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"Easily incorporate computational thinking into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lessons, examples, and programs. For more resources, including discussion forums and news, visit our ECT Discussion Forums. Note: Lessons include complete teacher editions, student worksheets, and any applicable Python programs. Examples include short exercises from core subjects with key CT concepts to consider. Programs include Python examples and exercises for teachers to enhance their existing lessons. All lessons, examples, and programs are based on California K-12 state standards."

"Are you ready to solve the challenges of space? Join the RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge! This is a unique education initiative that targets students in grades 9-12 and encourages them to explore and build skills essential for successful careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) through two phases of project-based learning and team competition"

"You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having FUN!"

"Animated charts, if done well, can help you grab the attention of your live audience. With PowerPoint, you can add some basic animations to your charts but the workflow is not as easy as you would like it to be. If you are therefore looking for an alternate charting tool that's more intuitive and one that can generate impressive animated charts but in considerable less amount of time, try oomfo. Oomfo is a free plug-in that lets you create Adobe Flash based animated charts right inside your copy of Microsoft PowerPoint. It supports all the recent versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2010."

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"We have developed this Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Tutorial based on excerpts from our PBL Starter Kit and highlights from our PBL 101 Workshop."

Be Funky is a simple tool for turning digital photographs into digital comics. The image you see to the left is a cartoonized image of me based on a photograph I took with my webcam. Be Funky can be used for simple one frame images or be used to create an entire strip of cartoonized images with inserted text.

This is a great site! I like to use it to 'hide' student faces when using images of students online.

Download this. Print it out. Highlight it up. Add notes to the margins. Study it. Then help to make it happen with a teacher in YOUR bulding. This is FREE PD.

Download the free ebook based on the Atomic Learning series that Vicki did on how to get your classroom connected.

The website offers users a new way to look at the world by resizing countries on the map according to a series of global issues. SHOW® covers a wide scope of subjects based on datasets provided by the most authoritative sources in their fields. SHOW® allows people to easily download datasets, maps and animations. These can be shared across the Internet through websites, blogs and email.

Provides the world's k-12 schools with the finest technology integration professional development and supportive books. All are our programs and products are designed using the latest research-based, best practices.

The goal of the Exploratorium Digital Library is to provide access to high-quality teaching resources and learning activities that reflect the museum's foundation of playful exhibit-based inquiry in science, art, and human perception. The Learning Resources Collection includes teaching tips and related resources. This collection is suitable for educators in both classroom and out-of-school settings; for peer institutions, such as museums, science centers, and universities; and for individuals.

Remember when Skype could call anywhere for free? Well here's a much easier solution (no software to install - it's an online, Flash-based caller). You can call anywhere using nothing but your internet connection and your mic.

quality's actually pretty good

*Glogster is a perfect web 2.0 tool for learning and WIKIs * Glogster gives support and help with creating school accounts and keeping Glogs PRIVATE * Glogster brings updates based on your feedback. Glogster is Yours!

One of the biggest challenges to embracing project-based learning as a teacher, however, is the formidable task of structuring, monitoring, managing and evaluating student work.

A Real Solution For Classroom Teachers The Solution Site is filled with K-12, hands-on, problem based thematic units with real world relevance. Invite your students to apply 21st Century skills and tools in your classroom everyday by incorporating lessons from The Solution Site into your teaching.

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado. Interactive tools that enable students to make connections between real life phenomena and the underlying science which explains such p

Unlike other search engines, we prioritize that information based on its current popularity with our community. This makes OneRiot's search results relevant, fresh, friendly, and pulsing with the real-time energy of the web. When you search with OneRiot, be on the lookout for these pulse indicators - they'll pop up next to the search results that our community is most excited about right now.

Visit the IRIS Center for Training Enhancements for free online interactive resources that translate research about the education of students with disabilities into practice. Our materials cover a wide variety of evidence-based topics, including behavior, RTI, learning strategies, and progress monitoring.

social studies teachers should play with this on their iwb

Really cool-looking web 2.0 way of visualizing debate topics. Would work GREAT on an IWB. 1) a wiki debate visualization tool 2) a web-based, creative commons project 3) a global graph of all the debates

TwitchBoard listens to your twitter account, and forwards messages on to other internet services based on what it hears. Our first service will automatically save any links you tweet to the del.icio.us bookmarking service.

from jtheiser on twitter

Create your own superhero in a flash with this great flash-based site. Awesome. Crank up your speakers!