Featured 3-10-2014: Nepris

Nepris makes it possible for teachers and students to easily connect with the right industry experts, learn from them, and bring the real world to the classroom.

 

The vision of Nepris is to provide more opportunities for the average student to be inspired to choose STEM subjects and careers. With the support of industry leaders and professionals and by using technology solutions, they hope to bridge the gap between industry and schools.

 

Choose a curriculum topic or student project then let Nepris find the right industry expert to show how that topic is applied in practice, to provide guidance to students with their projects, and to assess final student products. Students can submit questions and take part in discussions. Each session is recorded and can be reused.

 

 

 Watch Nepris - Real World Delivered to Classrooms!

 

Through exposure to tech professionals and their related job skills, students can connect what they learn in the classroom to real people and real careers on a regular basis.

 

Sign up at Nepris for free as an educator or an industry expert.

 

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The Rearview Mirror 3-8-2014

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

 

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Monday

Lightning Grader is a web application that allows educators to quickly and easily create and grade assessments and generate robust reports about student, class, and school performance.

Tuesday

Focused on key topics in US history, Historical Thinking Matters is a website  designed to help students learn how to critically read primary sources and how to critique and construct historical narratives.

Wednesday

Teaching Kids News produces daily, timely, relevant kid-friendly news articles for kids, classroom educators, and parents. A new article, based on what is actually happening in the world, is offered every day (except holidays).

Thursday

You can be a virtual chemist with goREACT,  a free iOS app from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

Extra 3-7-2014: Writinghouse

Writinghouse is a free, fully automatic bibliography and citation maker. Save time by creating a cited page instantly in the MLA, APA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles. It's easy and fast.

 

 

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Featured 3-6-2014: goREACT

You can be a virtual chemist with goREACT,  a free iOS app from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

 

goREACT lets you create nearly 300 virtual chemical reactions by dragging elements into the Reaction Area. Images and videos illustrate the molecules you create.

 

 

goREACT and the Periodic Table:

• Touch any of the Periodic Table's 118 elements to see an image and fun fact about it.
• Learn more about how the Periodic Table is organized, and follow links to additional educational resources.
• Select alternate views of the Periodic Table to discover different aspects of the elements’ chemical properties.

 

 

Featured Reactions guide you through themed sets of chemical reactions related to particular applications, such as the environment, beauty products, or cars. Helpful hints and suggestions about reactions to try generate exciting explorations.

 

 Visit the goREACT YouTube channel

 

 goREACT requires iOS 5.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

 

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Featured 3-5-2014: Teaching Kids News

Teaching Kids News produces daily, timely, relevant kid-friendly news articles for kids, classroom educators, and parents. A new article, based on what is actually happening in the world, is offered every day (except holidays).

 

Every story is in kid-friendly language and is appropriate for kids in grades 2-8. As well as accessible vocabulary, Teaching Kids News provides context for everything in each story, so students can understand what’s going on, and why.

 

In the Curriculum Connections, students are encouraged to think critically about the story and also about the way the story is presented. Does the story exhibit a bias? How might the story be written differently by another journalist?

 

Teaching Kids News strives to "teach balanced literacy in a meaningful way.” Teachers have a current events resource that can be used for shared, guided, and independent reading lessons. At the bottom of each article are Writing/Discussion Prompts, Grammar Features, and a Reading Prompt that will enable you to connect with your students and solve real-life issues.

 

 

The articles are intended to work well in a classroom setting, in small groups, or for individual students. Each article can be a nearly complete lesson plan.

 

 See a video introduction to Teaching Kids News

 

Teaching Kids News has a sister site, Getting Kids Reading, with tips, activities, games, websites, research information and ideas that will help you get your kids reading.

 

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