Group items tagged

When teachers integrate technology into student activities and projects, they often have a hard time figuring out how to assess it. This website talks about different types of assessments, and also provides rubrics for a variety of topics. In week 5 one of the main questions is "what technologies help make formative and summative assessments more effective and efficient?" This website explains formative and summative assessments, along with ways to create rubrics for what you are wanting to assess.

When teachers integrate technology into student activities and projects, they often have a hard time figuring out how to assess it. This website talks about different types of assessments, and also provides rubrics for a variety of topics. In week 5 one of the main questions is "what technologies help make formative and summative assessments more effective and efficient?" This website explains formative and summative assessments, along with ways to create rubrics for what you are wanting to assess.

Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.

This website is a great resource for all things Science. They have lessons and activities for all grades and ages with worksheets and questions for each lesson.

This site shows the two assessment types for students - Formative and Summative

Differentiated assessment is an ongoing process of evaluation where the teacher gathers information and data before, during, and after instruction to better facilitate the learning. This website gives several examples that teachers can use for assessing.

I thought this was a nice resource for ideas to differentiate your assessments. One of the items for fair assessment was many different kinds of measures. This source provides you with a lot of good ideas as well as cool activities

This is a cool website because it explains solid activities about cyberbullying, what is it, and how to avoid it.

There is much more to explore in our calendar. Find other important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, each with related lessons and resources. Looking for age-appropriate book recommendations, author interviews, and fun activity ideas? Check out our podcasts.

Link to a PDF for a 10 day lesson plan to teach F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". This website includes activities geared towards high school students that will get them engaged in this great American classic.

Gives a good description and lessons on digital etiquette. Includes topics such as social networking, online safety, email and cyberbullying.

In this educational animated movie about Technology learn about online manners, courtesy, respect, the internet, and trolls.

In this educational animated movie about Technology learn about online manners, courtesy, respect, the internet, and trolls.

Includes videos and advice from experts about project-based learning activities.

This web-site gives several examples of project-based learning activities for the classroom.

Check out these fun writing games for kids. Enjoy a range of free activities, resources and practice exercises related to writing letters, stories, newspapers, debates, advertising and instructions.

Students use games, manipulatives, and computers to learn the advantages of using Boolean terms when searching the Web. The site will help you create a lesson to teach your students over boolean logic. With hand-ons and interactive activities, students will be able to understand the concept of Boolean Logic for when they search the internet.

This is a blog by Sarah Hagan, an Oklahoma math teacher. In it, you can find activities she does in her classroom, information about her, free math downloads, pictures of the class "textbook" and more.

Class websites can be a central hub of online activity for your class. With all the digital content and great web tools available, there's so much you can do. This will show us how we can incorporate more technology into the classroom.

I choose this resource for this chapter because I wanted to provide people with an alternative way to conduct formative assessments. These type of assessments provide feedback right away and actively engage the students. Since these assessments are web based, they can be conducted with any type of smart device.

This is a position statement listing Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) for ages birth to eight. Terrific for developing lesson plans and activities combined with the ISTE-T Standards.

This source is something that explains all basic information about money. This could be a very good for an opening activity when talking about math and money in a third or fourth grade classroom. It explains trading, value of money, and paper and coin money.

Evaluating sources of information is an important step in any research activity. This section provides information on evaluating bibliographic citations, aspects of evaluation, reading evaluation, print vs. Internet sources, and evaluating Internet sources.

Evaluating sources of information is an important step in any research activity. This section provides information on evaluating bibliographic citations, aspects of evaluation, reading evaluation, print vs. Internet sources, and evaluating Internet sources.

Site that accurately describes how to evaluate potential resources from the internet.

Great activities shared so you don't have to create them!