Links for #gcsk12 (weekly)

• Animaps - Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!

  "Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time"

  Tags: maps, social_studies, Google, web2.0

  • - By Teresa Thomassen

• Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

  Great website with mystery themed science lessons. These could easily be transferred to STEM lessons, adding in the other components.

  Tags: mysteryscience, labs, stem, resources, lessonplans

  • - By Aundrea Jenkins

• Mosa Mack Science

  Science units with lessons, animations, quizzes, and more.

  Tags: science, technology integration, web2.0

  • - By Teresa Thomassen

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Check out my favorite links this week! (weekly)

• Names for Change - It's just stuff. Until you don't have it.

  Wonderful poverty simulation

  tags: poverty simulation

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Favorite tweets

Are teachers standing in the way of tech integration? http://t.co/hIo96fdCUK #edtech

— Tom Murray (@thomascmurray) July 6, 2015

via Twitter https://twitter.com/thomascmurray

July 06, 2015 at 12:04PM

Favorite tweets

Want Project Based Learning? Join other like-minded educators in the #PBL Community: http://t.co/UOISdJp4yh #Education

— Buck Inst. for Ed (@BIEpbl) July 6, 2015

via Twitter https://twitter.com/BIEpbl

July 06, 2015 at 12:00PM

Links for #gcsk12 (weekly)

• Graphic organizers (Ditch That Textbook)

  Great graphic organizer templates in Google Drive. TIP - Change the word edit at the end of the address bar to "copy" and it will force make a copy for students.

  Tags: drive, graphic_organizers, graphic organizers, templates, docs

  • - By Aundrea Jenkins

• Edutech for Teachers » Blog Archive » Spotlight on Strategies: Partner Time

  "Partner Time is a simple yet effective way to manage partnerships in your classroom. It also ensures that students are not always sharing with the same classmate."

  Tags: strategies, collaboration, DEN, elementary, secondary

  • - By Teresa Thomassen

Posted from Diigo. The rest of gcsk12 group favorite links are here.