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Want to follow the presidential election with your students? Check out Chase the Race in School 2016, a website created by Discovery Education and Envision. You'll find digital content and resources related to the Primaries and Caucuses, Media and Debates, the Conventions, and Election Day. The site also offers an Election Year Timeline and Live and Archived Events. You can even sign up for a Virtual Field Trip to Washington, D.C. to experience the Presidential Inauguration Summit Event. Check out your Discovery Education subscription service for even more content on the Presidential Election!
Check out Richard Byrne's recent NCTIES presentation to discover a wealth of ed tech resources for teaching, learning, exploring, creating, managing, assessing, and collaborating.
This video is so funny and just too good not to share (maybe because I remember using these same devices when I was a kid)! Take a minute to kick back and enjoy! On March 2nd, Discovery Education will host a live online event to celebrate Read Across America 2016. Award-winning authors and illustrators, Peter H. and Paul A. Reynolds, will be participating in a live read aloud of their book, Going Places. As part of the 30-minute event, FableVision Studios will take you behind-the-scenes of their newest projects, share their creative process, and answer student questions. What a fabulous way to celebrate the love of reading! Click here for classroom activities to use before, during, and after viewing the event. Use this Padlet or Twitter to post class reflections and photos and connect with other classrooms. Also, download and use these free reproducible activities from FableVision that complement the book! Enjoy the celebration!
Check out this interactive flash animation by Cary and Michael Huang to explore the scale of the universe and objects within it. Use the scroll bar along the bottom (or the wheel on your mouse) to zoom into the tiniest, microscopic organisms known to man or zoom out to view the largest bodies in our galaxy and beyond. Click on objects within the interactive to learn more about them. For more lessons and videos on this topic, check out Richard Byrne's post entitled, "How Big is the Sun? - And Five Other Lessons on the Size of the Universe" from Free Tech for Teachers. Most every time we launch a Google search, the number of returned results most likely reaches well into the millions. It takes a great deal of time to comb the web and search out the specific resources we need, and finding excellent resources usually means sifting through lots of mediocre ones first. Kelly Walsh, when writing for EmergingEdTech, states that "knowing how to efficiently find information on the Web is a vital element of today’s digital literacy requirements for our students, and for us as educators and professionals." Check out his article to learn search tips that will help your students search like a boss!
I love this infographic and just had to share it! Digital citizenship is so important that it should be touched on in our classrooms every day. Our students are digital learners in and out of school, so they need all the guidance and information they can get about being responsible producers and consumers of digital content. Teaching digital citizenship should happen at all grade-levels! Thanks for the great ideas, Mia MacMeekin!
In a recent blog post on Free Technology for Teachers, Richard Byrne highlights two excellent online video tools. For teachers who assign videos for homework or classwork, and especially those who are applying flipped or blended classroom models to their instruction, these tools could definitely prove to be valuable. Video Notes allows the creator to save and share synchronized notes about videos. Notes could include information to highlight or questions for students to answer and are hyperlinked to the part of the video that relates to the note. Video Notes also integrates seamlessly with Google Drive accounts. Vialogues enables teachers to invite users to a discussion about videos. Comments, surveys, and questions may be also be added to the video discussion, and time stamps provide a direct link to the relevant video content. View Byrne's tutorial videos below to see these sites in action and use the links above to start using these resources in your classroom!
Crash Course Kids is a YouTube channel devoted to topics related to grade school science. Started in February 2015, the content is fresh, current, and engaging. The creators release two short videos a week (on Tuesday and Thursday) and even provide teachers with information about the video and the standards it covers. This is definitely a channel you'll want to subscribe to and share with your students! Below, I've included the channel preview and their first video, "Gotta Eat!" I've also included both of their videos from last week that focus on living things, adaptations, climate, and the food chain. To learn more, visit the home page of this channel, peruse all their videos in the order in which they were uploaded, or explore their videos by topic (playlists). You may also want to subscribe to the channel to bookmark it in your YouTube menu and receive updates when new content is available.
This production is perfect when learning about the Solar System or depicting objects to scale. Enjoy!
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