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Learner Sketch

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Learner Sketch Tool. The Learner Sketch Tool (LST) is an online tool designed to provide learners with a personalized profile and strategies to improve learning outcomes, and educators with information and strategies for strengths-based conversations that support every learner's growth and success. PLEASE ALSO SEE THE LEARNER PROFILE COLLECTION TO ASSIST YOU IN BUILDING FULL LEARNER PROFILES FOR YOUR STUDENTS. Click "Discover" then "Collections" to find this collection. Consider including learning styles, personality types, strengths, prefernces, etc.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment

Learn360

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"Learn360 is the premier streaming digital delivery service for the K–12 educational market: the complete district solution. Teachers, students, and parents can access more than 130,000 multimedia resources - including high-quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, articles, activities, worksheets, and more - on any Internet-enabled device, anytime, anywhere. Its enhanced, state-of-the-art platform, featuring the content, navigation, educator tools, speed, and performance that today’s online experience demands, makes Learn360 a powerful tool for flipped classrooms, blended instruction, project-based learning, and 1:1 environments. Content is provided by more than 200 top educational producers, and that number is continually growing. Learn360 currently serves more than 22 million students in 26,900+ schools across the United States and Canada." Included are: *Videos *Interactives *Printable Materials *Audio Books *Feature Films To access full movies from criterion click the menu and scroll down to PREMIUM CONTENT and click "Criterion on Demand". There you can find many full length feature films to watch! Sun West Students can contact their teachers for login information for at home learning.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Game

Author: Learn 360

Blooket

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Welcome to the World of Blooket: a new take on trivia and review games! Sign up to get started! Introduction video @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFe9Rch0Q8w The way it works is that a teacher/host picks a question set and a unique game mode. Then, we generate a code that players can use to join the game on their own devices. After the game starts, players will answer questions to help them win. That’s where the fun starts, because we offer a variety of games to keep students engaged and excited! Students are encouraged to participate in games with rewards for answering questions and exploring new methods of learning. Overcoming our challenges drives students to perform well while reviewing. Question sets can be painlessly imported or created easily with our powerful Set Builder. You can also explore our incredible collection of sets built by other amazing users on the Discover page. Ditch the old, redundant classroom review game and try out our variety of unique, engaging game modes. Also, edit game settings with a variety of options to truly make Blooket the perfect tool for you.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game

Authors: Anna Lapinsh, Blooket

Arcademics - Math Games, Language Arts Games, and much more

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Arcademics make multiplayer educational games for students from K to eighth grade, from free math games to language games. Arcademics combines the excitement of video games with educational content to produce a high rate of learning through exciting, focused repetition that enables automaticity and fluency. All games can be played seamlessly on any device using the web browser for free.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Game

Author: Arcademics

Codeacademy - Learn to Code - for Free (basic to adult learners)

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"All the courses on Codecademy are free. The free course catalog features hundreds of hours of content that help learners develop skills in their desired programming language. However, CodeCademy offers a “pro” option that allows tailored lessons and tutorials for the user as well as live tutoring." You have to make an account to use this excellent site. You can learn 180 hours of content for FREE! You can sign up to do more for a cost if you wish.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Code Academy

Bookopolis

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Bookopolis is a social network for kids that lets them log books and connect with other readers gr 1-8+. By creating an account, students create a virtual bookshelf and join a community of young readers who can discover new books, share book reviews and track their reading with a digital reading log. The site offers book recommendations ("Bookopolis Picks" and "What's Popular Right Now"), the opportunity to explore book reviews by other young readers, a featured book of the week, the opportunity to earn points and badges, plus the option to find books by grade (1-3, 3-6, 6-8, 8-12). You can sign in as an educator, a student or a parent. Choose the online version or download the app from your app store.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading

Author: Bookopolis

Best Virtual Museum Tours for Kids & Families

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Most major art museums around the world offer virtual tours and resources for free. We Are Teachers offers a long list of virtual museum tours, including Benaki Museum, The Frick Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art’s #MetKids, Musée d’Orsay, Museo Frida Kahlo, The Museum of the World, The National Gallery, The National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern: Andy Warhol Exhibit, The Van Gogh Museum, The Vatican Museums.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment

Author: We Are Teachers

Charades Ideas Generator for Kids

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This is a word guessing game, perfect for children! A child acts out a word or phrase (for example a movie or a book), while other kids guess the word or phrase. Choose from the following categories: Actions, Animals, Books, Movies, Places, TV Shows. Besides "Charades for Kids", the site also includes "Charades Ideas Generator" (for older students/adults), "Christmas Charades Ideas", "How to Play Charades" and "Resources". If you're looking for some printable charades ideas for kids, you'll find those here too.

Material Type: Game

Author: getcharadesideas.com

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