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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

It's testing time...but here are some resources to integrate a variety of curricular areas!

Introducing Inspire Curiosity in the Outdoors

Explore the Blues has creates many resources that are FREE!!! There are lesson plans, videos, maps, and interactive activities. Here are a few of their resources:

Teacher Resources: http://exploretheblue.com/educate.cfm

  • Keep It Clean! - Students learn about why organisms need a clean environment. Grades K-2.
  • Let's go Boating! - Students write about boating activities. Grades K-2.
  • Fish Food - Students learn about the role plants play in aquatic food webs. Grades 3-5.
  • Sizing up a Fish - Students approximate the surface area and volume of fish. Grades 3-5.
  • Adapt to Survive - Students learn about the ways in which plants and animals have adapted to survive in their environments. Grades 6-8.
  • Maintain to Sustain - Students learn about the importance of managing levels of fishing to ensure the sustainability of fish species. Grades 6-8.

Also, Discovery Education introduced a free trial (until the end of the school year) of an online collaborative textbook. There are teacher plans, interactive texts (with lexile levels), engaging and interactive videos, animations, activities, virtual labs, an interactive glossary, and much more! 

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Resources...Take 2!

Please let me know if there is something specific I can find for YOU!

K-5 Resources:


GCS SMART Repository

We need YOUR lessons!
As you can imagine, since it is just now available, we need lessons. Any GCS educator may submit lessons to the repository to share. Please click here for directions to see how easy it is to start uploading your lessons. 

Find Lessons
We have a few that are already available for you to use. 

U.S. Department of the Interior & U.S. Geological Society http://education.usgs.gov/primary.html


New Tool to try - Edmodo (FB for kids)
Check out Edmodo by clicking here.

Join this community - Digital Citizenship - Resources and lesson plans are available to better prepare your students!

Have a great weekend!


Sunday, February 10, 2013

Elementary Resources...The Beginning

I am going to start a list of resources to help elementary teachers. These may be resources I stumble upon, ones I find for a specific grade level, or ones that are recommended to me by others.

Please let me know if there is something specific I can help you find!

K-5 Resources:
Free Brain POP Jr. Video's (Including topics such as Bullying, Classifying Animals, Nouns, U.S. Symbols, Tally Charts/Bar Graphs, and Internet Safety).


Did you know you can find over 200 StudyJams on a variety of Math and Science topics?
  • Addition with Regrouping
  • Fractions in Simplest Form
  • Telling Time
  • The Human Body
  • Force and Motion
  • Weather and Climate
Specifically K-2
Speakaboos - Online Stories - You can subscribe and receive 10 stories for FREE!!!
  • Won't You Be My Valentine?
  • Treasure Island
  • Five Little Monkeys
  • Arthur
  • Stories in Spanish
  • Songs and Karaoke
Specifically 3-5
African-American History Month - An interactive resource including people, a timeline, and links to other resources.