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"Common Core Map Grade: K Grade: 1 Grade: 2 Grade: 3 Grade: 4 Grade: 5 Grade: 6 Grade: 7 Grade: 8 Grade: 9-12 Standard Description Videos Exercises Grade: K 2 VIDEOS 2 EXERCISES Counting and Cardinality K.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens. K.CC.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). K.CC.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. K.CC.4.a When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. K.CC.4.b Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted. K.CC.4.c Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. K.CC.5 Count to tell the number of objects. K.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.1 Comparing Whole Numbers 2 Comparing Whole Numbers 3 K.CC.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals. Geometry K.G.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. K.G.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. K.G.3 Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres). K.G.4 Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes. K.G.5

Kidsdata.org is your gateway to comprehensive data about the health and well being of children across California. The site offers data for every city, county, and school district in the state, making it easy to monitor trends and pinpoint disparities.

"It was about five years ago when I got into visualization. Before I actually made anything, I read books and guides that made suggestions and preached a handful of design principles, but when it was time to make a data graphic for publication, I didn't know what I was doing. Theory is great. Being able to apply it to your own data is better."

ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) is a downloadable, lightweight GIS tool for exploring geographic data. AEJEE can save and open projects, so work can be shared between users, or between school and home. AEJEE can classify and symbolize shapefiles, integrate a wide array of image data, project on-the-fly shapefiles stored in decimal degree, and use data distributed over the Internet from ArcIMS services from the Geography Network, or other hosted ArcIMS sites.

"The Learning Registry is a new approach to capturing, sharing, and analyzing learning resource data to broaden the usefulness of digital content to benefit educators and learnerThe Learning Registry: Use, Share, Find, Amplify.s. Not a website or repository… not a search engine… and not a replacement for the excellent sources of online learning content that already exist… ...the Learning Registry is an open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly share resources, as well as information about how those resources are used by educators in diverse learning environments across the Web."

USMapExplorer  lets you build your own maps with different features like mountain ranges, earthquake data, tall buildings and MUCH more! Try our State Rankings. Data for reports is available on every State in the US, as well as for every Country in the world ! Maps4Kids.com is a great resource for fast facts about places in our world.

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" Share on printShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on google_plusone More Sharing Services Program for the Study of Children and Media Research About Our Program Children, Teens, and Entertainment Media: The View From The Classroom Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America csm researchcsm research About the Research Program The mission of Common Sense Media's Program for the Study of Children and Media is to provide parents, educators, health organizations, and policymakers with reliable, independent data on children's use of media and technology and the impact it has on their physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development. For further inquiries, contact Colby Zintl at (415) 553-6753. "

Speak Up 2012 is open for input through December 21, 2012. Speak Up, a national online research project facilitated by Project Tomorrow®, gives individuals the opportunity to share their viewpoints about key educational issues. Each year, findings are summarized and shared with national and state policy makers. Participating schools and districts can access their data online, free-of-charge in February 2013."

"nfographics are an amazing learning and teaching tools. I said amazing because they present information and data in such a visually attractive way that increases students overall comprehensible input. I have received several emails from teachers from different countries sharing with me their successful use of these materials with their students. I particularly liked Yokama's lesson teaching Japaneses students English vocabulary using some of the Infographics I shared here."

"The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium will conduct a Pilot Test of its assessments February 20 through May 10, 2013 in grades 3-11. Smarter Balanced will select schools for the Pilot Test using two approaches or components: The "Scientific" component will target a representative sample of schools to yield critical data about the items developed to date as well as how the test administration system is functioning. The "Volunteer" component will be open to all schools in Smarter Balanced states and will ensure that all schools have the opportunity to experience the basic functionality of the test administration system. Schools can volunteer for the Pilot Test by completing the online survey External link opens in new window or tab.. The Pilot Test flyer (PDF) and the Pilot Test FAQs (PDF) from Smarter Balanced have more information about the Pilot Test. Choose a county in the dropdown box below to display the list of schools selected for the "Scientific" component by district."

This guide is part of a series from NWREL to assist in school improvement. Publications are available in five areas:
 Assists schools, districts, and communities in reshaping rules, roles, structures, and relationships to build capacity for long-term improvement        Provides resources and strategies for teachers to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment by promoting professional learning through reflective, collegial inquiry          Promotes child and youth success by working with schools to build culturally responsive partnerships with families and communities       Assists educators in understanding the complex nature of literacy development and identifying multiple ways to engage students in literacy learning that result in highly proficient readers, writers, and speakers  Helps schools identify, interpret, and use data to guide planning and accountability This project has been funded at least in part with federal funds from the U.S. Department of Education under contract number ED-01-CO-0013. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizat

"If you just finished creating a great infographics for your website or blog, chances are you want to see it get plenty of traffic. The latest wave of infographics have made it easy for millions of people to quickly visualize vast sums of data. Unlike boring charts and fact sheets, infographics feature eye-catching designs that quickly capture viewers' attention."

"A site can be downloaded using the open-source tool available at the Google Sites Liberation Project Page. Note that this tool requires Java 1.5 or later. Once the tool has been downloaded, double-click on the JAR file to launch the application. You will be presented with the following screen."

"Mobile devices are quickly becoming the primary personal communications and computing platform for business. However, they introduce cost, risk, and usability challenges that traditional mobile device management strategies cannot address. MobileIron's approach is to simplify the problem for IT, finance, and end-users by moving smartphone data to the enterprise cloud."

"Below is the top 50 free applications in the Education category(data is pulled from iTunes). We also have a list of the best paid education iPhone apps."

"We are pleased to release Keeping Pace 2011. Updated state profiles, enrollment data, trends, and analysis of K-12 online and blended learning can be found in the full report and graphics, available here!"

Why Use Tablo? Four simple reasons why you should use Tablo to make and share digital lessons. Save Time in Class Students can watch Tablo lessons at home. No need to lecture in the classroom. Create Lessons Easily Make amazing lessons with just a graphics tablet and a computer with a microphone. Nothing to Install Tablo is completely online. No need to bother your IT department with installations. Data-Driven Teaching Tablo will be able to track your students' progress and identify areas of difficulty in your lessons.

"This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more. The use of these resources provides students with tangible opportunities to apply many of the core areas they are learning each day in the classroom to the Challenge process. For example, this may include reading and summarizing non-fiction texts, gathering data from explorations, and developing and organizing their ideas through writing."

"Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed. "