Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: How Technology Makes You Feel
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson challenges kids to pay attention to their feelings while using tech. With an engaging emoji game, 1st graders learn practical strategies for managing their feelings - good, bad, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Multiplying Bigger Numbers
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez, Jackie and Digit use multiplication to keep track of the number of clones.
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Pbs Learning Media: Grubby's Wacky Worms
Wicked and Digit must solve a fraction problem in order to free the CyberSquad in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Figuring Out Elapsed Time
In this video segment from Cyberchase, through addition and regrouping in base sixty, Matt helps Digit figure out what time his CyberSouffle will be done.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Game: Decisions on Deadline
This lesson explores Decisions On Deadline, a free, fun, and fast-paced browser and tablet-based game where players take on the role of journalists running down stories, working against time and a limited budget while navigating a string...
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Lesson: Representing Ourselves Online
In this instructional activity, students talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Putting a Stop to Online Meanness
[Free Registration/Login Required] The internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. With this role play, help your students understand why it's often easier to be mean...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Seasaws
Using photographs of natural and man-made objects, students assemble the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition.
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Pbs Learning Media: Two Points Determine a Line
In this video segment [2:10] from Cyberchase, Digit must make a straight line between the two points and then follow the path created.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Puzzle of the Amulet of Amagansett
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Wicked and Digit use what they know about fractions to figure out how many jewels are missing from the Amulet of Amagansett.
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Pbs Learning Media: Solving the Sphinx's Fraction Problem
In this Cyberchase video segment, Wicked and Digit solve a fraction puzzle in order to move on in their quest to save the CyberSquad.
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Pbs Learning Media: Several Short Rails Make More Than a Whole
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Hacker has sabotaged another section of the Madre Bonita Express track; Digit gets help from Deci in adding decimals to find the right size rail that will repair the track.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Fetch Fone: Just a Minute Digital Game
Children will learn measurement and the measureable attributes for time in this interactive game from FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman. Ruff sometimes needs his assistant to do silly things. They have one minute to do things like spin around in...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: What Kind of Screen Time Parent Are You? Take This Quiz and Find Out
An article and a quiz for parents on technology use by parents and kids. Includes a short interview with author Anya Kamenetz who wrote "The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life." [5 min.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Google Docs to Write for Audience
Young scholars write and digitally publish a weekly newsletter using Google Docs. The content will be a synthesis of interesting issues from their class as well as some outside news and issues which directly impact students. The target...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Step Up, Speak Up!
This site offers a practical campaign toolkit to address the issue of online sexual harassment amongst young people aged 13-17 years. Step Up, Speak Up! includes a range of resources for young people and the professionals who work with...