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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. Let’s evaluate the Common Core Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What Common Core Expects. Required to understand the game’s big picture because few are based on common knowledge.

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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Through interesting, relatable scenarios and real-life simulations around topics like financial literacy and social-emotional learning, teachers can easily bring the real world into their classrooms. It’s perfect for online or blended classroom learning.

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XplorLabs Fire Forensics: A Free STEM Module for Middle School Science

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A Next Generation Science Standards Aligned Lab Activity (FREE) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Each learning module is designed to connect classrooms to real-world science and engineering. Common Core State Standards (See more on the Fire Forensics Site ). Cost: FREE.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. And customers include more than teachers provisioning their classrooms.

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Owl Eyes: The Must-Get Web-App for Classical Literature Teachers

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Edtech Apps that work From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Owl Eyes does several things for reading literature: You can create a classroom and invite students. Create a classroom with your students. Character Analysis in Macbeth / “Macbeth as a Dynamic Character (Act II, Scene i)”.

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The Fun of IFTTT

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Popular Recipes include: IF you post a photo on Instagram THEN share it on Twitter. Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. If you run a stock market game in your classroom, IFTTT can notify students when their stocks change.

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Mentoring Minds - instructional materials to develop critical thinking skills

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Experienced educators create the materials based on research and cover topics such as critical thinking, differentiated learning, instructional strategies, classroom management and more. The company's main goal is to provide materials that help students increase their critical analysis and reasoning skills, along with problem solving skills.