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Comparing Fractions for Kids | Easy Math Lessons

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Reading Coach is a practice tool for anyone looking to build their literacy skills. With the power to generate stories with AI and a library of leveled passages from ReadWorks, learners can practice reading with content that matches their abilities and interests. Reading Coach keeps learners engaged with opportunities to unlock new characters and settings, practice their most challenging words, and track their progress over time. The application works for learners who know how to decode words.

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Students often struggle with the concept of fractions. This interactive fraction strips tool helps students visualize fractions. With these online fraction strips, students can model fractions, solve fraction problems, explore equivalent fractions, and observe the differences between denominators.

To use the interactive fraction strips tool, click and drag the strips onto the canvas. You can drag as many of each fraction as you'd like. To remove the strips, drag them off the canvas. Change the chart to accommodate two whole units by pressing the "Unit Double" button. Add annotations using the pencil tool and erase using the eraser. To clear the canvas, press the trash can button.

A few activities you can do with students while using the online fraction strip tool include:

Have students model a given fraction, mixed or not. For example 1 1/4 or 3/6.

Ask students to model addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problems using the fraction strips.

Ask students to find equivalent fractions for a certain fraction. For example, how many sixths are equivalent to 1/3?

Ask students to use the pencil tool to divide one of the wholes on the chart into fourths. Then, students can check their work by dragging fourths onto the chart afterward.

Looking for more fraction manipulatives? Try our interactive fraction circles.

Visit classplayground.com for more resources and printables about fraction strips.

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Fraction Strips | Free Virtual Manipulatives | Toy Theater

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Use the interactive fraction strips tool to help students visualize, model, and explore fractions. Students can also solve problems using fraction strips.

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PLP our favorite thing! lol!

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ALSDE Identity Management (AIM) " ALSDE (Alabama State Department of Education)

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative. We work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, our mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.

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Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative. We work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, our mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Education is always evolving and teachers must constantly refine their skills. Professional development gives teachers the opportunity to enhance these skills to increase the level of understanding and achievement of their students.

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Fun Educational Activities

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Fun Educational Activities | McGraw Hill

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Find fun educational activities like coloring books and apps, to supplement your child's at-home learning.

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Alabama SES - Forms - Alabama State Department of Education

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Through leadership and service, the vision of Special Education Services (SES) is to foster positive educational outcomes for all students with special needs.​

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Student Computer Monitoring

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Welcome to the Alabama State Department of Education's (ALSDE) Office of Professional Development and Professional Learning.
Alabama offers many PD opportunities for educators K-12 and is committed to ensuring educators have multiple opportunities to prosper professionally.

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LOOM- Screencasting/transcribing script to audio videos!

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LOOM- Screencasting/transcribing script to audio videos!

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Use Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily – and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces.

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Standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more.

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Kindergarten Brigance IREADY Resources

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i-Ready Central Resources | Kindergarten

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On i-Ready Central you'll find everything you need to be successful with i-Ready, from videos to tips and planning tools.

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Preschool - Alabama State Department of Education

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Every child. Every chance. Every day. At the Alabama State Department of Education, those six words encapsulate the beliefs and ideals that drive our department's initiatives and strategies to ensure Alabama truly achieves our goals and that our students are truly prepared for the workforce.

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Educational Online Games- Puzzles and Brainteasers

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Breakout EDU - Educational Games for the Classroom

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Breakout EDU gamifies learning to create an engaging and empowering experience for students of all grade levels.

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Home - Forest Hill Elementary School

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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Storyboard That Login: Sign In or Create Your Account Today

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Storyboard That: Log in or create your account today! Sign in to access your storyboards or sign up to create visual projects. Start creating your account now!

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Student Engagement Activities for I-Ready 

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Student Engagement Activities for I-Ready 

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MCPSS Work Request (SQL version) Version 64.0

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READ&WRITE Computer App Extension from Google

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READ&WRITE Computer App Extension from Google

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Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research.

Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including: • Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting • Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained • With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying • Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type • Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research • Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs • Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting Install Read&Write for Google Chrome to access ALL of these features FREE for 30 days! Teachers can get a FREE premium subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome. To register and activate your subscription, go to texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/free-for-teachers/ after installing the Read&Write for Google Chrome trial.

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Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

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Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP)

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Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP)

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"My son is in fifth grade and can't read. What's going on? Does he need special education?"
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"My parent support group is looking for someone to come and talk about special education law."

"My daughter's school tells me she doesn't qualify for s ervices under the IDEA but it wants to write a 504 plan for her. What's the difference between the two?"

These are a sampling of the questions that ADAP receives daily about special education in Alabama. Who's here at ADAP to help with these questions? What services can ADAP provide?

ADAP answers all calls for technical assistance and referrals on special education matters.

Sometimes, a parent calls ADAP with a problem that needs more than simple technical assistance. ADAP would then consider this parent's need for individual case advocacy. ADAP's individual case advocacy services might include attending IEP meetings with parents, negotiating with school districts over disagreements about a child's IEP, participating in mediation procedures or representing parents in due process hearings. Unfortunately, ADAP cannot represent every person who requests individual case advocacy services. Please see ADAP's eligibility criteria for more information.

ADAP annually provides dozens of trainings for parent support groups and school systems. Some of the topics which have been addressed at trainings include: how to write IEPs, self-advocacy for parents, special education law and school disciplinary procedures and transition planning.

Special Education: A Right Not A Favor - The complete download.

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Breakout EDU - Educational Games
Standards-aligned games, educators can create a learner-centered experience that allows students to work together

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Breakout EDU - Educational Games for the Classroom

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Breakout EDU gamifies learning to create an engaging and empowering experience for students of all grade levels.

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I-Ready Action Sheet

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Integrating Computer Science into K-5 Literacy 

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/pixelart4education is a Facebook Group to share Pixel Art Mystery activities for teachers. These activities are great for kids to practice math facts, vocabulary, foreign language, science, social studies, anything really! Once the activity is formatted for the picture to appear you can change the questions and answers to any grade level or subject.

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Federal Programs- English as a Second Language

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The mission of the English as a Second Language Program is to facilitate language acquisition by providing quality instruction, resources, and advocacy for equitable educational opportunities to graduate career ready citizens.

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Join a game of Blooket to answer questions and compete in a fierce clash to determine who is the best and what Blook will come out victorious.

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Login - Heinemann | Publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services for teachers, kindergarten through college

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Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services for teachers, kindergarten through college.

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Live Polls and Wordle Clouds for Students and Presentations

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Live Polls and Wordle Clouds for Students and Presentations

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Education is always evolving and teachers must constantly refine their skills. Professional development gives teachers the opportunity to enhance these skills to increase the level of understanding and achievement of their students.

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Encouraging upper elementary and middle school students to collaborate in solving a problem helps cement science learning.

The straw tower challenge, undertaken here by the author's students, is a perennial favorite for good reason.

Design challenges typically present students with a problem to solve using limited materials. A good design challenge has many possible solutions, encourages creative thinking and teamwork, and teaches valuable content in an engaging and hands-on manner. Some challenges require expensive materials and many days or weeks to complete. When you have a limited budget and just a day or two of class time to spare, design challenges like the following ones can get students creating, cooperating, and thinking.

1. Alka-Seltzer Rocket to Mars Challenge

Problem: Your rocket must launch from the ground into a bucket on the roof of the school.

Materials: Alka-Seltzer tablets, film canisters (I purchased 30 canisters on Amazon for $9), containers for water, a large bucket, a roof or high place like the top of a playground.

Alka-Seltzer and water create carbon dioxide bubbles, and when sealed together inside an old film canister, they create a "rocket" that pops high up into the air.

I give students the target of an orange bucket (representing the planet Mars) placed on the roof of our school to encourage maximum height and accuracy with their rockets. Each group gets six Alka-Seltzer tablets, a film canister, and a container of water. They are encouraged to try different amounts of water and Alka-Seltzer until they achieve maximum height.

Students put some water in the canister, drop in some Alka-Seltzer, quickly seal the top, then put it down and step back. After about 10 seconds, the pressure causes the canister to fly into the air, and the students estimate the height using marks on the side of our building for reference. They record data and make changes until they run out of Alka-Seltzer or put their canister in the bucket. They quickly learn that too much water weighs the rocket down and creates less room for pressure to build.

Just half an Alka-Seltzer tablet and a tiny amount of water allows for 7 or 8 meters of height. Students also learn about the challenges of landing a rocket accurately, and about how to adjust hypotheses and gradually improve performance.

2. Kool-Aid Challenge

Problem: Your team must create a new and delicious flavor of Kool-Aid that wows your classmates.

Materials: A variety of Kool-Aid flavor powders, graduated cylinders or liquid measurement containers, paper cups, water.

I get parent permissions and check on student allergies before beginning any activity that involves food or drink. First, I mix five or six different flavors of Kool-Aid in 2-liter containers. I typically choose a variety of flavors, including one or two unusual ones like lemon-lime and strawberry-kiwi. The teams are challenged to make 1 liter of their new creation by combining multiple flavors.

They measure out each flavor using graduated cylinders until their concoction totals 1,000 ml. Students create names for their flavors and signs to advertise them. Each student samples the other new flavors using a paper cup, then ranks them.

We tally the votes and declare a winner of our Kool-Aid new-flavor competition. Students learn about metric volume and use creativity and collaboration to come up with their best solutions to the problem.

3. Solar Oven Challenge

Problem: Your team must create a solar-powered oven that warms a marshmallow.

Materials: Cardboard boxes, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, ziplock bags, black construction paper, marshmallows, thermometers.

We do this activity after studying the properties of light. Sometimes I provide a variety of cardboard boxes, or some years I ask the local pizzeria to donate a batch of pizza boxes.

Students first draw their designs individually, then decide on a group design. Many groups reflect light into their oven using aluminum foil, and they line the bottom with black paper to absorb light and turn it into heat.

The best-performing designs typically use plastic wrap (plastic laminating material also works well) to trap the heat inside their oven using the greenhouse effect. We place the ovens outside in the morning, with a thermometer in each box and one marshmallow per group member. We check temperatures and eat the marshmallows near the end of the school day to maximize heating time. Obviously, a bright and hot day works best.

Students learn how concepts like reflection, refraction, and absorption can work together to create heat.

4. Straw Tower Challenge

Problem: Create the tallest tower using only straws and masking tape in 45 minutes.

Materials: 40 straws per group, 3 feet of masking tape per group.

Just like with the solar ovens, I ask students to create individual designs (we use the Procreate app on iPads) and then agree on a group design. Students may tape straws to the floor but to no other objects in the room. Often, the most successful designs start with a sturdy base, like a triangular or rectangular prism, then build up in gradually smaller shapes as the tower gets higher.

Many times, a group will start building upward quickly and will pull ahead, only to lose stability and see their tower droop or fall over as the time limit is reached.

Students learn engineering and geometric skills, adapt their designs as conditions change, and think creatively in three dimensions in this challenge.

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Videos, Images, and Sites for Academic Classroom Growth

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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The Kid Should See This: Educational videos for curious kids of all ages, a free resource for parents & teachers. Science, art, nature, animals, & more.

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Educational Hip-Hop Songs & Videos for All Subjects, K-12

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Flocabulary is an library of songs, videos and activities for K-12 online learning. Browse our library of educational rap songs including: science, language arts, social studies, current events and math videos for kids.

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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History of the Oregon Trail for Kids | Bedtime History