The best lessons for teaching kids about being safe online and being good digital citizens. Lessons are all laid out and the graphic organizers are great.
This list has been compiled from the contributions of 223 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/ productivity and for creating learning solutions for others.
Test your knowledge of the Wild Kingdom on the Endangered Ecosystems site, full of activities and information about animals and food chains. At the end of this activity, you can print a Food Web Certificate of Achievement!
Unbelievably good video with rap. The Week in Rap provides a weekly summary of current events in a hip-hop music video for teens and students. Sometimes called "Weekend Rap" or "Week and Rap." Recommended by Kelly Tenkley at iLearn Technology.
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iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful,
curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes,
Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading
processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data
about fluency rates - this has been very promising.
For those who have iPads, there is a free app as well by the same name. Essentially it "scrapes" a number of reliable web resources for information on a topic of choice. Then it puts the information together in what looks like a "Trade Book" found in the Non-Fiction part of your library, filled with engaging pictures and short summarized pieces of information. Finally, it reads the article to the user.
This is a tool that could help students not to simply copy and paste wikipedia articles as they are preparing research.