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Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

Launch Pad is an educational website that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art by young authors and illustrators. It also includes book reviews and writing tips.

Launch Pad is an educational website that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art by young authors and illustrators. It also includes book reviews and writing tips.

'My experience with PBL has been that kids love the projects and are fully engaged. But I wish I'd had more guidance available starting out, so that my first projects would have run a bit more smoothly." This video showed hands on projects and ideas for teaching project-based learning.

An excellent source on the teacher's role in taking charge of the internet in the classroom.

Includes games and interactive activities that mirror or are in the style of classic artists.

I love this video for teaching internet safety to young students. It does a good job of defining what the internet is so little ones can understand. It explains how the internet can be fun and helpful but also scary without rules and an adult helper. I have used this for PK through 2nd grade.

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This website discusses the importance of storytelling when teaching new material to a class. We felt like when most people think of storytelling they only think of teaching in that method to younger kids but it can actually be beneficial to all ages. We thought this website had a lot of good reasons and facts as to why storytelling can be beneficial in the classroom.

This article is a good read because at the bottom it gives tips on how to get people engaged and do what you want them to do!  Highlighted in green is the important tips I took out of this read. 

A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bullet points, sign-ups went through the roof. Here he shares the science of why storytelling is so uniquely powerful.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

Resource #1: I chose this website because I thought it provided an affective video about cyber bulling and how it is affecting the students, along with resources for how to stop bulling. This is a great resource for teachers who want to present a lesson on how to stop bullying.

Get your kids moving with GoNoodle activities.

Here's another example of an OER that will help get your students ready for the day!

I like this website because it explains that technology isn't something that know one knows how to use. Children are more tech savvy than most of the teachers because the kids have grown up using technology. In this day and time it is essential that students know how to work technology to get through school.

This site provides many resources for teaching students the right way to make movies. It talks about the importance of story boarding, and discusses editing in real movies.

This website is a great resource to use if a teacher wants to add a fun quiz about herself to her website as a link. It is free, easy to use, and easy to access. We think students would enjoy doing this when they go to her website and it would add a unique way for her kids to get to know her.

This is a fun video that gives an example of various catapults that exists and they can be in all different sizes and can be a really dun activity to be involved with.