Winter Olympics lesson plans and resources
Kathy Schrock has put together a ton of resources for using the Winter Olympics in your classroom, including the history of the Olympics, lesson plans, and activities. Check them out at her website.
Kathy Schrock has put together a ton of resources for using the Winter Olympics in your classroom, including the history of the Olympics, lesson plans, and activities. Check them out at her website.
BrainPop has a webinar, resources to make assignments, build assessments, and manage student learning remotely. In the webinar, they outline integrations with various Learning Management Systems, such as Google Classroom and Canvas, providing suggestions for both synchronous and asynchronous approaches to online learning. Source: Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: School Closure Support Resources from BrainPop
Need a way to easily create a graph? The National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education has put together an easy to use tool to create bar, line, area, pie, and XY graphs. Users can email the graph to themselves, which will also give a link to save the…
Placeopedia.com allows users to connect Wikipedia entries with their geographical location. What a great way to see what landmarks/historical entries are located near your home town. It allows anyone one to place entries on the map, so if your area is blank you can search Wikipedia for local landmarks and place them on the map…
With all of the talk about distance learning and how are teachers going to manage classrooms and instruction for the next 3-4 weeks, people are too focused on trying to do what is done in the classroom virtually. We can’t repackage what is already done into a digital format. That is a recipe for disaster….
According to an article on CNN, The National Assessment of Adult Literacy: “About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.” It goes on further that 19 million American adults have “below basic” skills, which…
I had the privilege of addressing the soon-to-be graduates of the University of Findlay College of Education on April 13. It was a pleasure to speak, although it was tough for me to limit myself to 20 minutes. A copy of the speech and the audio from the speech will be posted to http://ryancollins.org/ as…