The BBC has excellent educational games, activities, and resources. The BBC Science Clips are a collection of science related activities and games for students who are 5 to 11 years old. Students can grow virtual plants, experiment with pushes and pulls, hearing and sound, forces and movement, electricity, rocks and soils, simple machines, light, solids and liquids, friction, habitats, life cycles, changing states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes, forces, and much more.
Number 5 really is interesting here.
"Seven Principles That Guide Teaching and Student Learning in the Atwell Curriculum"
5. Children need to know adults who write -- We need to write, share our writing with our students, and demonstrate what experienced writers do in the process of composing, letting our students see our own drafts in all their messiness and tentativeness.
So, be it Zotero or photo editing or movie making, I am here to help the students. Could it be done by a kid from IT, probably. But could it be done as well and leave students feeling like they can do anything? Depends on the kid. However, coming from Libraryland and seeing the technology as another tool to bring students success makes me a stronger option.
Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun is co-curated by Dr. David Silverman, the Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr., Professor and Curator of Egyptology; Dr. Jennifer Wegner, Research Specialist, Egyptian section; and Dr. Josef Wegner, Associate Curator and Associate Professor in the Museum's Egyptian section.
Curatorial
Dr. David P. Silverman
Exhibition Co-curator
"Googleable.
Definition: being able to find information about something by using the search engine Google.
For example, and from the video: When was Custer's last stand?
That's a Googleable question. Questions that are "googleable" can be answered by simply doing a Google search. Ask a question, the student types it into Google and bingo - the answer.
Where do you stand with "googleable questions?" Googleable assignments? Appropriate, inappropriate, or it depends?"
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