Category: Technology

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Teaching Elementary Children Philosophy

Teaching Children Philosophy Book Modules provides materials needed to engage discussion through children’s literature for elementary students.  Whether it be on philosophical issues, the summary plot, or the main idea, this resource provides a series of questions that will help initiate and spark discussion. Book titles are listed alphabetically but can also be searched by category (ex: aesthetics, ethics, logic, language, multiculturalism, etc).

Referenced Resource: https://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org

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Design Challenge Learning

Design Challenge Learning is a 21st-century learning style geared to challenge and innovate students through hands-on activities that foster skills in critical thinking and in solving real world problems.

The Tech, Museum of Innovation is a good resource for design challenge lessons that can be done in less than an hour, 1-2 hours, or over multiple sessions. Lessons are thorough and labeled by grade level.  From a teacher’s point of view, the opportunity to observe and question students through their challenge sheds new light on how students get more from a lesson by working together and thinking out loud.  Give it a try and see how your students do with the whole engineering process.

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Google’s Smarty Pins, Geography Trivia

Are you interested in testing your geography skills?  Google has engineered a fun, interactive, trivia game that tests your knowledge of the world map in six different categories.

  • March Madnesssmarty pins
  • Arts and Culture
  • Science and Geography
  • Sports and Games
  • Entertainment
  • History and Current Events

You get hints like “this is the only point in the United States where four corner states meet” and then you drop the pin as close to that location as possible. Sometimes it’s a country, city or a specific landmark.

Go to Google and type in ‘smarty pins‘ to get started.

 

 

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Perfecting Grammar With Grammarly

A grammar check and online proofreading tool beyond the basics in Word, Grammarly’s free writing app makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free by simply checking for grammar, punctuation, and style.  It also presents a contextual spell checker and plagiarism detector.

Add the Grammarly extension to Chrome and watch how your online writing is checked in real time.  Learn about your mistakes so you can avoid them in future writings and become a better writer.

To add Grammarly to your Chrome browser, go to:  https://www.grammarly.com/  and click the ‘Add to Chrome’ button.  That’s it!  Next time you begin writing, you’ll see it in action (provided you make mistakes).  🙂

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CommonLit for Language & Literacy 5-12

CommonLit is a nonprofit organization created by teachers, for teachers and is dedicated to ensuring that all students graduate high school with the reading and writing skills necessary to be successful.  The free program delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12. Resources are:

  • Fiction and Non-Fiction Passages;
  • Flexible;
  • Research-Based;
  • Aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Sign up today for a free account and choose a lesson, share it students, and track their progress. This resource is committed to being free forever so there’s no need to wonder if it’s a limited version or if it’s only available for a short time.