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NCES Kids' Zone Home Page National Center for Education Statistics Contact Tools ED.gov Newsflash NCES Blog Twitter Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities & More Search form Search Low-cost, teacher-tested activities for the classroom and the curious. Science of Cooking • Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and Webcasts.PreviousNext Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities, and More Auroras: Paintings in the Sky

Favorite Web Tools Schoology– Learning management system with an online discussion capability perfect for extending conversations beyond the walls of the physical classroom to give every student a voice. Evernote – Capture, index and remember information using a computer, phone, and web. Students can take notes, capture favorite videos, save webpages, and collaborate on projects using Evernote. It is the notebook of the 21st century. Raising a Child with a Learning Disability . Articles . Reading and Language . PBS Parents Home » Articles » What does a parent do when she suspects her child has learning difficulties? How can she advocate for her child when everyone keeps telling her that her child will "just" grow out of it, that he'll learn to read when he's ready? In this article, a mother tells her story about her struggle for success-and how she found the resources to identify her son's reading difficulties, as well as the supports he needed to succeed. In another article, her son shares his perspectives about what it is like growing up with a learning disability.

The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection Part 2 reflective student Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school - typically someone else tells you how you're doing! At best, students can narrate what they did, but have trouble thinking abstractly about their learning - patterns, connections and progress. In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I've developed this "Taxonomy of Reflection" - modeled on Bloom's approach. It's posted in four installments: 8 Excellent Blended Learning Tools for Teachers September 25, 2015In its basic and simplest definition, blended learning is an instructional methodology, a teaching and learning approach that combines face-to-face classroom methods with computer mediated activities to deliver instruction. The strengths of this instructional approach is its combination of both face to face and online teaching methods into one integrated instructional approach. In today's post, we are sharing with you a set of some useful web tools you can use for blended learning:1- Blubbr Blubbr is a cool web tool that allows users to create quizzes around YouTube videos. These are basically interactive video quizzes ( called Trivs ) that you can create for your students and which they can answer while they watch the selected video clip. The quizzes are also feedback supported meaning students will get feedback as they answer each question.

5 Free Snagit Alternative Snagit is a screen capture program that allows you not only capturing of images, but it also allows you to edit, organize and share instantly to the web. It’s both available for Windows and MAC OS and can be used to take a snapshot of your computer and even long webpages. It can also easily create demo videos, enhanced images with its effects like adding time stamps or callout texts. It can organize screen captures with its tagging features and able to share all the images and demos it crated to social media sites. However, as ideal as it may seem, Snagit is not for free. You need to buy the program to use it fully and it costs around $49.95 USD.

ESL Interactive Grammar Games, EFL Interactive Grammar Quizzes Printable & PPT Games - Click Here! If you are the type of person who prefers to have games on powerpoint or as printable handouts, we have been thinking of you. We offer board games, powerpoint games and more for the classroom and one to one teaching. They have made my lessons fun and I have no doubt yours will be fun too. Added to the good news are the templates we offer that you can use to create customized games for your classroom and teaching. It is total fun and highly engaging fun lessons with these resources.

tutorial: the photoessay Today i wanna give you a short introduction on how to do a photoessay, based on my experiences, so as always there might be better or more compelling ways. So feel free to add those in the comments. The photoessay is also, when it comes to multimedia productions, the body of it as it tries to tell a story, so it is interesting to get a bit into that. Here are some ideas to think about. 1. Topic: At first and before any further thoughts what pictures you might need, you should think about the topic.

Teaching Resources VocabularySpellingCity’s Teaching Resources pages provide free lesson plan ideas and supplemental materials for teachers in all subject areas and grade levels. K-12 teachers can access background information on grade level topics to assist in creating extensive lesson plans for English Language Arts concepts like grammar or figurative language. The Educational Topics section offers teachers information on research-based best practices, such as how to effectively implement literacy centers. To further enhance lesson plans, teachers will find free K-12 literacy teaching resources and K-12 content specific vocabulary lists. Lists and resources support the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Pages provide a review of CCSS and specifications on how resources and materials align to grade level standards.

CiteLighter – Handy online research, citation, bibliography, sharing tool Yes. I admit it. I watch the Food Channel. So sue me. Works Cited, References, and Bibliography - For a detailed treatment on citing sources using MLA style with many more examples, please use the official MLA Handbook: All information relating to MLA style as presented in this Web site has been based on this authoritative publication from the Modern Language Association of America. Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003. Works Cited is sometimes referred to as References.

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