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search by device or learning activity. This is a great resource that provides short reviews of the recommended apps with price, ease of use, and usefulness. Also provides a features comparison chart.

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Fantastic resource for new bc curriculum, especially grade 7 evolution and social studies.

Take the With Math I Can growth mindset pledge and access worksheets, lesson plans and other growth mindset resources for use at home, in your classroom and in your district.

This website was recommended by Ross Powell in a presentation on Differentiated Instruction. Includes modules to learn about DI and examples of DI teaching (lessons and units) at several grade levels. DI is just one section of this website which also contains links to various subject areas.

Concepts such as equivalent fractions and algebra equations represented in lego

Just announced at ISTE...a free online portal to help educators from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade find, use, and share the best digital apps, games, and websites for their students.

Great pics to support study of geology

Website made by a grade 5 class in New York studying Canada. Really well done but contains some mistakes...would be fun to challenge kids to find them, e.g. on the BC page.

Wiki page I created with links about Canada's Fur Trade suitable for both intermediate and high school.

This site introduces you to the options for using technology in your classroom, e.g. webcasts, webcams, current news sources, inquiry-learning. Even more important, it explains why it's important to make instruction meaningful, current, and engaging for today's students. This is a great place to start exploring your options for integrating technology in the classroom.

This is a subscription site, but it does have a free trial. They have high quality educational videos and research to back up its educational effectiveness. The pricing is posted on their website. In BC, ERAC has special United Streaming pricing.

Two-page starter-sheets with practical ideas for getting started with web 2.0 apps in the classroom. Format is consistent for all the sheets and learning objectives are indexed to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Includes several Google apps, Voicethread, Mindmeister, Mixbook and others.

This Northwest Education Technology Consortium site features three strong examples of classroom integration of technology, one each from elementary, middle, and high school level.s. To provide valuable context, each example features background information about the school and teacher, how the projects was planned and organized, how students accessed technology, and how teachers assessed students work. Examples of student work are included. The format used is very engaging and provides a good model of how to present a unit.

This is a subscription site, but it has a free trial. BrainPOP features very engaging short animated films that teach common curriculum content. They also have BrainPOP Jr., specializing in K-3 content. The school and district pricing is posted on thei

There are excellent quality instructional videos on everything imaginable here. I searched for life cycle and got 106 educational videos on the life cycle of frogs, butterflies, bananas, stars, etc. The geography section has an astounding collection of Canada videos introducing the provinces and the geographical regions. HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations. We do the research so you don't have to.