The International School at Thornton Middle

Sharpen your 3Doodling skills by downloading one of our community fueled stencils. Just follow the stencils and assemble.

Capture the joy of learning by giving students the opportunity to showcase their creativity.

I've been asked this question a lot and I hate it. I'll describe why in a bit, but for now I'll just change it to "does your mind do more or less the same thing when you listening to an audio book and when you read print?" The short answer is "mostly."

Teachers in Littleton, Colorado - like teachers in many places - are increasingly asking students to read and write online. Free tools like Google Docs have made it easy for students to work on the same piece of writing at home and at school, and have allowed teachers to explore collaborative writing assignments and synchronous editing with students.

The first few days of school are a vital time to set the right tone for the rest of the year. Many teachers focus on important things like getting to know their students, building relationships and making sure students know what the classroom procedures will be.

Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don't have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs.

Create your own comics online with MakeBeliefsComix.com! This online comic generator from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and a sense of fun!

Create and enjoy comic strips with fantastic ease. Join the friendly community, making comics has never been this fun.

The Comic Creator is an interactive tool that invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts.

Marvel.com is the source for Marvel comics, digital comics, comic strips, and more featuring Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men and all your favorite superheroes.

Education has changed. No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren't confined by the eight hours between the school bell's chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program.

Recently, Common Sense Media named Ask a Tech Teacher as one of the 2014 blogs to watch on the topic of Digital Citizenship. It reminded me what a massive topic this is!

ideas for oral presentations

We have over 1000 get to know you questions. If you had it to do over again what would you study in school? What would you like to add to your life? What motivates you to exercise? What is your idea of heaven? If you were a criminal master mind, what would be your criminal racket?

Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana of the Right Question Institute have a developed a wonderfully simple, fun, and highly effective exercise designed to encourage students to generate lots of questions. The process is explained in detail in Rothstein and Santana's book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions -a must-read for teachers or anyone interested in improving education.

Students/teachers/schools Organize a question-related group activity (or multiple activities!) during Question Week. Here are some suggested exercises/activities. Be creative: feel free to put a fresh spin on an existing exercise-or come up with a completely original one. (And send us your results.)

Here are 8 quick tips to increase your I.Q. (Inquiry Quotient). Questioners pay close attention to the world around them. They watch and try to notice details others miss. They listen closely to what others are saying, which helps them understand what questions to ask.

Formative Assessment to help you check your understanding of Copyright, Fair Use, and Public Domain, grades you as you go! Great model for a google form too!