Black History Ideas

We are Teachers recently shared their ideas for Black History Month.  You can see the resources here. There are suggestions for virtual field trips, black artists and inventors as well as poster ideas.

Teaching Black History with Authentic Voices

Please see this Discovery Education blog post with several resources for Black History Month.

Black History in Science

 

This newsletter from PBS includes information on famous black scientists. Please click here for the information.

Storyvoice

Storyvoice is the place for live interactive stories.  This free site is geared toward students in grades k-5.  Eric Curts recently shared this in his blog here.  There are several live readings each week (with the author or illustrator) and the sessions are archived for a limited time (the site says 24 hours yet some of the stories were listed to expire in 22 days). In addition to the story, each session has a related activity.

Want some beans with that rice?

Freerice has been around for several years.  Now there is BeanBeanBean.  It has some of the same features (answer questions correctly and money is donated to charity).  BeanBeanBean is supported by ads and you can request the field for questions.  There is one for the 50 states and state capitals- this is something I could have used when teaching fifth grade.

Interesting uses for ChatGPT

In this article in Edutopia from Hedreich Nichols, she shares several suggestions for using ChatGPT. I like the one suggesting using it instead of Google. You can read it here.

More Photo Words

Eric Curts has followed up his introduction to Photo Words with this recording  You can see the video above.

Ukraine is here!

Interested in the rich art and culture of Ukraine?  In several of the classes I’ve visited, I noticed we have several Ukrainian students now joining us.  Google Arts and Culture recently created a rich collection of Ukraine’s culture, nature, art, and architecture.  Please click here to view.

Stack those habits!

In today’s newsletter, Matt Miller remind me about a post from last year.  Habit stacking is an easy way to help your students learn new procedures.  Please see the post here.

Book Tasting?

While this post (and podcast) talks about graphic novels, Betsy’s (from Spark Creativity) plan would work for any genre.  Please click here to see her suggestions.