Whath Are The Best Lesson Plans For Teaching Financial Literacy? by TeachThought Staff 1. Ruth Gale-Paredez: “What education do you need to live comfortably?”Fifth-grade students figure out how much it costs to live for a family of four. The survey is taken for all expenses including taxes and insurance and an amount of income is calculated….
The Best Platform For Student Blogging by TeachThought Staff Okay, this is subjective, but here’s my thought: When taking a macro view view of how and why students share thinking and information–and considering modern digital media trends, in 2014 the best way for students to blog in and out of the classroom has to be tumblr….
Seven Tools For Student Collaboration In Digital PBL by Rob Sabo Education today often requires extensive collaboration between students and faculty. Team assignments are an excellent way to improve learning and help students develop the communication tools necessary to thrive in the workplace. Choosing the right tools for small group collaboration is crucial for facilitating…
What if you tied financial literacy to your content area through a PBL unit about design, social media or the effects of World War II?
A Free Resource For Teaching With The Arts From a press release from The Music Center in Los Angeles: In a move designed to support arts education in schools, The Music Center today announced the launch of a free online arts curriculum, Artsource®: The Music Center’s Study Guide to the Performing Arts, an easily accessible…
St Oliver Plunkett Primary School has shared two images that can help you populate your iPad with apps that support inquiry-based learning.
Here we’ve compiled a list of 10 resources for global learning, a list that includes videos, websites, lesson plans and much more.
Where Can You Find Free Books Online? eBooks should’ve been a game-changing technology. The idea was simple enough: no longer did you need to travel to the library to wade through rows and stacks and floors and buildings and card catalogs only to wag home only as much as you could carry. Or risk spending…
From YouTube to Edutopia–and of course, TeachThought–this post includes 12 timeless project-based learning resources for the classroom.
Freeciv, a popular and open-source strategy game similar to Sid Meier’s Civilization series, is now playable in-browser for game-based learning.
What digital tools allow students to communicate in new ways, but with a clear sense of audience, purpose, and application of the writing process?
The best resources for teachers supporting students who think they hate math may not get better than Numberphile .
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Some of the ideas for using the iPad in the classroom in the following presentation by scribd user denag33 are better than others.
Create self-grading assessments using Google Forms can be a time-saver for teachers committed to using data to revise instruction.