TryEngineering offers teachers resources for students all about engineering. Here you’ll find lesson plans for students of all ages that are aligned to standards, descriptions of degree fields, lists of national programs and student opportunities.
Wordia is a free games-based learning platform – built on the foundations of a dictionary – that blends word-based learning games with interactive video vocabulary.
Wordia encourages students to learn through play – building subject ‘Word Banks’ as they compete with classmates and other schools in a fun, competition-led, learning environment.
Assess Common Core and state standards with formative assessments that you or other teachers create. You can even use offline or publisher content. Use mutliple choice, rubrics, oral assessments, writing assessments or any curriculum and content type.
Learn Zillion.Com started as a group of teachers creating screencasts to help teach math at their school. It has grown into a site where teachers can share videos and ideas related to Common Core math standards in grades 3-8. Teachers can create an account for free to access the videos.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Science Resources | Posted on February 24, 2012
It may still be several weeks until Science Fair time, but now is the time to begin planning. To help you get started, check out the resources offered by Discovery Education at their Science Fair Central.
Read Across America Day is celebrated Friday, March 2 with students, teachers, and community members across the country reading aloud Dr. Seuss books. Here are just a few web site with great ideas to celebrate this week of literacy.
Socrative.Com Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. There is an informational video with more details. Looks like a great idea for BYOD classrooms.
Saw this on Larry Ferlazzo’s web site. What a great video to illustrate to our students how learning can be work and it takes practice. Just because something seems hard the first time, don’t give up!