Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. I opted to remain at my school—where our enrollment of English learners, immigrants and refugees continues to hover at one-fourth of the total enrollment—to teach students in 9-12 grade social studies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. I am by no means a game designer.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Videos that teachers create or curate—individually or as grade-level or departmental teams—can provide effective coverage of basic content. The answers can help educators maximize time spent with students, regardless if it’s in-person or virtually. As an added benefit, students can speed up, slow down, and replay videos as needed.

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Blended Learning Learning Schools Quizzes 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Animate Scientific Illustrations, Grades 2 to 12: In this colorful project, students can use a green screen and diagrams to illustrate scientific processes. Tour Body Systems, Grades 2 to 12: Remember the 1987 movie Innerspace ? Rebecca Recco) And now, onto the projects.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

A key to Newsela’s growth has been the growing broadband internet access now available to many K-12 schools, Sanchez adds. According to EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that studies this issue, 98 percent of American K-12 school districts having broadband infrastructure and internet access for digital learning.

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Reading Internet Social Studies Study 157

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

Literacy publisher Benchmark Education Company (BEC) announced a new literacy intervention program for grades K–2 in print format with online support. Each Spring Forward grade-level purchase option consists of six copies each of 60 or more science and social studies leveled books organized into two-book sets.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL. The program will extend to students in all grade levels over the next three years. All of these courses and certifications are now CTLE approved.

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English Language Languages Math 180

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. When students use the internet, remind them of their rights and responsibilities. how to use the internet. taskbar disappeared, can’t find a program, internet window too small). analytical thinking.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

What’s happened with COVID is low-income students and students of color had less internet access, so with the closures, there were kids who literally could not participate in school. The schoolhouse door was barred for them because they didn’t have internet access. It shouldn’t be that those are reserved for the affluent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

All three of these historic royals have been the subject of “Gen Z Teaches History,” a viral video series created by Lauren Cella, who teaches 10th grade history. A positive compliment that I hear sometimes from my students or from people on the internet is like, ‘Oh my goodness, you make history so interesting,’” Cella explains.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

This included improving the wireless internet, ensuring access to mobile devices and a high standard of tech and training support. She currently takes a grade eleven social studies class and grade ten science class that are offered at the same time. Learners at Bentley are no longer held back by limited resources.

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Schools Coaching Social Studies Mobile Devices 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When third grade students use the internet to research a topic, do they know how to do that safely and legally? No matter the class, that teacher–be s/he history, literacy, social studies, math, reading, writing, or tech–reminds students of the right way to keyboard. As the New Teacher, set the example.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2015, at a private 6th-12th grade school, was when I first decided to ditch the digital but it wasn’t the only change I had to make. On Tuesdays, all teachers received an activity (sometimes a separate activity for K-1 and 2-4 grades) to complete by the following Tuesday. So I lost the digital.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

David Samuelson, Age of Learning's head of global schools, told EdSurge in an interview that the product (currently geared at Pre-K, kindergarten and first grade) is essentially the ABCMouse consumer product—a collection of multi-subject learning activities—with all the necessary K-12 add-ons, like curriculum and professional development.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2016

Michele Luck, who makes Social Studies resources for secondary educators, says: “Secondary teachers need online, interactive resources that they can trust to provide quality content and rigor without having to worry about Internet risks or wasted student time.” Boom Learning meets that need.

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Secondary Education Learning Social Studies Interactive Teaching 102

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

He teaches 7th grade social studies in Highland Park, Illinois. I realized the potential of using the Internet every day—that there could be fewer limitations on what we could do. Chris Hull is a busy guy. He also helps run. In my second year, we had an entire unit where we did everything on. Wikispaces.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

Well break down the best inquiry-based learning strategies that you can start using today, along with high-quality, low-prep inquiry-based learning activities for any subject and grade level. And inquiry-based learning works at any grade level! Table of Contents What Is the Inquiry-Based Learning Approach?

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Social Studies Learning Math Writing 80

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

They include features specifically designed to help teachers seamlessly shift between in-person and remote learning, easily identify both learning gaps and the critical content from the previous grade to close them, as well as increase student engagement with immersive activities and simplified access to their digital content.

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Distance Learning Teachers History Schools 133

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

When Radlein-Grant finished her teaching degree in 2015, she left her home in Jamaica to teach third grade in Fayetteville, NC, where one in four children lives below the poverty level. I was trying to find a school that had the internet to be able to Skype. I’m an ELA teacher, so I tied it into culture in my social studies lessons.

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Teachers Culture Questions Social Studies 147

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

Justin Reich: When I was a high school history teacher, I was relatively early in the United States to have a classroom that was one-to-one with wireless laptops with the internet. And it wasn't just happening in one class, but it was like happening in English, happening in social studies, happening in science.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

A stand-out webtool among standards-based grading platforms is a free online program called Kiddom ( click for my review ). While it offers many appealing pieces (homework assignment and grading, easy communication, and built-in metrics), one unique to Kiddom is their robust K-12 content library. More about Kiddom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Where it used to be sufficient to teach students how to thrive in their home country, that falls woefully short in a world where the internet reaches everyone, anywhere, where geopolitical borders have little effect on international activities, where the customs and culture of a country have a significant impact on student learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2016

Podcasts are episodic series of audio, video, or PDF files that can be downloaded or streamed through the internet. Alternatively, the class could work together in creating a study guide in podcast form that the whole class can then revise from. They are funny, entertaining, and often educational.

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Exams Assignments Social Studies Study 104

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Kids coming into seventh grade often struggle with concepts not much more advanced, says Rowe, the geography teacher in Missouri. “As A separate government report in 2015 revealed that just 17 states have geography requirements, and that many teachers spend as little as 10 percent of their time teaching the subject during social studies.

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History Exams Culture Knowledge 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. When students use the internet, remind them of their rights and responsibilities. how to use the internet. taskbar disappeared, can’t find a program, internet window too small). analytical thinking.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 95

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Although this list is specifically being written for a math classroom, the nice thing about Nearpod is that they have a library of lessons that covers other subjects as well like ELA, Science, Social Studies, and even Digital Citizenship. Kate Nowak. Fawn Nguyen. Andrew Stadel.

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Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. When students use internet, remind them of their rights and responsibilities (see Lesson on Digital Rights and Responsibilities ). how to use the internet. how to use the internet. analytical thinking.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

BrainPOP is a collection of three-five minute animated movies, learning games, quizzes, and interactive activities for grades 3-8 addressing a wide variety of topics such as math, science, social studies, health, art, and technology. Lesson plan on Internet Search/Research. World Almanac for Kids. How to Research.

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Quizzes History Students Middle School 79

Priceless Ponderings

MARCH 31, 2025

Between lesson planning, grading, and trying to wrangle a class full of energetic kids, finding engaging weather worksheets and activities can feel like a chore. Ive got you covered with a 2nd & 3rd Grade Weather Science Unit that makes teaching weather actually easy and fun. Like, really busy. Its exhausting, right?

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Science Learning Students Activities 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Internet hotspots were also set up so the thousands of students who otherwise wouldn’t have internet could maintain classroom access and ensure the continuing equity in education. HCISD even had children entering kindergarten the following year learning math at a second-grade level! It’s really been incredible,” said Upchurch.

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Education Learning Schools Math 314

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

I’m sitting at my desk listening to Kris, one of my eighth-grade students, during our lunch. Kris is one of so many kids I see in this place, the school where I work as an eighth-grade English language arts and social studies teacher. What happened was an en masse crashing of grades, attendance and student engagement.

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Ethics Students Assignments Fairness 211

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. High-quality curricular materials that emphasize historical thinking skills, such as the Stanford History Education Group’s “Think Like a Historian” framework, are now readily available on the Internet. That’s no surprise.

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History Teaching Social Studies Textbooks 129

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A few years later, the concept lit up like rocket fuel thanks in part to the catchy name, along with fast-growing home internet connectivity and a shout-out in Sal Khan’s popular TED Talk. At that point, if they want better grades they can always go back to past material they struggled with and try again.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Then you jump ahead to the '90s, and we have this information revolution and the internet. We're finding that this is at the same time that there's a push to get the internet into classrooms, on a federal level. They didn't work. We find ourselves now in this connected age. This was '93-'94. It still works on you. That is massive.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It To ensure fast internet speeds, IT staff ­blanketed the school with about 100 HPE Aruba 802.11ac wireless access points , including one AP per classroom, Harris says.

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