Activities for ages 4 and up. STEM activities {Science Technology Engineering and Math} are all the buzz in education. Kids love finding out how things work through fun, hands-on projects and teachers love knowing that they're preparing students for their techy future.

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math with your child at home or even in the classroom.

Multiple STEM activities for elementary students.

ReadWriteThink is an outstanding website that students can create projects using technology. This site contains an easy timeline creator. It allows students to quickly place historical events in order with links, pictures, and descriptions. This does not require a student or teacher account to use and is free.

Solpass activities are intended to supplement, not replace, solid classroom instruction by providing review of the specific concepts and information that the students are likely to encounter on the SOL end-of-year test. By making test preparation easy and convenient, we hope to encourage excellent classroom instruction, which need not be sacrificed for narrowly focused "teaching to the test".

Interactive Learning Sites for Education

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary?

This site list 150 teaching methods and includes a pdf document of the teaching method and some information about them.

Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence of Instruction Continuous Monitoring/Charting of Student Performance Dynamic Assessment for Mathematics Explicit Teacher Modeling Instructional Games Planned Discovery Activities Self-Correcting Materials Scaffolding Instruction Structured Cooperative Learning Groups Structured Language Experiences Structured Peer Tutoring Teach Concepts/Skills Within Authentic Context Teach Using Big Math Ideas Teaching Metacognitive Strategies

There are a variety of teaching strategies that instructors can use to improve student learning. The links below will show you some ways to make your classes more engaging. Active Learning - Active Learning is anything that students do in a classroom other than merely passively listening to an instructor's lecture.

Why use Tiki-Toki? There are loads of timeline makers out there.What's so special about Tiki-Toki? *Active premium accounts only What can I do with Tiki-Toki? The only limit is your imagination but the following may provide some inspiration Can I see some timelines?

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Try Jing for a free and simple way to start sharing images and short videos of your computer screen. Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to add basic visual elements to your captures and share them fast.

Try Jing for a free and simple way to start sharing images and short videos of your computer screen. Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to add basic visual elements to your captures and share them fast. Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen with Jing.

The creative visual learning platform that every educator and student deserves.

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, or web browser.

This is our groups summary of Web 2.0 tools, the difference between a traditional and 21st Century classroom, and ranking 21st Century Skills

Written by: Heaven Ball, Jaime Gordon, and Esra Conway

The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists three types: New Skills for New Jobs These skills have always been important for students, though they are particularly important in our information-based economy.

The IMLS Project Team and Task Force considered the list of skills commonly referred to as "21st Century Skills" and modified it slightly to better align with library and museum priorities. 1 The resulting list includes the following additions: Basic Literacy, Scientific & Numerical Literacy, Visual Literacy, Cross-Disciplinary Skills, and Environmental Literacy.