Distance Learning: Week 3

Deck.toys

Teachers use Deck.Toys to create interactive lessons for their students. A deck is created by the teacher with paths and activities for students to follow. Media may be included in the deck with options to assess students along the path using apps that allow for varied types of responses offering a fun learning experience. Easily integrates into Google Classroom or share a link with the class. Can be used with all different age groups.

Elementari

Create and share Interactive stories for free! Elementari promotes arts and literacy through their platform that allows users to easily write, collaborate, and publish interactive stories for free. Educators can create a free classroom of up to 30 students and have access to Elementari’s curriculum guide. Students can write and illustrate digital stories that allow for voice recorded narration. In addition, students can also animate their stories using basic coding functions.

Genially

This tool allows you to create presentations, infographics, video presentations, resumes, and more. It includes many templates with access to photos, animations, and illustrations giving the user the ability to make any image or text interactive. Content can be shared through a link or downloaded. Teachers can make materials to share with students or other teachers, and students can use to build resumes or design a product for summative assessment.

Ted-Ed has premade lessons that align with their TED talks that can be customized. Check out this lesson I modified for our Hornets.

Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window— and encourages us to think harder about what we're really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.

Access the lesson, complete with questions here: https://ed.ted.com/on/VZhEYuah

School Colors is a narrative podcast that focuses on the story of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn where “Black and Puerto Rican parents tried to exercise power over their schools and they collided headfirst with the teachers’ union — leading to the longest teachers’ strike in U.S. history.” It will be of interest to students studying the history of New York, labor organizing, and/or schooling.

In NPR’s Throughline podcast, “the past is never the past.” This weekly series explores the history of stories in the headlines today. Recent episodes cover the history of vaccinations in the United States, the biography and legacy of Qassem Soleimani, LGBTQ activism before Stonewall, Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, and more.

By profiling everyday people whose current circumstances are inextricably tied to the Civil War and its memory, Uncivil makes the past present. In the first episode, “The Raid,” we meet Fallon Greene, a descendant of Pa Shed, who escaped slavery, joined the Union Army, led a daring and successful raid with Harriet Tubman, and eventually bought the very land on which Fallon’s church sits today.

Via The Zinn Ed Project

Learn360’s enhanced, state-of-the-art platform makes it a powerful tool for flipped classrooms, blended instruction, project-based learning, and 1:1 environments. Its available to students and teachers in MyBackpack.

Features include:

• Vetted, safe, ad-free content
• Available 24/7—on-site or remote access
• Browse and filter entire site and all landing pages by grade ranges
• More than 164,000 media resources across all subjects, including:
  • Full-length videos
  • Video clips
  • Newsreels
  • Teacher guides
  • Interactive games and lessons
  • Student activities and worksheets
  • Audiobooks
  • Audio and video speeches
  • Science diagrams and experiments
  • Images
  • Encyclopedia articles
  • Fact sheets
  • Math activities
  • Maps and flags
  • Timelines
  • Spanish-language content
• More than 1,300 interactives to help engage students and increase their understanding of key concepts
• Subjects include Career Development, Engineering & Technology, English/Language Arts, Health & Guidance, History, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts, and World Languages, plus titles on teaching practices and professional development.

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