Leave it to National Geographic to make map skills exciting! Explore Mars or the pyramids or perhaps seek sunken treasure or plan a family vacation. These interactive games focus make map reading painless. Check out Maps Tools for Adventure (from ilearntechnology).
Entries from May 31st, 2010
Enhancing art projects
May 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts, Content-Art, Voicethread
Christine Lawlor and her third grade students created paper collages. They then added their personal narratives and created this Voicethread. Voicethread provides another outlet for student expression.
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Begin the Learning Revolution
May 30th, 2010 · No Comments · 21st Century Skills, Content- Cross Discipline, Professional Development Presentations
Take 15 minutes and watch to this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. I was fortunate and heard him speak at PETE&C. He is also on the agenda as one of the keynote speakers for the NJEA convention in the fall. Robinson sees the educational model as broken- thus reforming is not the answer- rather [...]
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More math stories
May 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Content - Math, Digitial Storytelling
Here is- another math PhotoStory produced by Lisa Payne’s fourth grade students. The students photographed shapes in and around the SUES and then used PhotoStory to finish their product. Think this was more exciting than making a poster?
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