After reading Loree Leedy's There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me, kids create and illustrate their own poems that convey the meaning of an idiom. The poems are then transferred into Shutterfly's Photo...

students gather information during field trip to the zoo. They use and present their findings of the types of birds, cats, primates, and other mammals to their teachers and classmates by producing a slide show using Real Slide Show 2.0.

Students practice digital camera skills by identifying effects of depth of field at different apertures, comparing effects of depth of field with different focal lengths, and creating images showing effect of depth of field at different...

Students use the Internet to research a topic for an infomercial presentation. Using the research gathered, students design the layout of a brochure. Next, students use Microsoft Publisher to create a brochure that combines images and...

Finding the right software, tool or app can be challenging. This module will help you find a tool for a specific task and allows you to compare similar tools to find the best match. Some of the information is only useful for university...

Preparing the new generations for college and career readiness absolutely requires us to ensure our children are competent and comfortable in the use of a variety of digital tools. Students will be learning about a topic online and...

Use Thinkport's Annotator tool to analyze text and build writing skills. Simply paste in your text, select your virtual markers and have students annotate the passages.

Being able to thoughtfully choose the right technology tool for a learning task from the vast array of choices available can be a significant challenge. So using an evaluation strategy to make good technology tool choices is an important...

Presents a table ranking the top 200 technology tools. It also shows their place on 3 sub-lists: PL100 - Tools for Personal Learning; WL100 - Tools for Workplace Learning; and Ed100 - Tools for Education. The shading indicates the most...

OER Commons is a network of resources that have been shared by many different schools, instructors and institutions - and it is all free for you to use! Browse the courses or lesson plans for topics ranging from mathematics to humanities.

How do public opinion polls work? And, more importantly, are they accurate? Jason Robert Jaffe reveals the complexities and biases of polls and provides tips on how to think about polls as we make everyday decisions. [4:25]

Students will locate, retrieve, store, and correctly cite digital information for research projects.

In this tutorial, get tips and tricks to use your devices as efficiently as possible.

TimeRime is an innovative and interactive resource for viewing timelines in all subject areas or creating your own personal timelines.

Learn how to create a survey in Excel, Word, Google, Facebook, and SurveyMonkey.

This resource describes the first phase of a Grade 6 teacher's lesson plan where students develop a plan for working on a research project and then collect information. Each student has chosen a topic relating to how the economic systems...

This article discusses three criteria teachers should consider when choosing digital tools that will engage their students: students should be able to personalize the tool, they want tools that will connect their learning to real-life...

In this activity, students will create a customized Google Form that will showcase the four dilemmas defined by the game cards from Would You Rather...? and then share the form with others to collect data for analysis. Lots of Would You...

As the agent for a famous person you are studying, it is your job to develop a portfolio for him or her that will help them showcase specific skills and accomplishments to potential employers. This project sets the stage for...

Storm Board is an online brainstorming tool. Users can work collaboratively to put 'sticky notes' on a bulletin board, then organize them and assign them colours. Additional suggestions are offered from Edistorm based on what you post....

Explore this resource that directs you to various (primarily free) sites where you can create your own exercises, quizzes, tests and more. There are also links to peruse the topics for already developed exercises. There are also...

Diffen aims to provide a one-stop shop for information that is unbiased, free, concise, and easy to understand.

Keep yourself up on the latest technology and how it can be used in your classroom with K12 Online Conferences. Earn credit for professional development podcasts, discover live RSS feeds of the most up to date information on events...

Learn how to use and customize the Firefox web browser in this free tutorial.