Recommended tinkering books from the Constructivist Consortium List of open-ended creativity software and construction materials used at Constructing Modern Knowledge Reggio Emilia books and constructive toys Project Websites and Communities Videos Programming/building materials Places to purchase parts and supplies Learning Materials Workshop 3D Printing and Fabrication MicroWorlds EX -A modern multimedia version of the Logo programming language, with robotics control with an optional robotics version Scratch - Free programming language for simple storytelling and games.

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This is a blog post about a strategy used to incorporate stations into math. The fact that this teacher mentions that they use Investigations, and that she regards it as the Daily 5 for math caught my attention.

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Posted on February 2, 2011. Filed under: Assessment, During the Guided Math Lesson, Graphic Organizers, Guided math, Mathematical Proficiency | Tags: Assessment, mathematical thinking, problem solving, springboards, story problems, vocabulary, word problems, writing | These graphic organizers from DePaul University are excellent. I like the idea of guided math groups. - Laurel

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Graphic Organizers (Grades 4-8) Click on the BLUE Title to download each graphic organizer. Janna Beanblossom ©2005 Southwest Georgia RESA. All rights reserved. Dr. Larry R. Green, Executive Director Southwest Georgia RESA| Pelham, Georgia Last modified: November 20, 2007

A collection of different websites about developing and asking questions

Useful for Ipod touches, too