"Curriculum Overview
This free curriculum is designed for middle school and high school classrooms.
Goals
Provide you with tools for standards-aligned education of historical thinking.
Introduce you and your students to exciting technologies and demonstrate how they can be used even if your school has limited infrastructure
Empower you with non-digital tools and techniques to encourage your students to collaborate and practice higher-order communication
Project background
The ChronoZoom project started in 2009 when Walter Alvarez, a Professor of Geology at University of California Berkeley, asked his students for ideas about how to explain the profound differences in scale between human and geologic history."
"There are a variety of overarching themes in Common Core-'integrate technology into classroom inquiry', 'encourage collaboration and sharing in student work', 'use technology to prepare students for college and career'. Each of these could take weeks to wrap into classwork, but there's one organic tool that accomplishes all three of these while fulfilling a fourth recurring Common Core standard required at all grade levels: Publish student work."
"Welcome to the Student Climate Research Campaign Community Group
The GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign (SCRC) aims to engage students around the world in measuring, investigating, and understanding the climate system in their local communities and the world. Drawing on GLOBE protocols and data - and other important datasets - students take climate-related measurements and investigate research questions about climate during the two year campaign.
The 2013 GLOBE Virtual Student Conference has begun! Check out what students have been learning about during Phase Two of the SCRC."
"Studio K is a game design curriculum, online community, and set of teacher-support tools intended to enable teachers to help learners how to make their own video games using Microsoft Kodu. Kodu is a powerful 3D game design and programming tool that enables users to focus on creating compelling games for their friends. "
"Common Core Professional Development
Tools for Professional Learning
Ready-to-use modules include PowerPoints, videos, facilitator's instructions, and hands-on activities. Ideal for PD workshops, professional learning communities, and self-stud"
"Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations."
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) can be a little overwhelming if you look at them as a whole. In order to truly master the standards it is key that you have a plan of attack.
Take a look at this handy infographic below to help guide you through the steps of implementing the standards in your classroom and lifestyle. There are some very simple but useful recommendations on where to start. Keep reading to learn more."
"Design Squad from PBS Kids features a great collection of hands-on activities for elementary and middle school students. The activities are designed to help students explore engineering concepts. The collection of activities is divided into ten categories. The categories are technology, structures, sports, space, sound, simple machines, health, green, energy, and electricity. Each activity contains a materials list and directions. Some of the activities also have demonstration videos."