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50 Ways to use DE board Builder

Words their Way

"Words Their Way is a word study program in which students learn by sorting words into categories. The links provide Powerpoints that can be used by teachers to model the word sorts or have individual students access the sorts on the computer. "

"Ready for use in elementary classrooms with any type of interactive whiteboard, these high-quality virtual manipulative tools help teachers connect students with great ways to make sense of math. Use these tools to create an environment for students to explain, discuss, and defend their mathematical thinking."

The purpose of this post is to identify additional ways to use word walls with mathematics content.

"Incorporating digital tools into your small group instruction can go a long way toward achieving this."

"Are you looking for a quick and easy way to make groups in your classroom? You can use our Group Maker to quickly break your students into groups of 2, 3, 4, or 5. The groups are random and can be shuffled over and over as needed! "

"Graphic organizers (some of which are also called concept maps, entity relationship charts, and mind maps) are a pictorial way of constructing knowledge and organizing information. They help the student convert and compress a lot of seemingly disjointed information into a structured, simple-to-read, graphic display. The resulting visual display conveys complex information in a simple-to-understand manner. "

"The students take a virtual field trip to City Hall in this kid-friendly site. This beginning civics/economic lesson will introduce your students to city government and teach economics on the way!"

"The Poetry Idea Engine fuels your imagination for writing poetry. Play to learn the many ways to write poetry."

"Everyone's favorite math guru shares the top 10 ways you can enhance your students' math learning, test scores, and skills. "

Engaging students with document cameras is not difficult, but it does require a little imagination. With that in mind, the following ideas are designed to help you learn how to use classroom document cameras in unique and innovative ways at school. You might be surprised at just how versatile these great teaching tools really are!

This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections. Teaching with primary documents encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. Lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work become a gateway for research with historical records in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities.

Looking for a way to get your students more engaged? Mixbook is proud to present Mixbook for Educators, a program that allows educators even easier access to the most powerful suite of digital storytelling tools on the web. Check out the stories below to hear how Mixbook can help YOU.

The Absolutely Free And Totally Fun Way To Improve Your Spelling. Practice Spelling Words. KidsSpell helps to dramatically improve your students ability to learn and retain spelling words. OVER 6,600 WORDS TO PRACTICE WITH!

Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.

Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways you can use Kerpoof:\n * Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)\n * Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)\n * Earn Koins which you will soon be able to spend in The Kerpoof Store\n * Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug\n * Tell a story\n * Make a drawing\n * Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

Helps students create work in a new and exciting way. Kids'Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project based learning.

"Vocabulary Building Games The Fun Way to Build Vocabulary Skills! Test Preparation & Vocabulary Building Made Fun"