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Go Digital! Digital Interactive Notebooks!

One of my goals this year was to start using interactive notebooks. I could see the benefits of students creating a notebook that they could refer to all year.  I could also see benefits of students using the graphic organizers as tools to help organize, understand, and synthesize new information. I decided to start small,… Continue reading Go Digital! Digital Interactive Notebooks!

Common Core Standards · Curriculum · Economy · education · Google · Graphic Organizer · Interactive Notebook · Padlet · Project Based Learning · Social Studies

Tips for Teaching Economy in an Elementary Classroom

Tips for Teaching the Economy in an Elementary Classroom Use Interactive Notebooks! To teach the Economy, I focused on these skills: wants, needs, goods, services, supply, demand, consumers, producers, and scarcity. I used an online interactive notebook through Google Slides which includes anchor charts of these topics as well as interactive pages for students to… Continue reading Tips for Teaching Economy in an Elementary Classroom

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Integrating 21st Century Skills

  Implementing and teaching 21st Century Skills into the classroom has been a hot topic in the educational profession for quite some time. According to Common Core State Standards, students as young as pre-school age are now required to indicate their knowledge of technology standards. In a day in age where technology standards are just as… Continue reading Integrating 21st Century Skills