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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

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This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. citizenship/ethics/etiquette. As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. analytical thinking.

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In Love with Space? Here are Great Websites to Take You There

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Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. – See more at: [link]. Educational Applications.

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Why Game Based Learning Is the Right Choice for Remote Teaching

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SplashLearn is an easy-to-use COPA-compliant, Common Core-aligned math curriculum for grades Kindergarten-5th that uses game-based learning to teach mathematical concepts. By using the games kids already love–want to play–GBL has an opportunity to turn students into lifelong learners who enjoy learning.

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7+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. It also includes a teacher’s guide, a series of lesson plans, and the Common Core standards addressed. This one is used by 10,000 schools each year and 350,000 individuals.

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169 Tech Tip #127: 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes

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These are like the games students love and teach important to Common Core standards as well as the demands of life. If a student doesn’t like a project, let them come up with their own –as long as it satisfies the goals of the exercise. Sub-category: Teaching, Classroom management, Pedagogy. Flip the classroom.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time. Digital citizenship refers to appropriate and responsible use of technology. Flipped classroom is a teaching model in which the traditional classroom and at-home components of a class are switched.

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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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Open Up Resources (OUR) is a series of free c ompetency-based Common Core-aligned curricula (math, ELA, and reading). Kiddom will recommend follow-up activities and exercises specific to areas where a student may struggle. Click here for my full review. Who is Open Up Resources? What’s the curricula look like.