eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Think about adding the app in as part of an activity for health, social studies, civics, home economics, or career readiness classes. With a bit of digging, teachers will find ready-to-go quick-writes as well as discussion openers or closers.

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Mobile Devices Lecturing Social Studies Students 279

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

In order to meet these goals while also responding to testing demands, I needed a new resource: one that would provide my students with a strong framework for writing and use technology as the primary composing tool. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 135

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Writing is a deeply personal act. From process to deadlines, no two people approach writing in the exact same way. While some people prefer to write in complete silence, others need the din of a coffee shop to focus. These disparate settings have one thing in common: excellent writing can emerge from each.

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Writing Feedback Learning Language 118

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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Quizzes Achievement Students Social Studies 243

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, Karen Dikson, has put together a collection of online gamified sites that will help your students with their writing: You think the textbooks for today’s generations of students are way more interesting than the once you had? Well, organize a quiz and write the results on the board. Ask your students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With a built-in notebook, read-aloud audio, and lesson summaries written at multiple reading levels, it supports students of all levels and lets them complete assignments online, offline, anytime. Connections to Today — helps students bridge the past and the present by bringing modern content and pop culture into their studies.

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History Social Studies Critical Thinking Distance Learning 190

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This shift from standardized assignments to personalized projects can make learning more engaging and relevant for each student. So if we want students to be doing creative thinking, then 30 assignments done by 30 different students should all look different. The benefits of this creative assignment are clear to every educator.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Skills Intelligence 206

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

After the lesson, students work in small groups or individually with the teacher in an effort to independently practice the skill or work through the assigned task. For writing, students apply what they learned to interest-driven writing projects, meanwhile sharing their work with their peers and getting meaningful feedback in the process.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

For example, in a social studies class, one group might create a column dedicated to key figures from the Civil Rights Movement. Writing a diary entry from that persons perspective. The activity options in that column could include: Creating a short bio and visual timeline.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Perhaps one of the most famous studies to come to this conclusion was the Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project in the 1980s. The STAR project randomly assigned students to either small classes (13 to 17 students per teacher) or large classes (22 to 25 students per teacher).

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 268

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2023

Student disengagement in writing at the secondary level is a pervasive challenge school districts face nationwide. Many students perceive writing as formulaic, disconnected from their life experiences and lacking opportunities for personal agency and expression. How do you hope students benefit from the writing tools you developed?

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Education Students Writing Social Studies 170

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. demonstrate good command of writing and speaking conventions. Reading, writing, research, speaking/listening. Write an Ebook. write the book. write the book. analytical thinking.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Much of the initial reaction around AI focused on its ability to spit out prose on command, which threatened traditional writing instruction. Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. But the tools were also targeted at math teaching.

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Math Motivation Writing Knowledge 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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Schools Middle School Middle School Attention 204

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2023

5 Surprising Ways Homeschoolers Can Use Canva for Learning and Fun Explore how your homeschoolers can use Canva to enhance their learning, graphic design, and tech skills to level up their assignments. With this feature, they can quickly add creativity to projects, presentations, classroom activities, and assignments.

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Assignments Learning Science History 148

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

The only way you can know if students are understanding what you’re teaching is to get them to talk about it or write about it. The only way you can know if students are understanding what you’re teaching is to get them to talk about it or write about it. English, social studies and science are our highest users.

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Reading Teachers Learning English 152

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Take elementary students through the steps of learning about a chosen Hispanic figure, researching them, and writing a final report about what they’ve learned with resources aligned to CCSS. Hispanic Heritage Month Teaching Slides by forkin4th Grades: 2nd-5th Subjects: Character Education, Latino and Hispanic Studies Standards: CCSS SL.2.3,

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Activities Culture English Language 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

He teaches 7th grade social studies in Highland Park, Illinois. I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level. I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 164

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

According to national social studies teacher education guidelines , infusing technology into instruction should: Extend learning beyond what could be done without technology. Include opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society. Introduce technology in context.

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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 141

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Instead of assigning students the same structured projects (such as the age-old puzzles that move a robot through a maze), empower students to write code for something they really care about. Computer science can be added to any core curriculum—math, science, language arts, social studies, history, or even art.

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Teach Hub

JANUARY 14, 2025

Social Studies/Science Prepare a fun video or article that links to current content. At least once a week I put a read-aloud, math practice, writing prompt, fun game, etc. Writing assignments like a math review scoot game, a reader’s theater script to use for reading and social studies, etc.

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Social Studies Math Assignments Writing 102

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Write an Ebook. Many dream of becoming an author, a journalist, or another profession that focuses on writing. write the book. Break students into writing groups. Kids are no different.

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Activities Schools Writing Quizzes 124

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

And he writes that his main drive has been curiosity about an even larger issue as he’s observed and worked with so many schools over the past 20 years: “Why do some schools get better quickly, and others get stuck?” They were describing these new practices of revision and collaborative writing.

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Schools History Writing Feedback 162

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Now, in a class of 25 students and within approximately 40 minutes, a teacher can know exactly where each child’s reading level is, and then, with the click of a button, assign them an article at that level. Learn more about Marlboro Township's impressive results and download a case study. Study Island. Reading A-Z. SafeShareTV.

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English Achievement Reading Grades 161

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For 14 years, Laura Johnson has taught a variety of subjects, including social studies, psychology, and music and art appreciation–all virtually within ALVS. This was a creative writing project that was differentiated for the various skills, interests, and learning styles of her students, allowing every student to be successful.

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 269

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

One of the critical goals of my role as a content teacher is to adapt curriculum, to design lessons and assignments to meet standards that are tailored to each learner, and to develop assessments that fairly evaluate each learner’s progress. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

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English Languages Language Teachers 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Revision Assistant , part of the Turnitin family, is a comprehensive virtual writing assistant for students that allows them to digitally edit and rewrite documents for any class. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. Here’s what we did.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2016

As teachers get more creative about differentiating for student needs, we’re turning to tools that use other approaches than writing a report or creating a class play. They could be assigned a particular news topic in a geography, history, or social studies class, or weekly podcasts could even replace reading responses in an ELA class.

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Exams Assignments Social Studies Study 104

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

They approach education as the answer to a question theyre wondering about, rather than a question theyve been assigned. Inquiry Based Learning Writing, Posters, Book, and More! Subjects: Informational Text, Writing-Expository Have your students ever wondered how a computer works, or who had the first idea for the internet?

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Social Studies Learning Math Writing 80

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Beth Freeman logs in to her son’s Edmodo account from time to time to check on his homework assignments. The advertisement appeared on Edmodo’s mobile app, which Freeman’s son uses daily for updates about homework, quizzes and other school assignments. But then, in August, she saw something that unsettled her. You can do better, right?

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Middle School Middle School Quizzes Communication 165

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

Give your students a chance to discuss and learn more about the most relevant social issues through the lens of sociology. Whether youre planning five-minute bell ringers or long-term research assignments, these sociology questions for 8th grade are sure to get them talking and writing. Explore middle school resources

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Questions Grades Social Studies Middle School 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Davison tells of a teacher who, one day, realized that she could extend her class LEGO Education projects into writing assignments. From there, she started including team-building projects as part of her social-emotional learning lessons and even asked students to use their creations in stop-motion videos to work on storytelling.

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Learning STEM Skills Beliefs 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

Write an ebook. This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. demonstrate good command of writing and speaking conventions. Reading, writing, research, speaking/listening. Write an Ebook. write the book. write the book.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

It makes sense that when Jacqui and I were talking about popular tech tools and ways to bring tech into the k-12 math class, I had a lot to share and get excited about and jumped at the opportunity to write this post. Google Apps For Education.

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Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 105

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Two Rivers Public Charter School welcomed its first class of students in the fall of 2004, after more than three dozen parents from the Capitol Hill neighborhood came together to write the charter. Below, see the problem solving rubric, which Two Rivers teachers use once a month with classroom assignments.)

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