March Tech Madness
From Your Learning Technologies Leprechauns
Much Ado in March
There are a lot of things to celebrate in March! St. Patrick's Day, Women's History Month, National Music in Our Schools Month, Caffeine Awareness Month, and let's not forget Spring Break! Here are some tech tools to get you through it all!
Happy St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's by the Numbers
This awesome infographic has lots of great stats to inspire math, science, and cultural questions and inquiry! Bet you could come up with some great writing prompts from it as well! Get it HERE.
Wearin' of the Green
This math lesson walks students through the idea of parts per million as they figure out how much dye is needed to turn the river in Chicago green for St. Patrick's Day! Get it HERE.
Leprechaun Letters
This fun site has some great Leprechaun activities for writing in the 1st-5th grade classroom! Lessons, prompts, and templates are all provided! Get your writing gold HERE!
Women's History Month
Lessons from Lindsay
LT Lindsay Foster has put together some great information and templates for 3rd-5th grade to help celebrate Women's History Month. Get it HERE.
National Women's History Museum
This great site has great resources for teaching lessons about women's history. There's an entire section for students and educators divided by topics, with biographies of influential women, and a free set of downloadable posters. Get it HERE.
NEA Has Lessons for All Grade Levels
Follow the link to find great lesson plans for all grade levels (K-12) for National Women's History month! Lessons include articles, media, quizzes and printables, and more! Get it HERE.
National Music in Our Schools Month
These next three tools will bring a song to your heart and music to your classroom! Click each image to explore these fun tools:
- The Google Song Maker
- The Chrome Music Lab
- Incredibox
National Caffeine Awareness Month
The True Cost of Coffee
Explore this Peace Corps lesson plan where students will examine the economic, health, and environmental risks of a one-crop economy in the developing world. Get it HERE.
The Buzz About The Buzz
In this health lesson, students survey their own caffeine consumption. They rank various beverage and food products for their caffeine content, learn about how caffeine affects the body and create and perform educational skits about caffeine and health. Get it HERE.
Graph the Caff
In this math lesson, students study pie (coffee) charts of caffeine levels in different types of coffee and solve various math problems using the information. They also make their own charts based on their responses. Get it HERE.
A Pot of Gold for BISD Employees
Screencastify Premium is now FREE for BISD Employees
Now you can use the AMAZING tool, Screencastify, in your classroom for free! All staff, students, teachers, and administrators have access to the free PREMIUM version of the application! Just create an account (or log into your existing account) with your bisdmail.net email...and that's it! Click the image below for lots of helpful ideas, tutorials, and more!
Lucky Charms Hyperdoc
LT Lindsay Foster has created a fun, interactive hyperdoc full of math activities that can be adapted for all elementary grades. Get it HERE.
Get Your Flipgrid Fix
LT Heather Sanders has put together this great slide deck about using Flipgrid in your classroom...complete with a code for a free 45 day upgrade! Get it HERE.
bisdlearntech.com
You can find lessons, templates, opportunities, training info, resources, and lots more on the BISD Learning Technologies website! Get it HERE.
Contact Your LT
We'd love to help you with all of this and MORE! Don't hesitate to call/email/text your LT!