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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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Word Clouds Make Eye-Catching Bulletin Boards

  Word Clouds are an easy and vibrant way to spruce up your next bulletin board! Word Clouds are an internet based activity where you insert specific words into the program. Then, you can change the font, size, color, and layout of how the words look. Some sites like http://www.taxedo.com has the option to put… Continue reading Word Clouds Make Eye-Catching Bulletin Boards

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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

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Graphic Organizers on Google Slides

Do you remember the last time you learned a lesson from your students? Last year I asked my students to write a petition about a change they want to see in the world. A group of my students gathered to write a petition of how we need to use less paper. They were so committed to… Continue reading Graphic Organizers on Google Slides