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"The Communication Supports Inventory- Children & Youth (CSI-CY) is a tool to help professionals working with students with complex communication needs make educational plans that are comprehensive enough to capture their strengths and restrictions. The  CSI-CY is designed to make goal writing easier for teachers and speech-language pathologists who work with students who are augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users or potential users. By itself, it is not an assessment, but rather a guide to organize the professional's understanding of the impact of a student's communication strengths and limitations on their participation at school and home. The Inventory consists of a survey and a report. The World Health Organization developed the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY) in 2007 to provide a global common language for describing the impact of health conditions and disabilities on human functioning. This Inventory uses that same global common language. It utilizes the broad perspective on function and disability of the ICF-CY to characterize students who use AAC."

With this many words available to learn in the English language, which words would you focus on to teach a user of AAC. Time with a student is finite. Which words give you the greatest bang for their buck?

TWB aims to enhance education globally by supporting teachers locally. A world with well-trained, well-informed teachers is a world with smarter, healthier, wealthier, more peaceful individuals and societies. Support for a single teacher can foster the well-being of hundreds, even thousands, of learners and their communities.

Geocaching is a treasure hunting game where you use a GPS to hide and seek containers with other participants in the activity. Geocaching.com is the listing service for geocaches around the world.

Track migration of different animals and explore via live cameras

"Seasonal change is all around us. We see it in the length of a day, in the appearance of a flower, in the flight of a butterfly. Journey North engages students and citizen scientists around the globe in tracking wildlife migration and seasonal change. Participants share field observations across the northern hemisphere, exploring the interrelated aspects of seasonal change. Sunlight and the Seasons Discovering how sunlight drives seasonal change by tracking changes in day length, or photoperiod. Plants and the Seasons Exploring plant growth in tulip test gardens, running an experiment to track the arrival of spring. Seasonal Migrations Following animal migrations. Observing, reporting, and tracking travels across the hemisphere. Journey North is a free, Internet-based program presented by Annenberg Learner, a division of the Annenberg Foundation."

Coderdojo is... a global collaboration providing free and open learning to young people, especially in programming technology.

"Money is a useful medium of exchange that allows people to trade goods and services with a minimum of inconvenience. Governments around the world each issue their own money in the form of currency, usually banknotes and coins. Each world currency features a unique design and history and you can often learn much about a nation by learning about its currency. As people learn about the money used in other countries, the world gets smaller and greater understanding between citizens of different nations often develops."

Linda Yollis has been an educator for over twenty-five years and is currently working as a third grade teacher in California. Her classroom blog has won the first runner up prize in the category of "Best Classroom Blog" for the 2009 and 2010 Edublog Awar

This is a place to find other Daily 5 folks that you might want to connect with. You may want to find another teacher working with a similar grade level or maybe you would like to connect your classes. I know we have members who have written collaborative stories together, follow each other's blogs and twitter accounts, and who use Skype for Read to Someone globally. You can use the Comments column to add any extra information.

The Molecularium Project is expanding science literacy globally by exciting young minds about molecular science through experiential learning and unprecedented visualizations in immersive and interactive media. We aim to excite audiences of all ages to explore and understand molecular science in the world around them

Crowdsourced captioning site. People volunteer time to caption other's videos. Great extension activity for students

Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) ignites young people's Creative Confidence - the ability to harness creative skills to solve problems - using advanced digital media tools and tested storytelling techniques. With greater creativity, and a greater belief in their own abilities, young people will be more engaged in their education and better prepared for a fast-changing global economy.