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News for Students and Teacher Resources 7-12 Grade Level

Lesson plan focusing on how architects use mathematics to solve every day numbers and operations in the real world application.

Presentation used during the initial set up of a TIS at WCMS, presentation focuses on role of Technology Coordinator in a school system, highlighting jobs and responsibilities.

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. Provides individual goals for each assessment area with defined criteria.

Interactive illustrations of plant, animal and bacterial cells, students will use this main site to label and color a cell model.

A free community for sharing instructional videos and content for teachers and students. Bill Nye full episode on Atoms

math-play.com Interactive math site having students compare and order fractions.

Social Media for teachers to share and collaborate lessons, ideas and information. This site provides lessons specific to our school and ideas that are being used for collaboration among content teachers and core areas.

Refined, safe search for images to use for projects and classroom instruction. This image will be displayed for students to review Ch 4 section 1 in 8th grade science. Students will be asked to write a paragraph using the vocabulary in the section relating to population, community, ecosystem, etc... to describe the image provided.

This site provides hands on manipulation tools for the mathematics classroom. They can be used as standalone or on any interactive white board systems. I used the manipulative for comparing fractions, I think that is one of the most beneficial things from this course was the reminder of how important visuals are. Students can not only work out the math but can also see the visual comparison, excellent tool.