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Mission Us In The Classroom | Mission US | THIRTEEN "Mission US is awesome. We need as many technologically relevant resources as possible with today's savvy students. What a great way to teach US History!" - Steve Buford, Teacher, Albuquerque, New Mexico "Both missions can be used as an integral part of instruction. - Sue Brach, Teacher, Cicero, New York "This is not only a well-thought out project, but the educator resources take a lot of planning and research off a teacher's plate. - Jennifer Jackson, Teacher, Cincinnati, OH "I have used Mission 1, and both my students and I love it. - William R. "Teachers need more resources like Mission US. - Renee Paterson, Teacher, Las Vegas, NV "Mission US is a great way to increase student knowledge, and that knowledge will be retained longer because of the online interaction and students having 'first-hand' experiences with history. - Mary Rogers, Teacher, St.

8 Steps To Great Digital Storytelling | Samantha Morra First appeared on Edudemic. (Updated 3/14/2014) Stories bring us together, encourage us to understand and empathize, and help us to communicate. Long before paper and books were common and affordable, information passed from generation to generation through this oral tradition of storytelling. Consider Digital Storytelling as the 21st Century version of the age-old art of storytelling with a twist: digital tools now make it possible for anyone to create a story and share it with the world. WHY Digital Storytelling? Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers. Movies, created over a century ago, represent the beginning of digital storytelling. 8 Steps to Great Digital Stories Great digital stories: Are personalBegin with the story/scriptAre conciseUse readily-available source materialsInclude universal story elementsInvolve collaboration at a variety of levels 1. All stories begin with an idea, and digital stories are no different. Resources 2. 3.

Public Profiler Great Educational Web Tools for Making Virtual Field Trips May 5, 2015 Learning doesn't only happen in the classroom. It can happen anywhere. Here are some teacher-tested tools to take you places, whether it be physically or virtually. Get dropped in a random spot in the world and, using Google Street View, guess your location. Explore tens of thousands of museums around the world from your browser or mobile device. Find kid-friendly museums, libraries, and cultural centers that you can use for field trips. SimCityEDU Play an educational CCSS- and NGSS-aligned version of this popular city-building game. Want more? Virtual Field Trips This one is curated by library media specialist Julie Prescott. This is curated by library media specialist Pamela Vallee.

Internet Explorer Download Comparison shop for the best fares on airline and travel sites. Save money on the flights by tracking prices with Yapta. Get email alerts when prices drop. Get credits or refunds from the airlines. A Companion to Your Favorite Airline and Travel Sites When you search for flights on airline and travel websites, Yapta's sidebar notepad will open to assist you. Tag it with Yapta Yapta buttons will appear in the search results. Compare and Save Each flight you tag will be added to your My Trips list in the sidebar notepad.

The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2013 – Part Two The annual “Best…” lists continue…. You can see my picks for the first six months of the year at what functions as Part One of this list: The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2013 – So Far. You might also be interested in: All My 2013 “The Best…” Lists (So Far) Related To Social Studies In One Place The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2012 — Part Two The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2012 — Part One The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2011 The Best “The Best…” Lists Related To Social Studies — 2010 The Best Social Studies Websites — 2010The Best Social Studies Websites — 2009 The Best Social Studies Websites — 2008 The Best Social Studies Websites — 2007 Here are my choices for The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2013 – Part Two: The Guardian has published an excellent, though sad, interactive titled Why are we building new walls to divide us? The PBS News Hour collaborated with the U.N. get this134. Larry FerlazzoUseful Classroom Images Here’s an excerpt: Here’s a video on Constitute: Learn about John F.

Top 5 TiVo Hacks (for non-hackers) - Zatz Not Funny! 1. 30 Second Skip ReplayTV offered the consumer friendly Commercial Advance feature, which probably contributed to their court woes and ultimate demise. Fortunately, TiVo provides a “secret” (shh, don’t tell) code for enabling a 30 second skip. TiVo Platforms: Series1, Series2, Series3/HD, DirecTV Directions: Play a TiVo recording On your remote hit Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, SelectLive life commercial free 2. One of the easiest ways to increase the value of your TiVo is to enlarge your recording capacity by upgrading your internal hard drive with something a bit more roomy. Visit DVRUpgrade Find your TiVo model, select your capacity, enter your credit card info Record every episode of Stargate and Stargate Atlantis 3. TiVo hasn’t done a great job of publicizing this feature, but for at least a year and a half they’ve supported moving video from a home computer onto your TiVo for playback. Series2, Series3/HD Easy Directions for PC: Powerful Directions for PC: Mac owners: Learn to transfer 4.

Understanding and Teaching the Australian Curriculum: Geography for Primary Schools Following the recent publication of the first-ever Australia Curriculum: Geography for F–12, primary school teachers are expected to play the key role in implementing the curriculum in Australian schools – yet most primary teachers are not geography scholars, and many are likely to lack confidence in teaching the subject due to their uncertainty about what it entails. Understanding and Teaching the Australian Geography Curriculum for Primary Schools is designed to ease the burden of primary teachers by showing them how to understand and use the curriculum they are being asked to teach. Features of the book include: By unpacking the Australian Curriculum: Geography in terms of that non-geographers can easily understand, this book takes work out of standards-aligned geography instruction, proving that geography is an interesting and important subject which imparts essential understandings and skills and contributes to the personal and social development of young children.

+Risorse online: Punti cardinali - Loescher.it Il corso in 3 volumi arricchito dei materiali per il lavoro sulle competenze. Competenze trasversali per lo studente Le attività per competenze declinate sui 3 volumi del corso: Quaderno di geografia 1 Quaderno di geografia 2 Quaderno di geografia 3 Competenze trasversali per l’insegnante Geografia aperta. Test, attività, lezioni facilitate per una didattica su misura offre materiali per il lavoro sulla didattica delle competenze: - Prove di ingresso - Griglie valutative per i Quaderni di geografia - Lezioni semplificate - Esercizi specifici per DSA e BES - Esercizi di recupero e potenziamento - Soluzioni - CD con tutte le prove offerte in .rtf modificabile Punti cardinali propone un contenuto informativo essenziale e un testo di facile leggibilità: più che sull'offerta di un ampio repertorio di nozioni, l'opera punta sulla proposta di un lavoro didattico articolato e coerente, incentrato sull'uso degli strumenti della geografia e sulla lettura delle immagini.