School librarian Marcia Mardis describes what the library can offer to teachers and students who want to produce a focused, engaging, and effective science fair. This article appears in the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which explores the seven essential principles of the climate sciences for K-grade 5 classrooms.

This webinar was created for Utah educators to help them learn how Scrible Edu Pro fills a gap for distance learning during the pandemic by supporting remote instruction for research and writing. You can scroll through this webinar recording to find portions of interest. For example, the "how-to" portion starts at 23:00 mins and contains a variety of questions, each with an answer and accompanying demo. For example, at the 25:50 mark, you'll see info about the question, "How do I curate and annotate articles".

On the first episode of the new Homeroom season, Matthew Winters debuts as Dani Sloan's new co-host! The two talk to Dan Ryder, and Mat Dombrowski about encouraging student innovation and maintaining innovation over time.

This guide is designed for educators working with adolescent readers who are experiencing reading challenges: reading teachers, English language arts teachers, and content-area teachers with students who are struggling to access disciplinary text.

This article provides an overview of Tapped In, a web-based learning environment for educators and professional development providers.

Students will use the knowledge they learned about 2d shapes to create a short video using iMovie. Students will be grouped together and will take photos of items in the classroom that resemble 2d shapes. Each video must have labels indicating how many sides their shapes have, name of the shape and how many verticies their shape has.

In this episode of UEN Nearpod News, Jami Gardner shows us how to use and create a drag and drop activity in Nearpod. This feature helps educators assess student learning by placing images or words in the correct order, category, or location. Also highlighted is the Social and Emotional Learning lesson library that is free to all Utah educators.

UEN Teacher Tips is a weekly series from the UEN Professional Development team. Every Tuesday, we'll share a new tip, how-to video and classroom resource. When life is busy and time is short, we hope these tips lead to bright ideas, just in time! This week's tip is "Unlock Free and Accessible Professional Development with the Utah Education Network" by Kayla Towner.

This free, standards-based website developed for elementary teachers provides hand-picked, reviewed, on-line resources to enhance teacher content knowledge regarding reasons for the seasons.

Media specialist Victor Darrigrandi explains the process for teaching students how to safely operate video drones. Darrigrandi believes that as drones become more popular in video production, operating them is a valuable skill for students to learn.

This article explains the difference between weather and climate, the role of the polar regions in the global climate system, and how climate change is affecting these areas. Links to content knowledge resources and the National Science Education Standards are provided.

This article provides an overview of research-based resources for engaging girls in math and science available from the Doing What Works web site, a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

This site provides an overview of research-based resources for teaching English Language Learners available from the Doing What Works web site, a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.