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This story maker would be great to use with elementary students who are learning about how words come together to create sentences and stories. The tool would be an excellent resource for students who struggle with writing and need a visual to help them see the relationship between text and pictures. It works kind of like a game, allowing students to select characters, backgrounds, plots, and items so that they can create their own stories. Students are allowed to see the images they create and, as they create these images, the story maker builds the text to tell the story so that students can see how writing comes together. Students are also given the ability to change the text and incorporate animations. Finally, students are given a code that lets them share the story they created with others.

I've used this many times in my classroom. The students love it!

This site is useful for free images students and teachers can use with multimedia projects. One huge issue I have to getting students and staff to not use copyrighted images, and this site helps because not only are there a of images, the images are beautiful.

Images and information about Ford's Theater, President Lincoln and his assassination. Use as a virtual field trip to teach about Lincoln's assassination.

Images and information about Ford's Theater, President Lincoln and his assassination. Use as a virtual field trip to teach about Lincoln's assassination.

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Images showing Auschwitz during the Holocaust and again decades after. While teaching a unit on World War II this would help students have a visual of what the Holocaust was like.

Images showing Auschwitz during the Holocaust and again decades after. While teaching a unit on World War II this would help students have a visual of what the Holocaust was like.

What should you look at when you evaluate websites? A simple, to the point Prezi, with fun images, on how to evaluate websites. I would use this when teaching information literacy with upper elementary to high school students. After viewing, students could create a checklist to use when evaluating websites.

This little simulation illustrates how atoms act due to friction. The activity is simple, as it tries to show what happens microscopically between a chemistry and a physics textbook when they are rubbed together. When students rub the cutaway atoms together, they are able to see how they start to speed up and the thermometer on the side shows them how the faster they move, the hotter they become. When they let them sit for a while, the thermometer cools down and the atoms slow down. This would be a great way to provide a more concrete depiction of what happens with friction for those students who have a hard time grasping the concept through written description or static images in a textbook or handout.

This site is a wealth of standards-aligned resources (video, interactive lessons, interactives, lesson plans, media gallery, audio, images, docs, webpages, collections) for PreK-13+. You can build lessons and sync to Google Classroom.

A new form of distance learning, online learning is education in which instruction and content comprising a formal course of study are delivered primarily via the Internet. K-12 enrollments in online courses continue to grow, and while there is great potential in the virtual schools movement, there are many challenges inherent in this relatively new method of education delivery. What Works in K-12 Online Learning provides a comprehensive overview of effective online teaching and learning practices. Based on extensive experience and research, chapters cover a full spectrum of topics including virtual course development, online learning in elementary classrooms, instructional assessment and differentiating online instruction, professional development for teachers of virtual courses, and the challenges that virtual schools will face in the future.