To Engage Them All: 250 Virtual Field Trips.... most of them are free! If you have been following my blog lately, you will know that I am absolutely (and probably ridiculously!!!
) obsessed with virtual field trips. I promise I will blog about something different soon but I have one last thing. I have been working on organizing all the field trips I find into one sheet and I was just able to make it into a searchable database! So search away and make some connections! Let me know if you take any of these field trips! This list is ever growing so bookmark this and keep coming back when you are planning next year! If you have been following my blog lately, you will know that I am absolutely (and probably ridiculously!!! So search away and make some connections! Museum of the American Revolution. Caron Treatment Centers. Instructables - How to make anything. Skype in the Classroom - Virtual Field Trips. Business. Let’s not degrade with our grading practices - 2014.pptx - Google Slides. Dr. Justin Tarte on Twitter: "If you still don't believe in redos & retakes, then you should read this: #edchat via @rickwormeli2.
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Was the question I asked my students today. I thought I knew the answer, a resounding no I was sure, and yet, once again my 7th graders surprised me. While some pleaded for no more homework, many said they understood the purpose of it, that it was a necessary component of school and then wrote a paragraph asking for change. D2D3Rubrics.pdf. 26 Teacher Tools To Create Online Assessments. Smarter Every Day. 101-Practical-Ways-to-Ditch-That-Textbook-2. Alice.org. 1100 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Advertisment Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free.
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But sometimes it’s easier to talk than to teach, as we all know, especially when we need to cover a lot of material in a short amount of time. We hope students will understand, if not now then before test time, and we keep our fingers crossed that their results will indicate we’ve done our job. The problem is, we often rely on these tests to measure understanding and then we move on. Below are 22 simple assessment strategies and tips to help you become more frequent in your teaching, planning, and curriculum design. Drugs & Alcohol. Skip Navigation.
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As a computer lab teacher, there has never been an easy to follow, mapped out path for instruction. As such, over the last 5 years I created a scope of skills and concepts across grade levels to guide my teaching and I had begun to map out what kinds of projects I could use to teach these skills. Still, my curriculum always seemed a bit disjointed and while my students created wonderful work and amazed me with their ability to apply their skills to video, music production, programming and more, I still felt like I wasn’t doing the best job at making it ‘stick.’
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This list I've compiled has a nice mix of subjects and grade levels that teachers can use w/ their students. *This list is in alphabetical order. 40 Sites for Educational Games ABCya - A great site for games and mobile apps for elementary students.Academic Skill Builders - A wonderful site w/ learning through the use of multi-player games. Also, there is an educational portal which allows for student tracking.Arcoiris - A nice site for educational games in English and Spanish.Braineos - Games based on flash card in a wide variety of subjects.BrainNook - A fun site for students that focuses on English & Math. Free Teacher Resources for Core Subjects. Here is my annual list of my favorite online teaching resources, divided by subject.
Some of these might be old, or shared elsewhere, but I wanted to go ahead and share some of the ones that were added to my Diigo library recently. Thousands of Video Lessons on Every Subject. Educational Videos. Share My Lesson - Free K-12 Teacher Resources Aligned to Common Core State Standards.
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