Teaching Science

Teaching Science and Formative Assessment: POPstar Robert Miller

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Originally Recorded April 2014 POPstar Robert Miller – an award-winning 5th-grade science teacher – hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of vi...
TSN2 Games Activity Tutorial

Using the “Sorting Organizer” Games Activity in TSN-2

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This tutorial provides an overview of the "sorting organizer" games activity in The Sports Network 2. This activity covers the Common Core State Standard Reading for informational text 8.3...
Games Activity Tutorial

Using the “Idea Centralizer” Games Activity in TSN-2

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This tutorial provides an overview of the "idea centralizer" games activity in The Sports Network 2. This activity covers the Common Core State Standards Reading for Informational Text 8.1 and 8.2....
Common Core Standards

Our Corps for the Core: BrainPOP and the Common Core Standards

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Educators' Team on Common Core Standards: Originally Recorded February 2014 The BrainPOP educators team shares BrainPOP’s rich history of creating engaging and rigorous content, and how our videos,...

Tynker Around With Programming

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Originally Recorded February 2014 Experience the ways Tynker teaches kids basic programming as they build animations, games, interactive projects, and more. And, take a look at the ways you can use B...

Do I Have a Right? Teacher Support and Assessment Ideas

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Check out this brief screencast to learn about assessment ideas and teaching and learning resources available for the Do I Have a Right? game....
Do I Have a Right game trailer

Do I Have a Right? Overview Game Trailer

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Watch this brief overview game trailer to learn more about the game Do I Have a Right? by iCivics....
Common Core and Digital Games

Common Core, Digital Games and Classroom, Inc.

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Can digital games engage students while helping them develop their reading comprehension skills? Join us and guests Kathy Yu Burek and Anne Richards for a look at how Classroom, Inc.’s The Sports Netw...

Discovering Digital Tools for Learning With Graphite.org

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Pinpointing the best digital tools for your students can be pretty overwhelming. Thankfully, there’s Graphite.org, a free service from the non-profit Common Sense Media. Through rigorous ratings and p...
Ethical Decision Making

Developing Ethical Decision-Making Through Play

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Can a game teach children to navigate ethical minefields? Scot Osterweil (of MIT Education Arcade) and Peter Stidwill (Learning Games Network) designed Quandary to do just that. They’ll demo this mult...