Monthly Archives: March 2012
Curating Content with Symbaloo
Educators are great curators! We know how to pick the best ideas that other teachers have shared, and how to pick the best resources for our classroom instruction. Symbaloo is a tool that will help you to bring the best resources together making it easy for you to organize and for your students to access.… Read more
Posted in Lesson Plans, Science, Social Studies
Tagged Common Core Standards, Curating Content, Symbaloo
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Keep the Music Alive!
With budget cuts, music programs are often at the top of the list to go. Well, let’s fight back! March is Music in Our Schools Month and this year’s theme is “Music Lasts a Lifetime.”
We know that music can bring our curricula to life, and really engage those musical and linguistic learners; luckily, there … Read more
Using Grouping to Control Layers
Every object on a SMART Notebook page receives its own layer on that page. If you have ten objects on a page, there are ten layers on that page. The natural order of those objects is that the newest object always goes in front of the previous objects. By planning in advance what you want … Read more
St. Patrick’s Day Resources
Céad Míle Fáilte! Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona! A Hundred Thousand Welcomes! Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Keeping the tradition of a post for St. Patrick’s Day, here are a few ideas to bring the Holiday to your classroom with some meaning.
Currently we have a lesson on the Educator Resource Center called, An Gorta Mór… Read more
Posted in Educator Resource Center, Holiday
Tagged SMART Board Resources, St. Patrick's Day
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The Leprechaun Strikes Again!
When I was a kid, a tricky little leprechaun visited my classroom while all the students and teachers were gone for the weekend. The mischievous man left some leather scraps from a shoe behind, messed up some desks while looking for gold, and turned all the chalk in the room green. “Good one, Lucky!” That’s … Read more
Curating Content for the Classroom
Since the earliest days of the Internet, we’ve been sharing web resources via the simple hyperlink. We share links via email, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and QR Code among others. Our links are related to our personal interests, our occupations, things that we find funny, things we find outrageous and much more.… Read more
Posted in Social Classroom
Tagged Common Core Standards, Curating Content, Curation, Curriculum Development, Jog the Web, SMART Board Resources
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Put a Pin In It!
Pinterest is fast becoming one of the most popular social media sites on the web for curating content. Pinterest is much like a bulletin board where you can “pin” images from sites you find on the web to boards that are related to your interests. When you visit the site, you’re able to search the … Read more
New York Times Learning Network
On Monday and Wednesday, we took a look at two sites that support students’ access to resources for informational text. Today, we’re taking a look at another site for teachers to consider: the New York Times Learning Network. While the materials are based on content from that specific newspaper, the same instructional ideas … Read more
Posted in ELA, Literacy
Tagged Common Core Standards, Informational Text, Learning Network, New York Times
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Curiosity…
In Monday’s blog post, we took a look at Wonderopolis in connection with the Common Core Standards and the use of informational text in instruction. For those who are working with students at the high school level, and already dealing with informational text on a daily basis, you might also consider Discovery Channel’s Curiosity.com… Read more
Posted in ELA, Literacy
Tagged Common Core Standards, Curiosity.com, Discovery Channel, Interactive Lessons
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It’s a Wonder!
Wonderopolis is a great site, not only to provide students with non-fiction content, but to help build background knowledge and connections to other learning. Each day, a “wonder” is published containing these three sections:
- A related video
- Questions to focus students’ reading
- The article
Classroom Use
The Common Core Standards address the need to include informational … Read more
