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Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness - Seriously, Read A Book
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3 to 6
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Use this read-aloud of Anastasia Higginbotham's Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness to open thoughtful conversations about racism, privilege, racial injustice, and the role white children...more
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Use this read-aloud of Anastasia Higginbotham's Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness to open thoughtful conversations about racism, privilege, racial injustice, and the role white children can play in recognizing and challenging racism. The story follows a white child confronting racism after seeing news of a police shooting and encourages readers to recognize injustice rather than ignore it. The video includes commentary from reader Jim Jimerson that can help children process the book's ideas. Educational resource lists generally recommend the book for upper-elementary-aged children, with sources placing it at about ages 8-12 or ages 8 and up. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the video.
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tag(s): bias (35), diversity (62), identity (48), perspective (35)
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Students can recreate their own version of the cover of the story using Magazine Cover Maker, reviewed here. Students can create a choose-your-own-adventure activity with the ideas from this book using Online Escape Room Templates, reviewed here. Have students share their thoughts about this book on a virtual bulletin board such as Stickies.io, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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National Postal Musuem - Smithsonian
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1 to 12
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The National Postal Museum site showcases the postal service with an online calendar of events, highlights, and photographs. Highlights include current exhibitions, special topics,...more
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The National Postal Museum site showcases the postal service with an online calendar of events, highlights, and photographs. Highlights include current exhibitions, special topics, stamp collecting, educator resources, and more. Google Arts and Culture Street View has a 360 tour of the museum. STAMP camp (currently closed at the time of this review) offers activities in science, technology, art, math, and problem-solving. STAMP camp is for children ages 6 through 12. All lessons are online and can be completed at your child's own pace.
tag(s): museums (58), primary sources (177), virtual field trips (154)
In the Classroom
Students can participate in the lessons from STAMP camp and showcase their work using ClipChamp, reviewed here. Students can use a virtual bulletin board such as Lino, reviewed here to share what they learned on the Google Arts and Culture 360 tour. Have students use MyLens, reviewed here to create a timeline of special stamps that have been created.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Maps - Aires Loutsaris
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K to 12
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Reading Maps turns journeys from books and films into maps, creating a visual exploration of the story's events. The site includes hundreds of maps to explore, and you can search ...more
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Reading Maps turns journeys from books and films into maps, creating a visual exploration of the story's events. The site includes hundreds of maps to explore, and you can search by author, title, location, and theme. Choose a title to open the map and view an animated journey. Below the book summary is a list of places on the map; click any number on the map to see a summary of the event. Users can change the map appearance with options such as topographic and satellite imagery, and zoom in and out for a closer look at any point on the map. Share individual maps using the share link in the description.
tag(s): independent reading (85), maps (222), reading comprehension (146), virtual field trips (154)
In the Classroom
Reading Maps includes many classic books with notable journeys such as Adventures of Huck Finn, Hatchet, and Frankenstein, making it an excellent option to bookmark and save to accompany your current reading lessons. Share the maps with your students to provide visual context for the physical journey in the story. Extend learning by asking students to create story maps using Google My Map, reviewed here. Add links, videos, and more in Google My Map stories to bring the story to life. For additional examples on how to use maps to accompany books, visit TeachersFirst Reading Treks - Make Learning a Journey, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Indian Reading Series - Education Northwest
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K to 7
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Indian Reading Series' Stories and Legends of the Northwest features supplementary reading and language development materials for Indian and non-Indian children. The site features six...more
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Indian Reading Series' Stories and Legends of the Northwest features supplementary reading and language development materials for Indian and non-Indian children. The site features six levels of reading materials, teacher manuals, and lesson plans. Each is downloaded as a PDF. Each lesson plan includes a brief summary of the lesson, targeted mostly to grades K through 2, with one lesson for grades 4-7.
tag(s): montana (34), native americans (169), stories and storytelling (81)
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While completing the lesson titled "Far Out, A Rodeo Horse," students can learn more about rodeos using Kiddle reviewed here. In the "Coyote and the Stars" lesson, students can use Google Drawing, reviewed here to compare and contrast coyote and spider. Students can create their own habitat for birds while engaging in the lesson titled "Birds of a Feather."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Montana State Parks Education Resources - Montana Fish
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4 to 12
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Turn Montana's state parks into outdoor classrooms with this collection of field trips, in-school programs, traveling trunks, and classroom-ready Indian Education for All resources....more
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Turn Montana's state parks into outdoor classrooms with this collection of field trips, in-school programs, traveling trunks, and classroom-ready Indian Education for All resources. Teachers can browse programs at parks such as Bannack, Chief Plenty Coups, First Peoples Buffalo Jump, and Flathead Lake, with activities covering Native American history and culture, Montana history, geology, ecology, wildlife, art, health, and language arts. Many offerings identify grade ranges and content standards, and several combine ranger-led interpretation with hands-on activities such as gold panning, traditional Native games, birding, scavenger hunts, puppet-making, and guided hikes. A particularly useful section links to 21 K-12 Indian Education for All model lesson plans created with the Montana Office of Public Instruction. These lessons feature individual state parks and can stand alone in the classroom even when a field trip is not possible. The page also includes teacher planning guidance, supervision recommendations, and traveling educational trunks with materials such as animal hides, books, maps, scientific equipment, and curriculum guides.
tag(s): montana (34), native americans (169), primary sources (177)
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Have students select a Montana state park and create a brochure using Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here highlighting its history, geography, wildlife, cultural significance, and reasons to visit. Choose a park and research its plants, animals, geology, and ecosystems. Students can create a field journal with sketches, observations, facts, and food webs. Have students examine one of Sue Reynolds's photographs with the site's Notice and Wonder strategy, then post one careful observation and one inquiry question to Padlet, reviewed here, for a class discussion about evidence, perspective, and assumptions.
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Lessons of Our Land - Indian Land Tenure Foundation
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K to 12
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Lessons of Our Land offers teachers more than 200 ready-to-use lessons to bring Native American histories, cultures, land relationships, languages, inherent rights, and tribal sovereignty...more
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Lessons of Our Land offers teachers more than 200 ready-to-use lessons to bring Native American histories, cultures, land relationships, languages, inherent rights, and tribal sovereignty into regular classroom instruction. Developed by the nonprofit Indian Land Tenure Foundation, the interdisciplinary curriculum spans Pre-K through grade 12 and is designed for both Native and non-Native students. Teachers can search lessons by grade, subject, and academic standard, and some materials are tailored to California, South Dakota, Montana, or Minnesota while remaining adaptable for use elsewhere. Individual lessons may include teacher background, achievement goals, materials, student activities, discussion questions, maps, stories, research tasks, and downloadable PDFs. Sample topics range from creating neighborhood maps and studying wild rice to land stewardship, treaty-making, sovereignty, and the relationship between geography and cultural identity. The site also includes professional-development resources and the educational game When Rivers Were Trails, which follows an Anishinaabeg character displaced from Minnesota in 1890.
tag(s): montana (34), native americans (169), preK (352), professional development (307)
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Have students explore a lesson about land, place, or community and create an annotated map showing important locations and explaining how geography connects to identity using Google My Maps, reviewed here. Invite small groups to complete one of the curriculum's hands-on or inquiry activities, then post a claim, supporting evidence, and one remaining question to Padlet, reviewed here for whole-class discussion. Students can compare two perspectives on land use, stewardship, sovereignty, or cultural identity from selected lessons and organize similarities and differences with Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here.
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Everyday Native - The Everyday Native Project
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4 to 12
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Everyday Native helps students look beyond stereotypes by pairing contemporary Native American experiences with photographs, poetry, videos, background information, discussion questions,...more
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Everyday Native helps students look beyond stereotypes by pairing contemporary Native American experiences with photographs, poetry, videos, background information, discussion questions, and inquiry activities. Designed for grades 4-12, the resource focuses on both Native history and present-day life. It supports Language Arts, U.S. History, Native American History, Social Studies, Current Events, Photography, Poetry, and Art. Students encounter photographs by Sue Reynolds, poems by Victor Charlo, and videos featuring Native youth discussing pride, courage, resilience, culture, family, and challenges. Teacher supports include interpretation strategies, writing and discussion prompts, research ideas, downloadable analysis sheets, and a regularly updated newsfeed. Full access is free after registration.
tag(s): media literacy (137), montana (34), native americans (169), primary sources (177)
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Ask students to read a Victor Charlo poem and use the site's inquiry approach to identify what they notice, what they wonder, and where their prior ideas about Native Americans originated; then investigate one compelling question using additional sources. Have students compare information about a Native nation featured in the resource with tribally produced information, then create an annotated map with Google My Maps, reviewed here, showing important places and explaining why specific tribal identification is more accurate than treating Native peoples as one group. Assign students a final reflection in which they explain one stereotype or misconception that changed during the unit and support the response with two pieces of evidence from photographs, poems, videos, or background readings.
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Spin the Wheel Education - Spin the Wheel
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K to 12
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Spin the Wheel Education is a free, fully customizable spinner that also provides ready-made spinning-wheel templates for many uses. Choose wheels with recess games, story ideas, creative...more
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Spin the Wheel Education is a free, fully customizable spinner that also provides ready-made spinning-wheel templates for many uses. Choose wheels with recess games, story ideas, creative writing prompts, and much more. Customize each wheel by color, topic, layout, theme, and spin time and speed.
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tag(s): classroom management (154), Teacher Utilities (233)
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Use Spin the Wheel templates to add engagement and excitement to any classroom activity. Spin to select students to respond to questions, add a series of review questions, select writing or debate topics, and more. Add character names or chapters to the wheel with hidden questions that test comprehension or theme analysis. Store short science, math, or history questions behind entries and have teams compete to answer correctly for points. Spin the Wheel is an excellent way to build in retrieval practice and spaced review into a busy day.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Thiings - Liinks.co.
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K to 12
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Thiings is one of those handy sites you didn't know you needed until you see it. Choose from over 10,000 (and growing) icons of everyday objects to download as PNG ...more
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Thiings is one of those handy sites you didn't know you needed until you see it. Choose from over 10,000 (and growing) icons of everyday objects to download as PNG files. Search for what you need, or browse categories such as animals, vehicles, and historical figures. Downloading the file is as easy as selecting the icon and clicking to download or copying and pasting the image into your design. Email registration is required, and Thiings provides unlimited free downloads. Share icons using the provided share link.
tag(s): graphic design (57), images (276), presentations (51), symbols (22)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save Thiings to use when creating any digital design, saving time and frustration by avoiding searches for the right icon. Thiings also includes a link to hear the object's description, making it user-friendly for all ages and abilities. Add a link to Thiings on classroom computers for students to use with their projects. Use icons from the site to ask students to predict the topic of an upcoming lesson, practice descriptive writing by describing an icon, or create visual examples of classroom routines. When using the Thinking Routines Toolbox, reviewed here, such as See, Think, Wonder, choose an unusual icon for students to generate observations, inferences, and questions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virginia Changemakers - Library of Virginia
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4 to 12
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Virginia Changemakers from the Library of Virginia is a free educational resource featuring short biographies of influential Virginians who have made lasting contributions to their...more
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Virginia Changemakers from the Library of Virginia is a free educational resource featuring short biographies of influential Virginians who have made lasting contributions to their communities, the Commonwealth, and the nation. Organized by historical era and themes such as civil rights, education, science, government, the arts, military service, and business, the site helps students explore diverse historical figures through engaging, accessible profiles. Teachers can use this resource to introduce biography studies, highlight underrepresented voices, connect historical events to real people, and support inquiry-based learning in history, social studies, language arts, and civics.
tag(s): american revolution (99), biographies (102), civil rights (228), civil war (148), colonization (22), great depression (33), industrialization (14), virginia (16), womenchangemaker (85), world war 2 (169)
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After reading several biographies, ask students to identify common leadership qualities such as perseverance, courage, innovation, or service. Students can support their findings with evidence from the biographies and discuss how these traits apply today. Have students select a changemaker and prepare a first-person presentation or living museum exhibit. Using information from the website, students can dress as the individual (optional), share important accomplishments, answer classmates' questions, and explain how their contributions continue to influence society today. Assign each student a different changemaker to research. Students can create a trading card using Trading Card Creator, reviewed here explaining the individual's accomplishments and lasting impact.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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National Native American Hall of Fame - National Native American Hall of Fame
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4 to 12
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The National Native American Hall of Fame is an educational resource that celebrates the achievements and contributions of Native American leaders, innovators, artists, athletes, military...more
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The National Native American Hall of Fame is an educational resource that celebrates the achievements and contributions of Native American leaders, innovators, artists, athletes, military veterans, educators, and other influential figures from tribes across the United States. Teachers can explore inductee biographies, photographs, videos, historical information, and educational resources that highlight Native American history, culture, leadership, and contemporary accomplishments. The site helps students gain a broader understanding of Indigenous perspectives while promoting cultural appreciation and challenging stereotypes, making it a valuable resource for history, social studies, language arts, and multicultural education.
tag(s): biographies (102), native americans (169)
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Assign each student or small group a Hall of Fame inductee to research. Students can create a slide presentation, podcast, or short video using Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here highlighting the person's accomplishments and lasting impact. During Native American Heritage Month or while studying U.S. history, have students explore the website's biographies and videos. Students can create a digital timeline using MyLens, reviewed here showcasing achievements across fields such as science, sports, government, the arts, and military service. Have students compare a Hall of Fame inductee with another influential historical or contemporary figure. Students can create a Venn diagram with Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here, analyzing leadership qualities, challenges, and contributions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teaching Comics - The Center for Cartoon Studies
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1 to 12
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The Center for Cartoon Studies' Teaching Comics page is a large collection of free resources for using comics, graphic novels, and cartooning in the classroom. Teachers can find short...more
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The Center for Cartoon Studies' Teaching Comics page is a large collection of free resources for using comics, graphic novels, and cartooning in the classroom. Teachers can find short creative exercises, complete lesson plans, study guides, handouts, and resources about visual storytelling, character development, dialogue, sequencing, editing, and literary devices. Many materials are available as printable PDFs, and several list recommended grade levels and Common Core subject connections. The site can support reading, writing, art, media literacy, and social studies lessons by helping students learn how words and images work together to communicate ideas.
tag(s): comics and cartoons (68), literary devices (14), sequencing (22)
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Have students use a simple six-panel template from Comic Strip Templates by Canva, reviewed here to tell a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. Encourage them to plan how each panel moves the action forward and to use captions, dialogue, and pictures only where they add important information. After reading a chapter or short text, have students create a comic response that shows an important event, a character's change, a conflict, or a theme. Have students add a brief written explanation that describes how their visual choices connect to evidence from the text. They can choose new vocabulary words from a reading, science, or social studies unit and create small comics that show each word in context. Classmates can use the illustrations and dialogue to infer the word's meaning before checking the definition.
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4 Writing Skills to Teach Using Comic Books as Mentor Texts - Learning at the Primary Pond
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2 to 5
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A comic book can do more than entertain -- it can show young writers how words and pictures work together to tell a memorable story. This article explains how comic ...more
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A comic book can do more than entertain -- it can show young writers how words and pictures work together to tell a memorable story. This article explains how comic books and graphic novels can serve as mentor texts during writing instruction. It shows teachers how to use comics to teach skills such as sounding out words, writing dialogue, sequencing events, and adding details through pictures and text. Students can study how comic creators use panels, speech bubbles, and illustrations to tell a clear story, then try these techniques in their own comic strips and later apply them to traditional narrative writing. The post also includes ideas and free resources for using comics with primary students.
tag(s): comics and cartoons (68), narrative (16), sequencing (22), writing (304)
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Share a short, teacher-selected comic or graphic-novel page. Have students identify how the author uses panels, speech bubbles, captions, sound words, facial expressions, and color to help readers understand the action and characters' feelings. Have students collect examples of sound words from comics, such as boom, crash, whoosh, and zap. They can create a short comic scene that uses sound words to make the action more vivid, then revise a sentence from their narrative writing by adding precise action words or sensory details. Give students a wordless comic strip or remove the dialogue and captions from a teacher-created comic made with Free Comic Maker by Adobe, reviewed here. Have students infer what is happening, add dialogue and captions, and explain which details in the pictures helped them make their choices.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Boardous - Boardous
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K to 12
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Boardous is an all-in-one online teaching space for virtual learning activities. The free version gives you a persistent, infinite whiteboard for real-time collaboration, plus built-in...more
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Boardous is an all-in-one online teaching space for virtual learning activities. The free version gives you a persistent, infinite whiteboard for real-time collaboration, plus built-in video and audio chat. You can create reusable lesson templates, schedule sessions on the built-in calendar, and import PDFs to annotate directly on the board with your students; everything saves automatically to the cloud, so your boards are always available to use right where you finished using them. Invite students by sharing an invitation code; they don't need to create a Boardous account.
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Use Boardous for small-group work or to assist individual students. If you provide virtual office hours, Boardous is a helpful tool for conducting online learning sessions via video chat and for using the included tools to support learning. Send an invitation code to absent students to review an annotated board created during a lesson, or to meet live and review information they missed. Boardous is also helpful for virtual parent-teacher conferences and for sharing information as you discuss your student's progress.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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150+ Exit Ticket Questions And Prompts For All Subjects - Dylan Cable
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3 to 12
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Exit tickets are an excellent way to gather formative assessment information and gauge classroom learning, but writing quick, effective questions can take time. This article shares...more
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Exit tickets are an excellent way to gather formative assessment information and gauge classroom learning, but writing quick, effective questions can take time. This article shares over 150 general prompts to open communication and give you the information you need to assess student learning. Find prompts sorted into several categories, including all subjects, math, reading comprehension, and student reflections on strengths and weaknesses.
tag(s): assessment (142), Formative Assessment (48)
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Bookmark and save this article for inspiration when creating exit tickets. In addition to paper-and-pencil exit tickets, try using digital tools like Socrative, reviewed here, Google Forms, reviewed here, and Kahoot, reviewed here to gather exit ticket responses.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Independence Day Resources for K-12 Homeschoolers - Texas Home Educators
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K to 12
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This ready-to-go collection gathers Independence Day lesson plans, printables, crafts, games, primary-source activities, and historical investigations for homeschool and classroom use....more
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This ready-to-go collection gathers Independence Day lesson plans, printables, crafts, games, primary-source activities, and historical investigations for homeschool and classroom use. Resources are organized into elementary (K-5) and high school (9-12) sections, with each entry listing its grade level, approximate time, cost, and access requirements. Younger learners can explore patriotic symbols through crafts, coloring, puzzles, bingo, and short readings. At the same time, older students can analyze the Declaration of Independence, examine Revolutionary-era perspectives, use an interactive map, and complete discussion or writing activities. Many selections are free, although Education.com, PBS LearningMedia, and Newsela require accounts, and several Teachers Pay Teachers materials cost approximately $4-$10.
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tag(s): american revolution (99), crafts (109), declaration of independence (27), holidays (292), july 4th (20), maps (222), preK (352), primary sources (177)
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Younger students can sketch and label an American symbol, create a paper flag, sequence events from a short read-aloud, or compare how families and communities celebrate the holiday. Have students place key events from 1776 into the Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here. Students can develop a review game in Wordwall, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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American Indians in Children's Literature - Dr. Debbie Reese and Dr. Jean Mendoza
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This blog highlights Native American writers and illustrators. Each blog post highlights how there has been a change in the number of Native American writers who have written books....more
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This blog highlights Native American writers and illustrators. Each blog post highlights how there has been a change in the number of Native American writers who have written books. A list of books is also featured, including Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Maillard, We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, and Keepunumuk: Weeachumun's Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, and Alexis Brown.
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Teachers can share the book list with parents when they are teaching about Native Americans. Students can read books from the site's list and share their favorite. After finishing a book, students can complete a story element graphic organizer using Canva Infographic Creator, < a href="/single.cfm?id=17570">reviewed here.
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Google Gemini - Google
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Google Gemini is a multipurpose AI chat tool that lets you text, code, and create images, audio, and video. The chatbot assistant includes many options to support users' needs, such...more
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Google Gemini is a multipurpose AI chat tool that lets you text, code, and create images, audio, and video. The chatbot assistant includes many options to support users' needs, such as uploading files from your device and Google Drive, photos, avatars, and Gemini Notebooks (formerly NotebookLM), reviewed here. Use the plus sign in the message box to stipulate the output; for example, choose create image, create music, or Canvas (code, write, or make slides). Gemini also integrates Google Gems, customizable apps for repetitive tasks. Choose the three dots at the end of any chat response to listen to the response, export to Google Docs, or start a draft in Gmail.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), chat (41), Google (22), search strategies (19)
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Use Gemini to support your personal and professional needs while saving time. View the archived session of OK2Ask: Google Gems Basics: Personalized, Interactive, and Safe AI Learning Experiences, reviewed here, to learn more about Gems or OK2Ask: AI Templates That Work: Quick & Easy Prompting Solutions, reviewed here, to understand how to create effective prompts to achieve the best results when using AI generation tools.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Be Calm on Ahway Island - Ahway Island
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K to 5
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Build a calm classroom moment around Be Calm on Ahway Island, a large collection of original audio stories designed to help children relax as they explore positive social-emotional...more
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Build a calm classroom moment around Be Calm on Ahway Island, a large collection of original audio stories designed to help children relax as they explore positive social-emotional themes. Each episode begins with a child-friendly guided meditation, continues with a short fictional story, and includes a positive message. The site lets you browse by learning message, character type, narrator, episode number, title, character name, or keyword. Recent tags include empathy, friendship, emotional regulation, patience, problem solving, independence, relationships, and perspective. Episodes are typically 15-25 minutes long, making them useful for quiet time, transitions, rest periods, or focused listening activities. The site also links to YouTube for recent episodes and exclusive content. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the videos.
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tag(s): charactered (87), listening (120), podcasts (188), preK (352), problem solving (282), social and emotional learning (221)
In the Classroom
Students can draw a scene from an episode and annotate it with labels showing what a character might be thinking, feeling, saying, and doing. Invite students to compare two characters or two episodes with the Interactive 2 Circle Venn Diagram by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here, focusing on similarities and differences in feelings, choices, and solutions. Ask students to work in pairs after an episode and sort character choices into helpful and less helpful responses, then explain which choice best demonstrates empathy, patience, or problem-solving.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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46 Best Podcasts For Kids - Feedspot
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K to 8
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Looking for kid-friendly podcasts without searching one platform at a time? Feedspot's 46 Best Podcasts For Kids gathers a broad range of children's audio programs in one browsable...more
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Looking for kid-friendly podcasts without searching one platform at a time? Feedspot's 46 Best Podcasts For Kids gathers a broad range of children's audio programs in one browsable list, including science, history, storytelling, current events, imaginative fiction, music, and debate. Each entry generally includes a short description along with details such as hosts, producer or network, average episode length, ratings, and links to listening platforms or the podcast's website. Examples on the current list, at the time of this review, include Wow in the World, Story Pirates, Brains On!, Circle Round, Radiolab for Kids, Smash Boom Best, and But Why. The collection is updated periodically, so teachers can use it as a discovery tool rather than a fixed curriculum resource. Some entries also link to YouTube. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the videos. Feedspot also promotes its podcast database and contact-list services on the page.
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tag(s): debate (39), enrichment (20), listening (120), media literacy (137), podcasts (188)
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Invite small groups to compare several podcasts and build a class recommendation board using Padlet, reviewed here, adding the podcast topic, recommended audience, a brief summary, and a reason classmates might want to listen. Have students develop several listening-comprehension or content questions from a teacher-selected episode and turn them into a class review activity with Wordwall, reviewed here. Assign students pairs of podcasts with different formats, such as a science program and a debate show, and ask them to argue which format most effectively communicates information to a particular audience, using evidence from both programs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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