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return to subject listingThe Quote Garden - Terri Guillemets
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): bulletin boards (14), quotations (20)
In the Classroom
Make a shortcut to The Quote Garden on classroom computers or include it on your class web page for students to use as a resource for projects. Encourage leadership, hope, and inspiration! Use quotes as a theme for writing prompts or even to relate to the theme of a story. Have students find quotes as examples of figurative language. Add quotes to end of year slide shows or videos. Use the quotes to inspire personal or classroom mission statements. Have students include a quote when turning in work, and explain how it inspired or helped them. Add music or art to explain a quote. During the first week of the school year, share this site with students. Challenge students to choose a personal "quote of the year" to set the tone for their goals. Have students put the quote in their notebook, folder, or on their device desktop. Choose a few quotes to hang around your classroom. Show students how to keep favorite quotes in an idea bin where they keep thoughts, thoughtful questions, and pieces of inspiration. Here are two tools you might like for an idea bin for middle or high school students: Thoughtboxes, reviewed here, and The Sketchbook Project, reviewed here. An idea bin collector for primary and elementary students could be Padlet, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Pablo - Buffer
Grades
K to 12tag(s): back to school (63), graphic design (48), images (257), posters (42), quotations (20), social media (54)
In the Classroom
Engage your class by creating a teaser for upcoming units using an image created with Pablo. Create images with favorite quotes as an introduction to any lesson. At the beginning of the year, print out images with inspirational quotes to put on bulletin boards. Share what you created on your website or blog. Have students create an image to "introduce" themselves to the class during the first week of school. Link or embed the introductory presentations in your class wiki, and have others guess who is portrayed. Use this tool to create short story summaries.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Giphy - Jace Cooke & Alex Chung
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K to 12tag(s): animation (62), images (257), photography (118)
In the Classroom
Share an animated GIF to get student's attention! A cat reading a book is one way to begin reading time! Show any science concept a student should look at several times to see every aspect of the event. Some ideas to search for might be the development of an organism, cell division, a chemical reaction, formation of stars, or a bullet in slow motion. Do you want to reveal portions of a video outlining the travels of historic expeditions, addition of the states to the US, or any other historical event captured in a video? Use a looping animated GIF! Every subject could use one of these GIFs to generate interest in a class activity or new content. Use these examples as inspiration to create your own animated GIF's using GIFMaker, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Daily 5s with Technology - Kelsey Hoffman
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K to 3tag(s): listening (73), literacy (110), reading comprehension (142), reading strategies (98), sight words (22), vocabulary development (89), word study (58), writing (317)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this Prezi lesson plan for reference when implementing technology for students into the Daily 5 routines. Download the apps to student iPads in your classroom. Post a list, with the links to download, on your web page or blog for parents to download to their student's iPads at home. If you are interested in using Prezi in your classroom you will find a review of it here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Daily 5/Cafe Pinterest Board - Jana Wilson
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K to 6tag(s): bookmarks (46), literacy (110), reading comprehension (142), reading strategies (98), word study (58), writing (317)
In the Classroom
Be sure to "follow" this Pinterest board to view new pins as they are added. Use this board as inspiration for creating your own Pinterest board for your Daily 5 links and favorite ideas. Share with colleagues and create a Pinterest board as you collaborate. Create a Pinterest board with links for parents to use at home. The ideas are as endless as your imagination!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Daily 5 with Technology Integration - Elizabeth Fairbanks
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K to 6tag(s): literacy (110), reading comprehension (142), reading strategies (98), word study (58)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a starting point for ideas on incorporating technology into your Daily 5 program. Share with your teaching colleagues and come up with a more comprehensive list of online tools for use with Daily 5. If you need ideas, be sure to check out TeachersFirst Edge, located here, to find all of the latest web 2.0 tools.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Technology and the Daily 5 K-2 - Laura Moore
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K to 5tag(s): literacy (110), literary devices (13), reading comprehension (142), reading strategies (98), video (260), vocabulary development (89), word study (58), writing (317)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use all year while incorporating technology into your Daily 5 components. Post links to downloads for the apps you decide to use so parents can get them on their computers and mobile devices at home for student use. As you get into more and more technology for student use, you may consider suggesting apps to parents that you do not have time for in the classroom. These apps could be for additional at-home practice.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Daily 5 Technology - Jennifer Lambrecht
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K to 5tag(s): listening (73), literacy (110), reading comprehension (142), reading strategies (98), video (260), vocabulary development (89), word study (58), writing (317)
In the Classroom
Incorporating technology for students into the classroom is necessary to meet state standards. Let this blog guide you and make it easier. Although the creator of this site is a 1st grade teacher, many of the technology ideas and tools she mentions are appropriate for older students and other grades as well. This especially pertains to the QR Code and iPad Creating, and Skype/FaceTime sections of this blog. Mentioned are several iPad apps this blogger is currently using with her students. One ingenious idea is to use Skype or FaceTime for your Read to Someone component. Primary teachers may be interested in Literactive, reviewed here, and Teach Your Monster to Read, reviewed here, that she has students use on her Chrome Books. So if you are thinking of, or just beginning to use technology in your class, take a look at this blog for an easy start or as a guide for new ideas to add.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Daily 5 - K-5 Literacy Connections
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K to 5tag(s): literacy (110), reading comprehension (142), reading strategies (98), video (260), vocabulary development (89), word study (58)
In the Classroom
Although these videos feature a first-grade classroom, the Daily 5 routines are great to use for any elementary grade. If the Daily 5 is new to your classroom, these videos will be a great asset in helping you understand what you do, what the students do, and how all of it sounds and looks. Once you have viewed the videos, click on the Pacing Guide to view what to do for the first 23 days while implementing the Daily 5.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Vortex: A Sorting Game - Class Tools
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): game based learning (173), quiz (65), quizzes (89)
In the Classroom
Develop Vortex activities to review any topic and save for use as a classroom center. Have students create review Vortex games as a study tool. Be sure to demonstrate how to make and share The Vortex before having students set up their own. Ideas for categorization activities are unlimited but can include categorizing types of animals, literary elements in novels, habitats, characteristics of geographic areas, and much more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Breaking News Generator - Russell Tarr
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4 to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (144), images (257), newspapers (91)
In the Classroom
Assess students prior knowledge by creating a Breaking News piece to introduce a new unit. Replace paper and pencil and ask students to fill in an interactive KWL chart from Holt, reviewed here, or discuss in small groups what they know about the topic. Transform student learning by using their "Breaking News" in presentation slides by downloading the image from your computer. Then upload the image to a slide presentation creator such as Slides, reviewed here. Suggest to students that they do the same for their presentations. Use as a timeline of events for lab experiment, a novel study, historical event, and more. You might want to think about using this tool as a storyboard for digital storytelling as this tool could work well for storyboarding.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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FreeConferenceCall.com - freeconferencecall.com
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K to 12tag(s): blended learning (37), chat (41), communication (133), DAT device agnostic tool (144), parent conferences (21), parents (58), remote learning (59)
In the Classroom
Use Free Conference Call to set up virtual parent/teacher conferences with participants located anywhere in the world. This is especially useful when multiple teachers are involved or when parents may not reside in the same location. Share your screen as needed to provide information on assessments and student work.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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180 Days: Challenge - PBS
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K to 12tag(s): classroom management (126), professional development (395)
In the Classroom
Take the 180 Days Challenge as part of your professional development activities. Use individual scenarios as a prompt for discussions within your school or grade level. Be sure to share this site with other teachers and administrators as part of your ongoing teaching discussions. Use videos found on the 180 Days Challenge to discuss how your school handles different classroom situations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Merlin Photo ID - Beta - The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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K to 12tag(s): birds (45), DAT device agnostic tool (144), ecosystems (73), habitats (86)
In the Classroom
Use this app when out in the field with your students for any reason and for any subject. Encourage observation by students in identifying birds that are located in your community. Follow the identification of the bird by creating related art, music, poetry, or stories. In Biology, identify how the bird fits into the food chain. Identify the plant species that each bird uses for food or shelter. In Math, map the sightings of birds, looking at density of various species.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CheckiO - CheckiO
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3 to 12tag(s): coding (90), critical thinking (112), problem solving (225)
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Allow students use a variety of different types of coding. Use this site to learn Python. Once students have used several different coding sites, discuss what they learned from the process. Brainstorm and discuss the following: What is the use of learning coding? What are the similarities and differences of the various coding platforms? Use an online interactive Two or Three-Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here, and here, for the comparisons of the coding programs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Creating a Rubric: Tutorial - University of South Florida Health
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4 to 12tag(s): assessment (146), professional development (395), rubrics (34)
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Bookmark this site for use when creating a rubric of any kind. Share with students and have them set up their own rubrics, based on the requirements, for projects. Doing this may help clarify the requirements. Be sure to check out other TeachersFirst Rubrics resources here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Oakland Schools Standards Alignment Atlas - Oakland Schools, Michigan
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K to 12tag(s): commoncore (75), professional development (395)
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Bookmark this site for use throughout the year to plan and teach lessons using Common Core Standards. Use this site as a guide when developing yearly plans for implementing Common Core Standards in your classroom. Share with school administrators and leaders as a reference for planning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Intel Teach Elements - Online Professional Development Courses - Intel
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K to 12tag(s): professional development (395)
In the Classroom
Gain a better understanding of digital learning tools and techniques by taking Intel's professional development courses. Share with other faculty members as part of your school's professional development. Take a course together with fellow staff members and discuss content and how it works in your teaching situation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Wonderment - Kidnected World
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3 to 9tag(s): communication (133), cross cultural understanding (155), enrichment (9), gifted (65), listening (73), Problem Based Learning (12), problem solving (225), social media (54), social networking (65), social skills (22), speaking (22), sustainability (43)
In the Classroom
The Wonderment is a problem based learning adventure for each student around the world to communicate and collaborate with other students. This venue allows great lesson ideas for digital citizenship and digital footprints. Begin by choosing a path for the entire class and feature on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector. Have students work in small groups to choose their best response. Discussions can focus on creativity, problem solving, and collaboration between the group and others from around the world. In a gifted class, use as a way to challenge kids to break through the "right answer" and find the "best answer." Use this as a model for finding authentic needs in your community. Be sure to share a link to this tool on your class blog, website, or learning management system (LMS). Use this tool as the answer for the parents who always want more challenge and enrichment for their students at home. Be sure to share at a staff meeting to spread the wonder for other students and adults.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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TextProject YouTube Channel - TextProject, Inc
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K to 9tag(s): commoncore (75), literacy (110), professional development (395), reading comprehension (142), reading strategies (98), video (260)
In the Classroom
Share individual videos with parents to help them understand different reading strategies. Embed a video of the week on your class website or blog for parents. Share with colleagues as part of your ongoing professional development.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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