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Whether your students are using Apple©, Android™, Windows 8, or Chrome™ devices, there’s a BrainPOP app for you. Ideal for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and other mobile learning environments, mobile access is now an integral part of all BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, and BrainPOP Español subscriptions. The BrainPOP Featured Movie and BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week apps regularly deliver fresh movies, quizzes, and bonus features right to your students’ handheld device. They cover a breadth of relevant topics including current events, historical figures and milestones, holidays, curricular subjects, and more. Our Featured Movie app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch has been downloaded millions of times and lauded in thousands of reviews. Visit BrainPOP Educators for a selection of mobile learning best practices! If you teach K-3, check out the BrainPOP Jr. For English language learners and teachers, there's the BrainPOP ESL app.

MindPlay Educational Software for Reading Instruction About "I love singing and playing covers and my parents wont allow me to have a YouTube channel" "Before DIY I had no idea what a claymation even was! Now I'm making them and coming up with ideas for them all the time!" "DIY has really helped me because I always want to do proactive things but I sit around on my video games thinking I'll go do something tomorrow, which ends up being more video games, because I can't think of what to do or how I would! So DIY has helped me discover things that I actually can do, things I wouldn't of done if it wasn't for DIY showing me it!" "If DIY has taught me anything it's that quality is not just for the pros anymore. Quality is for us now too. "It has given me more determination and has shown me that I like getting my hands dirty and getting dirt under my nails.

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Teacher's Pet - FREE Classroom Display Resources for Early Years (EYFS), Key Stage 1 (KS1) and Key Stage 2 (KS2) Displays by Teacher's Pet. FREE primary school teaching resources, including FREE to download classroom display resources for Early Years (EYFS), KS1 and KS2 including stickers, posters, wordmats, signs, roleplay ideas and much much more! - A Sparklebox alternative Carl cx How Do Rubrics Help? Rubrics are multidimensional sets of scoring guidelines that can be used to provide consistency in evaluating student work. They spell out scoring criteria so that multiple teachers, using the same rubric for a student's essay, for example, would arrive at the same score or grade. Rubrics are used from the initiation to the completion of a student project. Rubrics are great for students: they let students know what is expected of them, and demystify grades by clearly stating, in age-appropriate vocabulary, the expectations for a project. Teacher Eeva Reeder says using scoring rubrics "demystifies grades and helps students see that the whole object of schoolwork is attainment and refinement of problem-solving and life skills." Rubrics also help teachers authentically monitor a student's learning process and develop and revise a lesson plan. There are two common types of rubrics: team and project rubrics. Team Rubrics Did the person participate in the planning process? Project Rubrics

YAKiT Kids YAKiT Kids, by Freak’n Genius Inc, is just that – genius. With March rolling in and TWA looking for something fun students can use on their iPads… well, it all just adds to the madness! Watch the Yakit Kids video below and a LOL is guaranteed. We, ourselves, are in the stages of learning Yakit Kids and will be reporting back next month with some of the student’s work. The plan is, they need to do a biography on a famous person from the previous century, and heck, we need to use those iPads, so why not use Yakit Kids and have a blast learning about the past! This easy-to-use app can bring any photo/artwork to life with comical and cool features. Watch VIDEO of YAKiT in the classroom Best Part: The kid’s videos will be viewed over and over again. Kids of all ages can let their creativity loose and share their creations with family and friends in a safe environment.

Rubrics to the Rescue By Melissa D. Henning, M.Ed. Read this teacher-friendly article for an overview of the rationale for using rubrics and tools and tips for implementing rubrics as an assessment tool in your classroom. You will be able to create and start using rubrics for student assessment within an hour. What Are RubricsWhy Use Rubrics?Rubric Pro and ConImportant Characteristics of RubricsInvolving Students in Creating RubricsReady Made RubricsCreate Your Own Rubrics Using Online ToolsExamples of Classroom Projects That Use RubricsSources for Rubrics to the Rescue

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