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Early Elementary: Differentiate Reading Practice

Catlin Tucker

National Geographic Young Explorer Magazine is a great resource for nonfiction reading. Students can click through the magazine playing audio clips while reading along. There is a collection of magazines that include articles about animals, plants, stars, etc.

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Flipping the elementary school classroom? YES!

Neo LMS

Elementary school classrooms do not naturally lend themselves to a flipped or blended environment for a number of reasons. Blended or flipped environments also are not ideal in an elementary school setting because so much of teaching in these grades is dependent on modelling and direction. Flipping the elementary school classroom?

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Google, Lemann Foundation Invest $6.4M to Deliver Lessons to Brazilian Teachers’ Phones

Edsurge

On March 22, Google and the Lemann Foundation, an education nonprofit in Brazil, announced plans for an initiative that will deliver digital lessons directly to the cellphones of elementary school teachers. The project, launched during the Google for Brazil event, will be funded through a $4.8

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Discovering the “Ultimate Classroom”: A Student Led Project Based Learning Inquiry

EdTechTeam

With the Common Core, state testing, interventions, and all else that goes on in the elementary day, how would I find time for my students to investigate and inquire into their interests? Leah Burke has been teaching elementary school for 8 years and currently teaches 4th grade in Westlake, Ohio.

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How Genrefication Makes School Libraries More Like Bookstores

MindShift

That’s why the American Association of School Librarians hasn’t taken an official position on the “white-hot” topic, said its current president Steven Yates, despite “spirited discussion” at the group’s biennial conference and in the “Dewey or Don’t We” issue of its print magazine. “It

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Beginning the School Year with “Who I Am” Projects

User Generated Education

Because my learners are elementary age, they don’t (or shouldn’t) have their own Instagram account. In addition to markers and paper plates (or mask DIY which like Colorations® Cardstock Masks ), old magazines are especially useful for this activity because students can cut out words and images. Common Core State Standards – ELA.

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4 Steps to Create a Strong 3D Printing Program

EdTech Magazine

Additionally, ISTE addresses Common Core math standards in geometry and measurement across K–12. My vision was to increase access and equity in a science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics (STEAM) curriculum for elementary students. Once you have a vision, every action flows from that ideology.