STABLS teachers

Great website from April Waylett re: 21st Century teaching and learning. A real eye-opener! I like the chapter design.

Good website that uses PBS clips and interactives to support and build lessons.

...examples of the Curiosity Box ... Finding metaphors, making connections, understanding and explaining

interesting concept...we have plenty of items at the pre-school which would be perfect for the Curiosity Box. Love the name...Curiosity box

In the course Inquiry in the Arts that I co teach, our first assignment is for the adult students to find a junk shop item that they can use in teaching multiple lessons. They need to think about how many of the multiple intelligences can be reached by the object and how well it can be integrated into all subject areas. Students are at first scared and then get very stimulated as they allow their brains to think outside the box.

Here's a NO TECH idea to stimulate creative thought and higher-level thinking skills. This should make you feel your brain working hard. I think it can be adapted for various ages.

Good, concise ideas on activities to do with your students.

All About Explorers looks like something we could use with upper grades to teach them how to discern accurate from inaccurate information as they become more literate on the web. I'd like to look more closely at that.

Kathy Cassidy used a prezi for her curriculum night. Check it out!

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I couldn't get this website to open... I tried using Internet Explorer and Safari.

Pam- This looks intersting - Variety of videos explaining the science behind current event stories, sports, everday life

Michele, these are great! I good way to connect science to what students experience every day. Thank you!

I am so glad that Dewey is being recognized ..... If you want some fun inspiration for pbl read Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet. I use it as a read aloud and Incorporate many of it's ideas into the year.... I use painting The Geographer to begin our study of Virginia geography, each child has a set of pentominoes to explore and I use one of the settings, the tree house, as a basis for a pbl in math. I even have my grad students read this book. The sequels are just as inspiring.

Always keep those expectations high and our praise frequent. :)

So true, that it is so important that we not only continue to encourage our students, but guide them to change behavior as well.

A great website for using clips from a variety of PBS shows. Search by topic and/or age level.

This website looks great. I quickly found a short video related to the Underground Railroad, which will be good for the Civil War unit. I am happy to know about this resource.

Nicely organized list of links to useful websites. Check out the entire site - many good ideas and links.

I really liked the mind-mapping tools, especially spiderscribe. Looks like something I could use with fourth grade to make food webs!

Great recap/summary. I agree... Possibilities are endless!

Mind Leap makes sure that parents and educators know which apps are educational and which aren't, which keep kids engaged and which bore them to tears. And, we encourage developers to build great stuff that turns kids on to learning.

I checked out this site, especially to explore the book on tape they recommended, but "pamplemousse" wasa a bit too far out for my liking. I wasn't convinced it was good literature.

I found a good app that I can use with my third graders using Mind Leap. Appreciated the review.

I'm really liking this presentation tool.  Watch the intro video.  Anyone want to try one?  Gladly work with you! Lisa - Let's use this in our next TLT meeting.

Great way to customize google maps.

Thanks Michele ...good but a bit quirky. It is a modern idea of what Leonardo da Vinci said about cultivating the imagination while looking at a stain on a wall. He taught his pupils to gaze at the stains to increase their powers of imagination.

Good preschool, junior k apps

Agreed about this site being for younger kids- though "grammar jammers" looks like it could be fun for LS kiddos (not free$)