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5 online resources to beat the summer slide

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Each lesson includes short instructional videos, interactive quizzes, and mastery challenges. Smithsonian Learning Lab : For families looking to incorporate cross-curricular learning, the Smithsonian Learning Lab provides a treasure trove of multimedia collections that blend history, science, art, and culture.

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Don’t Waste the First Day of School

Catlin Tucker

Students love taking online quizzes, so they enjoy the experience and I get to know their learning styles! Socrative Pop Culture Space Race. ” This 20 question quiz ends by telling students what their learning style is, broken down into three categories: auditory, visual, and tactile. I run the quiz as a space race.

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SEL and Classroom Culture In an Age of Distance Learning

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In this light, SEL should not be reserved for special projects but instead woven into the daily culture of both the in-person and virtual classroom. Trust and community culture need to be established before students are ready to share personal information.

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Poptential™ Offers Free Content for National American Indian Heritage Month

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. — Poptential , a family of award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content to illustrate the culture, traditions, and history of Native Americans for National American Indian Heritage Month. Click to tweet. Signed into law by President George H.

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Instead, I ask them to try to explore cultural differences while sitting in their armchairs at home. Why did it fail?

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Poptential™ Free U.S. Government Curriculum from Certell Teaches Students About U.S. Debt

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. — Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors a variety of content to help students learn about the national debt using pop culture media to engage students. Click to tweet. the nonprofit behind Poptential. The debt ceiling will be in the news this spring. Poptential’s free U.S.

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OpenAI releases ChatGPT teaching guide

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Building quizzes, tests, and lesson plans from curriculum materials: Fran Bellas, a professor at Universidade da Coruña in Spain, recommends teachers use ChatGPT as an assistant in crafting quizzes, exams and lesson plans for classes.

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