Chromebooks Can Do That?

If you haven't heard of Eric Curts, and seen his blog Control Alt Achieve, then you must be living under a rock because it ROCKS!  Here is a great post on Chromebooks.  If our students are using them, we should understand how they work.  Take a look at his latest blog post "Chromebooks Can Do That?!"

Veteran's Day Activities

 

Veteran's Day is a day to celebrate those living veterans who swore an oath to support and defend the  United States Constitution.  Veterans fought for the American Dream many of them giving the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we have.  Teaching our children the importance of celebrating veterans and listening to the stories they share is a great way to learn about why they did what they did.  Take some time to ask a few questions about when and where they served, what branch, and what they did in the service and finally ask them WHY?  Why did they join the armed forces and what signing up meant to them during that time in our country's history?  There are some fascinating stories out there, we just have to listen.

Below are some resources you may be interested in:  

• Virtual Room for Veteran's Day - Created and shared with permission by Sarah Wood - @MyEdTechWorld  Click Use Template and share with your students. There is a lot on this, so go take a look. 

• Veteran's Day Resources for Elementary and some Junior High  put together by Tonja Parkin 

• Flocabulary Veteran's Day - Don't forget about the teaching resources and there are questions built in if you use the interactive mode.  Turn it off if you just want to talk about the questions after watching the video. This is a paid resource Unit 5 has, login via Clever. 

• Veteran's Day EdPuzzle - Take a look to see if this EdPuzzle original is something you could use in your classroom. 

• Discovery Education has a full library of videos, Images, text, and audio you can choose from. Need a login for this one. 

• Nearpod has a lesson on Veteran's Day - Take a look, it's long but you can remove any parts of it to customize it to the length of your choosing.  

• C-SPANCLASSROOM has a ton of resources for teachers to share with students.  Take a look a the video below.