RCAN Shared

Stories read by actors from the Screen Actors Guild.

Colorful stories books that can be read with or without narration. Students can create their own story with typed words or narration using images from the story. There are 8 stories in all.

Website with many teacher resources and student interactive materials

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.

Virtual geoboard.

Assists students in automaticity of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Free

"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". "

The Teacher's Guide to Using Google Drive in the Classroom 2.0

Has anyone used this in math class?

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.

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."

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.

A friend shared: "When some Kindergarten teachers at [his school] asked [me] to find a web tool to help their students create simple drawings and write sentences below them, I searched but found nothing. So, I asked ABCYa's Alan Tortolani (a friend of mine) if he could come up with something. Here's the result. Kids love it! Printed output looks great. Perfect for early writers and artists!

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&nbsp...

This was an interesting way for multiple classes to play Kahoot together.

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.

Ann spoke with me about this. It really sounds like an easy option to use with students.

$50,000 grand prize by June 30. Share collaboration w/ IT and 2 other departments written plus 90 second video.

Free summer math program shared with me by another teacher. I do not have experience with it, but there might be some value in it.

"Students coast to coast will answer the call to keep on reading about the world around them. Newsela's Summer Reading Challenge gives them the chance to earn badges, get newsroom promotions and climb in the standings, all while reading news and feature stories hot off the press."

Easy to navigate picture dictionary, biology, physical sciences, geography/history categories for student research.