Legos and Robotics (article)

McKinleyville 5th grade class given Lego 

robotics sets

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Digital Timelines

Digital Timelines

The use and analyzing of timelines is a skill we try to teach our students each year.  As teachers we usually pull out the ruler or yardsticks, some bigger paper, or attempt to fit into a notebook.  Sutori.com is a free, web based application to create digital timelines.  What a great tool to use in Social Studies, Language Arts, or any subject to show sequence/chronological order.
Explore, and share with your students.  Create beautiful, colorful, and engaging timelines for project-based learning projects.

Embed videos, photos, texts, maps, and graphs  on timelines for projects.

LEARNING STRATEGIES How to Build Community Leaders of Today—and Tomorrow—Through Student Genius Hours By Jen Schneider Sep 4, 2017

The following article shares with teachers the benefits, and workings, of Genius Hour.  This year I am conducting an elective class for 7th graders called Genius Hour.  Before letting them fully IMMERSE themselves in Genius hour, we will be completing two Project Based Learning assignments.  The first marking period the topic is entitled Million Dollar Classroom, and the second marking period is ENDANGERED Species.

Perhaps the following article can help some of you and your students to tap into their genius.

LEARNING STRATEGIES

How to Build Community Leaders of Today—and Tomorrow—Through Student Genius Hours

By Jen Schneider     Sep 4, 2017

When it comes to personalized learning in the classroom, no single thing has been as powerful as Genius Hour for my students.

Genius Hour has its early foundations at companies like Google which gave their employees 20 percent of their work week to study and implement innovative ideas that would better the company. Ideas like Gmail, Google News, and Adsense were born from this time.

It’s not a bad model for teachers to emulate, either.

In my classroom, Genius Hour means

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