In this video, Michael Hakkarinen teaches us how to add a Time to Climb game into your Nearpod lesson. If you haven't heard of Time to Climb, it's a game-based learning experience that students can join from any device.
In this video, Rob Bentley shares how PlayPosit is the perfect tool to edit YouTube videos to fit your students' needs. YouTube can be filled with unwanted content, change that and add interactive features with PlayPosit.
In this video, Michael Hakkarinen walks us through embedding a Google Docs Cloud assignment into Canvas. With this tool students can modify their assignments with the features of Google Docs but submit directly to Canvas.
In this video, Michael Hakkarinen teaches us via screencast how to embed a Flipgrid into our Nearpod lesson. After this 4 minute video you'll be ready to go!
In this video, Justin Brooksby teaches us some essential safety measures for Zoom meetings. When using Zoom for work or class related activities, it's important to know these tips to keep your room secure.
In this video, Jami Gardner takes us through the basics of Seesaw, a student driven digital portfolio. She shows us how this tool will let us customize assignments to allow for creative and personalized responses from students.
In this video, Shannon Ririe explains how you can help your students use Gale by embedding the database resource in Canvas. UEN provides many Gale database modules that you can use in Canvas and adapt to your needs.
In this video, Jared Covili, with the help of Jared Fawson, work us through the Google Meet video conferencing tool. This tool can be used to present slideshows, share screens, video chat and more!
In a column devoted to interactive resoures for the K-5 classroom, this article features Recycle City, an EPA-produced, student-friendly web site designed to teach students about actions that create a sustainable community. Students will learn about recycling, reducing waste, and using less energy. The column regularly appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which focuses on the essential principles of climate literacy.
In this article, a school librarian looks at ways the elementary teacher can find support in the school library for introducing inquiry-based, technology-enriched science concepts to K-Grade 5 students. She describes the national "@ your library" campaign, which stresses collaboration between school librarians and teachers. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which focuses on the seven essential principles of climate science.
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a team of archaeologists and engineers explores different uses of the lever by recreating the engineering feats of the ancient Easter Island peoples.
How can you lift a heavy metal table using air? In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members succeed in lifting a table using their own breath and a few plastic bags.
This article describes how schools can involve local organizations in a festival or informal learning event.
This video from KET traces the energy transformations that occur when coal is burned to produce electricity. Some of the mechanical processes are also described.
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a seismometer and experiment with different ways to make it register movement.
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women profiles Fermilab physicist and Harvard professor Melissa Franklin.
San Francisco artist Jenny Odell uses various secondhand imagery to render our built environment otherworldly and strange. In this episode of Art School, we hang out with Odell in her apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District and get a glimpse of her process of gathering images and crafting them into grids and other forms.
This article describes a number of creative projects that incorporate art and literacy skills into a science unit on biomes and ecosystems.
This lesson is written using the Launch, Explore, Summarize lesson plan format and includes a link to a chart to anticipate student strategies and monitor student strategies and thinking as they work through the problems. Tasks also include a recording sheet where applicable. They are meant to be used as ideas. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class. All of the ideas for the tasks in this bank are common picture book math problems or were created by UVU School of Education Faculty.
This informational text introduces students to Mt. Erebus, a volcano located on Ross Island, just off the coast of Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is the world's southernmost active volcano. The text is written at a grade two through grade three reading level. This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.