Digital Content Portal
October 2014 Updates
See the short video below about logging in to the DCP - share with parents & students!
What other October events will you investigate with your students? Seasons? Recent events like the Ebola outbreak? You can find relevant and safe information on all academic topics by navigating to the DCP eLibrary.
Reader's Theater, Columbus: The Vision and the Voyage
There are 3 versions that are grade-level specific: Grades 1-4 Grades 4-8 Grades 6-12
Used TeachingBooks.Net in the DCP yet?
TeachingBooks.net helps with your Common Core instructional shifts by...
- Identifying exceptional and relevant books for your classroom,
- Providing ready-to-use instructional materials for each text,
- Exposing students to a range of text types, formats, and cultural perspectives,
- Analyzing books with qualitative and quantitative text complexity measures.
Columbus - Hero or Villain? (7th-12th grades - Lexile 1240)
Discovery: Columbus and the New World - CA Streaming
This video investigates the "confluence of events" that resulted in Columbus' discovery of America. In a broad sweep of history, he connects Marco Polo's writings to Kublai Khan, to the siege of Constantinople, to the closure of the Silk Road, and finally to the need to discover new trade routes to India and China.
Ban Halloween From Schools? A Debate Activity for 3-6th grades
Go to EBSCO's Kids Search, search Halloween: Ban Halloween from Schools?
This activity supports the Common Core standards by presenting opposing points of view, and having students discuss pros and cons, and then write about their point of view. Source: Scholastic News -- Edition 4. 10/28/2013, Vol. 76 Issue 7, p7-7. 1/3p.
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
Go to CA Streaming to find this Inquiry based - How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? A timely lesson for Halloween, Ms. White lets her kids get their hands dirty while they discover how to tell which pumpkin will have more seeds.
How many seeds in that pumpkin?
Should Halloween be banished from schools?
This is an eBook about Pumpkins!
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