This playbook can help a district outline a plan for transforming curriculum and for developing an effective and sustainable digital content portfolio. Updated March 2019.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 20 different eBooks and videos about the state of Ohio. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks and videos they would like to read or watch to learn more about the topic.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 30 different eBooks about the American Civil War. These eBooks will help build background knowledge on Ohio's Learning Standards for 8th Grade Social Studies on the American Civil War. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks they would like to read to learn more about the topic.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 20 different eBooks about the American Revolution. These eBooks will help build background knowledge on Ohio's Learning Standards for 8th Grade Social Studies on the American Revolution. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks they would like to read to learn more about the topic.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 16 different eBooks about ancient civilizations. Learn about the people, mysteries, and myths of ancient worlds. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks they would like to read to learn more about the topic.
Curious about Egypt? Learn about the history and people of this country.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 25 different eBooks about making and crafting. Bust your boredom with fun art projects using resources from nature, things from around the house, and more. Click your favorite from the choice board. Follow the directions in the book to create a fun art project.
Practice beginning letter sounds B-N while reading these eBooks.
Practice beginning letter sounds P-Z while reading these eBooks.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 25 different eBooks, videos, and diagrams about cell structure and functions. These eBooks will help build background knowledge on Ohio's Learning Standards for Biology. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks they would like to read or watch to learn more about the topic.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 25 different eBooks and videos on the topic of heredity. These eBooks and videos will help build background knowledge on Ohio's Learning Standards for Biology. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks and videos they would like to read and watch to learn more about the topic.
Curious about building critical thinking skills in your students? Interested in inquiry? Inquiry is a student-centered learning approach that focuses on helping students develop skills in three critical areas: questioning, critical thinking, and problem solving. Give your research process a redo with inquiry and INFOhio! This session will support teachers in grades 6-12 learn how INFOhio digital tools and resources can support inquiry-based learning in the classroom.
Presentation delivered at OETC20.
Are you using textbooks that are more than 10 years old? Are you spending your weekend scouring the web for free instructional materials? When it comes to supplementing or building curriculum using Open Educational Resources, the challenges are many. With INFOhio, finding teacher-approved digital resources that you can use for free to build or supplement your curriculum is quick and easy. In this session, you'll dig into INFOhio's OER tools and the high-quality digital resources that INFOhio has licensed for all Ohio PreK-12 students, educators, and their parents. Using INFOhio's Educator Tools, which now includes over 70,000 lesson plans, assessments, and other instructional materials curated by education professionals, you will build a personal collection of standards-aligned lessons, labs, and other activities. Then you'll use ISearch to discover a wealth of digital content--including texts, videos, images, and more--that you can upload to your learning management system for student use. Take back your weekend by building your own standards-aligned digital curriculum for free with INFOhio's Open Educational Resources.
Learn more about what happens when chemicals interact to form new substances with this chemical reactions choice board.
This slide deck includes three templates that you can use to create a curated collection of eBooks and videos.
Practice consonant blend sounds while reading these eBooks.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 20 different eBooks about cryptid creatures and mysterious places in the world. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks they would like to read or watch to learn more about the topic.
Workshop agenda and slide deck for Day 1.
Instructional Materials Reviewer Summer Workshop
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 15 different eBooks about Ancient Greeks and Romans and Ancient Greece and Rome. These eBooks will help build background knowledge on Ohio's Learning Standards for 7th Grade Social Studies on the early civilizations of Greece and Rome. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks they would like to read to learn more about the topic.