Daily, child appropriate news in categories of war&peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports. The same article can be viewed in multiple reading Lexiles. Many articles have short four question quizzes. The content can be used to lead classroom discussions.
This is normally a premium service by using this teacher registration link all students within a class can have a free fully-functional account within the school. Students can use assigned activities at home.
"This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer. Multi-touch books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iPad. Books with interactive features may work best on an iPad. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or later.
Description
The iBooks Author Starter Kit is a beginners guide to creating Multi-Touch books for teaching and learning. It walks a user through a set of step-by-step activities, and provides all of the materials - an iBooks Author template, color palette, copy decks, images, videos, keynote presentation, and more - needed to create an interactive book titled "The World of Living Gardens".
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Personalized Printed Cards Delivered At Your Desk, Instantly! There's just something about a paper greeting card that never loses its charm for some of us. We like to hold the greeting in our hands, feel the crisp paper, run our fingers over the words and pictures- as if we were trying to absorb the essence of the message.
I know I already posted abcya.com, but I found this very basic way of teaching coding today - used it with the 4th graders and they loved it!
Lightbot is a educational game for kids that introduces several principles of programming.
These elementary-level tools help kids learn to code by focusing on the foundations of programming: problem solving, logic, and critical thinking. By learning these skills through the context of code, kids build essential 21st skills for life that empower them to become ...
This is May 14, 2015 at 4:00pm PDT which translates to 7:00pm Eastern. "Find out what it takes to run a Minecraft server so that players can participate together.
Connected Camps staff will also talk about some useful tools and add-ons to help with server management."
This looks interesting. It is a summer online Minecraft camp for students (parents can join too). There is also a programming Minecraft camp. Take a look.
Online educational tools are changing the way we learn. Noodle predicts which free apps and tools will be most influential in the education sphere in 2015.
An interesting wheel that attempts to show Bloom's Taxonomy words with Action Verbs and technology activities with apps to support those actions and activities.
Great website for 4th to 8th graders to design their own games. Teachers can create logins for a list of students and monitor their progress. Approved on Common Sense Media with 5/5 stars. I usually introduce this to my grade 5 students.