Group items tagged

The Great Energy Challenge is a National Geographic feature that offers some nice interactive posters for evaluating personal and global energy consumption. Global Electricity Outlook is an interactive display of electricity consumption across the globe. You can view the global picture or click on the map to view regional consumption. The display shows the means of electricity production globally and regionally. To see how shifting production sources would impact the world or a region use the sliders below the map. Read more about the Great Energy Challenge posters here.

8th grade science

On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

This is what it looks like and sounds like!!! Scenes from the Unquiet Library: Four Classes Researching, Learning, and Collaborating I'm always amazed by how beautifully classes co-exist in our learning space when we max out with four classes. I thought it would be fun this morning to capture a quick snapshot of what learning looks like at The Unquiet Library-moments like this are the happiest for me here in the library and validate the vision of a learning-centered library. Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Facebook Twitter Email Print « Older Posts Email Subscription Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 478 other followers RSS feeds RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Search Recent Posts Video: The Librarian as a Catalyst and Learning Specialist in K12 The Possibilities and Challenges of a Participatory Learning Environment: Students and Teachers Speak Scenes from the Unquiet Library: Four Classes Researching, Learning, and Collaborating Lisa Schwartz - DML Summer Institute 2011 Framing Transliterate Learning Through Inquiry and Participatory Culture Recent Comments Buffy Hamilton on Li… on Video: The Librarian as a Cata… Another Provocation… on The Possibilities and Challeng… Zoe Midler (@zmidler… on Scenes from the Unquiet Librar… Archives Categories Blog Stats 309,618 hits 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker Tweets Is it possible to run a premade report in Destiny to calculate the # of titles added in a particular time period? #tlchat 38 minutes ago School librarians: anyone else receive a survey endorsed by AASL from U.S. Census Bureau about schools and st… (cont) http://t.co/D005LNrs 1 hour ago feeling a little weepy/emotional reflecting on what a gift it was to talk to my former elem. school teachers for first time in 30 years f2f. 15 hours ago Tags Advocacy books collaboration coo

Common Core challenges us to teach students to think like a historian. What does that mean? Aronson looks at the challenges in this article.

Living in the US challenge -- could be a great geography activity in 7th grade next year!

"Join this fast-paced panel for a fun and informational session about real classroom challenges and the apps that help to meet those challenges. "

Design learning challenge Kansas City design week

Mind Cipher is a collection of brain teasers, logic puzzles, and riddles submitted by members of the Mind Cipher community. All submissions placed into one of ten categories. The categories include mathematics, logic, lateral thinking, and physics. All submissions are ranked one a difficulty scale of 1-10. Mind Cipher could be a great resource to consult during those times when you have a few minutes of "down-time" with your students. Bring up one of the Mind Cipher puzzles to keep them engaged in thinking even if they're not thinking specifically about your content area.

City of Immigrants is set in New York City in 1907. Players take on the role of a fourteen year-old Jewish immigrant named Lena Brodsky. Lena is from Russia and she arrived in New York after her older brother who came to New York a few years earlier and sent money home to buy passage for family members. Lena is now trying to earn money to send home so that her parents can come to New York. Throughout the game you meet other people in Lena's life in New York who are faced with tough choices just like she is. Applications for Education City of Immigrants could be a great game for middle school students and some high school students to play to learn about the challenges that faced immigrants to New York in the early 1900's. What I really like about the game is that players meet the various people involved in Lena's life. Meeting those people could help students understand the community dynamics common to immigrant neighborhoods at the time. The Mission U.S. games are available to use in your web browser. Some of the games will work on iPads and Android tablets. The Mission U.S. website offers an educators section that includes printable lists of vocabulary terms, writing prompts, and post-game discussion prompts.

"Vocabulary.com is comprised of three sections - The Challenge, Dictionary, and Vocabulary Lists. After creating an account, students can immediately begin playing the Challenge's interactive game to build knowledge and create a learning environment on their level. The Dictionary offers basic and advanced searches going beyond just definitions. Explanations and usage examples taken from current publications and classic literature provide a fuller context that helps fortify students' understanding. Thousands of word lists are available in the Vocabulary Lists section which also lets teachers and students create their own word lists based on assignments and personal interests."

A twist on Poem in Your Pocket Day--Ask all staff to carry a poem one day during the week and challenge students to find a staff member with a poem in their pocket. When students find the staff member they hear the poem read. You may need to assist some in finding a poem to read.

App of the Week: QatQi » YALSA #apps for ios #apps for teens #QatQi #word games http://t.co/pFlrJkks3T via @yalsa

8th grade science

8th grade science

Personal Energy Meter Would be interesting for students to use this in 8th grade science to create an infographic about their energy consumption and carbon footprint

8th grade science