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iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials. In 2009, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics to reverse Americans’ declining civic knowledge and participation. Securing our democracy, she realized, requires teaching the next generation to understand and respect our system of governance. Today iCivics comprises not just our board and staff, but also a national leadership team of state supreme court justices, secretaries of state, and educational leaders and a network of committed volunteers. Together, we are committed to passing along our legacy of democracy to the next generation. In just two years, iCivics has produced 16 educational video games as well as vibrant teaching materials that have been used in classrooms in all 50 states. Today we offer the nation’s most comprehensive, standards-aligned civics curriculum that is available freely on the Web.
Explore math video lessons from grades 3-9. Search by Common Core domain, topic, or grade. Includes Additional Practice and Director's Commentary videos.
ReadWorks provides over 1,000 non-fiction reading passages with question sets to support reading activities.
A fun way to practice and master grammar & writing skills!
"These twenty websites will enable elementary teachers to add something fresh and fun to their lesson plans."
This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, summarizes many learning theories and includes Wikipedia links for further information about them.
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From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
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Free, research-based K-6 reading comprehension lesson plans and non-fiction reading passages & question sets. Common Core aligned, teacher & principal endorsed.
A library of 300+ revised lessons for common Basal reading series (3rd-5th grades), each carefully aligned to the CCSS. Each new lesson includes quality text-dependent questions, improved tasks, and a focus on academic vocabulary.
GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.
"At the end of the day, teaching is about learning, and learning is about understanding. And as technology evolves to empower more diverse and flexible assessments forms, constantly improving our sense of what understanding looks like–during mobile learning, during project-based learning, and in a flipped classroom–can not only improve learning outcomes, but just might be the secret to providing personalized learning for every learner. We have gathered five alternatives to his legendary, world-beating taxonomy, from the TeachThought Simple Taxonomy, to work from Marzano to Fink, to the crew at Understanding by Design."
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Glenn York is using Pinterest, an online pinboard to collect and share what inspires you.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has handpicked for you some great rubrics that can definitely make a difference in how you view CCSS.
Search for Common Core Standards in your lesson plans. Create your own class.
Buy games created by others or design your own game for educational purposes. Game pieces, cards, dice, boards.
A list of the top 101 websites for elementary teachers including early childhood, English (ELA), Math, Science Social Studies, and Web 2.0 tools.
Do you know the actual theories of learning? A learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn, helping us understand this inherently complex process.
“Common Core Standards: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
Infographic Infographic Stations: Teachers could choose a different infographic (from the list of 120+) for students to perform at stations or have all of the students use the same infographic for each station. List of station activities follows.
"A free site that enables you to create your own quizzes based on video clips from popular sharing sites like YouTube or BlipTV."
A library of revised lessons for common Anthologies (6th-10th grades), each carefully aligned to the CCSS. Each new lesson includes quality text-dependent questions, improved tasks, and a focus on academic vocabulary.
Common Core Close Reading Sample Lessons These exemplars contain full materials for two to five lessons each, including: Readings with teacher and student instructionsText dependent questionsStudent discussion activitiesVocabulary and syntax tasks for challenging words and phrasesWriting-based formative assesments Fiction and nonfiction lessons, searchable by grade levels.
We feature a growing collection of quality materials for teachers and parents – accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, worldwide! All of the materials we sell are digital goods: electronic versions of workbooks, teaching guides, lesson plans, etc. from the top publishers in the education business. We also offer a growing selection of downloadable software from a variety of suppliers, including Ultralingua.
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