Students use the Cornell notes tool (developed by Walter Pauk from Cornell University) to gather key ideas, details, and summarize. The source used in this lesson is audio obtained from NPR about the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman.Lesson Image: stevepb.(2015, October 23). Leaf Green [Photograph]. Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/images/id-1001679/

The concepts that underlie the fourth essential principle of climate literacy ("Climate varies over space and time through both natural and man-made processes.") are too complex for students in early and upper-level elementary school, but the foundational knowledge can be taught within existing curriculums and standards. This foundational knowledge will lead to understanding in later years. The author shows the correlation to the national science education standards, identifies misconceptions among elementary school students, suggests formative assessment probes, and identifies lessons and activities to make curriculum connections. The free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is based on the seven essential principles of the climate sciences.

This week we took UEN Homeroom on the road, literally, as we met with Cory Henwood, Digital Teaching and Learning Coordinator for Iron School District, from the front seat of a car. During this discussion we covered topics such as: providing students with choice, using technology to empower students, and Launch High School, Iron's soon-to-open competency based high school.

Solvers of this problem apply number sense and logical reasoning to determine the numbers of cows and sheep in each of five fields by using clues about how many cows and sheep can be seen by each animal. The problem includes questions for getting started, suggestions for implementation and differentiation, a printable student page, and sample solutions.

Coyote tales are part of the Paiute oral tradition used to teach proper behavior and values from an early age. These stories are only told during the winter time. The Coyote illustrates the mischievous nature in all of us. This lesson helps students compare and contrast characters in the story, Coyote and the Geese. Students are asked to reflect on how characters respond to challenges and events by filling out a worksheet and engaging in discussions about the book. Students also learn more about Native American storytelling and its importance in Native cultures. The background information with resources listed helps each teacher become more familiar with the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (PITU) and their perspective on petroglyphs, pictographs and how long the Paiute people have lived in Southern Utah.

From Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve, he outlines how to use Google Docs' new create a dropdown feature to help students do close reading. It is a fairly simple idea with some great applications across content areas. Basically, copy a paragraph of text, remove the important words, and make a color-coded dropdown. It is a quickly assessed formative assessment that lets the teacher use any text they desire.

Clips is a free app that lets educators and students easily create and share fun and engaging videos. We’ll show you how educators can use Clips to create instructional videos for exploring new skills and ideas — and how students can make videos to share what they’ve learned.

With Mac, teachers have everything they need to create engaging instructional resources. In this video, you’ll learn how to easily record instructional videos using Photo Booth, and quickly capture images or recordings of anything on your screen using Screenshot. You’ll then see how to bring all these resources together in Keynote to build a creative assignment that can be shared as a fun video with your students.

This article introduces a free online collection of images, video clips, and animations that teachers can use in creating resources for use with students. The four steps in creating a video clip, an animation, or other resource are presented.

It’s easy to turn traditional worksheets into fun and creative learning assignments. In this video you’ll learn how to take a built-in template in Pages for Mac and quickly customize it with placeholders for text, photos, and even a personalized video from you to guide your students. You’ll see how to share this new assignment as a template which lets students easily customize it with their own content.

This article from ISTE explains how teachers can create a Makerspace at their school. A Makerspace is a place where learners can come together to create or invent things|either using traditional crafts or technology:.

Presenting information in compelling ways is even more important when you’re not able to be face-to-face with your students. In this video we’ll show you how to use iPad built-in features to create demos and instructional videos and share them with your colleagues and students. Using Keynote, or any presentation tool, you’ll learn how to record content and create demos on iPad for use with your students.

Learn how to make homework, a quiz, or an exam with the questions and settings of your choice in Derivita

Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.

This is a lesson plan to help teach students how to create a digital story using the ipad app "Story Creator" The students will watch some examples of differnt digital stories other students have created. Next, students will use previously learned information on animals and their habitats to fill out a storyboard that will help guide them to creating a digital story. Students will draw pictures and write text to accompany these pictures. The lesson will end with students presenting about their animal they chose and its habitat through means of a digital story. 

This recommended practice focuses on how teachers can foster an engaged community of writers by writing together with students, providing choice, and encouraging collaboration and feedback among students. This presentation gives ideas about how to create an engaged community where students feel safe. The two tools associated with this recommended practice are designed to help teachers plan collaborative writing lessons and reflect on current practices in building a community of writers.

Portrait of a graduate bulletin board with grade level I can statements|in student-friendly language.

This article describes how curriculum compacting can be used to meet the needs of gifted students within the regular classroom.

Data Analysis and Instructional Support Planning with Acadience Math Results is a guiding document that suggests guiding questions to analyze a student's performance, not just the score, on each measure, as well as targeted learning intention examples, and intervention resource examples.