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Check Out These Clever LEGO Adaptations of Famous Works The Literacy Site By The Literacy Site LIT_Blog_DTOP_BelowTitle_336x280 It is not surprising that a number of productions have adapted Shakespeare to suit modern times, but never has one featured actors made of plastic bricks and an iPhone. The best learning apps Many great apps teach coding, for kids as young as preschool and progressing through upper elementary grades—so many that when we asked our experts for recommendations, we ended up with a list of more than 15 apps. We’ve highlighted four of these apps because they offer unique features or are particularly easy to jump into and don’t require the child or parent to have a coding background. The Osmo iPad games, which require a base system (a stand and a mirror that attaches to the iPad’s camera), ask kids to use physical game pieces—representing shapes, words, numbers, and more—to play games on the iPad’s screen. The Osmo Coding game uses bricks marked with commands, arrows, numbers, and loops that kids arrange into “scripts” to direct a cute character through mazes and challenges, picking up prizes such as strawberries.

Publishing the Pentagon Papers In this era of fake news, Stephen Spielberg’s latest film looks back at the true story of the Pentagon Papers. Publishing news of this leaked government report put investigative journalists and newspaper publishers at real risk of prosecution. And yet, against the odds, they went ahead and set the scene for the Watergate scandal. The Post tells the story of the “Pentagon Papers” – a leaked top-secret government report entitled “History of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-66”. The report showed that four successive presidents, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, had misled the public about U.S. operations in Vietnam, ostensibly pursuing a strategy towards peace while the military and CIA were covertly expanding the war.

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@mrocallaghan_edu image via @gapingvoid Challenge (includes differentiation) Explanation Modelling Earth-Now Educator Review How Can Teachers Use It? While it is not content-rich enough to be a standalone instructional tool, Earth-Now could be a great supplemental resource in the classroom. Use it during an earth science unit to track climate data. Teaching materials: using newspapers in the classroom 1 By Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord This article comes from the onestopenglish archive but ties in with this month's Guardian Weekly promotion. Advice and suggestions on using newspapers in the English classroom.

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