The 12 Days of Technology 6-8
Fun & Learning This Winter With 1 Extra for Good Measure
The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook For Teachers
Twitter can be super resource for teachers even if are just a lurker. Click here to see The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook for Teachers.
100 Helpful Blogs
Start building your Personal Learning Network (PLN) during the holiday break by choosing a few blogs to follow. Click here to read more.
Create a Lesson with Blendspace
Conduct a flipped lesson, project, or differentiated instruction through Blendspace.
Check out Blendspace lessons:
Christmas Time Lesson for Middle School
December Creative Writing Prompts
Click here to access this page of fun writing prompts and writing templates to help make the process much smoother. This page also includes some fun activities that enhance these writing tasks to make them even more engaging.
MathWire Winter Math Activities
Click here to check out a variety of fun, winter math activities. This page includes links to some interactive math sites for the older students as well as many activities, problem solving opportunities, and a section for literature connections!
Winter Mad Libs
Education Place-Winter Theme
Click here to access Education Place's Winter Theme page with a plethora of ideas and activities. The resources cover all content areas. (Scroll to the bottom for Middle school activity)
Google Maps
Check out Antarctica Street View and take a stroll around. Check out how many North Poles you can find and compare and contrast the differences. Or...what about a story: If Santa Lived at the South Pole?
Christmas Around the World
Interested in studying about the different cultures around the world and how they celebrate Christmas? Check out this site by clicking here!
Bumbleville
Fun thought provoking winter writing activity. Click here to see more.
Check Out These iPad Apps
6 Tips for Using QR Codes at School
Click here or Try the QR Code to the left.
(I-nigma app is a good QR reader to use)
The QR, or “Quick Response” code, is much like barcode, except that it can hold more data. With one quick scan using a QR code reader app (most of which are free) the “matrix image,” as Edutopia’s Monica Burns calls it, can lead you to a specific place on the web. And, while these codes have become a commonly used advertising tool, many educators have found innovative uses for QR codes in 21st century classrooms.
23 iPad Alternatives to the Book Report.
Upon hearing that they will have to read another book students usually roll their eyes and moan in disagreement. So to make the reading process more fun for them we let them chose their own book and their own creative assignment. - Click here to see more.
Buzz Math
A whopping 2800 common core aligned middle school math problems presented in a variety of formats for Free. You won't need any number sense to figure out the absolute value of this deal.
Read more: http://www.smartappsforkids.com/2013/04/buzzmath-middle-school-review.html#ixzz2n5fHRf6G
Read more: http://www.smartappsforkids.com/2013/04/buzzmath-middle-school-review.html#ixzz2n5fHRf6G