Welcome to the premier site for health & physical education teachers, parents and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children. To motivate, we offer fun kids fitness programs such as Log It and the PEC Challenge. We have over 1800 published lesson ideas.
Ideas worth spreading, started with Tech, Entertainment and Design. Themes range from How the mind works, How we learn, Listening to teachers, to performances, numbers, the Creative Spark and TED in 3 minutes.
With the easy integration of all the Google products and a simple site creation process, you can make Google Sites a simple, teacher-driven learning management system. Because Google Sites is available as part of the Google Apps suite, any teacher can manage a course website without needing to consult the IT director.
This 55 slide Power Point (Creative Commons) offers many suggestions from themes, vocabulary, character traits, bias, values, reflection, confidence/concerns and teacher syllabi.
At the start of the second semester this year, I declared my classes free of paper. I vowed to stop the paper onslaught that has long cast a shadow over my otherwise sunny career as Mrs. Tricia Buck, English Teacher Extraordinaire. I had thought often about going the paperless route, I was just waiting for...
The official updates feed from the Google Apps Team. You can subscribe to receive notice of any new Google Apps updates, by email or RSS Feed. Very handy for domain admins, trainers and tech savvy teachers.
Evernote is a great tool for teachers and students to capture notes, save research, collaborate on projects, snap photos of whiteboards, record audio and more. Everything you add to your account is automatically synced and made available on all the computers, phones and tablets you use.
Times puzzle master Will Shortz has edited these crossword puzzles, which are grouped by topics such as American History, Fine Arts, Language Arts, Science, Technology. Each puzzle page has links to learning more about the topic. Explore the Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals extensive image database in combination with the Rocks and Minerals crossword.
Truly student-centered learning has a lot of support in high places in education, but it can’t happen without the right technology infrastructure to drive it
for the most part, schools have incorporated these 21st century instructional techniques and tools as add-ons to the teacher-centric 19th century classroom structure, in which the majority of the curriculum is pulled from a textbook
they have ubiquitous access to technology, which allows them to connect to learning communities, information management and communication tools, personal learning networks, information and data, expertise and authoritative sources, online tutoring and guided sources tailored to their needs, knowledge-building tools, and peers with common interests.