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What is it? Science NetLinks is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all of it is free! Who is it for? Science NetLinks provides K-12 teachers, students, and families with quality resources for teaching and learning science. How do I use it? All of the resources are Internet based and free to everyone. Lessons and activities can be printed or used online. Many of the interactives, esheets, and tools work great on an interactive white board or in a computer lab. All of the resources are designed to be delivered in a variety of formats and classroom settings.

This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Our math printables are suitable for use in math centers, small group or whole class settings. Instructions for each activity are presented in large print on a task card in child-friendly language to enable students to work on tasks independently after a brief introduction to the task. All files are in PDF format and can be accessed using Adobe Reader. Also available are Math Journal Tasks (K-5), Math Vocabulary Resources (Gds. 2-5) and Math Projects (Gds. 3-5) for teachers looking for ways to support students' math writing skills while developing key concepts and skills. See our E-Books page for more information on these resources.

Excellent resource for teaching students about the basics of comprehension and strategies good readers use. Includes videos and games. USE Key Code: bcoe00000 or get your own. Free site.

Use this collection of turnkey resources to keep families up-to-date about today's digital landscape and how kids engage in this 24/7 world of media. Start by surveying your student and family community to gauge what media issues matter most to them. Next, send home the customizable flyer to promote a Family Engagement Night. Use our grade band specific presentations and scripts to guide your school community in a lively discussion about kids and media. Keep the conversation going by embedding Common Sense's blog widgets into your site's website or newsletter.

The Project has compiled the following assessment materials, which we use in our professional development services. Please free feel to download, distribute and use most of the assessment materials in your work. However, you will note that the Spelling Assessments require that you log in to your account in order to access these materials. The authors have approved access to this assessment tool only for schools that are receiving professional development services from our staff.

Make poster sized collages, use Facebook photos, use free backgrounds or upload your own, get posters up to three feet tall, free downloads, prints from $7.50 + shipping.

The Technology Integration Modules focus on academic content and technology. They have been designed by Ohio educators to provide extended, hands-on experiences using multimedia technologies. The modules illustrate how to use technologies to help students understand difficult concepts in mathematics, science, and reading.

These are short video clips of instructional strategies. with expert trainer, Anita Archer. For example, scroll to the 4th video after using the url provided) --she is training 2nd graders with focus on class procedures for participation, choral response, partner share (look, lean, whisper), and more---a great way for us to consider at the start of the new year as we infuse literacy skills across subjects, math, too!

Illustrative Mathematics is an initiative of the Institute for Mathematics & Education funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Vision A world where people know, use, and enjoy mathematics. Mission Illustrative Mathematics is a discerning community of educators dedicated to the coherent learning of mathematics. We collaborate at illustrativemathematics.org, sharing carefully vetted resources for teachers and teacher leaders to give our children an understanding of mathematics and skill in using it. We provide expert guidance to states and districts working to improve mathematics education. Goals To illustrate standards with impeccably crafted tasks, videos, lesson plans, and curriculum modules. To be the premier source of freely available online mathematics content for teachers, teacher leaders, assessment developers, curriculum writers, and teacher educators. To be a discerning professional community that creates content and deploys expertise in multiple ways. To engage individuals and small groups, with rare and needed expertise, who are currently isolated in pockets across the country. To provide a space for teachers to share across classrooms and help each other grow in teaching our children mathematics.

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TeachersFirst's lesson plans span many grade levels and subjects. These plans were written by experienced teachers who know classroom realities. Where available, the plans include standards and/or technology options. Try these lessons as is or adapt the ideas to your curriculum or level. Don't forget to use your free TeachersFirst membership to leave comments, sharing how the lessons worked or how you adapted them to your classroom.

TeachersFirst's lesson plans span many grade levels and subjects. These plans were written by experienced teachers who know classroom realities. Where available, the plans include standards and/or technology options. Try these lessons as is or adapt the ideas to your curriculum or level. Don't forget to use your free TeachersFirst membership to leave comments, sharing how the lessons worked or how you adapted them to your classroom.

Microsoft in Education | Teacher resources Lesson plans for teachers You can introduce or augment technology skills with these lesson plans for teachers. They're ready to use as they are, or you can customize them to fit your specific teaching and learning goals.

Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students: Improve search skills. Evaluate the information they find. Incorporate them in their work. Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstrations. We developed this critical thinking and web research curriculum with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Lesson plans include prerequisites, rationale, essential concepts, and descriptions of related National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) and are designed for beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels, aimed at middle school and secondary students.

Using polygons and flips in MS Paint

Using polygons and flips in MS Paint

Use this for discussion. Can save and access up to one month. Name room and students enter by typing url todaysmeet.com/enterclassname.

Would love to see us dig more into resources like these and build literature around them than wait for the magic CC curriculum to hit our doorstep.

Would love to see us dig more into resources like these and build literature around them than wait for the magic CC curriculum to hit our doorstep.

Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.