Diigo Posts 04/18/2009

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• Discovery Education | Siemens Science Day

  Teachers, engage and amaze your students. Here you’ll find videos, tools and revealing hands-on activities for students in grades 4 through 6 to help reinvent your science class. New, original experiments with intuitive directions, materials lists and home extensions.

  tags: science, education, interactive, resources

• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

  The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education.

  tags: education, technology, curriculum, teaching, standards, 21stcenturyskills

• Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education | Media Education Lab

  The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students’ critical thinking and communication skills.

  tags: copyright, literacy, fairuse

• TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills

  TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students

  tags: assessment, literacy, information_literacy, information, technology, tools, library

• Women’s Adventures in Science

  A curious look at “Women’s Adventures in Science”

  tags: science, multimedia, interactive

• Teachers’ Domain: Inspiring Middle School Literacy

  These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5–8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic.

  Each activity addresses a range of specific literacy strategies. All 15 activities promote monitoring comprehension, synthesizing, asking questions, developing vocabulary, connecting prior knowledge to new learning, and developing a topic in writing.

  tags: literacy, middleschool, reading, writing, science, history, socialstudies

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