Many teachers and schools are leveraging chromebooks in classrooms, allowing teachers and students to explore learning in new and powerful ways. However, managing a classroom full of students on chromebooks can be a headache. In this over-the-shoulder session, we will share how Alpine School District has implemented Blocksi, a tool that helps teachers keep students safe while enhancing the learning environment. We will demonstrate how Blocksi helps teachers manage a classroom and share teacher perceptions of using Blocksi.

Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.

Students work together to create their own utopias, using blogs as the primary source of publication.

The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about blood and its components while instilling an appreciation of its importance for survival. The lesson takes a step-by-step approach to determining the recipe for blood while introducing students to important laboratory techniques like centrifugation and microscopy, as well as some diseases of cell types found in blood. It also highlights the importance of donating blood by explaining basic physiological concepts and the blood donation procedure.

In this video segment, adapted from NOVA, Dr. Judah Folkman uses the scientific method to discover how cancer cells induce the formation of new blood vessels, which in turn nourish those cancer cells.

Arteries have thick walls so that they can handle the large force of blood being pumped through them by the heart. Blood in arteries is oxygen-rich.

Blood in veins contains less oxygen than blood in arteries. It also contains waste gases, such as carbon dioxide.

The liquid part of blood is called plasma, which is made up of water and important substances, including vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.

Oxygen mixes with blood in the lungs and is then pumped throughout the body.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention site for bloodborne infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B & C.

Learn why New York City’s poor white and immigrant working class protested the Conscription Act of 1863 and eventually killed at least 120 people, targeting African Americans, during the New York City Draft Riots, the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history.

This is a teacher-created resource. It is a Blow the Roof Off activity that will give an overview of Utah History and geography.

This is a computer science lesson plan created by educators in the South Sanpete School District. Students will read a story that describes the first computer bug. This book will help students to see character qualities in a computer scientist who broke social norms, persevered, and loved solving problems. They will then go on to debug programs with bugs using Blue Bots. The lesson is designed for fifth grade and includes modifications for grades 1-5. 

When it comes to corn, Indigenous people have long known the benefits. Host Dr. Lee Francis of Laguna Pueblo discusses the health benefits of a classic Indigenous staple food: blue corn mush. What makes blue corn blue? Why is ash added to traditional blue corn mush? What makes it so healthy?

The Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe—a federally recognized Native American tribe in California—was one of 16 communities selected as a 2015–2016 Climate Action Champion by the Obama Administration for exceptional work in response to climate change.

The Tribe began its strategic climate action planning in 2008 and has become a regional leader in greenhouse gas reductions and community resiliency measures. To date, the Tribe has reduced energy consumption from 2008 levels by 35 percent and has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2018, utilizing a range of approaches—including aggressive energy efficiency upgrades, developing on-site renewable energy (biomass, solar, fuel cells, grid battery storage), and switching to green fuels (electricity and biodiesel).

Using photographs and models, students are taken on a virtual journey to outer space. They can look back at the Earth as they travel further away and see it growing increasingly smaller, giving the experience that we live on a tiny planet that floats in a vast and empty space.

This activity provides instructions for using a flashlight and aquarium (or other container of water) to explain why the sky is blue and sunsets are red. When the white light from the sun shines through the earth's atmosphere, it collides with gas molecules with the blue light scattering more than the other colors, leaving a dominant yellow-orange hue to the transmitted light. The scattered light makes the sky blue; the transmitted light makes the sunset reddish orange. The section entitled What's Going On? explains this phenomena.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

This resource includes the sheet music, activity instructions, and audio files for "Bluebird, Bluebird" from the Elementary Songbook.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.