Monday, April 3, 2017

Science Friday

The Science Friday website has articles, videos and podcasts about relevant and interesting science topics!



Students can use the EXPLORE section of the website to read, watch or listen to cool science stories.








The EDUCATE section offers free STEM activities, lessons, and resources!




Thursday, March 23, 2017

Turn Your Classroom into a MakerSpace!

Looking for something innovative, fun, creative and intellectually engaging for after Spring Break? Check out http://makercamp.com/projects! Pick a project and start making!!!  Step-by-step directions included!








Friday, March 17, 2017

Crayola Lesson Plans

Crayola has some super, cute lesson plans for integrating art into math, science, language arts, etc...!

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

BrainPop Update!

Here are some cool BrainPop features you may have forgotten about and some super cool new ones!

Reminders 
BrainPop Game Up (BrainPop & BrainPop Jr.)

BrainPop Make A Map (BrainPop & BrainPop Jr.)

Advantages of a MyBrainPop Account for Teachers (email Sondra for your code!)
Class Summary
Class quiz results are broken down question by question and student by student, revealing the areas that need further clarification.

Assignments
Assign movies, quizzes, concept maps, Challenges, GameUp games, FYIs, and more! Students can submit their work for feedback, and you can track their progress through My Classes.

Quiz Mixer
Customize assessment: build your own BrainPOP-style quizzes with the Quiz Mixer! Use BrainPops bank of questions and edit them, or write your own, including open-ended and poll questions.

New & Exciting

Snapthought - (BrainPop & BrainPop Jr.)
Capture and reflect on key moments in game play by making predictions and drawing conclusions. Available on select GameUp titles.

Make-A-Movie (BrainPOP)
Teachers and students can narrate their own BrainPOP-style movies using images from the BrainPop library or your own drawings.

Talk About (BrainPop Jr.)
A graphic organizer

Write About It (BrainPop Jr.)
A writing prompt

Draw About (BrainPop Jr.)
A drawing prompt.

Word Play (BrainPop Jr.)
An interactive vocabulary feature that enables students to explore key words from the topic.






Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Drive Slides (Faculty Meeting 1/11/17)

This extension creates and instant Google slide show from pictures with in any folder on your Google Drive! Great way to organize, present and even print your pictures from Drive! 

Get it at the Chrome Web Store!!

"DriveSlides allows you to create a Google Slides presentation out of images in a Google Drive folder. Simply open a folder in Google Drive that contains JPG, PNG or GIF images. Press the DriveSlides Chrome extension icon to open the Google Slides presentation with your images automatically added. The Slides are created in your Google Drive, within the same folder." - Description from Web Store