My Classroom Economy can work for any grade level. Tailored to the learning ability of your students, the program has the same overall objectives for all grades-to instill basic financial responsibility and teach the value of delayed gratification.
The core principle is simple: Students earn and spend money in a simulated microeconomy. As the grade levels increase, we incorporate additional financial concepts. For example, students in all grades pay rent for their desks, but students in middle school also pay an electricity bill as well as taxes. For high school students, we include experiential learning activities targeted at teaching the foundations of investing and purchasing insurance.
Teachers, trainers, and content publishers use Zaption's intuitive web app to quickly add images, text, quizzes, and discussions to existing videos from YouTube, Vimeo and private video libraries. The result is an interactive learning tour that transforms video from a "lean back" experience to an engaging "lean forward" activity. With Zaption's analytics, instructors get immediate feedback on how students interact with the content and understand key concepts.
MIT Blossoms has a free library of math and science videos. These videos are designed to be interrupted for classroom discussion and to be complemented by active learning sessions led by a classroom teacher.
Nearly 30 educational activities and resources have been added to the updated SEED Earth Science Week Online Toolkit.
Visitors can view 76 lessons, posters, fact sheets, and other materials, each offered in both English and Spanish. Materials provide users with introductory information on Earth science, as well as in-depth items on earth, water, air, and life science.
"An educator's guide to open educational resources (OER), including online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open textbooks."
Geology.com provides a variety of geoscience materials including daily Earth science news, maps, an online dictionary of Earth science terms, and information on geoscience careers. Also available are resources for teachers, including links to lesson plans from major Earth science organizations such as the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geological Society of America, and NASA.