewed here. Both of these sites include features to create remote lessons with text, videos, and quizzes and provide educators instant feedback on student understanding. As students develop an understanding of the effects and makeup of the coronavirus, use Annotely, reviewed here, to upload and label an image sharing their knowledge. For example, have younger students upload a picture of their home, then label different surfaces with a short sentence on how they can spread or receive germs. For older students, ask them to use Annotely to label the different areas found in the community that leads to the spread of disease.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Grades 3-5 ELA Resources for Teaching Remotely on Short Notice - TeachersFirst
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3 to 5tag(s): differentiation (89), Formative Assessment (73), independent reading (86), professional development (407)
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Take advantage of the tools included in this collection to differentiate instruction both in-class and during remote learning. Use Freckle, reviewed here to create a class account and assign lessons based on student interest and ability across subject areas. Use Voki, reviewed here, as recommended in this collection, to have students create animated characters. Have students create a Voki to discuss a book they read, share a solution to a math problem, or to discuss a science concept.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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K-2 eBooks: Resources for Teaching Remotely on Short Notice - TeachersFirst
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K to 2tag(s): audio books (24), ebooks (40), listening (92), professional development (407)
In the Classroom
Use this collection to share digital and audiobooks with parents to encourage reading at home. Curate a collection of books for your students and share it with parents using Symbaloo, reviewed here. Symbaloo is an excellent bookmarking tool to use with young students due to the easy to use design and use of icons for identifying information readily.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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K-2 Social Studies Resources for Teaching Remotely on Short Notice - TeachersFirst
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K to 2tag(s): animals (288), careers (140), communities (37), preK (263)
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Use the Scholastic Listen and Read activities, reviewed here, to provide a variety of reading options to your students. Differentiate instruction based on ability levels and types of activities. Use Voki, reviewed here, to have students role-play a community member found in the reading activities. Share student Vokis on your class website for all to see.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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K-2 ELA Resources for Teaching Remotely on Short Notice - TeachersFirst
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K to 2tag(s): literacy (116), preK (263), professional development (407)
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Use the ideas in this collection to offer remote learning opportunities to students. For example, create your free account at Epic, reviewed here, and share reading lists with your students based on ability and interests. Engage students by having them write book reviews using My Storybook, reviewed here, then share the links with all students to read.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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K-12 Student Project Resources for Teaching Remotely on Short Notice - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): assessment (148), Formative Assessment (73), professional development (407)
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Explore the free tools shared in this Wakelet collection to find formative assessment ideas for any grade level or subject. Take advantage of the tips, OK2Ask archives, and blog posts to learn more about the shared resources and how to incorporate them into your lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Twitter Chat: Tips, Tools, and Strategies for Curating Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): bookmarks (47), twitterchatarchive (175)
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Find resources and information about how to use tech tools to support strategies for curating resources. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for tips, tools, and strategies related to curating resources for students and teachers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: Around the World Right Now - TeachersFirst
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K to 5tag(s): landmarks (20), time (92), time zones (7), virtual field trips (96)
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Discover the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). Take pictures of students' shadows at different times throughout the day, then create collages using PhotoCollage, reviewed here, to share their observations. Enhance learning by doing this same activity at different times during the school year to explore if the length of shadows changes with the seasons. After finding the hidden clocks on each page, challenge students to create their own hidden clock images then create a class book using Book Creator, reviewed here, for students and family to view online.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: The 57 Bus - TeachersFirst
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7 to 12tag(s): courts (20), emotions (48), racism (79), social and emotional learning (96)
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Take advantage of the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). This book and the suggested activities work well as part of lessons on racism. Consider using the historical information and primary sources from the book to have students create timelines of the important events during the period of this story that took place in 2013. Find a variety of free online timeline creation tools located here. Use Google My Maps, reviewed here to create and share custom maps that include information about hate crimes around the world. As students conduct online research, use Fiskkit, reviewed here as a collaborative discussion tool. Use Fiskkit to share the link of any online article with students, then the site's tools provide the opportunity to highlight and add comments to areas within the article by users.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: Buffalo Dance The Journey of York - TeachersFirst
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10 to 12tag(s): 1800s (75), commoncore (75), explorers (66), lewis and clark (14), poetry (191), westward expansion (39)
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Take advantage of the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). As a class, discuss social justice situations within the school, the community, state, nation, and the world. To enhance learning and the discussions of online information, use Fiskkit, reviewed here, as a collaborative discussion tool. Fiskkit allows you to highlight and add comments to online articles. Have students share their written work, including poems, to bulb, reviewed here. bulb includes free resources for creating and sharing online portfolios that include images, written work, and video making it perfect to use for sharing student work during parent conferences and when submitting college applications.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: Refugee - TeachersFirst
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6 to 9tag(s): europe (77), germany (25), immigrants (34), immigration (68), world war 2 (161)
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Take advantage of the many ideas offered on this Reading Trek to enhance and extend student learning. Use virtual field trips offered online to take students to places around the world to learn more about world populations and immigration. This TeachersFirst Special Topics page provides a curated list of free virtual field trips from around the world. Offer students a variety of digital storytelling tools to share their knowledge of immigration. Some free options include Wakelet, reviewed here, Presentious, reviewed here, and Google My Maps, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: Every Single Second - TeachersFirst
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4 to 8tag(s): character education (77), empathy (32), family (51), racism (79), virtual field trips (96)
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Take advantage of the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). Include this Reading Trek as part of lessons in empathy, racism, and character traits. Consider using content from the book as an inspiration to have students create a timeline of their friends. Find a variety of free online timeline creation tools located here. Using the map and locales, trace and then calculate distances for some Little Italy locations. Use Google My Maps, reviewed here to create and share custom maps.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: The Journey of York The Unsung Hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - TeachersFirst
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2 to 6tag(s): 1800s (75), commoncore (75), explorers (66), lewis and clark (14), native americans (95)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). Consider using the historical information and primary sources from the book to have students create timelines of the important events throughout the time of Lewis and Clark's explorations. Find a variety of free online timeline creation tools at located here. Using the map and locales, trace and then calculate distances for some of Lewis and Clark's travels.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: American Born Chinese - TeachersFirst
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7 to 12tag(s): cross cultural understanding (167), identity (29), racism (79), virtual field trips (96)
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Take advantage of the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). Consider using the historical information and primary sources from the book to have students research places and events discussed in the book to create interactive timelines. Find a variety of free online timeline creation tools at located here. Using the map and locales, trace and then calculate distances for some of the locations shared. Use Google My Maps, reviewed here, to create and share custom maps.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles - TeachersFirst
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K to 4tag(s): 1900s (73), 20th century (62), elections (82), virtual field trips (96), womens suffrage (46)
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Take advantage of the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). Consider using the book as a starting point to locate primary sources to teach about voting in the United States along with life during the early 1900s. Using the map and locales, trace and then calculate distances for some of Alice Burke and Neil Richardson's travels across the country. Use Google My Maps, reviewed here to create and share custom maps.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Using Technology to Support Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Principles - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): Accessibility (9), twitterchatarchive (175)
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Find resources and information about how to use tech tools to support universal design for learning (UDL) principles. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for resources related to school to home communication.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn't Sit Still - TeachersFirst
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K to 5tag(s): biographies (95), commoncore (75), europe (77), sports (81), women (142)
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Take advantage of the many suggested classroom uses for this resource found on the Instructional Guide (PDF). Include this book with others to share with your students when teaching about biographies and famous women. After learning about biographies, enhance learning by having students write biographies for other famous women athletes or famous people from a unit you are studying. Help students organize information and write biographies using resources found at Read Write Think, reviewed here. Search for the Bio Cube, reviewed here, that helps summarize information, or use the interactive Timeline reviewed here,to aid students in visualizing and creating a sequence of events. After completing their research, ask students to annotate an image using Image Annotator, reviewed here. Include links to websites, text, and other information to share their biographies. Use Book Creator, reviewed here, to compile biographies created by your students into one digital resource for all to use. Book Creator allows you to add images, drawings, videos, and more to share a complete multimedia experience with their readers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Treks: Bud, Not Buddy - TeachersFirst
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3 to 7tag(s): civil rights (200), cultures (145), great depression (30), michigan (4), racism (79)
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Encourage students to understand the Great Depression's impact upon everyday life in the 1930s and explore these periods of history using primary sources. As you discuss the book and incorporate the suggested activities, be sure to include discussions on racism's effect upon the book's characters. Use this curated list of primary source resources to engage students in learning about the past through comparisons to current day life. Use an online tool such a Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers, reviewed here, to create diagrams, mindmaps, and other visual graphic organizers to compare and contrast the different periods. Engage students as they explore events shared in the book through the use of bite-sized podcasts using Acast, reviewed here. Synth is an easy to use audio tool that encourages students to share their thoughts and learning reflections.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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