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Simple Structures: The late Hilda Taba, noted social studies educator and curriculum developer, always emphasized that "kids need categories," or "pigeon-holes," if you will, into which they can fit new facts, concepts and ideas. Abundant learning theory supports this. The fact is that most teachers also appreciate having some simple structures with which to work.

It took a bit of searching, but here are some elementary lessons to enhance student understandings of our global world. The homepage also has lessons geared for middle and high school students. Here is that link: http://www.globaled.org/curriculum3.html

Search for math resources in this Searchable URL Database. Connections to the Iowa Core

Search for Language Arts resources in this URL Database from AEA 11

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Turn wired students into great digital citizens Get all the tools you need with our FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and Parent Media Education Program.

I like this resource! Many free tools and lesson plans to use with students.

Free student curriculum

When the nation's ultimate collector and protector of classified information is impressed by a university's cybersecurity curriculum, it's no secret.

One key to the curriculum's success is that security concepts are covered in multiple core classes, not just one or two specialty courses.

Lots of lesson plan ideas for teaching about CyberSafety

"How can video clips embedded in multimedia presentations be used to improve learning in college courses? To answer this question, a review of the theoretical and research evidence on videos and the brain is presented first. That is followed by a description of the theory of multimedia learning as it relates to videos and a review of studies using videos over the past four decades in college courses. The results of these studies and the verbal and visual components of a video potentially provide a best fit to the characteristics of this Net Generation of students and a valid approach to tap their multiple intelligences and learning styles. Concrete guidelines are given for using available video technology in the classroom, selecting appropriate video clips for any class, and applying those clips as a systematic teaching tool. The use of clips can also attain 20 specific learning outcomes. Toward that end, 12 generic techniques with examples to integrate video clips into teaching across the college curriculum are described."

Easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans. Have a Google Apps lesson plan? Submit it for review. For more ... www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/lesson_plans.html - Cached Tools for your classroom. Since we launched Google for Educators, many teachers have come to us with stories of how Google products are helping them in the classroom.

I thought this was really neat!! It gives tons of lesson plans for different subjects in school. Each subject is labeled so you can look at just the ones you are covering!