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UDL booklet is available for download from the SET-BC website. I've ordered 1500 print copies and 25 will be sent to every school that participated in the BC UDL project. The booklet has a short intro to UDL, links to resources, and essays about the impact of 6 "big ideas" in UDL from teachers involved in the project.

Kindergarten study of Brazil- now that is engagement!!!

Are you ready to move beyond bullets? Here are some very creative PPT templates that will scaffold your students' presentations. Click on the sidekicks bar on the left to get started with PPT ideas (and downloads) for Book Blasts, e-stories, scrapbooks,

Very kid friendly tutorial on paragraph writing using an apple.

This is a great summary of UDL and a rubric-type chart of practical ideas for getting started in implementing UDL. Thanks to Maureen LaFleche for pointing me to this site!

If you are planning a novel study on a book that has won the Newberry or Caldecott Medal, start here! This site contains literature ladders with links related to all aspects of the study of various award-winning novels. For example, the Holes (Louis Sachar) Literature Ladder contains links about the author, bully, homelessness, juvenile detention, Texas, lizards, the desert and more. The site also shows you how to create your own literature ladder.

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.

Very nice self-checking site for making numbers using base-ten blocks.

Students in a South Texas classroom had taken on the role of employees at CleanWater Tech, a fictional U.S. company that produces water filtration technology, and were poring over the economic indicators of various unnamed countries, trying to decide into which nation the company should expand.

lessons across the curriculum that incorporate ipods

UDL conference in Montreal in May. David Rose is presenting the keynote.