The Partnership website is an excellent place to learn what 21st century skills are, why they are important and who is supporting their development. Be sure to check out the Learning Hub.
This online typing course is minimalist in nature with few bells and whistles. Upon completion of the course its author states "you will be able to confidently type all the letters, numbers and most common symbols, with proper ten-finger touch typing technique."
This is a mega search site. With five ways to search and byte-bots constantly scanning the Web, if it is out there, you should be able to find it here.
An independent newsroom that covers a wide variety of topics and events, which are often neglected by the mainstream media, and works to promote change. Explore investigative reports on politics, social-justice issues, technology, and national security.
Play Hangman as you recall the basic types of sentences and punctuation marks. Great fun!
An interactive matching game which allows elementary students to connect phrases with their contracted form. Offers a few different games and includes graphics and motion.
An interactive game in which students must "find" the contractions embedded in a word search. Contractions may be found horizontally, vertically, diagonally, forwards or backwards.
Compare these two passages for some interesting ideas about how technology affects our lives. The questions that follow ask you to identify the main idea from either direct statement or inference.
Investigate the relationship between the number of coils in an electromagnet and its strength. [1:09]
In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.
Explore structural science as Ruff Ruffman uses his new service, called "Ask Ruff First" or "ARF, to help kids looking for a way to keep their mini-golf tower from tipping over in the wind. [5:00]
Using published materials in the essay, the author describes the methods used by various media to manipulate the politics of the country through their ability to "manage" the news.
This is a PBS Frontline broadcast support site which examines the role of marketing to teens, and the influence marketing has on teen culture.
This activity will help students identify the amplitude, period and shifts of graphs of sine and cosine using the TI-Navigator.
Students will determine the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of collected data. They will make a frequency histogram of the grouped data, both on graph paper, and on the TI 83+.
The 'Indiana' steamboat sank in Lake Erie in the mid-1800's. The story of the ship is told through artifacts and maps.
Your problem-solving skills are put to the test in this interactive word problem game on this site. Employ a variety of mathematical skills and strategies including logical reasoning and computation. Multiple choice problems created for students, by students, with immediate feedback and detailed explanations provided for incorrect responses.
This is an interactive, online quiz. Choose all the correct definitions for these words. Immediate feedback and explanations are provided.
Video that describes the types of codes that media and advertisements use to affect the way that people think, act, and feel. [6:00] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Lesson which teaches elementary students the importance and significance of keeping the audience in mind when writing. Students write invitation letters and perform extension activities while learning these concepts. Good resource.