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Election 2016
MOCK ELECTIONS
| Discovery Education SOS: Did You Hear That?
| Literacy Through History Use the Gilder Lehrman website to help teach literacy skills to your students. Use Audacity to record an MP3 file to model prosody, inflection, and fluency. Use Google Drawings to create graphic organizers and Google Docs to facilitate collaborative conversations. |
Election 2016
- Edutopia has a great series of resources on the upcoming election. Take a look at the resources for grades K through 12.
- Student News Daily also has resources for educators and students on the upcoming election. Included are talking points great for classroom debates, comparison and contrast activities, or persuasive writing documents or arguments.
- TIME for Kids brings different "hot topics" of the current election to the forefront on its page. Included is an article on the likelihood of a race being rigged...something that students may overhear on media outlets.
MOCK ELECTIONS
- NewsELA Students Vote 2016 opened October 17 and will offer mock elections for students across the country.
- National Parent/Student Mock Election opened October 25 and closes November 3.
- C-SPAN Classroom Campaign 2016 offers election information, mock elections, and other political info on the Road to the White House 2016.
Discovery Education SOS: Did You Hear That?
- SOS: Did You Hear That? is a teaching strategy that encourages students to draw conclusions and create and describe mental images. Ask students, “What does autumn sound like?” Play Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Allegro: Autumn, a concerto that gives musical expression to the feeling of the fall season, and have students journal and draw representations of the music.
- Discovery Education also includes many other audio files that could be used for November historical and cultural dates including Harry S. Truman's victory speech (November 3), the Gettysburg Address (November 19), events surrounding the Kennedy assassination (November 22)...just to name a few. Check out the audio files by searching "audio" in your Advanced Search settings.
Literacy Through History
Use the Gilder Lehrman website to help teach literacy skills to your students. Use Audacity to record an MP3 file to model prosody, inflection, and fluency. Use Google Drawings to create graphic organizers and Google Docs to facilitate collaborative conversations.
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I Am Thankful Pumpkin Use Google Docs to create a fun project to practice sentence structure and create and express gratitude. This activity can also help students practice technology skills such as font choice, font size, color; in addition students can practice capitalization and punctuation. Make a copy of this template for YOUR class. | Holiday Traditions Use Google Forms and Google Sheets or combine with tools like PollEverywhere to find out your students' holiday traditions. Graph favorite holiday foods. Examine data regarding travel patterns or habits. Create infographics using Google Sheets and Google Slides to show the cost of Thanksgiving meals. | Current Events Online nonfiction resources like NewsELA and Smithsonian's TweenTribune offer your students a look at current events in both English and Spanish for a variety of grade levels. Your Discovery Education subscription includes features such as On This Day and Global News as well. Learning to read beyond the headlines and critically evaluate digital and print media is an important skill that can be developed through comparison and contrast activities and discussion. |
I Am Thankful Pumpkin
Use Google Docs to create a fun project to practice sentence structure and create and express gratitude. This activity can also help students practice technology skills such as font choice, font size, color; in addition students can practice capitalization and punctuation. Make a copy of this template for YOUR class.
Holiday Traditions
Use Google Forms and Google Sheets or combine with tools like PollEverywhere to find out your students' holiday traditions. Graph favorite holiday foods. Examine data regarding travel patterns or habits. Create infographics using Google Sheets and Google Slides to show the cost of Thanksgiving meals.
Current Events
Online nonfiction resources like NewsELA and Smithsonian's TweenTribune offer your students a look at current events in both English and Spanish for a variety of grade levels. Your Discovery Education subscription includes features such as On This Day and Global News as well. Learning to read beyond the headlines and critically evaluate digital and print media is an important skill that can be developed through comparison and contrast activities and discussion.
Learning Technologies Coaches
- Kim Estes - CHS, BCHS, Kerr MS, The REALM
- Lindsay Foster - Brock ES, Frazier ES, Hajek ES, Taylor ES
- Matthew Kitchens - Academy ES, Clinkscale ES, Norwood ES, CrHS
- Heather Sanders - BHS, Hughes MS, STEAM MS
- Teresa Sumrall - Academy at Bransom, Academy at Mound, STEAM Academy at Stribling
