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Indian Education For All - Office of Public Instruction
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Bring culturally responsive American Indian education into lessons across the curriculum with this extensive collection from the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Indian Education...more
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Bring culturally responsive American Indian education into lessons across the curriculum with this extensive collection from the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Indian Education for All (IEFA) provides classroom-ready lessons, curriculum guides, videos, posters, professional learning materials, and implementation resources developed with advice and assistance from cultural consultants from Montana Tribal Nations. Tribal-specific materials also receive input and review from members of the Montana Advisory Council on Indian Education who represent those Tribal Nations. Teachers can browse resources by areas including art, language arts, mathematics, music, science, social studies, health and family-consumer sciences, videos, and remote learning. Materials span early elementary through high school and address topics such as tribal diversity, sovereignty, traditional knowledge, contemporary Native experiences, history, literature, art, mathematics, science, and Montana's Tribal Nations. The site also features the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians, implementation guidance, recorded professional-development sessions, and links to additional tribal and national resources. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the videos.
tag(s): montana (33), native americans (161), preK (335), primary sources (163), professional development (302)
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Have students engage in the lessons and stories of Indian culture through the resources. Students can share facts or new information using Lino, reviewed here. Students can work in pairs to trace important events in American Indian education, tribal history, or sovereignty and build a chronological study aid with the Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here.
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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 (33), native americans (161), preK (335), professional development (302)
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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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Native Knowledge 360 - Smithsonian Institution
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K to 12
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Bring Native perspectives, contemporary voices, and more complete histories into the classroom with Native Knowledge 360 (NK360), the National Museum of the American Indian's education...more
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Bring Native perspectives, contemporary voices, and more complete histories into the classroom with Native Knowledge 360 (NK360), the National Museum of the American Indian's education initiative for K-12 teaching and learning. The collection features classroom-ready lessons, digital books, teaching posters, artist spotlights, online resources, reference guides, and professional-development materials created in collaboration with Native communities, scholars, and educators. Teachers can search by grade, subject, resource type, and classroom or educator use, with materials spanning art, English language arts, history and social studies, mathematics, and science. A central feature is the NK360''? Essential Understandings framework, which addresses themes such as American Indian cultures, identity, environments, governance, economics, science and technology, global connections, and civic life. Resources intentionally emphasize Native voices, cultural diversity, accurate information, and the ongoing presence and contributions of Native peoples, rather than presenting Native cultures solely in the past.
tag(s): montana (33), native americans (161), preK (335), primary sources (163), professional development (302)
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Invite students to examine one of the ten NK360 Essential Understandings, create a short explanation supported by examples from a classroom resource, and then ask classmates to identify stereotypes or oversimplifications the evidence corrects. Ask small groups to explore an NK360 art or artist resource and discuss how a contemporary Native artist communicates identity, community, history, or personal experience, then have students design an original visual response with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, reviewed here. Ask students to compare two Native nations or communities featured in NK360''? resources and organize similarities and differences in geography, culture, historical experiences, or governance with the Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here.
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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 (150), game based learning (324), Teacher Utilities (224)
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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 (275), presentations (49), symbols (21)
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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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Boardous - Boardous
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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.
tag(s): differentiation (102), Whiteboard (10)
In the Classroom
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 (141), Formative Assessment (45)
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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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John McCoy (lulilas) Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State - Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
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The John McCoy (lulilas) Since Time Immemorial curriculum is a substantial collection of ready-to-use lessons and supporting materials about tribal sovereignty, Native history, culture,...more
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The John McCoy (lulilas) Since Time Immemorial curriculum is a substantial collection of ready-to-use lessons and supporting materials about tribal sovereignty, Native history, culture, treaties, government-to-government relationships, and the continuing presence of tribal nations in Washington State. Resources are organized for early learning, elementary, middle school, and high school and include unit overviews, downloadable lessons, videos, primary-source materials, assessments, implementation guides, and professional-learning resources. Individual units connect tribal perspectives with Washington history, geography, environmental study, English language arts, social-emotional learning, and civics. Many lessons encourage educators to work with local tribes and to teach about distinct sovereign nations rather than presenting Native peoples as one generalized group.
tag(s): cultures (298), native americans (161), primary sources (163)
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Engage students by having them closely read treaties, maps, oral histories, quotations, photographs, and tribal accounts. Ask them to annotate evidence of sovereignty, compare tribal and state or federal responsibilities, sort examples into cultural, political, economic, historical, and environmental categories, or discuss how historical decisions continue to affect communities today. Younger learners can listen to tribally appropriate stories, sketch connections among land, water, plants, animals, and community, and compare oral traditions with other ways history is preserved. Students can plot tribal homelands, treaty areas, waterways, and present-day tribal governments with Google My Maps, reviewed here, while clearly distinguishing historical territories from current reservation boundaries.
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Indian Education - Montana Office of Public Instruction
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Explore a central collection of Montana resources supporting Indian Education for All, American Indian student achievement, tribal relations, and Native language and culture. The Montana...more
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Explore a central collection of Montana resources supporting Indian Education for All, American Indian student achievement, tribal relations, and Native language and culture. The Montana Office of Public Instruction explains the state's constitutional commitment to recognizing and preserving the distinct and unique cultural heritage of American Indians. It provides pathways to curriculum materials, professional learning, tribal resources, language preservation initiatives, and student-support information. The linked Indian Education for All collection includes classroom lessons and resources in art, health, language arts, mathematics, music, science, and social studies, organized by grade level and Montana tribal nation. Educators can also find the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians, implementation guides, tribal history resources, recorded webinars, professional-development opportunities, and links to additional Indigenous education organizations and materials. The page also links to a YouTube video titled We Are One. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the video.
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tag(s): montana (33), native americans (161)
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Students can locate Montana reservations and tribal communities while studying the geographic resources on the site, then build an annotated map with Google My Maps, reviewed here that connects locations with evidence from OPI or tribal sources. Assign students to explore one contemporary topic from the OPI resources, then write a short, evidence-based response that connects present-day issues to historical or governmental context, rather than treating American Indian cultures only as topics of the past.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google Gemini - Google
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K to 12
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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 (352), chat (42), Google (21), search strategies (20)
In the Classroom
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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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 (19), listening (119), media literacy (133), podcasts (181)
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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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The Past and The Curious - Mick Sullivan
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2 to 8
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Bring surprising stories from history into the classroom with The Past and The Curious, a history podcast created especially for kids and families. Host Mick Sullivan uses storytelling,...more
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Bring surprising stories from history into the classroom with The Past and The Curious, a history podcast created especially for kids and families. Host Mick Sullivan uses storytelling, humor, historical context, guest voices, and original music to explore well-known events, as well as people and stories that students may not encounter in traditional history materials. Episodes span American and world history and have covered topics such as the Declaration of Independence, the 27th Amendment, inventors, transportation, women's history, animals in history, and unusual historical events. The Episodes page archives past programs, and the creator also maintains themed episode suggestions for educators. Episodes are generally released monthly and commonly run about 30 minutes.
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tag(s): american revolution (99), animals (284), authors (115), declaration of independence (26), enrichment (19), nutrition (137), plants (144), podcasts (181), sports (90)
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Have students listen to an episode related to a current history unit and record three key facts, one surprising detail, and one question they still want to investigate. Have students place the people, discoveries, conflicts, or events from an episode in chronological context with the Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here, then explain which events were causes, turning points, or consequences. Have students choose an unusual person or event from local, national, or world history, research it carefully, and script their own concise history segment modeled on the podcast's "You Have 30 Seconds" activity. The podcast specifically encourages children to write and read their own 30-second historical segments, with a parent or guardian handling the recording and emailing the work to the show if submitted.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vocabulary Games - TeachersFirst
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Building a strong vocabulary is one of the most powerful ways to boost reading comprehension and overall academic success, and games make that practice feel more like play than work....more
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Building a strong vocabulary is one of the most powerful ways to boost reading comprehension and overall academic success, and games make that practice feel more like play than work. This collection features free vocabulary games and interactives, including word-matching activities, crossword and puzzle generators, flashcard tools, and engaging quiz-style challenges that reinforce word meaning and usage. You'll also find resources for building word walls, teaching context clues, and exploring root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Together, these tools offer fun, low-prep ways to strengthen vocabulary skills across grade levels and subjects.
tag(s): context clues (11), game based learning (324), prefixes (11), root words (11), suffixes (9), vocabulary (255), vocabulary development (106)
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Teachers can use these interactive games and low-prep activities for quick warm-ups, word-wall practice, or engaging literacy centers that help students master root words, context clues, and key definitions. Incorporating flashcard tools, puzzle generators, and word-matching challenges makes targeted vocabulary practice feel like play while reinforcing word meaning across all grade levels and subjects. Educators can also leverage these fun, low-stakes activities to informally assess student understanding and boost overall reading comprehension. Consider sharing these resources on your class website or your school's LMS.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AI Tools for Communicating with Parents and Students - TeachersFirst
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This collection brings together a curated selection of AI-powered tools designed to streamline, personalize, and elevate classroom communication. These resources include generative...more
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This collection brings together a curated selection of AI-powered tools designed to streamline, personalize, and elevate classroom communication. These resources include generative writing assistants that instantly draft updates, newsletters, and reminders from simple bullet points, as well as intelligent translation engines that break down language barriers for multilingual homes. Additionally, the collection features automated feedback systems and content formatters that help transform complex academic jargon into clear, accessible messages tailored for both supportive family outreach and engaging student interaction.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (352)
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Teachers can use these tools to quickly convert daily bullet points into polished weekly newsletters, field trip reminders, and multi-channel parent announcements. Educators can also leverage built-in translation features to instantly rewrite dense academic progress reports into clear, welcoming messages in every family's home language. Additionally, teachers can use these tools to differentiate assignment instructions on the fly and guide students in self-editing their writing drafts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Detective Crafts for Kids: Top Ideas for Junior Sleuths - I'm a Chef Too!
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Who doesn't love a mystery to solve? Did you know that teaching children to be detectives instills observation skills and critical thinking, and can enhance fine motor skills? I'm the...more
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Who doesn't love a mystery to solve? Did you know that teaching children to be detectives instills observation skills and critical thinking, and can enhance fine motor skills? I'm the Chef Too features DIY Detective Gear, how to make invisible ink, how to create fingerprints and footprints, and how to create codes and ciphers. It also gives what to do each day to "solve" the case.
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tag(s): critical thinking (193), logic (177), mysteries (28), problem solving (287), STEM (381)
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Have students create detective field notebooks with sections for suspects, clues, observations, and witness statements, then use them throughout a teacher-created classroom mystery. As students are solving cases, they can use Stormboard, reviewed here to post notes, questions, or comments. Students can use digital tools like Genially, reviewed here to create a digital case to be solved.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Jigsaw - The Teacher Toolkit
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Turn students into experts with Jigsaw, a cooperative learning strategy that divides a reading or topic among small groups. Students begin in "home groups," move into "expert groups"...more
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Turn students into experts with Jigsaw, a cooperative learning strategy that divides a reading or topic among small groups. Students begin in "home groups," move into "expert groups" to study one portion of the material, and then return to teach what they learned to their original group. The Teacher Toolkit provides clear preparation and implementation directions, suggestions for when to use the strategy, an expert-panel variation, and downloadable elementary, secondary, and Spanish templates, including editable Google Doc versions. Jigsaw can help students build comprehension while practicing cooperation, communication, discussion, and problem-solving skills. The site also suggests using the strategy to build background knowledge, study authors, examine different viewpoints, compare concepts, and review before an assessment. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the video.
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tag(s): collaboration (139), Formative Assessment (45), problem solving (287), teaching strategies (85), thinking routines (62)
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Students can use Stickies.io, reviewed here to share their information about the topic that they are learning about. Have students use Timeline Infographic Templates by Venngage, reviewed here to create a graphic organizer explaining the information. Students can use Google Slides, reviewed here to make a presentation to share the information they learned.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World Clock Online - Live Time in Cities Around the World - stopwatch-online.com
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Want to know what time it is somewhere else in the country or world? Use the World Clock to find it. The world map includes 7 preselected cities. You can ...more
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Want to know what time it is somewhere else in the country or world? Use the World Clock to find it. The world map includes 7 preselected cities. You can add your own city to the map by typing in the city, and a little dot will appear on the map. The map also shows those areas at night in a darker shade. As you continue to scroll down the site, find digital times for cities around the world and how and when to use the World Clock.
tag(s): time (98), time zones (8)
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Students can learn about the different hemispheres by learning about the different time zones. Students can virtually visit places as they set pins for times on the map using Google My Maps, reviewed here. Invite students to choose an international sporting event, market opening, or live broadcast, compare its announced local start time with the current time in their own city, and explain the conversion process to classmates.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Online Stopwatch - stopwatch-online.com.
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Need a simple way to keep classroom activities on schedule or collect timing data? Online Stopwatch is a free, browser-based stopwatch that displays elapsed time to the centisecond...more
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Need a simple way to keep classroom activities on schedule or collect timing data? Online Stopwatch is a free, browser-based stopwatch that displays elapsed time to the centisecond and includes unlimited lap and split timing, fastest-and-slowest-lap highlighting, fullscreen display, and keyboard shortcuts for starting, stopping, recording laps, resetting, and entering fullscreen mode. Teachers and students can use it on desktop, tablet, or mobile devices, and the stopwatch continues to work offline after the page has loaded. No registration or download is required. The site also provides a separate countdown timer, Pomodoro, alarm clock, world clock, age calculator, and holiday tools.
tag(s): classroom management (150), data (212), time (98)
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Have students work in pairs during physical education activities: one student completes timed intervals while a partner records laps, then they switch roles and discuss pacing and improvement. Ask students to practice estimating elapsed time by predicting how long a classroom task will take, checking the actual time with the stopwatch, and calculating the difference between their estimate and result. Have small groups complete the same problem-solving challenge and record their completion times, then organize the results with Google Forms, reviewed here, to compare strategies and identify which approaches were both accurate and efficient.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Yellowstone National Park - National Park Services
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3 to 12
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Explore Yellowstone without leaving the classroom through this collection of interactive, map-based virtual tours from the National Park Service. Students can investigate Fort Yellowstone,...more
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Explore Yellowstone without leaving the classroom through this collection of interactive, map-based virtual tours from the National Park Service. Students can investigate Fort Yellowstone, Fountain Paint Pot, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Mammoth Hot Springs, Mud Volcano, and Norris Geyser Basin, with each tour providing information that also supports an in-person visit. The linked locations introduce topics such as Yellowstone's volcanic activity, hydrothermal features, erosion, landforms, wildlife, and the history of the world's first national park. For example, the Fountain Paint Pot tour explains several types of hydrothermal features associated with Yellowstone's active volcanic system. In contrast, the Grand Canyon tour connects volcanic history, hydrothermal alteration, and river erosion to the canyon's formation. A story map about protecting Yellowstone's water, plus additional graphs, sounds, videos, interactive maps, and emaps, ends the exploration.
tag(s): conservation (98), erosion (15), landforms (37), national parks (30), virtual field trips (151), volcanoes (61)
In the Classroom
In addition to using the National Parks site, students can also use Google My Maps, reviewed here. Students can use Mentimeter, reviewed here to create a word cloud about what they feel as they are visiting Yellowstone National Park. Have students create a digital escape room escaping Yellowstone National Park using Save the Planet Breakout, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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BBC Sound Effects - BBC
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3 to 12
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Bring authentic sounds into student projects with the BBC Sound Effects Archive, a searchable collection of more than 30,000 audio clips. Users can locate sound effects, preview them,...more
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Bring authentic sounds into student projects with the BBC Sound Effects Archive, a searchable collection of more than 30,000 audio clips. Users can locate sound effects, preview them, experiment with sounds in the site's mixer, and use them in personal or educational projects. The collection helps add atmosphere, realism, and historical or environmental context to podcasts, digital stories, videos, dramatic readings, presentations, and other multimedia work. The site requires JavaScript for its interactive features.
tag(s): creative writing (126), digital storytelling (181), multimedia (70), presentations (49), sounds (38)
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Have students add sound to projects while using Google Slides, reviewed here. Students can also use the sound effects while creating a podcast using Buzzsprout, reviewed here. Have students add sound to a digital escape room while using Genially, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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