Google Meet has changed a lot over the last year and added tons of new features for teachers to meet the needs of their students. Eric jumps in and shares all these features both on his website and in an accompanying 30 minute video. There are some wonderful new updates and he has some great ideas on how to utilize them.

Students build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outside school.

In this video UEN Technology Specialist, Kayla Towner, demonstrates how you can narrow down your search when researching within the gale reference collection.

In this video Kayla Towner, UEN Technology Specialist shows us how to find credible and reliable resources using the Gale Reference Collection. You can find resources for elementary, middle school and high school.

Have you ever wanted to give your students a chance to follow their passions? If you have, Genius Hour might be the answer that you have been looking for. This lesson will help you guide your students as they begin work in Genius Hour. Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Get started with eMedia Hubs today! Our local eMedia expert, Katie Blunt, shows us how different hubs can suit your needs.

This session is designed is for anyone who is new to using Pressbooks. Viewers are shown how get started with Pressbooks, from creating a new book to exporting offline versions of the text.

Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects that were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts that retell, analyze, or interpret events, usually at a distance of time or place. This webpage will help educators teach students using primary sources and engage them in analyzes these sources.

This article describes how to help students engage with nonfiction text by asking questions, identifying facts, making connections, and reflecting on the text. A template for use with students is included.

To introduce demographic characteristics to students, teachers will help them create a population pyramid. Then, students will use an online tool called QuickFacts to find census data on demographic characteristics for a county in 2022. They will compare it to older data from the same county to find changes and trends over time. They will then use QuickFacts to examine data about their school’s county. Students will use this information to help them understand how business owners and community leaders use data on demographic characteristics to make decisions.

This informational text introduces students to solar energy's role in warming the Earth's land and water and to the fact that dark-colored surfaces absorb more of the Sun's energy than do light-colored ones. 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. The text is written at a grade two through grade three reading level.

This informational text introduces students to solar energy's role in warming the Earth's land and water and to the fact that dark-colored surfaces absorb more of the Sun's energy than do light-colored ones. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary. The text is written at grade two through grade three reading level.

This informational text introduces students to solar energy's role in warming the Earth's land and water and to the fact that dark-colored surfaces absorb more of the Sun's energy than do light-colored ones. 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. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level.

This informational text introduces students to solar energy's role in warming the Earth's land and water and to the fact that dark-colored surfaces absorb more of the Sun's energy than do light-colored ones. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level.

The books selected for this list complement articles in the issue of Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle that introduce the concepts of water availability and of extreme weather conditions. In nonfiction and fiction, the books for Grades K-5 emphasize that freshwater is a limited resource and explain how and why extreme weather events occur.

This video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his elementary school years in the Deep South under Jim Crow laws, he became one of the few African Americans of his time to earn a Ph.D.

This guide gives a brief overview of the limitations of large language models and provides strategies for writing effective prompts.

PBS Learning video about a candidate getting the nomination through either primaries or caucuses. Information about delegates and super delegates and "Super Tuesday". Available in English and Spanish.

Getting to Know Utah
In this Nearpod VR States lesson, students explore what makes Utah unique. They investigate Utah’s defining characteristics, including: its geography, history, landmarks, industry, and culture.

This is a great Nearpod on getting to know Utah. I used this in migrant summer school this year, I taught 6th grade and my students learned a great deal about the state they live in. They really found it to be useful and informative.

This is a fun lesson to help students navigate through iMovie while forming a video presentation to introduce themselves to their classmates.   Image Credit: https://openclipart.org/detail/291674/little-owl-friends