Computer and Digital Technologies
Watch a series of videos that will teach kids how to code and go on a variety of fun STEM adventures!
Ditch That Textbook has done it again! They have created even MORE amazing social media templates for students to use for assignments, projects or just a new way to demonstrate learning. The great part is - you are NOT attached to any of the platforms, so you can use these assignments safely.
Templates include:
Airbnb
Apple Review
Yelp Review
Tweet
Spotify List
Tik Tok
Instagram
Social Media Replay
YouTube
SnapChat - My face when; Would you rather; This or that
Amazon home page
Amazon product
Amazon product search
Courses for ALL grades and ages!
ELEMENTARY
*Word Force - teach reading skills to Gr 1-2
*Compassion Project - teach empathy Gr. 2-5
*Healthier Me - Gr. 1-4
*Vault - Financial Literacy Gr. 4-6
*FutureSmart - citizenship & finance Gr. 6-8
*Ignition - Digital Citizenship Gr. 6-9
*SaveUp - Saving for the Future Gr. 6-8
*Future Goals - Hockey - STEM Gr. 4-7
*Sustainability Foundations - many options Gr. 5-9
*Endeavor - Career Exploration Gr. 6 to 9
*Character Playbook Gr. 7-9
HIGH SCHOOL
*Get Digital - Safety in the Metaverse
*Venture - entrepreneurship
*Data Science
*Money Moves
*Vaping
*Prescription Drugs
*Mental Wellness
*Honor Code - Bullying Prevention
*Alcohol Edu
*Financial Literacy
*Financing Higher Education
*College & Career Readiness
Access all Everfi programs via the Clever portal at Sun West.
For help launching programs with your students contact Jesus Grisanti Clavier
"Explore.org hosts live streaming videos from all over the world allowing learners to observe a variety of animals in their natural habitats.
The learning extends beyond the classroom offering a portal into the natural world with authentic exposure to a variety of species.
Applications of explore.org can include creating a center activity in which students observe animals in their natural settings to gather and record data as citizen scientists.
As the introduction to an animal research project, this resource can ignite curiosity and encourage further investigation.
Additionally, explore.org can serve as a gateway to compare and contrast different animals among diverse habitats." (AASL)
Observe animals all over the world! Exotic to pets to farm animals!
MAKE CURRICULUM COME ALIVE
DESIGN IN AUGMENTED REALITY AND SHARE YOUR CREATIONS.
You are able to sign up for a free teacher account (with limited use) but there are also full accounts available for a cost (9.99 a month or 2-3 dollars a student depending on how you sign up).
Learn how to create, use and maintain a Facebook page of your own, including setting safe privacy controls.
This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces the world's biggest social media company, Facebook. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find tons of activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Financial Basics is a workshop designed to teach young adults essential financial skills, including budgeting, saving, credit management, investing, fraud prevention, and financial planning.
Included: presenter's manual, participant's notebooks, presentation slides, evaluation form, learning videos.
If you'd like hard copies of the materials, allow 4 to 6 weeks for order fulfillment.
Module 1 - Introduction
Module 2 - Budgeting
Module 3 - Managing Cost of Living
Module 4 - Credit & Debit Management
Module 5 - Saving & Investing
Module 6 - Financial Goals
Module 7 - Protect Yourself
Module 8 - Summary
Learn to code. EARN CERTIFICATIONS.
Free code camp is a great website for online learning. The site lets you learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs.
Ditch That Textbook has tons of great ideas to support teachers in their busy classrooms. One of the many resources offered are FREE templates that will save time and engage students in their learning.To access these free templates (Google Slides and PowerPoint) head on over to https://ditchthattextbook.com/resources/templates or check out the individual sections included in this lesson.
AppGameKit's Education Pack includes everything a teacher or lecturer needs to teach coding skills and is an easy to use tool that can be deployed quickly and easily in the classroom.
AppGameKit works across a range of abilities so is suitable for primary and secondary schools, sixth form colleges, universities and summer camps.
Teachers will need to register to get a free kit and get started.
"This tool allows you to create presentations, infographics, video presentations, resumes, and more.
It includes many templates with access to photos, animations, and illustrations giving the user the ability to make any image or text interactive.
Content can be shared through a link or downloaded.
Teachers can make materials to share with students or other teachers, and students can use to build resumes or design a product for summative assessment." (AASL)
The gamification options look really good within this tool. You (or your students) can make a variety of different games to test content.
There are some great product choices in here to demonstrate learning.
This is a great resource! It is a geography-based game - and a whole lot of fun!
"GeoGuessr is a web-based geographic discovery game designed by Anton Wallén, a Swedish IT consultant, released on 9 May 2013. The game uses a semi-randomized Google Street View location for paying members and Mapillary for non-members. The game requires players to guess their location in the world using only the clues visible." (Wikipedia)
You can play one free game every 24 hours or subscribe to be able to play as much as you want.
Glitch is the friendly community where everyone can discover and create the best stuff on the web.
From useful tools that solve problems at work, to cutting-edge VR experiences, smart bots, and apps that help advance important causes, Glitch is a unique community where people have built over a million projects for you to discover, with new ones are popping up every day.
If you’re new to Glitch, just explore some of the featured projects or categories to check out fun games to play or try out handy little apps. It’s like a familiar App Store, but almost everything is free and created by regular people like you.
But if you don’t find exactly what you want, that’s where the magic happens.
Every app on Glitch can be remixed. With just a click, you get your own copy of the app that you can customize, personalize, extend and build on to your heart’s content.
If you’re not a developer, don’t sweat it — you can make simple changes as easily as you edit a spreadsheet. Apps update live as you type. You can even share the project with a friend or colleague and they can work on the same code at the same time as you. It makes collaborating on code as easy as sharing in Google Docs. And if you get stuck, you can just raise your hand for help!
From students who are just seeing their first line of code, to some of the best programmers at the biggest tech companies, everybody is on Glitch and ready to help each other out.
Check back on Glitch each day, and we’ll show you cool, inspiring, useful apps and sites that you won’t see anywhere else, made by some of the most creative people on the internet.
"With VR and AR, teachers are no longer limited by the space of the classroom. VR lets you explore the world virtually while AR brings abstract concepts to life—allowing teachers to guide students through collections of 360° scenes and 3D objects, pointing out interesting sites and artifacts along the way."
You will have to download the app to use this from the app store (available for andriod and IOS).
Copy and paste this url into a browser to see the massive list of tours that are available!
Currently there are 900 trips! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uwWvAzAiQDueKXkxvqF6rS84oae2AU7eD8bhxzJ9SdY/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0
To experience VR you will need Expeditions app, a mobile device or Chrome OS, and optional - a VR viewer
SUN WEST - Contact Doug or Terry to bring this to your school!