Teaching Resources
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...
Pause Points Graphic Organizer
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One of the most popular strategies for using BrainPOP in the classroom is through using pause points, briefly pausing the movie to clarify student understanding. Turn this classic strategy into an art...
Chef Solus’ Build A Meal Health Game
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Visit the lesson ideas page to find resources for Chef Solus' Build-a-Meal, a free online health game for teaching nutrition, health, and science concepts....
Ethics Lesson Plan: Determining What is Right and Solving Conflicts
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In this ethics lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students will use BrainPOP resources to explore the basics of ethics and morality. They will reflect on how we determine what is right a...
Teaching with Games
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Teaching with games "allows me to hit multiple learning styles in the same lesson in a much easier way than the normal classroom environment." ~David McG, from Best Practices for Using Games & Sim...
Fibonacci Sequence Lesson Plan: Numbers in Nature
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In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 6-8, students will use BrainPOP resources to explore the Fibonacci sequence, learning what it is and where it originated from. Students will then dete...
Invasion Science Game
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Visit the lesson ideas page to find resources for the Invasion, a free online science game that also reinforces social studies and language arts skills....
BrainPOP and the Flipped Classroom
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Make homework fun and involve parents: try a “flipped” lesson! We welcome Katie Neville, a true master educator with more than 40 years of classroom experience and a current Technology Resource Teach...
Virtual Labs: Gram Staining Lesson Plan
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In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 6-12, students explore bacteria, pasteurization, and food safety in a virtual lab. Students learn how bacteria can be helpful and harmful to the human...
Math Snacks: Free Math Games and Animations from NMSU and GameUp!
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Drs. Karen Trujillo and Barbara Chamberlin of New Mexico State University introduce Math Snacks, a collection of free math games and animations designed to address math learning gaps in grades 5-7. Wa...
