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Barbara Moose

Curriki - WebHome - 1 views

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shared by Barbara Moose on 29 May 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Moose on 29 May 09
     
    Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.
Martin Burrett

Outdoor Learning Opportunities - 10 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 21 Jun 18
     
    "No matter what the weather is trying to prove otherwise, it is summer in the UK and time to take the learning outside. Science, geography and art are often thought about when planning outside lessons as the 'resources' of mini-beasts, ow-bow lakes and scenic landscapes, on the whole, are found outside. But what benefits are there for doing DT outside (other than keeping your classroom mess-free) or music outside (other than annoying the teacher of 5B)?"
Deborah Baillesderr

Welcome to EngageNY | EngageNY - 37 views

www.engageny.org

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shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 13 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 13 Feb 16
     
    This site has everything! Great articles, curriculum maps, lessons, unit plans, etc.
Marc Patton

PBS LearningMedia - 1 views

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shared by Marc Patton on 27 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Marc Patton on 27 Jun 12
     
    PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans.
Marc Patton

Top Stars | Inspiring Uses of Hubble in Education - 0 views

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  • Marc Patton on 27 Jun 12
     
    Are you looking for ways to inspire your students using the Hubble Space Telescope? Visit our showcase to see what other educators are using-formal lesson plans, blogs, games and presentations-the sky is the limit! Join us on Twitter
Melissa Enderle

Biomes of the World - Biome Map - 15 views

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shared by Melissa Enderle on 15 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Melissa Enderle on 15 Nov 11
     
    Click on the map for more information, informative videos, and links to scientist profiles, travel information, lesson plans and species profiles for each region. Has information on aquatic and terrestrial biomes.
Deborah Baillesderr

SAS® Curriculum Pathways® - 23 views

www.sascurriculumpathways.com/portal

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shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 20 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 20 Sep 15
     
    "Interactive, standards-based resources in the core disciplines."
Greg Clinton

The (iPad) Radio Play | Wandering Academic - 6 views

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shared by Greg Clinton on 21 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Greg Clinton on 21 Dec 11
     
    A complete project plan for creating radio plays on iPads using Garageband or Studio.HD. Applicable to a wide range of subject matter, including social studies, literature, or even science. Great tutorials down at the bottom of the page, and examples - even project files included.
Mr. Eason

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:21st Century Skills: The Challenge... - 119 views

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shared by Mr. Eason on 11 May 12 - Cached
  • the skills students need in the 21st century are not new.
  • Critical thinking and problem solving, for example, have been components of human progress throughout history
  • What's actually new is the extent to which changes in our economy and the world mean that collective and individual success depends on having such skills
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  • Many reform efforts, from reducing class size to improving reading instruction, have devolved into fads or been implemented with weak fidelity to their core intent. The 21st century skills movement faces the same risk.
  • some of the rhetoric we have heard surrounding this movement suggests that with so much new knowledge being created, content no longer matters; that ways of knowing information are now much more important than information itself. Such notions contradict what we know about teaching and learning and raise concerns that the 21st century skills movement will end up being a weak intervention for the very students—low-income students and students of color—who most need powerful schools as a matter of social equity.
  • First, educators and policymakers must ensure that the instructional program is complete and that content is not shortchanged for an ephemeral pursuit of skills
  • Second, states, school districts, and schools need to revamp how they think about human capital in education—in particular how teachers are trained
  • inally, we need new assessments that can accurately measure richer learning and more complex tasks
  • Skills and knowledge are not separate, however, but intertwined.
  • In some cases, knowledge helps us recognize the underlying structure of a problem.
  • At other times, we know that we have a particular thinking skill, but domain knowledge is necessary if we are to use it.
  • if skills are independent of content, we could reasonably conclude that we can develop these skills through the use of any content. For example, if students can learn how to think critically about science in the context of any scientific material, a teacher should select content that will engage students (for instance, the chemistry of candy), even if that content is not central to the field. But all content is not equally important to mathematics, or to science, or to literature. To think critically, students need the knowledge that is central to the domain.
  • The importance of content in the development of thinking creates several challenges
  • first is the temptation to emphasize advanced, conceptual thinking too early in training
  • Another curricular challenge is that we don't yet know how to teach self-direction, collaboration, creativity, and innovation the way we know how to teach long division.
  • But experience is not the same thing as practice. Experience means only that you use a skill; practice means that you try to improve by noticing what you are doing wrong and formulating strategies to do better. Practice also requires feedback, usually from someone more skilled than you are.
  • We must plan to teach skills in the context of particular content knowledge and to treat both as equally important.
  • education leaders must be realistic about which skills are teachable. If we deem that such skills as collaboration and self-direction are essential, we should launch a concerted effort to study how they can be taught effectively rather than blithely assume that mandating their teaching will result in students learning them.
  • teachers don't use them.
  • Even when class sizes are reduced, teachers do not change their teaching strategies or use these student-centered method
  • these methods pose classroom management problems for teachers.
  • These methods also demand that teachers be knowledgeable about a broad range of topics and are prepared to make in-the-moment decisions as the lesson plan progresses.
  • constant juggling act
  • greater collaboration among teachers.
  • But where will schools find the release time for such collaboration?
  • professional development is a massive undertaking.
  • Unfortunately, there is a widespread belief that teachers already know how to do this if only we could unleash them from today's stifling standards and accountability metrics. This notion romanticizes student-centered methods, underestimates the challenge of implementing such methods, and ignores the lack of capacity in the field today.
  • The first challenge is the cost.
  • measures that encourage greater creativity, show how students arrived at answers, and even allow for collaboration.
  • When students first encounter new ideas, their knowledge is shallow and their understanding is bound to specific examples. They need exposure to varied examples before their understanding of a concept becomes more abstract and they can successfully apply that understanding to novel situations.
anonymous

Futures Channel - Common Core and Educational Technology blog - 137 views

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shared by anonymous on 21 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Feb 13
     
    This is a nice site that includes real-world problems covering a wide range in Math, Science, and more. Lesson plans included. Please take a look at ourCommon Core and Ed Tech blog. Would like any feedback or ideas you may have about what you'd like to see.
Keith Dennison

Help with free online textbooks - 110 views

To all: Thank you so much. Keep the resources coming! These are wonderful and I am so appreciative of your help. Take care, Keith

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Martin Burrett

Studyladder - Games, Worksheets & Lesson Plans - 155 views

www.studyladder.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 25 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 25 Sep 11
     
    This is a superb site with thousands of well designed cross curricular activities, whiteboard resources and videos to use in your class. Best of all, it is free for teachers. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
Deborah Baillesderr

PBS LearningMedia - 73 views

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  • Steve Gall on 31 Jan 12
     
    Digital resources of all types from PBS; audio, video, images, games.
  • Marc Patton on 28 May 13
     
    PBS LearningMedia™ is the go-to destination for instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos, games, audio clips, photos, lesson plans, and more!
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 06 Sep 13
     
    PBS Learning Media offers more than 30,000 digital resources available for free to PreK-12 educators. 
Joyce Kolakowski

Write and make art about animal life cycles, shadows - 77 views

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Science art writing

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  • Joyce Kolakowski on 27 Oct 11
     
    Make a butterfly life cycle on paper plate with diffferent pasta, tissue, gkue and water.
Lesley Grant

Teaching Ideas - Free lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources for use in the prim... - 71 views

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  • Lesley Grant on 29 Aug 11
     
    Ideas, resources, activities related to books, P-8
Sharin Tebo

Creative Educator - Connecting Curricula for Deeper Understanding - 34 views

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shared by Sharin Tebo on 20 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Most schools will say that they want students to have an understanding of their world as a whole, but they seldom look at topics with an interdisciplinary focus. Why? It is easy to find reasons why this disjointed approach to learning happens: · Some argue that there is so much content and so many skills to be learned  in each discipline that they don’t have time to integrate subjects. · Others say that the each discipline has a body of knowledge and skills that  should stand on its own and not be muddied by the intrusion of other disciplines. · Secondary educators say that there is insufficient common planning time  to combine their efforts to teach an interdisciplinary course. · Still others say that the whole system is geared toward separate subjects  and to break out of this would require a monumental effort. · Others are guided by “the tests,” which are presented by separate disciplines.
  • The ultimate goal for the study of any subject is to develop a deeper understanding of its content and skills so that students can engage in higher-level thinking and higher- level application of its principles. When students dig deeper and understand content across several disciplines, they will be better equipped to engage in substantive discussion and application of the topic. They will also be better able to see relationships across disciplines.
  • They organize students into interdisciplinary teams and coordinate lessons so that what happens in math, science, language arts, and social studies all tie to a common theme. Many times these teachers team-teach during larger blocks of time. Advocates of this more holistic approach to curriculum argue that it helps students:
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  • Of course, digging deeper doesn’t fit well in the time frame that most schools use. It takes time to link content across several disciplines, and it may be difficult to squeeze a learning activity into a 40-minute period. To change the method of learning will mean changing more than the curricula. The school structure, including the schedule and methodology will also need to change.
  • To prepare our students for an integrated world, we need to break out of the separate-discipline mentality and develop more holistic and problem/project-based approaches. Many have tried to do this, and it isn’t easy.
  • Sharin Tebo on 20 Nov 14
     
    STEM and STEAM--challenge to aim for more integration cross-disciplines.
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