Trading Card Creator. The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept. These cards are can be used with any type of book students are reading or subjects that they are studying, and make for an excellent prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories and need to consider characters, setting, and plot. Specific prompts guide student through the various types of cards, expanding students' thinking from the basic information and description of the topic to making personal connections to the subject. The save capability gives students a way to work on a draft of their card and come back to it to rework and revise as necessary, and to save their finished product to share with friends and family.
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In the meantime, feel free to upload your resources and let us know which of the standards they are aligned to. CCSS Forum Join the conversation about the Common Core and what it means for America's classrooms CCSS Forum. Making Paper Blogs to Prepare for the Online Experience I’ve decided to take my students on a fun-filled blogging journey for the last few weeks of school. In some ways I think I might be crazy trying to do this in such little time, but my guts are telling me to, “Just do it!”
I’m glad I listened! I decided to start as is suggested by some of my awesome PLN – with paper blogs. I took the lesson outline from Leonard Low and adapted it for my classroom. Introducing Vocabulary – First, I told the class about the blogging project and explained that we would start with paper and then move it online. Get Students Writing – I then assigned a very easy and short writing assignment for the kids to do – write about their favorite food or drink. Get Students Designing – Along with assigning the writing assignment, the students need to consider the design of their paper blog which needed all the pieces referred to earlier.
Get Students Working – The students got busy right away! Then came commenting… Commenting on Paper Blogs It got them excited. Now Out Of Beta, Tykoon Teaches Kids (And Parents) About Managing Finances. NYC-based financial services startup for families, Tykoon, is exiting its private beta and is launching its first mobile app for iPhone. The company, which aims to change the ways kids think about and use money, is more that your typical allowance tracker application – it’s a platform for earning, saving, giving and spending, the latter which includes kid-friendly access to a curated and controlled Amazon store. The company was co-founded by two experts in the payments and financial services business, Mark Bruinooge and Doug Lebda. Bruinooge spent 10 years in the industry, including time served as the head of e-commerce strategy as well as digital marketing at Bank of America. Co-founder and Chairman Doug Lebda, meanwhile, founded LendingTree.com, and served as its COO for several years following its acquisition by IAC in 2003.
Bruinooge explains Tykoon’s goal as “improving financial literacy by giving kids a real platform that allows them to learn through real experiences.”