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Google My Maps: HyperSlide Activity for Students – Flipped Technology Coaching

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This month, I have been eager to introduce Google My Maps to students and teachers. As I started planning my lessons, I decided Google Slides would easily allow me to include directions, video tutorials, games, and formative assessments within the "HyperSlide" activity. Then, upon completion of the activity, we could begin creating our own My Maps.

The following hyperSlides were created for a 2nd Grade classroom, but could easily be modified for any grade level. Just "Make A Copy" to edit the following slides.
Click here or the image below to view the activity.

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This month, I have been eager to introduce Google My Maps to students and teachers. As I started planning my lessons, I decided Google Slides would easily allow me to include directions, video tutorials, games, and formative assessments within the "HyperSlide" activity. Then, upon completion of the activity, we could begin creating our own My Maps.

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In probability theory, a probability density function ( PDF), or density of a continuous random variable, is a function, whose value at any given sample (or point) in the sample space (the set of possible values taken by the random variable) can be interpreted as providing a relative likelihood that the value of the ...

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Online Zoo With Pictures, Facts & Videos: A Virtual Zoo For Kids & Adults

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Welcome to the Active Wild Online Zoo, a virtual zoo for kids (& adults). Discover amazing animals from all over the world without leaving your home!

View incredible animal pictures and videos;

Discover amazing animals from all over the world;

Talk about each species with other animal fans in the comments section on every page;

Share the incredible species you've discovered with your friends on social media: you'll find share buttons on every page!

New animals added regularly - be sure to visit often to see the new arrivals!

Download FREE printable worksheets for use with the Online Zoo here: Free Printable Worksheets.

You can learn more about the animal kingdom here: Animals: The Ultimate Guide.

Online Zoo Quick Search

Click on the pictures below to see all of the animals in that group, or scroll down to browse all of the animals in the zoo.

Click on the photos to learn more about the animals!

Online Zoo: A Virtual Zoo For Animal Fans All Around The World

Click on the pictures to discover more about any of the animals in the virtual zoo; you'll find facts, pictures, information and videos!

Amphibians

Amphibians are animals that begin life in water, then move onto land when they mature. In order for amphibians to make this lifestyle change, their bodies undergo a transformation known as 'metamorphosis'.

During metamorphosis, amphibians switch from breathing with gills to breathing with lungs. There are exceptions: some amphibians never lose their gills and live their whole lives in the water.

Online Zoo Amphibian Links

Birds

Download a free printable birds worksheet here.

Scientists now believe that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. Birds have wings and feathers, and hatch from eggs.

Birds are found on every continent on Earth. The smallest bird is the bee hummingbird, the largest is the ostrich.

Most birds can fly, but some, such as ostriches and penguins, have lost this ability.

Online Zoo Bird Links

Fish

Fish are aquatic animals with organs called gills that allow them to breathe underwater. Fish are streamlined, and have fins to propel them through the water. There are two main types of fish: cartilaginous and bony fish.

The skeletons of cartilaginous fish are made of a substance called cartilage, which is more flexible than bone. Sharks, rays and skates are all cartilaginous fish.

Bony fish such as cod have skeletons that are made of bone. There are more species of bony fish than any other type of vertebrate. (A vertebrate is an animal with a backbone).

Online Zoo Fish Links

Invertebrates

Invertebrates are animals that don't have a backbone. Animals such as insects, crustaceans (e.g. crabs and lobsters), arachnids (e.g. spiders and mites), snails and worms are all invertebrates.

In fact, over 95% of all animals are invertebrates!

Online Zoo Invertebrate Links

Mammals

Mammals evolved from reptiles around 195 million years ago. Characteristics shared by all mammals include: being warm-blooded; feeding their young with milk produced by the mother; and having hair.

Most mammals (but not all, as we'll discover with the monotremes) give birth to live young.

There are many different types of mammal. In this online zoo they have been separated into a number of groups. We start with the Carnivora ...

Carnivora

Download a free printable Carnivora worksheet here.

Members of the Carnivora order* are mammals that all stem from a common, meat-eating ancestor. They all have a certain type of tooth, which evolved to cut through meat.

* An order is a big group of related animals that can contain many different animal families and species.

Members of the Carnivora order are called Carnivorans. They are also known as 'carnivores', but this word can also apply to any meat-eating animal.

Remember, not all carnivores (meat-eaters) are carnivorans (members of the carnivore order)!

Carnivora is split into two smaller groups, or suborders, called feliforms and caniforms.

Feilforms are 'cat-like' carnivorans. As well as cats, this group includes animals such as hyenas and mongooses.

Caniforms are 'dog-like' carnivorans. This group includes dogs, and animals such as bears and seals.

Bears

Bears are large, powerful animals that are found in many habitats around the world. Most are omnivores, eating anything from nuts and berries to meat. The polar bear is the only bear that is almost entirely carnivorous. By contrast, the giant panda is almost entirely herbivorous.

Online Zoo Bear Links

Cats are expert predators. They are fast and agile, and have excellent senses of sight and hearing. All cats are almost entirely carnivorous, and most of the 'big cats' sit at the very top of the food chain.

Online Zoo Cat Links

Members of the dog family Canidae, which includes wolves, foxes and jackals, are found on every continent except Antarctica.

Highly intelligent, with acute senses of smell and hearing, dogs are excellent predators. Some, such as wolves, live in packs, and hunt cooperatively.

African Hunting Dog (African Wild Dog)

Online Zoo Dog Links

Pinnipeds

Pinnipeds are mammals that have special adaptations for an aquatic lifestyle. They have flippers and streamlined bodies for swimming, and are slow and clumsy on land.

Online Zoo Pinniped Links

Cetacea: Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises

Cetaceans are members of a group of mammals that have evolved to live in the water. Although fish-like in appearance, cetaceans are warm-blooded, give birth to live young, and breathe air.

Cetaceans evolved from even-toed ungulates: the group of hooved mammals that includes pigs and hippopotamuses.

Online Zoo Cetacean Links

Ungulates (Hoofed Animals)

Ungulates are mammals that have hoofs, and are therefore also known as 'hoofed animals'. There are two main types of ungulate:

Even-toed ungulates bear their weight on their third and fourth toes. This group contains animals such as pigs, hippopotamuses and deer.

Odd-toed ungulates bear their weight on their third toes, or have an odd number of toes. Animals in this group include horses, tapirs and rhinoceroses.

Other types of ungulate include the Tubulidentata (aardvarks), and Sirenia (dugongs and manatees).

Online Zoo Ungulate Links

Elephants

Elephants are large, powerful mammals with trunks, tusks, and thick grey skin. The African bush elephant is the largest land animal in the world.

We used to think that there were two species of elephant: the African elephant and the Asian elephant. Scientists now think that the African elephant can be divided into two species (African bush elephant and African forest elephant), taking the total number of elephant species to three.

Online Zoo Elephant Links

Mammals: Marsupials

Download a free printable Marsupials & Monotremes worksheet here.

Marsupials are also known as 'pouched mammals'. When born, their young are undeveloped, and continue to grow in a special pouch in their mother's body. Most of the world's marsupials live in Australia, although some are found in the Americas.

Online Zoo Marsupial Links

Mammals: Monotremes

Download a free printable Marsupials & Monotremes worksheet here.

Monotremes are probably the strangest mammals in the online zoo! What makes them different to other mammals is that they lay eggs, rather than giving birth.

There are only five species of monotreme alive today: four of these are echidnas and the other is the platypus.

Online Zoo Monotreme Links

Mammals: Primates

Primates are mammals whose ancestors lived in trees. Primates have forward-facing eyes to judge distances, flexible limbs for climbing, and hands (and sometimes feet) that can hold onto objects.

If you look in a mirror, you'll see a primate! Humans are members of a group of primates called the great apes. Other types of primate include monkeys, gibbons, and lemurs.

Online Zoo Primate Links

Mammals: Rodents

There are around 2,000 species of rodent, and together they make up around 40% of all mammals. Most rodents are small animals with long tails. All have long incisor teeth, which never stop growing. This allows the rodent to gnaw on tough plants with no danger of their teeth wearing down.

Online Zoo Rodent Links

Reptiles

Most reptiles are four-legged, cold-blooded, egg-laying animals, although there are many variations. Snakes, for example don't have any limbs, but evolved from animals with four legs.

Some reptiles - most vipers, for example - give birth to live young.

Download a free printable Reptiles worksheet here.

Crocodilians

Crocodilia is a group of carnivorous reptiles that includes the crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials.

Crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to other reptiles such as lizards.

Online Zoo Crocodilian Links

Sea Turtles

Sea turtles are reptiles that are adapted to a marine lifestyle. After hatching from eggs laid on the beach, they make their way to the sea. The males will never set foot (or flipper) on dry land again.

Online Zoo Sea Turtle Links

Snakes

Snakes are reptiles with scales, and long slender bodies. Snakes don't have limbs, and move by bending and flexing their bodies in a number of ways.

There are over 3,000 species of snake, the longest being the reticulated python, and the heaviest being the green anaconda.

Online Zoo Snake Links

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We hope that you've enjoyed your visit to the online zoo. Be sure to tell your friends, and share on social media using the share buttons at the top of the page!

You can learn more about the animal kingdom here: Animals: The Ultimate Guide.

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Welcome to the Active Wild Online Zoo, a virtual zoo for kids (& adults). Discover amazing animals from all over the world without leaving your home! View incredible animal pictures and videos; Discover amazing animals from all over the world; Talk about each species with other animal fans in the comments section on every page; Share the incredible species you've discovered with your friends on social media: you'll find share buttons on every page!

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The purpose of the coaster's initial ascent is to build up a sort of reservoir of potential energy. The concept of potential energy, often referred to as energy of position, is very simple: As the coaster gets higher in the air, gravity can pull it down a greater distance. You experience this phenomenon all the time. Think about driving your car, riding your bike or pulling your sled to the top of a big hill. The potential energy you build going up the hill can be released as kinetic energy - the energy of motion that takes you down the hill.

Once you start cruising down that first hill, gravity takes over and all the built-up potential energy changes to kinetic energy. Gravity applies a constant downward force on the cars. The coaster tracks serve to channel this force - they control the way the coaster cars fall. If the tracks slope down, gravity pulls the front of the car toward the ground, so it accelerates. If the tracks tilt up, gravity applies a downward force on the back of the coaster, so it decelerates.

Since an object in motion tends to stay in motion ( Newton's first law of motion), the coaster car will maintain a forward velocity even when it is moving up the track, opposite the force of gravity. When the coaster ascends one of the smaller hills that follows the initial lift hill, its kinetic energy changes back to potential energy. In this way, the course of the track is constantly converting energy from kinetic to potential and back again.

This fluctuation in acceleration is what makes roller coasters so much fun. In most roller coasters, the hills decrease in height as the train moves along the track. This is necessary because the total energy reservoir built up in the lift hill is gradually lost to friction between the train and the track, as well as between the train and the air. When the train coasts to the end of the track, the energy reservoir is almost completely empty. At this point, the train either comes to a stop or is sent up the lift hill for another ride.

At its most basic level, this is all a roller coaster is - a machine that uses gravity and inertia to send a train along a winding track. Next, we'll look at the various sensations you feel during a roller coaster ride, what causes them and why they're so enjoyable.

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The purpose of the coaster's initial ascent is to build up a sort of reservoir of potential energy. The concept of potential energy, often referred to as energy of position, is very simple: As the coaster gets higher in the air, gravity can pull it down a greater distance.

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3rd Grade - 4th Nine Weeks - Rock The Lab

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Google Resources for Reading - Google Docs

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Wonderopolis | Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease | Wonderopolis

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What is a multiple?

How do multiples get used in everyday life?

How can you determine a number's multiples?

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What did Mary Anning discover?

What is Jurassic Coast?

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When was the Arab taco invented?

What is shawarma?

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What was the gold standard?

Which type of currency exchange rate system does the U.S. use?

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What are the parts of a Wonder?

How do writers make a Wonder?

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Find and save recipes, parenting hacks, style inspiration and other ideas to try.

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Adobe Spark How To | Adobe Education Exchange

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Fellow Adobe Education Leader Rich Lombardo and I created this instructional Page for English Language Arts students and teachers who wanted to use Spark. The page includes instructions for creating an account (under 13 used a teacher created adobe login), using page, post, and video, and it includes a finished student sample.

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CommonLit | Texts | Levels: 5th 6th Grade | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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View the CommonLit collection and filter by grade level, theme, genre, literacy device and common core standard.

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The new Periodic Table of iPad Apps for Primary aged pupils – ICTEvangelist

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I've always enjoyed thinking of ideas about how we can utilise technology for purposeful means in the classroom. It is often we see the simplest ideas making the biggest impact on teaching and learning. I'm still asked regularly for apps for particular subjects, asking children to use devices as sources of information rather than vehicles or tools to express learning.

The iPad has always given us the opportunity to do so much more than consume information giving us opportunities instead to use our creativity to express our learning, to test our learning, to share and publish what we do. Therefore it has given me real pleasure to create this new Periodic table of iPad apps; this time focusing on tools to support younger learners.

I realise that not everyone will agree with my choices of apps but they have all been made with personal experience of using all of these tools with children and seeing not just how they work in the classroom but more importantly how they can impact on learning. Also to be clear, just because one app might be in one particular category, it doesn't mean it can't be used for other purposes.

I find it personally important to share with you that whilst being canvassed by a large number of different companies to include their apps on my next table, I have taken no remuneration for the creation of this free resource.

The impact of this resource has been global. Wherever I travel in the world through my work I see the table in staff rooms, being used in classrooms, hearing about it being discussed in meetings about teaching and learning. It is truly great to see how something so simple can have such an impact. This is why at the bottom of this post there is a link to download a free higher resolution version of the table for you to use if you wish. Please respect the license on the image though. As mentioned before, some schools have taken the table, removed my name and put their name in place of mine. This is not acceptable. Thank you for not doing it.

My big thanks go to @mralanellis for giving me feedback along the way which resulted in some really helpful thinking. Thank you Alan.

From my previous periodic table vol. 2 post:
First things first. It's never just about the apps. End of. That said being guided around tried and tested apps from the classroom can be really helpful. With that in mind, back in 2014 I created my first periodic table of iPad apps. Little did I realise how popular it would be with more than 7 million downloads in those two years. As with most things to do with technology, times move on and apps change, new technologies bring new ways to use technology to enhance learning. What has been interesting in the process of creating the periodic table has been looking at the apps which still work really well at doing what they do best. Interestingly, many of the apps on this updated table were on the original table too but there are plenty of new ones to look at too. Overwhelmingly, the majority of apps shown are free too.
If you are interested in working with me to help you make your technology with iPad work for you in your school, then please get in touch via my contact page.

If you would like a higher resolution version of the table then please click here.

I hope you find the Periodic table useful. If you use it or share it in any way I would love to hear from you and your story about how you've used it in the comments section below!

Thanks!

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I've always enjoyed thinking of ideas about how we can utilise technology for purposeful means in the classroom. It is often we see the simplest ideas making the biggest impact on teaching and learning. I'm still asked regularly for apps for particular subjects, asking children to use devices as sources of information rather than vehicles or tools to express learning.

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History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places Smithsonian Magazine

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To mark the Smithsonian's multi-year initiative, Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past, which will confront the history and legacy of race and racism through live and virtual events, pop-up exhibitions, digital resources, and other offerings, Smithsonian magazine has compiled this collection of relevant coverage.

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Engage your students in reading with Actively Learn, the digital reading platform where scaffolding, peer learning, and assessment come together inside a text, exactly when students need help and motivation.

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In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between a bird's beak and its ability to find food and survive in a given environment.

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Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth.

With the help of over 7,000 of the world's best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species.

Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world.

Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade. Despite appeals for support, just 85 of our 5.6 million users in 2018 made a donation.

As a small conservation charity, Wildscreen eventually reached the point where it could no longer financially sustain the ongoing costs of keeping Arkive free and online or invest in its much needed development.

For many years, and in an attempt to keep Arkive online for years to come, Wildscreen investigated the possibility of transferring custodianship of the website to another environmental charity or institution but due to legal issues and the cost of doing so, we were unable to secure any support.

Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019.

The complete Arkive collection of over 100,000 images and videos is now being stored securely offline in perpetuity for future generations.

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Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world's best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species.

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STEM/STEAM - Mrs. Diaz's Teaching Resources

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STEAM YouTube Channels for Elementary Kids | Imagination Soup

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A homeschool reader wrote to ask me my recommendations for educational YouTube channels. Which is a really fantastic question - and deserves a few blog posts, don't you think? Let's start with the best S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) YouTube channels.

You know that it's hard to sift through the massive amount of channels, and find what's best and age-appropriate for your kids. You want clean entertainment that won't surprise you with a bad word or innuendo. Your kids want something cool and not boring.

One way to find some of these ideas is to use the free YouTube channel app for kids. More info on that here but it's more for younger kids than it is for elementary.

Here I've listed my favorite educational channels that are meant specifically for elementary-age students. In other words, kids ages 5 - 10.

It's important to note that to truly be "STEAM" or "STEM" if you take out art, the content should cross over at least two of the science, technology, math, art, and math content areas. I've also included straight science and math YouTube channels below the STEAM channels.

Ready? Not boring, totally cool, and always appropriate channels coming up. . .

STEAM / STEM YouTube Channels

Vi narrates these interesting videos on topics from spirals in math to Pi and Anti-Pi. This channel is STEAM since she incorporates science, math, and art!

7. TedEd
This channel from TedTalks has a little bit, er, a lot, of everything - math, science, language, you name it with cute animation and friendly narration.

Science YouTube Channels

Smithsonian Science Education Center
From the Smithsonian and FableVision Studios, learn about specific science topics with a cartoon classroom.

6. The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome
Puppets explore the world of science and wonder including genetics and astronomy. Love the production quality and the delightfully funny British puppets - LOVE the puppets!

Math YouTube Channels

I like these cartoon videos that explain about math concepts - it corresponds to the free UMIGO website.

7. Math Bites with Danica McKellar
These are fun tongue-and-cheek videos to explain math concepts like percents, Pi, and binary numbers.

8. Flocabulary
Math, social studies, language arts - these rap songs are about a wide variety of topics. And, they're catchy!

Did I miss any of your favorite STEAM / STEM channels? Comment below to let me know!
Follow Melissa Taylor's board STEAM / STEM Education on Pinterest.
ALSO READ: Geography and History YouTube Channels for Elementary, STEM Apps For Kids, Coding for Kids

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A homeschool reader wrote to ask me my recommendations for educational YouTube channels. Which is a really fantastic question - and deserves a few blog posts, don't you think? Let's start with the best S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) YouTube channels.

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Volcano Facts | Volcanoes for Kids | DK Find Out

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Visit DK Find Out! to learn about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature & more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes & galleries at DKFindOut.com

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A hero is born

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. At the time in that part of the country, segregation-or the separation of races in places like schools, buses, and restaurants-was the law. He experienced racial predjudice from the time he was very young, which inspired him to dedicate his life to achieving equality and justice for Americans of all colors. King believed that peaceful refusal to obey unjust law was the best way to bring about social change.

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A hero is born Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. At the time in that part of the country, segregation-or the separation of races in places like schools, buses, and restaurants-was the law.

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ReadWorks.org | The Solution to Reading Comprehension

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ReadWorks.org | The Solution to Reading Comprehension

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America's reading comprehension crisis.

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Improve your students' reading comprehension with ReadWorks. Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles, and create online assignments with them for your students.

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DK Find Out! | Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth, History and more!

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12 and ESL students.

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