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"The more curious we are about a topic, the easier it is to learn information about that topic. New research provides insights into what happens in our brains when curiosity is piqued. The findings could help scientists find ways to enhance overall learning and memory in both healthy individuals and those with neurological conditions."

"Personalized learning requires teachers to become co-learners and release their iron grip on the learning process. It requires districts to trust principals, principals to trust teachers, and teachers to trust students. It requires a great deal of conversation about what real learning is and why it matters. engaged-students2This student-driven approach to learning allows kids to explore what matters to them, to build things that don't work and to figure out why. It requires them to form opinions and justify them based on solid evidence. And it requires adults who care and can speak carefully and honestly into the lives of kids. All learning should be formative. "

This is a site worth exploring for nonfiction reading in diverse subject areas. Teachers can choose simplified text or more complex text for the same article(s). Common core standards are embedded.

Apps recommended by TEDBlog to make everyday life easier- free ones are indicated.

Uses new technologies to enhance teaching and research for major historical eras: includes primary sources, historical voices, photography, music, political cartoons, maps, museum archives, explorations, etc.

Socratic Smackdown grew out of a need to support students in developing and practicing discussion skills. During the game, teams of 4-6 students discuss texts and use textual evidence to make connections and ask thought-provoking questions. Students win points whenever they make constructive contributions to the discussion and lose points if they exhibit disrespectful behaviors, such as interrupting their teammates.

These 160 math projects, from schools across the US, provide overviews, activities, assessment rubrics, work product descriptions, and ideas for reflection. 

Graphic explaining how/when to use pictures found online

Graphic showing the types of plagiarism 

Teaching Social Justice from a Biblical perspective to Middle School Aged Children

Mayan Scientific Achievements- History Channel (includes videos)

Folger Education offers a world of online resources for teachers, from individual teaching modules to curriculum guides to videos.

 A gifted diarist, Sassoon kept a journal for most of his life, and the papers include a run stretching from 1905 to 1959. At the heart of this series are the war diaries, a fascinating resource for the study of the literature of the First World War which enables a fresh analysis of Sassoon's experience of the catastrophic war which influenced him profoundly.

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