More amazing blog posts from this past week!
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Google: Roll Dice – Teacher Tech
Google has a plethora of cool calculators and Easter eggs if you just know what to search for. “How many calories are in a brownie?” “Graph y equals 36x squared minus 7x plus 3.” But those are not quite as fun as rolling D20 dice… Or any dice.
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Distance Learning – Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Teachers, even if you are too far to bring students on a field trip to Yellowstone, we can help you use the world’s first national park to bring science, math, and social studies to life!
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Control Alt Achieve: Self-Checking Translation Quiz in Google Sheets
I have always wanted to improve my proficiency in other languages. Back in high school (many, many years ago) I took four years of French. I can still say “I have a red pencil” … “J’ai un crayon rouge” … but not a whole lot more.
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Recruiting Black Male Teachers of Tomorrow — Pear Deck
This post was written by guest author Michael Greene, a Technology Support Specialist at Laurel Hill Elementary School; with over 12 years of teaching and coaching experience, he is passionate about student learning and achievement.
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EVERFI — Blog Content — Pear Deck
EVERFI: Keys To Your Future – College & Career Readiness EVERFIStacy YungOctober 18, 2021 EVERFIStacy YungOctober 18, 2021 EVERFIStacy YungOctober 18, 2021 EVERFIStacy YungOctober 18, 2021 EVERFI: Ignition – Digital Wellness & Safety EVERFIStacy Yun…
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Science Bell Ringers for Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, and More
Get engaging science bell ringers to start class or fill those last 5 minutes. Print or project this free download to use in your classroom!
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Genetically engineered immune cells fight cancer for a decade | Science News
In 2010, two blood cancer patients received an experimental immunotherapy, and their cancers went into remission. Ten years later, the cancer-fighting immune cells used in the therapy were still around, a sign the treatment can be long-lasting, rese…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Experiment and Create New Sounds on WolframTones
Wolfram Tones is a neat offering from Wolfram that students can use to can play with sample sounds and rhythms to create new own sounds. Wolfram Tones uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Prompt Conversations With Google Drawings
One of the lesser-utilized features of Google Drawings is the ability to comment on images. Drawings allows you to collaboratively create drawings from scratch and or alter images that you upload to Drawings. By uploading an image you can draw on it…
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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference? – Dr. Catlin Tucker
This week, I received a comment to my blog asking: What do you feel is the biggest difference between playlists and choice boards? Would you say a playlist is more data-driven and a choice board gives more variety in learning modalities? These are g…
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Control Alt Achieve – February 2022 ❤️
See below for my most recent blog posts and resources (in the) as well as many of my favorite posts, articles, and resources that I have been reading from around the web (in the) and upcoming training opportunities (in the ). What I have been creati…
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Climate change has likely begun to suffocate the world’s fisheries – AGU Newsroom
By 2080, around 70% of the world’s oceans could be suffocating from a lack of oxygen as a result of climate change, potentially impacting marine ecosystems worldwide, according to a new study.
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The past’s extreme ocean heat waves are now the new normal | Science News
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Free Technology for Teachers: Educational Resources With a Super Bowl Theme
The Super Bowl is a just a little more than a week away. And while this year’s Super Bowl won’t have the Patriots or Tom Brady in it, I’ll still be watching. I’m guessing that my American readers have a student or two interested in the game.
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I don’t talk about it much on this site but I’m not only a huge science education nerd, I’m also a huge everyday nerd. I read and collect graphic novels and comic books. I watch anything Marvel, DC or Star Wars related and I definitely enjoy playing…
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Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.
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Looking Forward: The Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2022 And Beyond – GeekDad
Marvel has had quite the run this past year. MCU Phase 4 in 2021 brought us the Disney Plus shows: WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, What If?, and Hawkeye, as well as a number of theatrical releases.
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NFTs and Schools – Could There be a Connection? |
It is always dangerous to write about something you know only at a cursory level – but here we are – writing is a great way to work through ideas. I have been reading, listening, and watching a lot about NFTs lately, soaking in all I can about them.
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Sign Language • ASL | HandSpeak
Created in 1995, Handspeak is a sign language and Deaf culture resource for language+culture enthusiasts, ASL students and learners, interpreters, homeschoolers, parents and professionals for language learning, practice and self-study.
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Becoming a “culturally competent communicator.” 5 ways to go beyond February. | History Tech
Some of you may recognize this post from a year ago. If that’s you, gold star! (I got busy and I really liked it last year. So . . . I cut and pasted. Trust me, reading it again will do you good. I picked up some handy stuff myself. And there are so…
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Stephen Sawchuk: How the CRT Debate Is Shaping State History Standards | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Stephen Sawchuk wrote in Education Week about the ways that public controversy about “critical race theory” is affecting the drafting and revision of state history standards. He looks closely at three states that revised their history standards in 2…
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Empowering Students to Self-Select the Scaffolds – John Spencer
When I was a new teacher, I had a goal of differentiating instruction for every student. I would provide additional directions, project sheets, tutorials, and small group instruction for any student who needed help. My main focus was on providing th…
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Jesse Hagopian: We Will Not Teach Lies | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Jesse Hagopian is an activist teacher in the Seattle Public Schools, a leader in Black Lives Matter at School and editor of the book More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. This article appeared in the Seattle Times: State R…
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Artificial Leaf Created That Captures 100 Times More Carbon Than Other Systems | Technology Networks
Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago have built a cost-effective artificial leaf that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times better than current systems.
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For context, I find it’s important to state upfront that I am a liberal that believes in science, and I voted for President Biden.
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Lessons that Build Students’ Media and News Literacy | Cult of Pedagogy
Does anyone remember making book covers with shopping bags? If you’ve been around long enough, there’s a good chance that when you went to school, you were issued a couple of textbooks at the start of every school year.
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The History of the School Bell
I’d wager it’s the most frequently told story about ed-tech — one told with more gusto and more frequency even than “computers will revolutionize teaching” and “you can learn anything on YouTube.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Groundhog Day Explained
On Friday my youngest daughter came home from preschool and informed me that Wednesday is Groundhog Day and tell me all about it. It’s the day, according to legend, that a groundhog will predict how much longer winter will last in the northern hemis…
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: What Goes Up, Must Come Down. What Do You Do When You Find a Radiosonde?
One of the backbones of the meteorological observing network is the radiosonde, a balloon-launched weather station that rises to around 110,000 feet before the balloon bursts and the instrument package plummets back to Earth, slowed by a small parac…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Model What You Expect
One of the most powerful teaching and leadership strategies is the act of modeling. It goes beyond just telling people what to do by instead showing them how to do it as a means to either support learning or change.
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