Filament Games reached out to some of their game-based learning educator allies …
Filament Games reached out to some of their game-based learning educator allies and asked them how they use games in the classroom, and they had a lot to say! So much in fact that they’ve compiled their insights into a shiny new eBook for your perusal – introducing How to Teach with Games! The eBook is packed with expert perspectives and practical advice, all of which is supplemented by recommended resources and downloadables to help you get started with game-based learning. Whether you’re just getting started with games or have been using games for years, we think you’ll learn something new from these educators’ stories.
Students will learn about the qualities of a professional piece of correspondence …
Students will learn about the qualities of a professional piece of correspondence and will be able to correct unprofessional correspondence to be appropriate for the workplace.
Through this lesson, students will learn how to create a thank you …
Through this lesson, students will learn how to create a thank you letter to send to an employer, post-interview. Example of a thank you letter and rubric included.
This is a remixed OER textbook from Laura Overstreet's Human Development Life …
This is a remixed OER textbook from Laura Overstreet's Human Development Life Span text. It includes chapters on developmental theories, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
This video is a lecture from Professor June Gruber, from Yale University. …
This video is a lecture from Professor June Gruber, from Yale University. Some teachers choose to show the first 8 minutes as an introduction to one of the most basic human emotions, disgust. This video focuses on emotional development, and this video fits in when teaching about developing emotions in early childhood courses.
Resources pertaining to creating a human-centered, progressive classroom space, with a focus …
Resources pertaining to creating a human-centered, progressive classroom space, with a focus on systems-based thinking and implementable pedagogy in K-12 schools. Resources include a Path to Purpose Handbook, ungrading resources, interdisciplinary lesson plans, and creating progressive virtual spaces.
This article examines the sixth of seven essential principles of the climate …
This article examines the sixth of seven essential principles of the climate sciences--"We Change Earth's Climate." Written for the science teacher, the article covers greenhouse gases, land-use changes, and other human-induced causes of global climate change. Each issue of the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is structured around one of the seven principles. The content provides background information, lessons, and activities for K-5 classrooms.
Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or …
Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or with staff for development of literacy practices K -2. This tool was designed by the Early Literacy Wisconsin State Reading Association Leadership team. This tool has been used with with teams wishing to deepen their early literacy understanding by reading, discussing the book. The use of the power point will enable educators to strengthen individual and team practices. This tool enables educators to dynamically dig into I am Reading by Kathy Collins and Matt Glover generating close reading and conversation of educators.
This is a unit of study whose competency is to intergrate the …
This is a unit of study whose competency is to intergrate the use of a computer laboratory into ongoing teacher activities and manage the use of supplementary ICT resources with individuals and small groups of students in the regular classroom so as to not disrupt the other instructional activities in the class. The objective is to identify and understand different ways to organize ICT in the school, laboratory/Classroom.
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent outside his Oakland apartment, …
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - I Didn't See You There serves as a clear rebuke to the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard.
Smart Kids with Disabilities, Inc. is a free website that focuses on …
Smart Kids with Disabilities, Inc. is a free website that focuses on resources, information, legal education, etc. for parents and/or educators of students with disabilities.  The mission of the website organization is: Our mission is to educate, guide and inspire parents of children with learning disabilities or ADHD. Our aim is to help parents realize their children’s significant gifts and talents, and to show that with their love, guidance, and the right support, their children can live happy and productive lives. Jane B. Ross, M.S. is the founder and executive director of Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities. She is a former publishing executive and consultant who was determined to help other parents who were as clueless as she was when she discovered that her bright and resourceful 10-year-old son could not read. Today her son holds a Masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and works as an architect in New York. The site also allows educators and parents many option to review accomodations and modifications.  It has mutltiple links for all of the aforementioned queries as well. These include but are not limited to tech tools, definitions of disabilities, evaluating the child, RiT, etc.Â
A Goodrich Elementary School second-grade teacher discusses the challenges of personalizing learning …
A Goodrich Elementary School second-grade teacher discusses the challenges of personalizing learning for a large group of students and shares her early success in increasing reading engagement and achievement.
Maker Faire participants collaborate in ISKME's Design Lab, using digital stories and …
Maker Faire participants collaborate in ISKME's Design Lab, using digital stories and salvaged materials to design an innovative school of the future. The Design Lab features Makers Mauro ffortisimo Di Nucci's deconstructed piano and INKA Biospheric Systems' Vertical Garden; as well as Student and Teacher project examples that integrate art, science, sustainability, and green design inspire the creation of shareable open-source learning resources. This wiki page showcases photos and video from the Design Lab, open educational resources for teachers, and a step by step guide through the design process.
This data layer includes lines representing existing sections of the Ice Age …
This data layer includes lines representing existing sections of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. This version of the data is hosted by Wisconsin DNR for DNR staff use and public download and is updated approximately every two months.
This layer is hosted by Wisconsin DNR, and reflects Ice Age Trail updates received from the Ice Age Trail Alliance on December 21st, 2023. This layer is typically updated approximately every two months and is primarily for the purpose of DNR staff use and public download from DNR's Open Data Portal. For more current trail data contact Tiffany Stram (tiffany@iceagetrail.org) GIS/Technology Specialist at Ice Age Trail Alliance. For the official depiction of Ice Age Trails in Wisconsin, see Ice Age Trail Alliance's Ice Age National Scenic Trail Existing Sections - Official Layer: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=735b25ad50e74520b7396d9168f53cfc.
This data layer includes lines representing existing sections of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. This layer is a combination of GPS and digitized data, merged to represent one complete data layer for the IAT. The data was developed by the Ice Age Trail Alliance (IATA) in cooperation with the National Park Service's Ice Age Trail Office.
I utilized this activity in my seventh grade math intervention group to …
I utilized this activity in my seventh grade math intervention group to reinforce Geometric Shapes and the properties they have and the commonality of those shapes. This activity also connects to fractional understanding and spacial relationships as well as symmetry when solving the third activity.
Using the Michael Battista's Cognition Based Assessment materials, and used this activity to conceptually work and investigate the common properties of shapes.
This video tutorial will help you identify effective formative practices. In order …
This video tutorial will help you identify effective formative practices. In order to improve student outcomes, it is essential that educators understand what the formative assessment process is and the characteristics of effective formative assessment practices.
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