This article describes how young children can create their own I Spy videos using the Draw and Tell app by Duck Duck Moose. It includes a link to a video showing a tour of Walter Wick's studio - he authored the 'I Spy' and 'Can You See What I See?' series of books.
This article describes activities to do with young children using apps where they can build structures. It discusses two possible apps to try - Toca Builder and Blokify. Links to videos that tell you more about these apps are included.
The cementing of minerals together forms a sedimentary rock called sandstone. One form of sandstone is rock asphalt. Learn more about it here.
This resource provides information about wilderness preservation. Lists questions in four categories and provides extended responses to each of them.
A huge site from The University of North Carolina regarding radiometric dating, how it works, inaccurate methods, Carbon-14 dating, and lots more.
From The Scots Guide to Electronics web site. The meaning of electric potential is described. A combination of diagrams and words are used to explain this difficult concept without the use of mathematics. Very well done!
Events affecting the continental margin off Washington State are presented. This article comes from the "Thompson Times," an onboard newspaper from the UW's primary research vessel, the Thomas Thompson.
If you’re looking for an online creation too for anything from lesson plans and handouts to logos and flyers, look no further than Canva. Canva is one of the most user-friendly design tools available and best of all, it’s free for educators. Join us in this session as we explore the basics of creating with Canva including a quick introduction to creating classroom backgrounds for Bitmoji classrooms.
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Learn about the three types of muscle tissue, how a muscle contracts, and how muscles are adapted for exercise. [3:40]
WOUB Team shares basics of its digital Storytelling project and shares ways to use digital storytelling across curriculum areas.
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Google Drawings is Google's least used tool especially as you move into online courses for your students. Find out how to use Google Drawing to promote interaction by creating interactive posters and drawings, collaborative comic strips for digital storytelling and even just a simple interactive whiteboard for your students to collaborate in real time during their online experience.
Google Keep allows you to save what is on your mind, and retrieve information later. Discover how to engage students to take notes, access them, and insert them into different formats.
Did you know you can make checklists, find totals, sums, and averages really quickly in Google Sheets? This tool takes productivity to the next level. During this PD you will learn how rows, columns, and cells can work for you! Caryn Kelly from SOITA shows how to use Google Sheets.
A presentation of the benefits and potential uses for Padlet collaborative boards in the classroom.
A long article on the many men and events involved in the various Colonial Committees of Correspondence.
Wakelet is a free platform that allows you to save, organize and share content from across the web. Teachers can share collections directly to Google Classroom. The read mode enables students to have articles translated into 60 languages and apply accessibility tools for text preferences. This session will help you set up and account and demo key features to get started today. presentation: bit.ly/2WAKEWOSU
Defines the refraction of light and provides an applet for investigating it.
Together we will explore media literacy resources. We'll dive into a curated, vast collection of media literacy tools. We'll establish how we can empower our students to be proactive citizens in our digital world. We'll also explore the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification, a new professional learning opportunity. It is a competency-based certification, earned by completing eight micro-credentials and is a way to demonstrate your expertise and receive validation for your leadership. It's free for all kinds of educators.
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This site lists thirty different terms for describing the luster of minerals.
This site from PBS contains a transcription of the three documents concerning the purchase of Louisiana from France. There is a link to other documents.