You don’t need to be a Girl Scout

To enjoy this collection of student and family STEM activities here on a joint Girl Scout and Discovery Education site.

Templates for Teachers

Sarah Kiefer and Beth Kingsley have a blog where they share fabulous Google templates.  Just copy the slides (and you can still edit) and share it with your students. Visit Templates for Teachers here.

Kindness 101- Service

Fran Maye shared this Steve Hartman video on service.  This might be something to share with your students. He has a Kindness 101 series each episode focusing on a different attribute.  Maybe share more than one and let your students select the one to view and reflect.

Connecting Students to Sustainable Innovation with the Internet of Things Virtual Field Trip (6/5)

Put your students at the cutting-edge of smart tech and sustainable innovation with Conservation Station’s Internet of Things: Infinite Possibilities Virtual Field Trip launching on World Environment Day!  Students will get an exciting look at how the internet they use in their everyday lives can be used to conserve natural resources, protect ecosystems, and create safer, more sustainable communities.  Please click here to register.

Kahoot! in the classroom

Richard Byrne will step you through the process to add a self paced Kahoot! to your classroom.  Please see his blog post here.

Sesame Street explains it all

Here is a blog post from Sesame Street with parenting suggestions for helping children cope with the pandemic.

New from Discovery Education- Art, Audio Books, and STEM

Here are highlights from their May releases:

Take students behind the scenes of the world’s greatest museums: From wherever they are, students can get a virtual, all-access pass to the world’s top museums from Janson Media’s Museum Access, now available in Discovery Education Experience and Social Studies Techbook. Host Leslie Mueller visits locations like the Adler Planetarium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Mystic Seaport Museum. With each visit, students will discover and learn about global culture, innovations, accomplishments, and heritage around the world.

Get lost in a great (audio)book: Now live in Discovery Education Experience, the Audiobooks network channel helps all students access literature and enjoy books at their own pace. The Audiobooks channel showcases more than 200 works of literature, allowing students to listen to books like Hunger Games, Goosebumps, Shakespeare, and more.  Students and teachers can easily browse the channel by grade range as well as genre, and new audiobooks are being added to the channel each week.  

Bring science into the living room: To encourage student curiosity and exploration outside the classroom while students are studying from home due to COVID-19, 3M has launched the 3M Science at Home video series. Now available in Discovery Education Experience and Science Techbook, the series presents simple and fun at-home experiments conducted by 3M scientists using common household items. The experiments are designed to reinforce core scientific principles in physics, chemistry, and biology and can be done from anywhere!

Flat Mrs. Giorgianni!

Click here to see the Animoto of Flat Mrs. Giorgianni! She did a nice job with her online classroom.

Community Helpers

I know this is a topic in the lower grades- here are some resources from WNET that you might want to use.Meet the Helpers (Early Learning) Wearing a mask helps stop the spread of germs! Help explain this concept to your little one with this short video from Meet the Helpers. And, say thanks to an essential worker with this coloring page!

The Adventures of Leo the Lion

Melissa Krzastek and her preschoolers wrote their own unique fairy tale.  All this was done via remote learning- please enjoy this narrated tale of Leo the Lion.

If the audio will not play in the slide

Check the permissions.  Just because the slide permissions are shared, it doesn’t mean the audio ones are the same.  I’ve had several requests with this issue as teachers add audio to their slides.  Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) shares the steps needed to make your audio work in Google Slides. Please see his blog post here.

Stories from home

Robin Read shared these stories from some of her students.  She asked them to take a picture from home and create a story.  These were made using BookCreator.