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Tracy Watanabe

The Digital Curriculum Part 2… Nine Amazing Free Digital Curriculum Resources... - 0 views

  • First… lets take a look at the free  (or almost free) resources provided below
  • 1. Khan Academy As the site states… watch, practice… learn almost anything. There are over 3,100 videos in multiple STEM areas
  • 2. MIT Blossoms BLOSSOMS video lessons are enriching students’ learning experiences in high school classrooms for students across the globe. This amazing video library contains over 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers as streaming video and Internet downloads and as DVDs and videotapes
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  • You also may wish to look for videos or activities using the Common Core at any level of math by exploring Khan’s Common Core Page.
  • The lessons intersperse video instruction with planned exercises that engage students in problem solving and critical thinking, helping students build the kind of gut knowledge that comes from hands-on experience. By guiding students through activities from beginning to end, BLOSSOMS lessons give students a sense of accomplishment and excitement. You can even check these lessons out by standards.
  • 3. Curriki  This is the community of K12 open resources. Currently Curriki has 6.5 million users and contains over 40,000 K12 free learning resources
  • 4. NROCK The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement
  • 5. HippoCampus This amazing resource claims to be teaching with the power of media. HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE)
  • 6. WikiBooks Welcome to a collection of open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit. The Wikibooks collection currently contains 2,443 books with 40,980 pages.
  • 7. CK12 Interactive Book I bring this amazing resource up because it is a a relatively new initiative. The community at CK12 Flexbooks and Wolfram Alpha have combined efforts to bring you this awesome Interactive Algebra Book. 
  • 8. Flexbooks I did include this in the last post but wanted to make sure it was added to the list. So… what is a FlexBook?  They may be best described as customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 education. FlexBooks are customizable textbooks that teachers can use online,via  flash drives, CD’s, or as printed books.
  • Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together
  • You may also wish to explore Wikijunior, a project  to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12
  •  Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals
  • As a general rule only instructional books are suitable for inclusion
Tracy Watanabe

Lesson Plan Search | Lessonopoly.org - 1 views

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    "Welcome to Lessonopoly! We are an open educational resource aiming to make life a little easier for busy educators like you. Lessonopoly is a free software portal developed by Silicon Valley Education Foundation. This site was created with constant input from teachers to deliver a set of effective and easy to use tools, even for teachers who do not have time to learn new technologies. Lessonopoly empowers teachers to organize activities inside and outside the classroom, create and share lesson plans, and connect to other teachers by building online communities."
Tracy Watanabe

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    "Using a Dan Meyers problem in my Map as a resource.  Brought me to this TED video of him from 2010.  He doesn't reference CC but it captures the esence of it.  He does show teachers how to take what they have and create a great lessons. " -- TB
Sarah Harrison

PBS Math Teacher Resources - 2 views

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    PBS lesson plans and projects.
Tracy Watanabe

karlfisch - Algebra Videos - 0 views

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    Fabulous resources
Tracy Watanabe

Algebra in the Real World Movies with Activities - 0 views

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    Movies to connect how math is used in the real-world & it has activities
Jennifer Cummings

http://www.mathwarehouse.com/trigonometry/law-of-cosines-formula-examples.php - 0 views

  • The two common problems types that are suitable for the law of cosines are.
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      Differentiate from when to use Law of Sines versus Law of Cosines
  • Law of Cosines to Find a Side Length
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    Explain law of cosines with examples & interactive problems
Tracy Watanabe

4 Tools to Connect Students to Real World Math - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad - CCSS,... - 1 views

  • One of the challenges we face as educators is providing students with opportunities to engage in meaningful learning experiences that show them how they can connect the knowledge and skills learned in school to the real world. 
  • Here are some resources that are ready and waiting for use, regardless of your tech comfort zone.
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