Explore what coding is and create your own game without using a computer!
This library scavenger hunt is a fun way for students to get familiar with their library, its resources, and its collection.
This library scavenger hunt is a fun way for students to get familiar with their library, its resources, and its collection.
Upon completion of genre study on poetry, students will create their own limerick. While reading poems in their Wonders Literature Anthology and Student Reading / Writing Companion, students will learn about inventions through various poem structures. Students will be provided with a list of inventors to research, selecting an invention to create their own limerick while using “Cold Feet”, “Our Washing Machine” and “Bugged” (p.166) as a model. Students must include poetry elements such as metaphors / similes, alliteration and rhyming words in their written poem. Students will record themselves reading their poem using their Chromebook, upload their video into Google Slides and include a photo representation of the invention.
Brainstorming next steps for MGSD to engage with #GoOpenNC
This resource tells how to teach students how to create a family tress in PowerPoint using the organizational chart.
Districts and schools will use this template to plan their next steps for engaging with #GoOpenNC
This is a resource I created to help me do a better job at collaboration with my teachers when they wanted to use the media center.
This template encourages thoughtful planning based on state and national standards. It includes DOK Question Stems for levels 1-3 to help in formulating questions for the lesson. Delete the questions you don't use before printing.
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs is what is known as a classic short story. Before completing this lesson, students should have explored, read and analyzed story elements of The Monkey's Paw. Students will use the Sphero Bolt to reflect specific moments of the selected characters journey throughout the story.
I use this with upper elementary students to have relevant examples of how plagiarism is happening in current times and we discuss the lawsuits that came from the copies.
Introduce podcasts to students with an eye to the students creating their own podcasts to share about themselves, their family, or their community.
In this lesson, students will use short video clips and other web resources to study the group of animals known as billfish and learn how ocean currents influence the eating habits of various fish. Students will also have the opportunity to shoot their own video to create a nature documentary to present in the classroom.
ISTE – Standard 3 Knowledge ConstructorStudents critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
This is a tool to use when searching for OER resources to use in planning and in the classroom.
AASL has just released their OER Toolkit to help support the AASL Standards. They used the personas from the AASL Standards book. There are tie-ins with the shared foundations and the domains.
These slides are used to introduce Ozobot to Kindergarten to use science motion vocabulary and explore robotics in the real world.
Students explore how Ozobots use light and color sensors to "read" the information in order to move.
This is a launching point for further lessons on how to color "code" the types of movement.
Lessons are available at https://portal.ozobot.com/lessons
This video resource was developed by Neuroscience students of Wake Forest University. This video focuses on the parts of the eye and is designed for elementary students. There is an accompanying worksheet that can be completed by students as they view.
The quick and safe way to find and cite images for class! Search and download properly attributed, Creative Commons photos for school!
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This resource provides story writing templates to create PowerPoint stories.