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Distilled Demographics Video Series Distilled Demographics, PRB's new video series, highlights key demographic concepts such as fertility, mortality, and migration. Through these videos, each under 10 minutes, you can learn demography's real-world application and impact. In these videos, Carl Haub, PRB's senior demographer, talks about: Deciphering Population Pyramids Addressing Population Myths The Birth Rate: What It Is and Why It Matters

ast week I blogged about my Bloomin' Peacock, a new Bloom's Taxonomy visual I made to share with teachers in a training.  Over the years, I have created a number of Bloom's Taxonomy pictures to hang in my classroom for students to refer to.  My Bloomin' Peacock was such a hit with you all, I thought I would start sharing the others I've made.   Today I revived one that I created for my classroom and added the digital version (again the digital tools displayed relate directly to the Treasures reading curriculum).  This is my Um-bloom-ra Bloom's Taxonomy:

The potential power of IVC. Perhaps we can reference somewhere if needed.

Here is a phenomenal lesson, accessible to any child who knows how to subtract, and compelling to everyone, up to and including professional mathematicians. Get a kid engaged in it, and they'll do hundreds of subtraction problems without complaint, because it's helping them solve an honest mathematical mystery. I've seen this idea discussed in math education circles, but I haven't found any references to it online, so I want to share it here.

Great set of resources for research starting points beyond Google for younger students.

Search engine for kids. Starts with categories or open search with a simple user-interface. Quintura also has a smartphone app version

Mix of research, products, PD, and leadership support. McREL is now a nationwide resource. 

The pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

great resource. Nice layout for a how it works feature article. Students can find articles that relate to some interest that they have.

Online pronunciation tool. 

Digital library for Earth system education with grade level and content resources.