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EiE is an excellent inquiry-based STEM curriculum that teaches students thinking and reasoning skills needed for success. Built around the engineering design process, EiE teaches kids how to solve problems systematically... creating skills, optimism, and attitudes important for their futures. Life is not multiple choice. Grades 1-8

Search engine that is kid friendly blocking things that are not appropriate for their little eyes

If creating a personal Google search engine is too time consuming, here are seven student-friendly search engines. Chapter 6: Finding & Evaluating Resources

Kid friendly search engines are important when you want to filter what your student or child is able to see.

An interesting article discussing how assessments and testing need to be altered to keep up with technology.

A consortium of 26 states and other science groups created the Next Generation Science Standards. Many states plan on adopting them in the coming years. The standards are organized into three dimensions: disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and cross cutting concepts.

Website with many apps to help special needs students as well as special needs teachers.

This is a fairly simpler resource for evaluating information you uncover. The following is an example of this: the website includes the "5 W's" one should consider when validating a resource. These W's are who? What? When? Where? and why? Since this approach to questioning a source is obviously easier to understand and explain, it could be used for lower level classes to educate the kids on what to do BEFORE they use information or a source.

This is one of the websites from week 7's Blendspace stations.

This is a site that has a lot of resources for both teachers and students.

great examples of portfolios for kids'

Students can learn and have fun at the same time with lines and shapes.

Games to help students learn ABC's.

Students can play games, put puzzles together, color, etc.

Here's our list of the must have apps for Kindergarten. Educational games that will keep your kindergarten aged child challenged and engaged as well as fun reading apps to help them learn without even trying.

This is an entertaining video emphasizing how generations understanding of technology has evolved and the heavy reliance of technology in todays world.

ABCya is a fun website for making word clouds