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The best free educational games for kids aged 6-11.

Maybe your students would like to try these students challenges and post their results to these students' blogs.

I think this program is excellent because it provides training grounds to teach students how to use the internet for research. I love that it ranks sources by reading level! The video on the home screen is self explanatory.

Thanks. I have to play with this. It looks like it has a lot of potential!

"This excerpt appears in the Buck Institute for Education's book, "PBL for 21st Century Success: Teaching Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity." Rubrics for each of the "4 C's" are in the book, and we offer guidance below on how to use them in a PBL context."

Some background on the rubrics I shared.

Explore free downloadable rubrics organized by the digital age skill you are looking to assess: Communication (Presentation), Collaboration, Creativity & Critical Thinking. Each digital age skill rubric is also broken down into different grade spans, providing a complete set of 4C rubrics for Grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-12.

Interesting rubrics from K-12 for presentations, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. Areas that we need to extend in the curriculum map for technology.

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You may not realize it, but if you use Google to find an image and then use it in a project, you're likely breaking the law. Unless you've been given permission to use the image by its creator, then you cannot legally or ethically use it. This would make an excellent lesson for advanced search and copyright for photos used in projects and reports

Cool Math has free online cool math lessons, cool math games and fun math activities. Really clear math lessons (pre-algebra, algebra, precalculus), cool math games, online graphing calculators, geometry art, fractals, polyhedra, parents and teachers areas too.

This is the website for information for the schools within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

I use this with 4-8 grade as an alternative way to teach Microsoft Office programs . GCFLearnFree - The freedom to learn what you want, when you want, absolutely free! Check out our Everyday Life, Basic Math, and Computer Training today!

Teaching history hosted by Stanford University and has a ton of primary resources and lesson plans; works best with middle school grades

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it's becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers.

Thanks I saved this for myself. I like the ideas. They are something we should all have in mind as we work with teachers.

For the 45 states who opted into Common Core, using technology in the classroom is no longer a choice-it's required. Common Core's Standards insist that for any student to be prepared for college and career requires they be digitally- and technologically savvy.

13 good reasons to give to someone who is fearful of technology to show that they ARE using technology.

Edheads is a non-profit organization, which creates unique, educational web experiences that are free to teachers, students and parents. Through interactive activities students in grades 2-12 can learn about science, math and careers.

This could be useful when working on skill statements for our Communication and Collaboration strand.

This could be a great set of statements to reflect on for our Creativity and Innovation strand skills.

This could be a great set of statements to reflect on for our Creativity and Innovation strand skills.

This could be useful in our Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Problem Solving strand for our continued work on skills.

Developed for use in middle and high school classrooms, Mission US engages students in the study of transformational moments in American history. Each mission consists of an interactive game and a set of curriculum materials that are aligned to National Standards and feature document-based activities.

Our 5th graders absolutely love this website! The teacher is using the lesson plans and activities and everyone is very happy!

Intel Security Digital Safety Program. Being on the Internet is fun, but you should always stop and think before you connect. By following a few important rules, you can keep yourself safe.