Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Nearpod to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.
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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 "Using Nearpod's Draw-It Tool for Formative Assessment" by Braxton Thornley.
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In this lesson on representation data, students explore how to make dot plots, histograms, and box plots and learn about outliers in a data set.
Material Type: Nearpod
In this lesson on scatterplots, students will learn how to create the line of best fit and analyze scatterplots by learning about correlations and causation.
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In this current events lesson, students learn about different end-of-year holidays including Kwanzaa, Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas, Las Posadas, and New Year.
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This lesson uses Nearpod to examine the positive and negative elements of using social media. The resource uses a video, collaboration and interactive strategies to explore the ways that social media can effect the lives of teenagers.
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In this lesson about direct and indirect objects, students will learn how objects are used in sentences and collaborately use them in sentences. Then, they will independently write sentences using objects.
Material Type: Nearpod
In this English lesson, students learn about Parenthetical Citation. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to demonstrate the importance of parenthetical citation and write their own.
Material Type: Nearpod
In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley highlights Nearpod's quiz and game features, including quizzes, draw-it activities, drag-and-drop activities, fill-in-the-blank activities, matching activities, and "Time to Climb."
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley demonstrates the variety of ways to collaborate with teachers near and afar in Nearpod.
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley showcases Nearpod's libraries of pre-made curriculum resources for teachers.
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley highlights a number of Nearpod's accessibility features, including built-in audio capabilities, closed captioning for videos, media representations of content knowledge, and full integration of Microsoft's Immersive Reader.
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley provides a walkthrough of Nearpod's various reports and explains how they can be used to measure learning and monitor progress.
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley demonstrates how to differentiate instruction with Nearpod, including using leveled lessons and embedding Nearpod content in feedback.
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley shows how to build choice boards and modified jigsaw activities in Nearpod to personalize learning for students.
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer Braxton Thornley highlights Nearpod's discussion features, including collaborate boards, polls, and open-ended questions.
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In this teacher-facing video, UEN technology trainer provides and introduction to Nearpod and an overview of its most powerful media features: videos, 3D models, PHeT simulations, and VR fieldtrips.
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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 "Revolutionize Elementary Math" by Val O'Bryan.
Material Type: Lecture, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This Nearpod lesson focuses on creating simple sentences by identifying nouns, verbs, and fragments. This can be delivered as a Live lesson or a student-paced lesson. The format may include either synchronous or asynchronous instruction. The author of this lesson is Danielle Macias. The background images in the Nearpod lesson were created by Slides Go: English vocabulary workshop presentation. Slidesgo. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2023, from https://slidesgo.com/theme/english-vocabulary-workshop#search-Education&position-5&results-4638
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment
This Nearpod activity takes 45-60 minutes. Students will learn how to draw pictures for addition story problems. They will learn about a plus and equal symbol. They will also be introduced to creating addition number sentences.
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