This is a resource for teaching tier 1 mathematics.
The first few pages are addition/subtraction, but if you scroll down it shows how to use manipulatives to teach multiplication, division, fractions and more. It also has video examples (which I haven't watched yet). It includes a guide, sample activities, worksheets and supplementals. https://intensiveintervention.org/intervention-resources/mathematics-strategies-support-intensifying-interventions#numbers https://www.w3schools.com/
Teach your self HTML coding. Why? All websites involve HTML coding; that's how they are created. With programs, such as Dreamweaver, you can build your own website and apply pre-made CSS templates. With pre-made websites where you build pages without codeing, such as Weebly, Blogger, etc., you can manipulate the programs coding and add extra features that typically you don't get. This website includes tutorials, examples, exercises, and lots of other great information. https://happynumbers.com (your first 30 days are free) Program Description: HappyNumbers.com helps PK-5th grade teachers differentiate instruction and deepen students’ conceptual understanding of math. Driven by pedagogy and supported by technology (not vice versa), it’s not a set of electronic worksheets or another “all dancing, all singing” resource. Instead, we teach students to “think math”: Students explore the meaning behind the math, building upon simple concepts to create connections and develop deep understanding. While students are learning with Happy Numbers, Happy Numbers is learning about them. It scaffolds instruction and gives feedback based on each individual student’s level and progress -- it’s like having a teacher assistant for each student in the class! Click on the file below for instructions on setting up your class!
#1 - Writer Igniter
https://diymfa.com/writer-igniter This site is a simple but fun way to make random story ideas. Simply click the "Shuffle" button to get a new random prompt including "Character", "Situation", "Prop", and "Setting" (which will display as an image). #2 - Scholastic Story Starters http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/ This tool for grades K through 6 randomly generates plots for adventure, fantasy, and science fiction stories, and then works students through the writing process.
https://writingsparks.com/ This site guides students through the writing process, providing inspiration along the way. Here's how to use it:
#5 - Describing Words http://describingwords.io/ This is another tool that is different from the others in that it does not create random prompts, but instead helps extend an idea the student already has.
#6 - Writing Exercises http://writingexercises.co.uk/children/index.php This site has a large collection of many different writing prompt tools to get students thinking in creative ways. The tools include the following:
#7 - Google Sheets Random Writing Prompt Generator https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/04/writing-prompt-generator.html This option uses a Google Sheets template I created that randomly pulls from a list of about 2,000 adjectives and 1,000 nouns to create over 2 million unique prompts. To get your own copy of the "Random Writing Prompt Generator" spreadsheet, click the link below:
#8 - Google Sheets Emoji Writing Prompt Generator https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/11/emoji-writing-prompts.html Here is another Google Sheets template I created, but this one uses emojis instead of words to generate writing ideas. To get your own copy of the "Emoji Random Writing Prompt Generator" spreadsheet, click the link below:
#9 - Google Drawings Story Cubes https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2018/09/story-cubes.html Story cubes can be a fun way for students to get inspiration for writing. Typically they are regular cubes with a different picture or word on each face. Students can pick a few cubes and then roll them to randomly get elements for a story. Although you can certainly buy these cubes, you can also make you own. Below you will find three Google Drawing templates for making story cubes. Each is optimized for different types of cubes including picture cubes, emoji cubes, and text cubes.
#10 - Watch Out for Snakes http://watchout4snakes.com/wo4snakes/Random/RandomPhrase And finally, the one that started it all for my poetry writing fun, this site offers several different random prompt tools. The option I used most often was the "Phrase" tool.
These resources came from Ctrl Alt Archieve - Eric Curtis Take a look at this amazingly thorough help guide, created by Jeremy Dudley .
Google Classroom 2018 Help Guide We are always looking for ways to formatively assess our students. Here are some newer and older, tried and true digital programs, to do just that!
(in alphabetic order) 1. Edpuzzle Edpuzzle allows you to turn videos into a quick assessment. Choose a video on YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, or upload your own. Trim the video, insert a quiz anywhere and track your students progress. (Freemium, basic account is free, additional features available with paid accounts.) 2. Edulastic Edulastic is a complete assessment dashboard. Teachers can create and track assessments, and even align with CCSS. They also offer a district wide-platform for sharing district-wide assessments. (Free for teachers, district-sharing requires a paid license.) 3. Flipgrid Flipgrid is a video discussion platform, that allows students to respond to questions, topics, and reflect using video. Students can also respond to each other, leave comments, and more. (Free!) 4. Gimkit Some have said that Gimkit is Kahoot on steroids. Gimkit is another fast-paced quiz game, but with an extra element. Student earn in-game cash to spend on game upgrades. Check out Leslie Fisher’s review and video to learn more. 5. Google Classroom Question Tool Inside Google Classroom, you have the option to create a questions and share that with students. You can make this collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the teacher. This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding. 6. Formative Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Formative allows teachers to choose pre-made assessments and edit to fit your needs, create your own from scratch, or even upload a PDF or doc to create. They also offer some fantastic data that you can track and intervene when needed. (FREE and integrates with Google Classroom!) 7. Google Forms Google forms is a survey and quiz tool that is very easy to use. You can feed your form or quiz data into a Google Sheet for analysis and evaluation. Both Google Forms and Sheets also have many “add-ons” that give users even more capabilities that can power your formative assessments. (FREE) 8. InsertLearning InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn any webpage into an interactive lesson. InsertLearning has this fantastic toolbar that will allow you to highlight text, add sticky notes, insert questions, videos, or even a discussion all inside the webpage! Learn more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning. (InsertLearning is a freemium application, but you get your first five lessons for free.) 9. Kahoot! Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform that allows you to create very engaging quizzes for your classroom. Kahoot! is super fun and addictive. You can create your own kahoots, or choose from their library of games. Play live kahoots, in groups, issue challenges, or assign as homework. (FREE) 10. Mentimeter Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that allows you to poll your students, check for understanding, or ask students to vote. There are several different types of questions you can create, image-based, multiple choice, scales, open-ended, questions from the audience and more. You can even generate word clouds out of responses! (Freemium, some features are free.) 11. Nearpod Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons. Nearpod allows you to create and share lessons that sync across devices and encourage student participation, and evaluate student responses through comprehensive reporting. (Freemium, some features are free.) 12. Padlet Padlet is a super easy to way to create an online bulletin board that allows teachers and students to share and collaborate. What’s great about Padlet is that it offers so much flexibility! It works on any device, and you can share just about any type of information–text, links, upload files, photos, videos, just about any kind of response. There are also many different ways you can design your pages. Customize the background, organize information in new ways. (Free trial available) 13. Pear Deck Pear Deck is a web-based formative assessment tool that allows you to create interactive lessons using G Suite tools. The Google Slides add-on has quickly become a favorite of mine. (I even teach it in my Google Slides Master Class!) Pear Deck offers a library of free templates that you can use to created interactive assessments in your slides. Pear Deck is also a freemium tool, some features are free, but you can get a 3-month Premium Membership with this special link for Shake Up Learning readers! 14. Plickers This assessment tool allows teachers to collect on-the-spot formative assessment data without the need to have students use devices or paper and pencil. Teachers create and print specially coded cards that students hold up in class as their response. The teacher uses the Plickers app to scan the cards and collect the data. (Free) 15. Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere is a live audience polling tool that integrates into your presentation. You can ask questions during your lessons, see live data, and reports. (Freemium, free accounts are limited to 25 responses per poll.) 16. Quizizz Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages. Quizizz works on just about any device and offers a library of public quizzes that teachers can use in their classrooms. They also provide detailed class and student reports. (FREE) 17. Quizlet Quizlet is a study tool that uses flashcards, games, and other “study sets.” to help students. Quizlet Live is a collaborative quiz game where students are placed into teams to work together to answer the questions and learn together. (FREE) 18. Seesaw Seesaw is a digital portfolio and communication tool that many teachers love! Seesaw works on any device shared or 1:1. Free for teachers. Teachers create activities for students. Students draw, take pictures and video, and capture their learning in their portfolio. Parents can view their students work and leave comments. (Freemium, some features are free.) 19. Socrative Socrative is a web-based formative assessment tool that allows teachers to create quizzes, ask questions, collect exit tickets and feedback. You can also create a competitive quiz bowl game, called, “Space Race,” where students compete to get the most answers correct. (Freemium with up to 50 students per session.) 20. Spiral.ac Spiral.ac is an interactive learning platform with a suite of collaborative applications. Deliver quick fire formative assessments, discussion, teams of students can work together to create presentations, and turn any public video into a live chat with questions and quizzes. (Freemium, some features are free.) -these resources came from C. Bell I wanted to share a free resource for educators who are working with young students on literacy. Tons of materials including videos, course modules and more.
https://literacyessentials.org Just another resource for everyone. Have you ever wanted to create a podcast, or have your students create a podcast? Do you simply record an audio? A high-quality podcast needs a bit more work. Let’s explore 10 tools that will help you create one!
Tools for Planning and Scripting A podcast without a plan will turn out messy. You would end up making digressions. You’re already making plans for your lessons, right? You need to do the same for podcasts. You can start with this brainstorming tool. 1. bubbl.us First, you can come up with general ideas, which you’ll connect in a way that presents your big idea. With Bubbl.us, you can create a map hierarchy that will allow you to stay on topic and make complex concepts as clear as possible. 2. WriterDuet Once you have your mind map, you need to turn it into an actual script. If you’re creating a podcast with guests or your students as co-hosts, you absolutely need to provide a specific frame, so you’ll cover all topics within the given timeframe. WriterDuet is an intuitive tool that makes scripting easy. Tools for Recording and Editing Podcasts Now that you have a plan, you need to take action. Check out few tools that make the podcast recording process easy: 3. Audacity (I love this one) This is a universal tool for podcasters on budget. Good news: it’s free. Even better news: it’s very effective and easy to use. You can record an entire podcast with Audacity, and then edit out the awkward pauses and “ums”. If you get stuck or you want tips before you start recording podcasts, you can find the information you need on the forum. 4. Google Hangouts If you’re looking for the simplest free way to create podcasts, this is the one: call your guest via Google Hangouts and record the conversation. There is a catch, though: Google only lets you record the so-called Hangouts On Air, which you need to broadcast live. That won’t be a problem if you craft a detailed script with the tools suggested at the top of this list. 5. Skype Skype is a classic tool for video conferencing. You can invite your co-hosts or guests for a conference call, and discuss different educational topics according to your script. The problem is that Skype doesn’t allow you to record those conversations. However, you can do that with Audio Hijack for Mac or Free Skype Call Recordfor Windows. 6. GarageBand (one of my favorites due to ease... if only my school had Macs) GarageBand is a classic iOS app for editing audio files. It’s simple and free, but it works for basic editing. You can easily use it for editing podcasts and adding fresh sounds in the background. 7. Express Scribe It’s important to provide a transcription of your podcast. Some of your students are not native speakers and they might not understand every word you say. The transcription will make it easier for them to understand your point. Express Scribe helps you transcribe the audio recording without much effort. 8. Freesound How about adding some drama to the podcast? Your students won’t like dry, endless talking. Of course you can alter the tone of your voice to get a dramatic effect, but that won’t be enough. Thanks to this free archive of sounds, you and your students can create professional-like podcasts that capture and hold the listener’s attention. From birds to whisper ambiance sounds, you can find any kind of theme that would fit into your podcast. Tools for Sharing Podcasts How will you share it with your students? Here's a few new ways to do that. 9. Buzzsprout Podcast hosting doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. In fact, you can get it for free. Thanks to Buzzsprout, you can start your own show and share it not only with your students, but with the whole world, too. You can share your podcasts via Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, and other media. Plus, you’ll get statistics that show where your listeners are coming from and what devices they use to listen to your podcasts. The free plan gives you hosting for 90 days and 2 hours of free uploads per month. That should be enough for you to try how podcasting works for you and your students. If you want to get indefinite hosting and up to 3 hours of podcasts each month, you can opt for a plan that costs only $12 per month. 10. MailChimp If you want to create a private podcast to share with your students, get their emails and put them in your list of subscribers. Then, you can send the podcasts as exclusive content through awesome email messages. Why use MailChimp when you can simply send the podcast as an attachment? This tool lets you create beautiful messages in the form of newsletters. The free plan lets you send up to 12,000 emails per month to 2,000 subscribers. That should be enough for your needs as a teacher. I have many other suggestions and sites for podcasting. Click here For more information: click here Did you know that you can save a file to multiple folders, without "making a copy"?
Save an item to multiple folders in Google Drive
**Google does not allow this feature to be used when moving files to a Team Drive. Noisli is a great Google extension, or go to www.noisli.com/, to boost your students productivity and stress levels, by clicking on a variety of noise makers (and mix and match too). Try it out!
This tool is a must for all classroom teachers from ages Kdg - College level. Content from E. Curts.
This content came from E. Curts blog.
Read & Write for Google Chrome Read & Write for Google is the Swiss army knife of extensions with a wide range of tools beyond just text to speech. However, for this blog post we will just focus on that feature (and take a closer look at this extension in its own post in the future). With Read & Write installed, you will access it in two different ways depending on whether you are on a web page or in a Google Doc. If you are on a web page there will be an “RW” icon inside your URL bar on the far right. If you are in a Google Doc, there will be an “RW” icon at the top of the Doc. Either way just click the “RW” icon to open Read & Write. You will now get a toolbar with a wide range of buttons. The text to speech button is the one with the triangular play icon. Simply select your text and click the play button to have it read aloud. Read & Write works inside a Google Doc or on a web page, reading just what you have highlighted. Additionally it highlights each word as it reads it, making it easier for students to follow along. In this extension you also have the option to change voices. Click the gear icon on the right side of the toolbar to open the settings and select the voice and speed you want. Voices include male and female, and a wide range of nationalities. In addition to the free version of Read & Write, there is also a paid premium version that offers many tools beyond text to speech. Teachers, however, can get the premium version for freeby filling out a simple form on the company’s website here: https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/read-write/free-for-teachers/ SpeakIt! This extension is a very simple text to speech tool, but still has lots of options if you want them. With the extension installed, just highlight the text you want, then click the extension icon, or right click on the text and choose “SpeakIt!” The text will now be read aloud in whatever voice you have chosen. If you would like a different voice simply right click on the extension and choose “Options”. You can now pick the voice you want, including male or female, and a large selection of nationalities. You can also adjust the voice volume and speed. The only negative I have found with SpeakIt is when reading a Google Document. The extension works great on web pages, but when used in a Google Doc it always starts at the beginning of the document regardless of what text you highlight. Announcify Our final text to speech extension is Announcify. This extension reads web page text aloud, but also does a few other things along with that. When you are on a web page and click the Announcify extension, the web page will reload in a simpler, cleaner format (much like the Readability extension - see here for a blog post with more details). Ads, comments, and such will be removed, leaving just the core content and images. Then Announcify will automatically start reading the web page text. You are not able to highlight the text you want, as it always starts at the top and reads completely to the bottom. You can click on the forward and backward buttons if you want it to skip ahead. Finally the extension also blurs out all of the text except for the paragraph it is currently reading. Just like the other extensions, you can right click on its icon and choose “Options” to adjust the speed, pitch, and voice (male, female, multiple nationalities). The only big drawback is the inability for the student to select text and have Announcify read just the chosen passage. This fun website (top left) allows you to search for a particular emoticon, make a copy of it and then paste it into whatever you are working on digitally. Emojis are now a part of the fabric of modern society. so here are nearly 3,000 emoji characters and they are treated like text. If your computer or device doesn't have an emoji keyboard, you can search, copy and paste emoji characters from emojipedia.org. Working on a computer and want to insert emojis? You can see a listing of emojis at emojicopy.com. Click an emoji to add it to the lineup. Click the copy button after your lineup is complete and then paste anywhere you can type. **All of these resources came from https://learninginhand.com/emoji18 See below for other super fun emoji sites, including emoji translate. Teachers and students can have a lot of fun mocking up screenshots of text conversations. One place to do that is ifaketextmessage.com. Simply enter what you want in the bubbles and the site generates an image that looks like a screenshot. You can download this image and use it anywhere. One particularly good use for this is to have students make conversations that use vocabulary words in context. Another use to is mock up a conversation that could be used as a discussion starter. iFake Text Message simulates a conversation happening on an iPhone. If you’d prefer to make one that looks like it’s happening on an Android phone, search the web for “android fake screenshot” and you’ll have some choices of apps and websites to use. If you want to create a video animation of a text message conversation, check out the TextingStory Chat Story Maker iPhone app: textingstory.com. I love this Google extension called "Take a Screenshot". Just go to the Chrome Web Store and type in take a screenshot. You'll see this handy little purple feather. Add the extension and then when you are ready to take a screenshot of EXACTLY what you want, click on the purple feather, drag over the top of what you want to screenshot and then click the save button. It's the best!
With the new state math standards and changes the state has made to the standards, come KSDE flipbooks for each grade level. K-4 have been released and 5th and 6th will be released soon. Information in these flip books include: updated standards, revised math teaching practices, critical math areas, growth mindset in math, and so much more! Is is ESSENTIAL guide and document to everything you need to know concerning math instruction in your grade level.
This link will take you to the KSDE website and specifically, the links to the math flipbooks. http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=5646 This is a link to the PDF of the crosswalk of what is different. Though it is a 74 page document, 4th grade starts at p. 18, 5th at p. 23, and 6th at p. 29. http://community.ksde.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Q_THFJBMWkA%3d&tabid=5276&mid=15449 Link to info on all day Professional development by KSDE that costs $35. http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=6281 |
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