Teaching Tips
Visualization, Connections, and Higher Order Thinking – a Guest Blog Post by Laura Gatto
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
“If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know.” – AI r...
BrainPOP and the Flipped Classroom
Posted by SM Bruner on
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...
Food Fight Game Play Strategy
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Track what happens when adding species in Food Fight: encourage your learners in exploring a game play strategy that increases and decreases populations. Adding species will sometimes help one player,...
Guts and Bolts Common Misconceptions
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Guts and Bolts game players should understand that the human body’s interconnected organ systems are much more complicated than that of Moby’s Robot. When labeling the heart, students should understan...
Branches of Power Game Trailer
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Check out this short Branches of Power game trailer from iCivics to see the game in action!...
Prep for Pi Day 2013!
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Tomorrow is March 14th, also know as Pi day! Every year many teachers observe the coincidence that our calendar notation aligns with the most famous ratio - the circumference of a circle to its diam...
Teaching Your Child About Flight
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Guest blogger Laura Gatto shares a delightful story of preparing her son to handle the anxiety of air travel with BrainPOP!
In the week leading up to spring break, my 6-year-old son was super excit...
Quandary Ethics and English Game: Opinion Tracker
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Download this PDF to help students organize their thinking while playing the award-winning English game, Quandary....
Immune System Defender Vocabulary
Posted by Dana Burnell on
Immune System Defender Vocabulary is important! Before playing the game, teach your students the words connected to the Immune system, and use the game site to see cartoon images of these immune syste...
Control of the Cell Cycle: Preparing to Play
Posted by Dana Burnell on
This Control of the Cell Cycle game is much easier to complete if learners are already familiar with the different phases in the cell cycle. If they are not, have them pay extra attention to the image...
