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Awesome opportunity to become a DEN Star and attend DENSI!
Applications for DENSI due April 9.

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Discovery Education Community Member

The Discovery Education Community is an inclusive one. If you are interested in learning more about the effective integration of digital resources into your instruction or further developing your leadership practice, there are a lot of different ways to dip your toes in the water or take the plunge. Attend virtual field trips or webinars, connect with us on social media, or learn new instructional strategies from the Discovery Education blog.

Become a STAR Discovery Educator

If you are passionate about transforming learning experiences with digital media and thrive on sharing resources, collaborating, and networking we'd like to invite you to take the next step with your Discovery Education Community. Apply to be a STAR Discovery Educator. STARs are committed to building a supportive global learning community through active sharing, interacting and co-exploring.

As a STAR you have the opportunity to:

Receive invitations to exclusive Discovery events

Attend local, regional, and state-level Discovery Education events

Serve on the Discovery Education Leadership Council

Participate in special promotions and contests

Order Event Kits to easily bring the learning back to your local community

Apply to attend the DEN Summer Institute

Become a STAR Discovery Educator. It's easy. Log into your Discovery Education account. From the MyDE page, click 'Community (DEN)' to learn more.

Host the DEN Ambassador Program at Your School or District

The DEN Ambassador Program is a learning experience designed to fully support teachers as they integrate digital media into their teaching practice. Discovery Education provides all of the materials needed to host three in-person professional learning and networking events for your colleagues, so you can grow your practice together.

Your Discovery Education team will provide you support as you lead a cadre in your school, district, or region. | Learn More

Serve on the Discovery Education Leadership Council

Members of the Discovery Education Leadership Council (LC) want to have an active role in shaping the future of Discovery Education. They do so in a variety of ways including blogging or sharing on social media sites, providing feedback, creating content, hosting events for area colleagues, and mentoring new members of the community.

Being part of the LC is a commitment, but it comes with perks! The LC benefits from deeper connections with other passionate education professionals who thrive on transforming learning. Open enrollment occurs each fall. | Learn More

Learn from DEN Gurus

DEN Gurus are STAR Discovery Educators who possess expertise in one or more pedagogical topics, have demonstrated their expertise through a variety of professional experiences, and advocate for the meaningful integration of Discovery Education digital content across their area(s) of expertise. They are regular contributors to the Discovery Education blog and present at Days of Discovery, the DEN Summer Institute, and Discovery Education's virtual conferences. | Learn More

Connect with Program Champions

Chosen through a competitive application process, Discovery Education Program Champions demonstrate their extraordinary commitment and expertise in specific topic areas - such as STEM, health and wellness, and social studies - and excellent use of Discovery Education's programs. They share various resources and supporting programs with their colleagues and peers around the world.

Champions also represent Discovery Education at education events and virtual conferences, and help shape the development and implementation of future Discovery Education programs to ensure they are standards-and curriculum-aligned. | Learn More

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The Discovery Education Community is an inclusive one. If you are interested in learning more about the effective integration of digital resources into your instruction or further developing your leadership practice, there are a lot of different ways to dip your toes in the water or take the plunge.

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Another graphic organizer for your use during planning time.

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Use this graphic organizer during our planning time for your centres lessons.

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This links to the primary and elementary PDFs for scientific explanations.

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Educreations was an example of a way students can explain their scientific knowledge.

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Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web.

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We explored this assignment for student centres.

Use the attached Google Drive folder for access to station materials.

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I used tagul.com to create a word cloud of your responses to "What is Text?"

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Use the attached padlet to share out your ideas during our Read, Write and Think like a Scientist sessions.

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Use this checklist as you create your think aloud for your students.

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Use this graphic organizer to outline your think aloud for a piece of digital media to use in your classroom.

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Use this graphic organizer to record your lesson plans for QAR, think aloud, and reciprocal teaching.

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Erosion: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Link to virtual lab is attached.

We used this lab for our Think Aloud strategy.

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Use your existing Discovery Education username and password.

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Close-up of the slide in case it's difficult to read.

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Highlight 5 golden statements that resonate with you or that you find questionable in the article.

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Fill out this Google Form with a partner.

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Click trail:
Grade 3 Alberta (New) > Our Changing Earth > Erosion and Deposition > Model Lesson > Assignments and Resources > The Changing Shape of Beaches

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Fill out this QAR graphic organizer while we watch the video "Forces That Affect the Earth."

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Student example of Hankle the Sea Hare is attached.

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Use this Discovery Education board to help you create your own digital storytelling experience for your students.

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Use your existing Discovery Education username and password.

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Record your bored student story using this paper slide strategy.

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Use your existing Discovery Education username and password.

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http://www.tech4learning.com/digital-storytelling
teacher guide and student samples
https://elearningindustry.com/18-free-digital-storytelling-tools-for-teachers-and-students
free digital story telling tools
discovery ed tools

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Great  Math ideas with iPads apps and Chrome resources http://rafranzdavis.com/imix-iwonder-icreate-digital-storytelling-in-math/

8 Step Process to visual storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=23

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1. Digital Storytelling lesson plans: http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/lessons/digital-storytelling

2. More lesson plans: http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/view_lesson_plans?keyword=Digital%20Storytelling

3. Graphic organizers & digital tools to use for creating a digital story:
https://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/Graphic+organizers

4. Graphic organizers to start planning phase on paper: http://digitalstorytelling.weebly.com/graphic-organizers.html

Fun project! Modernizing a fairytale! http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2013/lessons/Modernize_a_Fairy_Tale

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1) Tools: Story Jumper as a resource for kiddos to use. User friendly and FREE
https://www.storyjumper.com
2) Rubric Column #1 the top one. Can be used across the board
http://www.schrockguide.net/uploads/3/9/2/2/392267/schrock_rubric_for_dst.pdf
3) 8 Steps in a nice circular info-graphic (edtech teacher)
http://edtechteacher.org/8-steps-to-great-digital-storytelling-from-samantha-on-edudemic/

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Challenge: use 5 of the 8 images to create a story of how you used digital storytelling to engage a bored student in your class.

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Use this sheet as a quick reference for a description of each practice.  We are going to use a Wheel Decide to guide our discussion of how DST can support these practices.

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You (and your students!) can use this as a reference when they are creating a story.
There are also story board templates on the Symbaloo.

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Read the articles for your number (1-4).  You will be responsible for teaching  your group the information from your article.  Each number focuses on:

1. DST and connections to the brain and learning

2. Overview of DST

3. DST across the curriculum

4. Basics of creating digital science

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Discover pages with the best links about a subject

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This is the penguin video we used at the beginning of the DST session.

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Use your existing Discovery Education username and password.

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How do you get students to set up their accounts for the first time?

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How do you get students to set up their accounts for the first time?

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This is the article we read on rigor and used to complete the group placemats during the third session on student engagement.

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This is the article we read on scaffolding to complete the group placemats during the third session on student engagement.

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This is the video we watched explaining fixed vs. growth mindset during the student engagement session.

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Use this website to measure readability of a block of text.

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Measure the readability of text. Free content analysis tool

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Test the readability of your text, for free today... ReadablePro subscribers get access to a whole host of specialist readability tools, including unlimited scoring of text, from as little as $4 per month Go pro today. Unlimited text readability; File scoring; Bulk text; Bulk URLs; Readability API.

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Use this chart to convert lexile level to appropriate grade level when using the lexile score measurement website (readability-score.com)

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We used this Blooms Taxonomy Circle during the third session focused on student engagement.

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Last week we looked at an introduction to microscopes. Centres included a video from Crash Course (knowledge), Placemat readers (knowledge in reading, analyze in activity) from Discovery Tech, 2 microscope hands on stations (apply) and one section where they added a microscope flip book (create) to their interactive notebooks with me.

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Math Videos

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Zooming In (Learn Alberta)
- Use to research more facts about the regions of Alberta
- Adding to mind maps or projects

Blooms- APPLY & UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER

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Streaming Discovery Tech Videos to supplement Science and Social Outcomes - Grade 2

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Streaming Discovery Tech Videos to supplement Science and Social Outcomes - Grade 2

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Consume

Bloom's : Reinforces Knowledge and Remembering of concepts by using a visual and auditory format.

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Virtual Field trips!

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Video Segments (targets specific topic)

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National Geographic interative Rocks and Minerals activities

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Recording Labs through video,then explaining, inferring and drawing conclusions.

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Produce and Create/Communicate
Researched animal hearing and transfered information into a presentation.
Bloom's - Knowledge/Understanding/Application/Creating

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- Comprehension / understanding
- Synthesis / creating
- Analysis / Analyzing
Students use "board builder" to explain the scientific method of an experiment in class.

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Body movements (ie. day & night - students rotate their bodies towards and away from a light OR seasons - students revolve around a light to understand hpw the Earth moves around the sun)

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whole class demonstrations

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Gizmos From Learn Alberta

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Variety is the spice of... Science!
Use a variety of resources for kids for all levels of instruction, from providing information to gathering it back from the kiddos. All our kids learn in different ways, so it's the first step to provide some options. Depending on what we are doing that day, we have video clips to engage, prezi to provide some flow and embed this and more into the class webpage. They can show their learning and form understanding through GIZMOs (one of my favourites), digi-labs (great for the dissection stuff when kids are a little... green - they still do hands on, but if they can't handle it, theres another option). Their textbooks are online and excerpts are taken to provide a stronger focus on the material that actually hits the curriculum. Etc Etc Etc Students communicate their understanding through creating their own prezi, google docs, websites, glogster, iMovie, and old fashioned pen to paper (as there is still a solid place for that).

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Record and Collect / Analysis, Evaluation and Synthesis

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Record and Collect / Analysis, Evaluation and Synthesis

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Virtual Labs (i.e. One Tomato, Two Tomato for Discovery Ed)

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Learn AB Gizmos: students follow directions while manipulating diagrams to observe happenings. They then interpret findings.

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- Give each center a number and lay them out in clockwise order in your room.
- Have student keep a checklist of where they have been
- After the centers have the students do a self reflection including a wonder statement or work habit ratings

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This is a great idea for those students that struggle with directions and absent students

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If you want your students to be able to edit PDFs online, you might want to check out the Kami Extension for Google Chrome.

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Best PDF and Document Annotation and Markup Tool. Works with Google Drive and Google Classroom

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If the vocab centre struck your fancy... here's a PDF of the Frayer Model for vocabulary.

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In a small group students discuss and then record their reasoning on a Padlet

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Manipulatives and then use screencasting (IE Explain Everything)

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Technology:  EduCreations
Pedagogy:  Chalk Talk

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Technology:  Kahoot
Create a Kahoot about the parts of the ear
Pedagogy: Exit Ticket- Have students label a diagram of the ear include word bank

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Content: Life Cycles
Pedagogy: Drawing/Artwork and Reciprocal Teaching

Technology: Blabberize

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Gizmo's for math and science digital manipulation
Content: Simple Machines (or anything else really)
Make sure to click on the Lesson info to view the resources, including the student investigation guide, which you CAN open in word and edit!
Access through LearnAlberta

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Technology:  Blabberize
Have students create and share their own character/voice that identifies one fact they have learned about light.  This will be shared with classmates on Blabberize site.
Pedagogy: Create concept map summarizing facts learned from each other.

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Topic: Quality of Life in different regions of Canada or Canada vs. other countries in the world.

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Topic: Quality of Life in different regions of Canada or Canada vs. other countries in the world.

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Technology: Powtoons/ Powerpoint
Pedagogy : Response Logs

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My D.E. is missing "On This Day". How do I get this on my page?

This should be on your home page on the right hand side of the web interface!

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DEPD Consultant
slasater.depd@gmail.com

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Can you as a teacher, see students notes that they have made on videos like the one shown today?

Each students notes are recorded under 'My Notebook.'  You can see these notes when you log-in as the student.

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Do all the interactives and content work well on Chromebooks, iPads?

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Do all the interactives and content work well on Chromebooks, iPads?

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In most cases, because we are still perfecting the iPad app, the resources (especially interactives) work better on Chromebooks than iPads.  If you use the iPads, make sure to use the web browser edition.

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Am I able to upload my own content into My Content folders?

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Am I able to upload my own content into My Content folders?

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You can!  Just click on 'My Content' and hit the orange 'Upload' button and upload away!

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How can we copy assignments to D2L or to the ePD (on Brightspace?)  Legal implication? Copyright?
How about using a class based Weebly?!

You can use any website and copy the Discovery Education resources as long as only your students are using them.  You have permission but only for students within Calgary Catholic schools.

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How does it align with Alberta curriculum?

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How does it align with Alberta curriculum?

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You can see the curriculum alignment with each lesson if you click on 'standards.'

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Hey y'all! Welcome to Calgary... we are okay with the twang ;)

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I want to know how to use it for classroom instruction as well as project based learning. I am  curios about how to aligns with grade 4 Alberta outcomes.
How do you use it without a smartboard? We have TV's...