PreK-Elementary
Look, Touch, Listen: Differentiate Instruction Using Interactive Technology
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmDiscover how interactive whiteboards can help you address the diverse learning styles of your students. Receive strategies and resources to help you differentiate your planning, instruction, management and student assessment.
Beyond Windows & Mirrors: Walking Through Doors with Literature
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmWalk through our door, embark on a literary journey to locations around the world! Explore geography of narratives with mapping and digital connections preparing responsible citizens for a global society.
Teachers as Role Models (TRM) Inspiring Active Young Citizens
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmLearn to turn your personal passion for citizenship into meaningful service-learning experiences for elementary students through the TRM approach! Help your students become active young local and/or global citizens.
Social Studies as Context for Meeting the ELA Common Core
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmTired of sneaking social studies into your curriculum "left behind?" This session offers strategies and resources linking social studies to ELA Common Core Standards through social media and children's literature.
Gender Analysis of NCSS Intermediate Grade Notable Trade Book Winners
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmThis poster session provides a gender analysis of NCSS Notable Trade book winners for the intermediate grades for the years 2006-2008.
Learning for Environmental Sustainability: Civic Lessons for the 21st Century
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmThrough modeling a Storypath approach, participants will learn about engaging pedagogies that connect diverse students to "lived experiences" and promote application of understandings, skills and dispositions for 21st Century sustainability.
Find A Palimpsest and Engage Students with American History
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmLearn how a group of teachers make history meaningful for elementary students using a kind of image known as palimpsest. Examples of accessible palimpsests will be provided.
Civil War Simulations: Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmThis presentation includes teacher lessons, student writing and digital iMovies of students acting out Civil War events from historical fiction: Bull Run, Follow the Drinking Gourd, and The Patchwork Path.
Window to Inquiry: Teaching the Concepts and Tools of History
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmUnderstanding the concepts and tools of historical inquiry is essential to teaching about the past and creating young thinkers who can "do" history. Applicable to all subjects and ages.
Presidential Plates and Portraits: Balanced Integration with Art
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:01pmCan balanced integration be achieved? These elementary lessons balanced art and social studies helped students learn state and presidential symbols and how we use symbols as a means of communication.
