eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Kids Discover Online offers access to over 1,000 K-8 science and social studies resources on any device and at three different reading levels. All content is searchable by subject and unit and offered at three different reading levels designed to excite even the most reluctant readers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

Through this new collaboration, Wilson County educators will, beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, integrate Discovery Education’s Science Techbook (Grades K-12), Social Studies Techbook (Grades 6-8) and Math Techbook (Grades 6-12) into classroom instruction.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2020

MetaMetrics, developer of the Lexile Framework for Reading and the Quantile Framework for Mathematics, has two free resources to support home learning during the COVID-19 school closures. Summer Math Challenge. Grades 1-8. Lexile Word Lists. Grades 1-12.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The district turned to IXL because of its ability to align perfectly to Austin ISD’s textbooks and curriculum, plus IXL’s broad range of skills that individualize instruction and empower every student. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. Civics Education Is at a Crossroads This knowledge gap is due in large part to the sidelining of K-12 social studies since the early 2000s, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind. They were roleplaying. Let me set the scene for you.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The print student edition features a magazine-style layout with visual primary sources and infographics to promote reading and visual literacy. 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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Lessons are designed with an inquiry-based approach, where students and teachers explore science “mysteries” collaboratively through videos, reading and hands-on activities. Today, Discovery Education is best known for its digital textbooks (“Techbooks”) for math, science and social studies subjects.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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Priceless Ponderings

APRIL 14, 2025

Priceless Ponderings The Best Homeschool Social Studies Curriculum for Busy Parents Finding the perfect homeschool social studies curriculum can feel overwhelming. If you’re a busy parent, you need a curriculum that simplifies your life while making social studies exciting for your child.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Those applications are fine, but I talk a lot about h ow to integrate technology in cool ways for engagement purposes , like during social studies or math lessons or science. Say you're reading Charlotte's Web in class and you want to do a project to go with it. Students do not love just reading a textbook. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. Actively Learn is a high-functioning ereader for ELA, social studies, and science students in grades 2-12.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

“Some of the apps that the students will get to experience dig a little deeper into things they’ve only been able to interact with via the web or a textbook,” she says. It’s one thing for kids to read about stars, to pore over textbook diagrams and then, on a clear night, try to square what they’ve learned with the bright specks in the sky.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Because students would be watching the shows at home without guidance from teachers, the stations created learning prompts and questions—similar to those found in textbooks—to run before and after shows. LA schools did indeed close. For example, from 9 a.m.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Darren : I wanted to integrate STEM into my social studies classroom, so that when kids are learning about history and the pioneers of science, technology, engineering, and math, they are learning about those subjects simultaneously and forming natural connections. Recently I had my students reading about Ancient Rome.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. A number of states are fiercely battling over curriculum standards, and not just in history and social studies. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. The Big History Project’s approach to the teaching of reading comprises four components.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

These will be beyond what is required of the State or National standards and may or may not align perfectly with the textbooks you use. Here are some ways you’ll use it in your classroom: Students read a text passage for, say, a minute. You record the number of words read correctly and compare that data over time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas. What does AR look like in the humanities?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I was so unfamiliar with 19th century Black literary societies , that I may as well have been reading fiction. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. The social studies activity Space Race in McGraw Hill AR How has incorporating AR in your classroom enhanced the learning experience for your students? Stop doing extra work.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. Quest objectives include reading chapters in the textbook, and students can complete formative assessments in the form of “battles.” The Classcraft dashboard.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

News literacy—the ability to determine what is credible and what is not, to identify different types of information, and to use the standards of authoritative, fact-based journalism as an aspirational measure in determining what to trust—is a fundamental life skill, as essential to success in the classroom and in life as reading or math.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Matt Miller, the Ditch That Textbook founder, was instrumental in creating various templates for the classroom. The assignment followed various readings about the two figures. The assignment followed various readings about the two figures.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas. In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement. Credit: EdSurge.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

” Cultivate literacy skills IXL brings reading, writing and grammar to life for students and helps educators effectively personalize English language arts instruction. IXL’s skills are aligned to content in 21 popular textbooks, making lesson planning easier.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue.

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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? You want your students to read more, right? Ask your students. Librarygame.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The company bought the myON digital reading platform in March 2018. In April 2019, Renaissance acquired progress monitoring tools provider Early Learning Labs , followed a month later by buying Freckle Education , a provider of online lessons, exercises and assessments for math, English language arts, social studies and science.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. That can give them pause when it comes to investing in propriety K-12 curriculum products. With OERs, educators can become curriculum makers. Source: EdSurge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2019

Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Resources include not only videos but study tools, guides, quizzes, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Unlike traditional textbooks and library resources, Kiddom content providers are internet-based making them accessible from anywhere, on desktops and mobile devices, and easily blended into classroom lesson plans. A new resource guide from Kiddom: Standards-based Grading for ELA and Social Studies. More about Kiddom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher. This put me in more in the driver’s seat than reading,” he says of the franchise’s early games. Michael Milton, a high school history teacher in Burlington, Mass.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. And they’re put out by recognized names in education — Khan Academy, BBC, Microsoft, Teacher Tube, as well as textbook providers like Origo. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity.

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