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Create virtual games, assessments, etc. for students to participate in live, or on their own time!

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Nearpod: Foster a love of learning in every student

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Create active learning experiences students can’t wait to be a part of.

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This website allows students to participate in 60-seconds of mindful thinking and breathing where they can watch whatever worry they type melt away as they take their break!

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Kahoot has thousands of pre-made quiz games for curriculum based, or just for fun topics! Teachers can create their own Kahoot games for whatever topic/grade level/assignment they desire!

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Kahoot!'s new student passes are a one-way ticket to take students from players to creators! Empower your students to engage in active learning with the tools they need to create and host kahoots that demonstrate their learning to the whole class.

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Premium Kahoot! features including exclusive question types like brainstorm, type answer, and puzzles, plus creation tools to create advanced slide layouts with our premium image library

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A student-centered learning platform and content hub designed to help students to take an active role in their education through powerful play

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Flipgrid allows teachers, and students to participate in a more interactive discussion experience. Specifically useful for virtual classrooms, students are able to post short video clips to respond to a prompt or to ask a question that teachers and classmates can then comment on and respond to.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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This website feature presented by the History Channel allows you to pick a date and read an article about one event that happened that day, as well as see a list of many other events from that day. This would be a useful resource to use as a brain break, or to start each day with as an intro to what research on the internet should look like.

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Discover what happened on November 27 with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.

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Like Nearpod, Mentimeter allows you to create interactive presentations/lessons with polls, and questions built right in.

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Ted Talk: "Every Kid Needs a Champion" by Rita Pierson

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Ted Talk: "Every Kid Needs a Champion" by Rita Pierson

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In this Ted Talk, Rita Pierson describes the importance of being a champion to each and every kid you come across in your teaching career. Rita Pierson truly puts into perspective the true meaning of what it is to be a teacher.

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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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This page on the Greater Good in Education website details the importance of kindness and compassion in the classroom. Additionally, it provides an entire page with links to lessons, and resources for teachers to use compassion and kindness and teach these concepts in a practical way for children.

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Compassion is defined as the feeling that arises when you perceive another's suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering.

Compassion can arise from empathy -the more general ability to understand and feel others' emotions-but goes further by also including the desire to help. Of course, we can feel compassion without acting on it, and not all helpful acts are motivated by compassion.

When compassion does lead to action, we often call the result kindness. Kindness always includes the intention to benefit other people, especially (though not always) at a cost or risk to ourselves.

Research has shown that compassion and kindness are deeply rooted in human nature-our first impulse is to cooperate rather than compete. Even toddlers spontaneously help people in need out of genuine concern for their welfare. This innate kindness, however, often gets lost in a society built on competition. Schools have a golden opportunity to cultivate the compassionate side of students by creating a school culture in which kindness is valued and practiced.

A science teacher sets up his classroom to cultivate students' innate kindness and cooperation, rather than their selfish and competitive natures.
He takes the time at the start of the school year to get to know students and for students to get to know each other by doing some fun icebreakers from Playworks, likeCrooked Circle.

To create an inclusive and connected classroom climate, students sit in a large circle for discussions and in small groups during regular instruction.

Everyone is encouraged to practice self-care, taking short breaks when they need to in the "Chillax Corner", and to take care of each other-noticing when a fellow student might be having a hard time and connecting with him or her.

The curriculum is taught with a "prosocial" lens, taking into consideration how the scientific content might be used to benefit students' communities and society in general.

Children's understanding of kindness and compassion change as they mature. For example, their ability to be compassionate grows as they develop their perspective-taking ability and emotion regulation.
Elementary age students and younger may view kindness mainly in concrete ways, such as in terms of the consequences of actions; whereas, older children and teens can appreciate the intentions behind the actions, allowing them to better navigate complex situations.

A first grader might say kindness is asking someone to play, taking turns, or helping someone who is hurt.

A high schooler gives his friend a hard time for choosing to go to the movies rather than study for an important test. At first, his friend is upset, but then realizes that the admonishment was made in his best interest.

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Kindness and Compassion for Students | Greater Good In Education

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Compassion is defined as the feeling that arises when you perceive another's suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering. Compassion can arise from empathy -the more general ability to understand and feel others' emotions-but goes further by also including the desire to help.

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Jeopardy Labs allows you to search, or create a jeopardy style trivia game. This could be used to review for quizzes/tests, or just for a brain break.

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Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

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Troublemakers by Carla Shalaby gives detailed accounts of three young students labeled "troublemakers" at school. She dives into their backgrounds and individual personalities to support her reasoning that there is always something beneath the surface causing troublesome behavior. She relates trauma-informed, and social justice issues in her practice as well making this an incredible read for all educators.

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Edutopia is a great website resource for videos, articles, and blogs with teaching tips and strategies. The many resources tackle curriculum, emotional and mental health, respectful relationships with students, and more.

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George Lucas Educational Foundation

The benefits of movement in the classroom aren't limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding-and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.

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A free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education.

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Addressing Race and Racism Head-On in the Classroom

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Addressing Race and Racism Head-On in the Classroom

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"Historical narratives should strike a balance between examining racism and discrimination but also highlighting 'the resilience and resistance of communities throughout history,' so they’re instilling hope in young people"

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Teaching students U.S. history authentically requires educators to delve into race and racism, invite "complexity and hidden narratives" into the conversation, and give students the tools to navigate and make sense of "the truths that are difficult to reconcile with the messages of freedom and democracy," writes Emily Boudreau for Usable Knowledge, a Harvard Graduate School of Education publication.

"What does it mean to be living on land taken from Indigenous people? How can a nation recognize that many of its institutions were built and made possible by the labor of enslaved people?" Boudreau writes, referencing an inclusive vision of history that asks us to acknowledge the contributions of women, Black, Latinx, Asian, and LGTBQ people, for example. "Because conversations around these hard histories can be challenging, educators need to know how to approach the subject in considered, developmentally appropriate ways."

As schools, and the country, become more diverse, a growing number of educators are working to expand K-12 curricula "to include the narratives of people from a wider range of racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds," writes journalist Holly Korbey. Greater inclusivity in history, she writes, allows young people to "see themselves in the story of our shared past, they not only develop a deeper appreciation of the subject, but become more civically active."

Here are four considerations, culled from Boudreau's article and from our Edutopia archives, for teaching and engaging with the complex narratives surrounding American history.

Feature Stories of Resistance and Resilience

Historical narratives should strike a balance between examining racism and discrimination but also highlighting "the resilience and resistance of communities throughout history," so they're instilling hope in young people, Boudreau writes, but also correcting the narrow, often cursory view of U.S. history that glosses over important figures of resistance like César Chávez, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the disability rights activist Ed Roberts, and Kwame Ture, born Stokely Carmichael. It's an effort that calls on educators to "teach a more accurate history that commonly goes untold: the role of grassroots activists and women, nuanced portraits of leaders like Parks and King, and racial and social justice battles that link the past to contemporary issues of inequality," writes Melinda D. Anderson, a journalist.

"It's imperative that teachers not reinforce a milquetoast version of Black history that is anti-Black because of its erasure of painful truths," writes Rann Miller, an after-school program director. As a student, Miller learned about Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass. "I heard very little of Malcolm X, the FBI's campaign against civil rights leaders, the Rainbow Coalition put together by the Black Panther Party's Fred Hampton, or Hampton's assassination. I learned about the struggles of my enslaved ancestors, but not about Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, or Nat Turner."

Examine Primary Sources

Textbooks tend to gloss over large swaths of history, "without going into much depth or bringing the voices of those who lived through those times to the surface," writes Boudreau. It's up to teachers to bring those voices into the classroom via primary source documents "that tell the story of an event using the words of the people who are described by the curriculum."

It's important, however, to make sure these materials are developmentally appropriate-teachers can "redact or edit them so students can understand and engage with the texts," Boudreau suggests-and to give kids opportunities to discuss and process "feelings that come up as they learn about these histories." One way to do this is to check in with students via an anonymous Google survey. "A teacher can then validate those emotions-some people might feel angry or sad-but giving students a chance to process the emotions that come up is essential for us to move forward as a country and acknowledge racism," says Adrienne Stang, a K-12 history and social studies coordinator for Cambridge Public Schools.

Meanwhile, the effort to find and work with primary documents presents a valuable opportunity to teach older students how to carefully vet resources-a foundational, critical thinking skill that involves understanding the cultural context and values from which primary sources spring, and determining the credibility of resources. In social studies, for example, "vetting resources is important not just because we want to ensure students are learning from accurate, verifiable materials," writes Paul Franz, an educational researcher and former middle school teacher. "It's important also because the ability to ask questions about sources, bias, and context are at the heart of social studies education and are essential skills for thriving in the modern world."

Make Sure Kids See Themselves in Your Classroom

Books and curriculum should "reflect the diversity of our world and identities of all students," in the classroom, writes Boudreau. In the early grades, check in with families and caregivers to gain an understanding of students' backgrounds, suggests Stang, and make sure kids have opportunities to learn not just about the identities of students in the classroom, but also about diverse cultures and backgrounds that aren't reflected in the room.

And while school and classroom budgets may be tight, even small changes-like sharing one book that references a child's experiences-can make a difference, says second- and third-grade teacher Natalya Gibbs, who hangs posters that reflect her students' identities and experiences such as family and home life structures and languages, and offers skin-toned crayons so her students "can see themselves in all aspects of their classroom." Her approach changes each school year, depending on the students in her classroom. "It's about 'Who is this class? What do they bring?' I'm growing my curriculum based on the community of children that I have each year, which means learning about my students and their cultures and making sure that they're represented."

Teach Hard Histories in Other Classes Too

It's not just the job of history teachers to take on the complex discussions around race and racism. "Including curriculum and sources that deal with both hard histories and narratives of resilience and agency is the job of every teacher, not just those in the history department," writes Boudreau.

In STEM classes, for example, writes scientist Ainissa Ramirez, author of The Alchemy of Us, which showcases little-known inventors, particularly people of color and women, it's critical to "inform [students] about the past." In doing so, educators not only "demystify scientific advancements by revealing their messy historical reality; we show students how science is actually conducted; and we have the opportunity to spotlight scientists who have been written out of history-and thus invite more students into the world of science."

In English class, make texts from authors who represent a spectrum of racial, cultural, and gender perspectives available, and emphasize the contributions of often marginalized people to American history-Bao Phi's A Different Pond, R.J. Palacio's Wonder, and Malinda Lo's Ash, to name a few. "Teach students about the Africanisms in American English when discussing or teaching grammar," writes Miller, who recalls reading Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and William Shakespeare in English class, but never Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, or Toni Morrison. "Students should be introduced to texts by Black authors that speak to Black experiences, Black perspectives, and Black accomplishments. These authors remind children and adults that Black excellence is not confined to athletics and entertainment. How can we promote the academic excellence of Black children without introducing them to Black intellectuals-individuals they can see themselves someday becoming?"

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Addressing Race and Racism Head-On in the Classroom

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This video gives a great example at a station rotation tactic used at one school. The stations don't single out ability level directly, and allow every student to get instruction based on their individual needs as a learner.

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Station Rotation: Differentiating Instruction to Reach All Students

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Rotation stations allow students to learn in a range of modalities, while making differentiation manageable for one teacher.

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This website gives categorized lists of resources to help with death, natural disasters, bullying, and other common social and emotional problems. It provides lesson plans, activities, and curriculum connections for many issues.

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We have partnered with Breathe For Change to bring you a set of social and emotional learning activities and videos. Breathe For Change is an organization created for teachers by teachers committed to empowering educators to enhance well-being in their lives, classrooms, and school communities. They facilitate in-person trainings for educators, and also have developed a powerful social-emotional curriculum. Each of these activities supports your students to build their capacity in developing a set of social-emotional competencies, which include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and responsible decision making. These are activities that you can incorporate into your classroom routines and procedures to build a strong community and culture.

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Social & Emotional Issues - Teacher Resources (Grades K-12) - TeacherVision.com - TeacherVision

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Help develop your students' social skills, emotional skills, and quality of character. These printables, lessons, and other resources will supply guidelines and advice for addressing social and emotional issues.

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Education Week provides blogs, articles, and free professional developments on a variety of educational issues and resources.

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Education news, analysis, and opinion about teaching and teachers

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This blog has resources you can access based on keywords. Posts are categorized by topics in leadership, learning theories, P.D., and more.

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You have reached the meat (or hummus, if you'd rather) inside the sandwich that is Cult of Pedagogy. This is where most of this site's accumulated wisdom lives.

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This blog run by two teachers is separated into subjects and offers free activities, worksheets, and lesson plans that fit into the common core state standards. In addition to the core subjects, this blog is constantly updated with back to school ideas, book studies, and seasonal activities to integrate into the classroom.

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Welcome to The Curriculum Corner! Our goal is to be the first place to stop when lesson planning for your elementary classroom. Through conversations about our classrooms and curriculum, we grew to recognize the need for a FREE website for busy teachers. We wanted to create a spot for teachers to search first for free, high-quality content. We provide resources for planning, day-to-day instructional resources, data tracking and more.

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Welcome to The Curriculum Corner! Our goal is to be the first place to stop when lesson planning for your elementary classroom. Through conversations about our classrooms and curriculum, we grew to recognize the need for a FREE website for busy teachers. We wanted to create a spot for teachers to search first for free, high-quality content.

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Teaching for Change's website offers an educator resources tab with books by topic, ways to teach anti-bias education and ways to incorporate critical information in an appropriate manner for children.

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Anti-bias curriculum is an approach to early childhood education that sets forth values-based principles and methodology in support of respecting and embracing differences and acting against bias and unfairness. Anti-bias teaching requires critical thinking and problem solving by both children and adults. The overarching goal is creating a climate of positive self and group identity development, through which every child will achieve her or his fullest potential.

The book, Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards, offers practical guidance to early childhood educators (including parents) for confronting and eliminating barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity; most importantly, it includes tips for adults and children to respect each other, themselves, and all people. Below you will find recommended books for young children, teachers, and parents for each chapter as well as additional resources on anti-bias themes and topics.

Readers may also be interested in Freedom Reads: Anti-Bias Book Talk, our new video series for parents, caregivers, and educators, available at SocialJusticeBooks.org.

Books

Recommended booklists that accompany the best selling NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) publication Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves.

Film

" Reflecting on Anti-Bias Education in the Early Years " is available for educators to stream for free. This 48-minute film is produced with the guidance of Louise Derman-Sparks, this resource offers the four interrelated goals of anti-bias education, along with a viewer guidebook. The film shifts the focus away from the talking heads of experts and on to the voices of teachers committed to equity on a daily basis. By taking viewers into diverse early childhood classrooms, the film seeks to demonstrate the importance of teacher reflection on identity, context, and practice in anti-bias education and provides a much-needed resource for teacher education and professional development.

In addition, a 1990 companion film to the book Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves is available for free viewing on Youtube.

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DC Educators for Social Justice

Teaching for Change has an initiative to help build and nurture a network of social justice educators in the D.C. metro area. Teachers in the D.C. Metro area are welcome to apply to join the Anti-Bias Early Childhood Working Group. Learn more.

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Anti-Bias Education - Teaching for Change

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Anti-bias curriculum is an approach to early childhood education that sets forth values-based principles and methodology in support of respecting and embracing differences and acting against bias and unfairness. Anti-bias teaching requires critical thinking and problem solving by both children and adults. The overarching goal is creating a climate of positive self and group identity ...

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Learning for Justice is a teacher resource for incorporating and understanding social justice issues. The website provides resources in race, religion, gender identity, rights and activism, bullying and bias, different abilities, and class.

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Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that centers civic and political action education for everyone.

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This website is a huge treasure chest of great resources for an elementary classroom. ReadWriteThink provides lesson plans, worksheets, interactive activities, videos and more to incorporate into the classroom. This site also provides resources for professional development including books, online seminars and events, and helpful strategy guides.

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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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CrashCourse Youtube channel provides super helpful video resources, and lessons on pretty much any topic you can think of for every content area.

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At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free! Subscribe for weekly videos from our current courses! Right now, we're producing Climate & Energy. The Crash Course team has produced more than 45 courses on a wide variety of subjects, including organic chemistry, literature, world history, biology, philosophy, theater, ecology, and many more!

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Geoguessr is a game useful in social studies and/or during a geography lesson. The game drops you in a place on google maps and using your surroundings you need to figure out where on a map of the state/US/entire globe you may be.

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GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.

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This site provides virtual versions of math manipulatives such as unifix cubes, base 10 blocks, number lines, spinners, etc. This resource could not only be useful in the traditional classroom setting, but for use in virtual classrooms as well, or where resources may not be available.

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From Number Lines to Base Ten, Pattern Blocks to Place Value, Disks our collection of free Virtual Manipulatives gives educators and families access to visual and hands-on digital resources that lead to understanding. Students can use these resources in class and at home to practice math concepts, reinforce their growing math understanding, technology they love in the process.

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Demonstrate key math concepts in your classroom using our new virtual manipulatives!

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ABCya has tons of educational games separated by grade level, and linked to common core standards. The games are also separated by strategy, skill, seasonal, letters, and numbers, so there is something for every lesson.

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ABCya! • ABCya! • Learning Games and Apps for Kids

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Educational games for grades PreK through 6 that will keep kids engaged and having fun. Topics include math, reading, typing, just-for-fun logic games… and more!

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National Geographic for Kids provides science games, articles, and activities at age level. Covering animals, influential scientists, viruses, and more, there is sure to be supplemental materials here for any lesson or standard.

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Same, Same but Different by  Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

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Same, Same but Different by  Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

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In this book, two little boys from two different countries become pen pals and find out that even though they live in different places, and look different, they like and do many of the same things!

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

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In this story the young boy's village is struck by a drought causing everyones crops to fail. Because of this, money for food and school dried up as well. The boy spent all of his time trying to figure out a way to bring electricity back to his village. The story shows a great example of perseverance despite the odds you were dealt.

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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

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Lilly goes through many emotions throughout this story, including anger causing her to use harsh words towards her teacher whom she likes a lot, which in turn causes her to feel regretful for her actions. This is a fun read, with an underlying lesson in feelings and controlling ones own actions.

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In Wringer, the main character Palmer struggles with feeling different about a town tradition than what seems like every other person in town. The book covers an important theme that it is better to stand up for what you believe in than to be a follower.

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The Lorax teaches an important lesson about how our actions influence our climate and in turn, our world. This lesson continues to be an important issue to teach about and this story presents the serious information in a fictional way that children are able to understand.