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I was introduced to Khan Academy I believe in my senior year of high school and it helped me out so much. When it first started I remember it was only for math and I would look at the videos over and over again to understand a certain math concept. Over the years I see that it has expanded to other subjects including social studies.  As I read through the website some highlights included:
-The program is free for all students.
-Students work at their own pace
-Students are assessed in the beginning with a diagnostic test. Therefore students will be working at content that is at their own level.
-Khan Academy offers a variety of tools to help teachers and students track progress. Teachers get real-time summaries of class performance and know which students are struggling.
- the most used content is now available in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.

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EdSurge. (2022). Categories:Science, Language Arts, Engineering, Math, Social Studies, and Arts. Retrieved from Khan Academy: https://www.edsurge.com/product-reviews/khan-academy

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I really enjoy BrainPop Jr.  I was introduced to this curriculum through my son teacher.  I love how engaging the videos are over various topics.  I often found myself watching the videos along with him learning something new.  This curriculum can easily be used as a supplement resource for teaching many subjects.
Highlights

BrainPop covers multiple domains from grade level K-8.  BrainPop jr (K-3), BrainPop (3-8) and BrainPop ELL to help build vocabulary and grammar skills for English learners.

It houses hundreds of animated educational videos across a wide variety of topics, all of which are accompanied by interactive quizzes, activities, and games.

It is very versatile in the fact that it can be used independently and as a whole class activity.

activities include quizzes with multiple choice and open-ended items, interactive games, sorting tasks, concept map creation, vocabulary review, and primary source analysis, among others.

Teachers  are able to manage their classes and access all submitted student work, review, grade, and provide feedback on any one of them through BrainPop.

This is just a great tool for teachers and students.
Brainpop - product reviews. EdSurge. (n.d.). Retrieved February 2, 2022, from https://www.edsurge.com/product-reviews/brainpop

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BrainPop is one of my favorite sites to use for fun learning videos for students from grades pre-k all the way to 8th grade. BrainPop is geared for students in grades 3rd to 8th while BrainPop Jr. is geared for Pre-k to 3rd grade. Their videos mostly feature Moby (a robot), Tim (BrainPop), and Annie (BrainPop Jr.) Students can access content-based videos in math, science, social studies, health, art, technology, and ELA. After watching the animated videos, they are able to do interactive games and activities related to the content.

Teachers are able to create accounts for their students to keep track of their work. It even allows for them to make their own assignments for students to complete or use the ones that BrainPop provides. The site is easy to browse through. Teachers, parents, and students can easily navigate through it based on subject, topic, or common core standard. Even better, students can use the app or website to access the site. I would highly suggest this curriculum website for any teacher to use in their classroom as students will enjoy it and benefit from it as well.

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Hi everyone! I remember reading Scholastic News as a young child, and also seeing it in my own children's take home folders. I love it because it helps students make connections to the real world, by using children their own age, who they can relate to, to show them what's happening in the world, with stories and pictures that they can connect with. I also love Brain Pop, and my daughter uses this as well in her third grade class. It tests their knowledge and makes sure they learning what is being taught. It usually involves a video and a quiz. She says it is a lot of fun, and she enjoys learning on it. I thought Cicero Kids looked like a very interesting site, that makes a student feel like they are at history museum, and teaches them history this way. I think that sounds like it would really excite young students, and make them want to learn about history in a fun way that will hold their attention.

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Oddizzi is a geography resource of primary schools. There is many downloadable content including word mats, PowerPoints, maps, and more. There is also 20 quizzes, 2000+ pages of online content, and 400+ short films. On the top of the website page, there is an interactive map where you can click on many different short films, weather and climates, places and more. It gives students a chance to learn geography and culture in an interactive way. One thing I really liked about this website is their daily challenges. There is map Monday, topic Tuesday, what if Wednesday, travel Thursday, and find out Friday.
https://www.oddizzi.com

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Kids Discovery

After navigating this webpage, I found interesting resources that the students can use during and after class. For example, it counts with Lexile that is for different levels of readers, building students' confidence to read. Besides, Kids Discovery online comes with a library of social studies material that the students can get access on any device. Another interesting source is that it has assessments that work to measure the progress of our students.

https://kidsdiscover.com/kids-discover-online/

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I was so glad to see Khan Academy when doing my search through the curriculum that was posted. Khan Academy is a curriculum that has practice math, science, grammar, history, and much more for free. Khan academy is used daily inside of my classroom during small group instruction or intervention. This program offer 100,000 practice math problems for grade level k-12 and students are able to work on their own pace inside the classroom or in the comfort of their own homes.
Hightlights
- Aligned with common core standards
-blended learning model
- student engagement
-visual learning videos
- higher confidence in the ability to do math

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Hello everyone,

Remembering social studies in elementary, I looked forward to the scholastic news articles instead of the history books. Scholastic News is a developmentally appropriate social studies resource that advocates for state standards for Grades 1–6. Scholastic news articles are quality instructional material, clearly written for particular ages to understand essential concepts. Scholastic is a credible resource, acts as a secondary source for students, and promotes blended learning. This platform has been around since 1920 and has developed throughout the years; today, Scholastic News can be accessed digitally. My placement for Practicum 3 swears by scholastic for the Kindergarten classroom. We actually just used the scholastic article for January. The students created a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. Students came up with scenarios where they could be kind and added it to a classroom "document" and signed their name to be accountable for helping others.

Scholastic News topics in Social Studies

Culture

Long ago and today

U.S. history and symbols

Holidays

Reading a map

-Liz Perez

Scholastic News: Scholastic classroom magazines. Scholastic Classroom &amp; News Magazines. (n.d.). Retrieved February 3, 2022, from https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/promotion/scholastic-news.html

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Starfall is one of the best child friendly and educational websites that I enjoy using even with my child at home. They have many different free things that you are able to get onto and learn as you go. Many children are able to watch if they would like and they are able to learn colors, numbers, ABCs, seasons, holidays, and much more. The holidays and the ABCs are what I enjoyed the most when I would go on their with my children. For the holidays you get to build a snowman (example) and at the end it would count up to 10 snowmen and sing and dance. Getting into the starfall ABCs and it would being up a the letters and you would click on the letter you would want. It goes into the sound, and a few different things that start with that letter. At the end it will have you match the letters for a word and you can hear the sounds into a word. There is many other fun activities to do with starfall and you can always pay more to add on because it does go from Pre K to 3rd grade.
www.starfall.com

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BrainPop is a curriculum that I was introduced to as a middle school student and I loved it! BrainPop can be embedded in all instruction because it offers a range of content areas to explore. They offer 3-5 minute educational and interactive videos with Moby the Robot. Moby the robot is a plus for engaging students! Following the video, there are short assessments available which is helpful for the teacher to use as pre- or post-assessments to gather quick information on student knowledge regarding a topic.

Highlights:
-Available for grades K-8
-Covers material in ELA, math, science, social studies, health, art, and technology
-Available for sing-student use of district-wide coverage
-Short academic animated movies
-Learning games
-Interactive activities
-Supports ESL curriculum
-Searchable by Common Core/State standards
-Other languages available

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Jim Wolf

I immediately gravitated towards the Scholastic Magazine because it was one of my favorites as a kid. The online interactive version is super cool.

The article entitled "News or Not" is especially relevant for today's youth. It's important to understand the source of imformation that you cite whether you are citing a source in school for an academic report or debate or simply in everyday life.

We live in the age of "clickbait" and "fake news." if you think it's hard to differentiate valid sources as an adult imagine having the under-formed frontal lobe of an eleven year old. I can'e even tell you how many times I've heard one of my sons spout some ridiculous fact only to have them cite their source as tiktok.

Teaching young people the skills to question their source even when it agrees with their stance will create young adults that we can count on to make informed decisions.

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I grew up with Scholastic Magazines when I attended elementary school. For this reason I built a love of reading and learning about the wonderful world around us. Now as I am learning to become a future teacher, I hope to instill the same feeling to my students when I present them these wonderful and educational resources. Not only do these magazines prove to help students learn but they also make learning so much fun! Now Scholastic Magazines offer a Scholastic Magazines+ which highlights:
- Ready-to-go lesson plans for teachers, following the National Learning Standards.
- Interactive games and videos.
- SEL text and activities to support each student's well-being.
- Offers a variety of differentiation and scaffolding strategies to individually meet the needs of every student.
-Providing resources and materials in multiple languages.

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I’m really fond of BrainPOP. My son’s teachers always integrated it into the curriculum as a supplemental resource. It always provided clarity for topics that they struggled with. The animations reminded them of playing video games which was super helpful.

Highlights includes:

User friendly

Available to be used at home as a learning resource

Available to be used at school as a learning resource

Appeals to diverse learning and teaching styles with multiple choice and open-ended items.

Aligned with state standards

Available for Prekindergarten age students

Teachers can still design custom made questions that appeal to their students’ needs.

Fun, interactive, engaging

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Hi everyone! I remember using Brain Pop when I was in grade school and I remembered that I had always loved it! I felt that it was a great tool to use that always got all of the students engaged! One of the benefits of it is all of the different subjects you can utilize it with. It ranges from anywhere to ELA, social studies, math, health, art, etc. One of the main reason I like brain pop as a future teacher is the fact that after the students have watched the different videos they have the choice to look into quizzes or interactive games afterwards to further their learning. I know that in my future classroom I will be using brain pop with my students because I think that it is very beneficial! Feedback is also such an important asset to teaching and this app allows teachers to provide feedback to their students as well as grade their submissions. Overall, I feel that this is a game that is very helpful and helps get students engaged as well. These are just some of the highlights of brain pop! It also is free which is helpful and allows teachers to assign their own quizzes that fit their topic. I will always recommend brain pop!

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Achieve3000  offers a lot of resources for students and is an online program that provides differentiated instruction to help students improve reading comprehension. Achieve3000 offers Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum for students in preschool through 12th grade. It is a paid program that the district can purchase for schools.  Teachers can use Achieve3000 to find their students reading level and  use the programs standards-aligned lessons to help students progress. The site also has a tracking system that tells what students need help in with the Set Assessment. The programs then tailor instructional materials based on the Lexile scores of each student. It provides ongoing assessment and assignments give constant feedback to students, teachers, and administrators about student progress. I think this program would be great for students to know where they are in their reading level. It also gives students work at their own pace so that they aren’t overwhelmed with things that they don’t know.
Highlights

·       Differentiated instruction

·       Adaptive

·       Standard aligned

·       10,000 standards-aligned English and Spanish non-fiction texts

·       Tools to monitor students’ progress

·       Programs for students in PreK through 12th grade

·       KidBiz3000 for grades 2-5

·       It has a level assessments for teachers to determine student level

·       Offers ELL and Spanish

·       Uses RTI (Response to Intervention) model for intervention for struggling learners

120 texts to our Diverse Voices collection, so all students can identify with the content they read

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Be sure to include your name, when you post, so that you get credit for your posts and responses! Thanks-Professor Turner :-)

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This website offers interactive activities where students can learn about the world around them. Oddizzi allows students to visit anywhere around the world to explore other countries. Students will be able to learn about culture and geography through interactive games.

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Achieve3000 is an online curriculum for grades pre-k through 12 in literacy, but adults can use it, too! It can be used in schools, or for homeschooling students. It helps track the data of the students reading levels. I think my favorite part of it is that it helps ELL and Spanish options for students and teachers. This would be a great thing for smaller schools that may not have the staff to help the English Learners the way they need help. There are "after school" activities the teacher can assign or encourage the students to work on and also things the students can do in the summer to keep their mind on literacy! This is a licensed program, so there is a cost for it. https://www.achieve3000.com/

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Scholastic News - Social Studies Curriculum

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Scholastic News - Social Studies Curriculum

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https://scholasticnews.scholastic.com/

Highlights:
-Culturally Responsive and Relevant
-Current Events
-Lesson Plans already created
-Extension Activities included
-Builds nonfiction-reading skills, and increase content-area knowledge.
-Aligned with the Common Core State Standards

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I grew up BrainPOP curriculum, and I loved it because it made it fun and educational. The cartoons attracted the student's videos, and quizzes were helpful and accessible. This program helped me learn at school. It breaks down the topics for the students; You read, watch videos, and then an assessment. I will use BrainPOP with my second-grade class; it can be in the curriculum.
BrainPOP Jr. is great for ages K-3 and BrainPOP Espanol for ELL or ESOL students who speak Spanish. T gives information in an age-appropriate format with memorable characters. I like that I would use it with students who need Spanish.

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Maria Munoz- BrainPOP Social Studies Curriculum 

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Maria Munoz- BrainPOP Social Studies Curriculum 

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BrainPOP was the curriculum that caught my eye because of how much I personally loved it growing up. My teachers would incorporate it into our lessons, and I found them to be quite helpful when it came to breaking down and explaining things. If I was struggling to understand something, I knew I could rely on BrainPOP to help me understand that topic.

BrainPOP offers hundreds of videos where different topics are covered in quick fun animated videos. After those videos, there are follow-up activities, games, and quizzes that students can take regarding the topics which they just learned about.

Highlights:
- Animated educational videos
-Interactive quizzes
-Activities
-Games
-Easy to browse
-Students can easily access their grades/ progress.
-Both multiple-choice and open-ended questions.
-Aligned with common core and state standards
-Teachers can write their own questions for students
-There are different versions of BrainPOP available in different languages. Some of the following are Spanish, French, and ESL.

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Exploring BrainPop was so much fun. I think that BrainPOP is such a good source for students and teachers to use. BrainPOP is a good source to use for a teacher's curriculum. It helps students to understand a topic more along with having interactive activities that I believe help students understand a topic a little better.

Highlights:
-Lesson ideas
-Quizzes
-Games
-Activities
-Educational Video's
-Common core and state standards
-Beneficial for teacher use

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Scholastic News - Social Studies Curriculum

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