Description:

This service connects students with real-life National Geographic scientists, researchers, and writers. Students can participate in interactive lessons from across the globe with a Q&A session.

Lesson Implementation:

Teachers can use the platform to educate students on the different biomes across the continent and the life cycle struggles creatures experience trying to survive in their environment. Students could ask questions on the adaptations animals have to help them. This could be used for a research project on organisms or to gain insight how scientists collaborate in the real world. Students can use this information to launch a school-wide cause to support across the globe.

Legends of Learning is a comprehensive online platform filled with interactive games based on Math and Science standards. These fun games, which students can earn points to create and outfit a personalized avatar, are even complete with a pre- and post-quiz based on relevant concepts. This data can help teachers in lesson planning and execution.

Lesson Implementation:

Teachers can assign multiple fraction experiences that align with 5th grade math standards to create a supportive learning experience that uses multiple means of engagement to accommodate a variety of learning styles. The activities range from slicing a pizza to running a bakery. This empowers students with a sense of freedom when selecting how they will engage with a concept. Teachers can use these fraction activities as a review of concepts before a test or to gauge prior instruction.

iCivics Educator is an online platform that provides teachers with a means of teach civics in engaging ways. Students can explore a wide variety of civic-minded interactive games from using the Branches of the American Government to pass a law to determining the Common Good in your neighborhood.

Lesson Implementation:

Students can explore constitutional rights through the Do I Have a Right? game. This will have learners matching clients with lawyers in your virtual law firm based on Constitutional Rights. Using this as a means of classroom discussion, teachers can guide students to better understanding rights. Teachers could also connect this to real-world scenarios.

Description:

Google Arts & Culture is on of Google's suites that facilitates learning through exploration of museums, historical landmarks, and cultural artifacts from around the world. This allows an unprecedented access to (at least digitally) manipulate artifacts from anywhere on the planet.

Lesson Implementation:

Students can "walk" through famous galleries and museums on virtual field trips. This will empower students with the ability to bring abstract lessons to life. This will permit students will an unprecedented level of access to items they would previously have to board a plane to see. Examples include students exploring the concepts of area with the Great Wall of China or the scouring for details from painters of a specific era in The Louvre.

Description:

Mission US empowers learners through virtual exploration of interactive stories from the point of view of children during the Revolutionary War, Civil Rights Movement, Westward Expansion, the Great Depression, and more. Students can read primary sources/testimonials, witness past key events, and experience a visualized take on history.

Lesson Implementation:

Cultural Awareness can be taught to students through exploring perspectives of children across American history. By using the interactive For Crown or Colony? as an engagement tool, students can experience the choices Patriots and Loyalists made during the outset of the American Revolution. This aligns with current 4th grade curriculum standards in Maryland. It can be used to teach the state history along with manipulative artifacts, player choice that effects the fictional story of the character, and segments that reinforce the struggle the young nation endured for freedom from Britain.