ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital. The Role of Educators in Combating Hate and Bias The good news is our educators are not helpless to address hate and bias incidents. Over the past few years, American youth have seen unarmed people of color publicly murdered.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. IFTTT allows users to create ‘recipes’ to automate functions, such as being notified when the weather changes or the arrival of an event. Coding with pixel art. Human robot.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Keeping up with national and international events was a lot easier when all the news came from one of three major TV news outlets and a few newspapers like The New York Times. What is fake news? Why Fake News? Start by explaining to students why fake news is so popular. Fake news worldwide.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. IFTTT allows users to create ‘recipes’ to automate functions, such as being notified when the weather changes or the arrival of an event. Coding with pixel art. Human robot.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Igniting Curiosity: Reframing Science as Relevant and Real An effective way to ignite curiosity in science class is to connect science to everyday life, current events that are happening right now, and potential career opportunities that they may want to pursue in the future.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

But it’s often individuals from outside of academia who construct topical questions of interest for scholars, serve as study participants, and fund organizations producing such work. Sometimes, the literature on a given study topic is just mixed. Attending yet another event is tough with a full calendar.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There is a section for stories covering major space and aviation events such as ‘Apollo 11: the Moon Landing’ story, the story of ‘Wright Brothers’ , the story of ‘Bessie Coleman’, and more. These include activities, videos, and lessons on various topics related to biodiversity, climate change, evolution, water, and more.

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MARCH 29, 2022

When kids read that America’s $30 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

It offers what seems to be an endless supply of professional-looking easy-to-implement templates that sign up volunteers, get feedback on events, enroll students in classes, ask for donations, collect payments, and much much more. Teachers see where they must circle back with help, broaden a topic, or move forward faster.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

A podcast is a topic-specific digital stream of audio files (in some cases, video or PDF also) that can be downloaded to a computer or a wide variety of media devices. They can cover news, current events, history, or pretty much anything the creator would like. You can play the entire stream or select an individual episode.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Student and a Teacher Try to Untangle Why Group Work Is, Well, Terrible By Nadia Tamez-Robledo This one hits close to home, and it’s thrilling to see that the topic of group work resonated with so many readers. Cella says she’s just trying to do what the history teachers she admires have done, which is make fargone events relatable.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. IFTTT allows users to create ‘recipes’ to automate functions, such as being notified when the weather changes or the arrival of an event. Coding with pixel art. Human robot.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you don’t have time to edit or format videos, here are twenty-four sources of rigorous academic videos that will support your lesson plans: Art Babble — videos themed to art, such as STEM topics. Bright Science — short videos on various science topics, many by learned presenters against a white board.

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JUNE 2, 2015

includes an immediately visible calendar of events. hosts videos of class events. Offers a good collection of useful webtools for students including links, news, calendar, notes, even weather. a calendar of events. In searching for the perfect internet start page, I wanted one that: quickly differentiates for grades.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

This is a clean, clear website that presents information on major historic events by geographic area–‘Rome’, ‘America’, ‘Greece’, ‘China’ and three more. Stephen writes clearly, cohesively, and spotlights the important events in each topic. – See more at: [link].

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APRIL 6, 2020

When kids read that America’s $23 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. IFTTT allows users to create ‘recipes’ to automate functions, such as being notified when the weather changes or the arrival of an event. Coding with pixel art. Human robot.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

For your summer camp, it can be used to sign up volunteers, get feedback on events, enroll people into classes, collect payments, and more. It’s even easy to add extra services parents can include in their child’s enrollment like special tutoring or events. 5 Ways to Use JotForm Cards With Your Classes.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

It works on PCs, Macs, and mobile devices and offers what seems like an endless supply of professional-looking templates for tasks like performance evaluations, permission slips, volunteer sign-ups, feedback on events, asking for donations, collecting payments, providing contact information, and more. Why a PDF Editor?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. IFTTT allows users to create ‘recipes’ to automate functions, such as being notified when the weather changes or the arrival of an event. Coding with pixel art. Human robot.

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Get Caught Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

Earth Day this year is on a Saturday in April, although the earth’s environment is a topic that can be studied year-round in the classroom. Spring is a great time to assess students’ knowledge on the topic as well as research and explore resources that are available for teachers. The bad news is, humans throw away too much trash.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Here are ten projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Macros. IFTTT allows users to create recipes to automate functions, such as being notified when the weather changes or as a reminder of an impending event. Grade level: 5-12. Grade level: 9-12.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

By finding an authentic letter or manuscript in which a famous person reveals something of enormous interest about himself or relates some significant event that he orchestrated, it’s possible to prove that the person is responsible for the event and that the event happened. The benefits of developing good writing skills.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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JULY 27, 2016

This lesson plan from Dr. Pastore highlights several topics that students could create a podcast on with links to examples of podcasts that cover courses ranging from French as a second language to math. Furthermore, this topic could open up discussions about the prosecution of criminals as well as the practice of investigative journalism.

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JULY 3, 2023

We typically build our episodes around what is happening in the news right now. Sometimes, one of us might get sent a confusing video or article, or we select a topic that needs to be examined in greater detail. Toni at work at her clinic First, find a topic you are passionate about, love to talk about and want to spread to the world.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 27, 2019

Smart speakers provide a great way to listen to a diverse selection of news outlets, podcasts, and books. News The news is a simple feature to find and set up in your app's settings. Alexa On Alexa news is found in "Flash Briefing." Here is what it looks like: Google Home On Google Home it's called "News."

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Headlines about the teacher in Virginia being shot by her 6-year-old student blew up in the news, and recently, Nashville experienced its own tragedy when a school intruder at The Covenant School killed three students and three adults. Our students have a window into this violence that we could have never imagined. You are safe in school.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Sure, money is nice but when parents are willing to give of themselves to organize class events, chaperone, help out on lesson plans, or any number of other activities, that’s priceless. A Helping Hand. Probably the most popular gift with most teachers is the gift of time. A Thank You Letter.

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Ellipsis Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Explore free coding activities below, and remember to register your event with Code.org. Codelicious – Computer Science Lesson Plans K – 2 – Unplugged – Idea Generation 3 – 5 – Digital Citizenship – What’s in the News? Sign up for our monthly email series, Code Bytes!

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FEBRUARY 13, 2016

It should feature a calendar that has highlighted all of the special events as well as test dates and special assignment due dates. It is still a great tool to use when you have a lot of news to share, want to send permission slips for an upcoming event, or need to share a list of names or assignments. Create A Class Website.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

It informs students in emergencies, updates them on historic events, and now–with extensions like Apple TV–connects them on a granular level to what they learn in their textbooks. Those teaching elementary age children can find a lot of shows that teach everything from math to vocabulary, and even health topics.

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MAY 22, 2017

Grades 3+: Read current events on a kid-friendly website like Newsela. If students are older and prefer to find news via a Google search, install an extension like Readability to remove ads and other distractions from the website before reading. Grades 2+: Gamify the science topic your child loves.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. For language learning: ChatGPT or similar models could be used to provide conversation practice and feedback to students learning a new language.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

In a recent news article, Andrea noted that her struggling readers in grades 7-8 used to read at a grade 5 or 6 (Barshay). We need to challenge and encourage kids to stretch and read about a topic that they are more interested in reading about. If this event has passed, find another online event and join in.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 16, 2017

When difficult news and events take place in our world, it stands to reason that difficult topics may work their way into the classroom. When difficult events take place like the horrific display of hate in Charlottesville, Virginia Common Sense comes through with some helpful tools and resources to ad dress students.

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JULY 22, 2022

In Natural Sciences, students often struggle to understand and apply science topics, and have difficulties imagining or realizing their importance and application in real life. It combines real-life news stories (including technology news) from normative sources with business economics and GHG emissions. Career choice.

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