Monthly Newsletter Issue 94 |
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Black History Month,
Children's Dental Health Month,
American Heart Month,
Groundhog Day,
National Inventors' Day,
Valentine's Day,
Presidents' Day
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Greetings. Thanks so much for using Internet4Classrooms with your students and children. Our mission is to help you find the best educational online resources available to meet your individual needs. Our monthly newsletter focuses on sharing information, tips, and ideas on everything related to schooling inside the classroom and at home. Each month we will feature resources and information on a variety of topics. We are constantly updating
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This month's blog is
Tips to Work Out Your Brain This Winter
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There's nothing like the doldrums of winter to make you feel lazy -
both physically and mentally. Health experts will tell you that it's
important to get your daily exercise, even as the days grow colder and
the nights longer. But it's just as important to remember to work out
your brain - as the mind-body connection goes both ways.
Guest blogger Larry Mager is passionate about the study of how to reduce
the risk of Alzheimer's Disease. He believes in regular exercise of the
brain as a means to do just that.
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Things To Celebrate This Month |
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February brings Black History Month, Children's Dental Health Month, Valentine's Day, President's Day, and much more. You never know what wonderful resources you can find to enrich your classroom experience. Let's get started:
Black History Month- Visit our Black History page. Find
lesson plans, Black History activities and projects, timelines, quizzes, and tons of information. Some resources include Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, MLK, the role of African Americans in music, the Dred Scott Case, African flags, and an entire African American Odyssey exhibit exploring civil rights and slavery. Also find a
Black History month lesson plan for every day in February by exploring our Who Is It list. Find other Famous African American Firsts here.
Children's Dental Health Month- Take a look at "Crawford Brushes His Teeth" on our Kindergarten Science page. It's an interactive online book from Crawford the Cat where students can choose to read it themselves or have the computer read out loud. It discusses how to brush your teeth and how to floss. Use dental health month as an opportunity to find health and the body lesson plans and activities:
"A Brush Chart" and "Brush Chart to Color" offer tooth charts that you can print out and color. "Bright Smiles, Bright Futures" is a link to teacher's content on the Colgate site.
Learn how the body works - especially your teeth, cavities, braces, and more with these fun facts and activities.
American Heart Month- Teach students about the human heart and the importance of taking care of their bodies with our health resources section for grades K - 12. Included are links to everything from the human body and the heart to the dangers of smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity, adolescence and more. There are physical education resources as well. For the upper levels I4C has resources about and anatomy videos of the heart in our Biology section, specifically "The Heart: an Online Exploration", "Heart and Circulation", "Heart Transplant from NOVA" and "Heart Videos". Find a map of the heart, the circulatory system, and how it all works together.
Groundhog Day (2/2) - You can find out why we celebrate Groundhog Day and
why the groundhog was chosen to be the face of the holiday.
National Inventors' Day (2/11) - Did you know that National Inventors' Day is in honor of Thomas Edison's birthday? Learn about Thomas Edison,
other famous inventors, and famous inventions. You can also check out our Inventors page to find lesson plans and other activities.
Valentine's Day (2/14) - I4C has a great page of Valentine's Day lessons, crafts, online games and Valentine's printables. Have your students write a story using the phrases of 5 or 6 heart candy message pieces . Get creative.
Presidents' Day (2/15) - Celebrate two presidents that have February birthdays- Abraham Lincoln (2/12) and George Washington (2/22). Find lesson plans, history, timelines, reading exercises, and quizzes on both Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Celebrate Presidents' Day with these puzzles,
printable fact cards, printable biographies and prompts, coloring pages, web quests, and more.
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Internet4Classrooms now offers Online Practice Tests and Interactives, covering Kindergarten to Sixth Grade Common Core Mathematics. Look for a rapidly growing variety of thousands of practice quizzes tied to the Common Core State Standards, School Subjects, Activities, and Holidays.
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Internet4Classrooms now offers printables, covering Kindergarten to Sixth Grade Mathematics. Look for a rapidly growing variety of thousands of practice worksheets tied to the Common Core State Standards, School Subjects, Activities, and Holidays.
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We have thousands of answer keys for our printables worksheets supporting the Common Core Standards.
Remember that you can sign up for answer key access here: https://i4c.xyz/n89msyv.
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Every month we are going to feature a different, and hopefully FREE, iPad/iPod/iPhone educational application.
Visit our ever-changing app page. (www.internet4classrooms.com/links_grades_kindergarten_12/apps_web2_tools.htm)
The App of the Month for February is DropBox By DropBox ( iOS / Android ). Need to share a file that is too big to send by email? Need a simple cloud storage solution to safeguard important files or images?
Dropbox is the place for your photos, docs, videos, and other files. Files you keep in Dropbox are safely backed up and you can get to them from all your devices. It's easy to send large files to anyone, even if they don't have a Dropbox account.
Features:
- Access your files on any device, even if you're offline
- Create and edit Microsoft Office files from your smartphone or tablet
- Share links to your largest files without using email attachments
A Dropbox Basic account is free and includes 2 GB of space. You can
download free apps to access Dropbox from your computer and mobile
device. You can also earn more space on your Dropbox Basic account.
If you need a lot more storage, DropBox offers in-app purchases for
Dropbox Pro, which includes 1 TB of storage and additional features.
Periodic Table is available for both Apple and Android devices.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later (Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) and the Android 4.1 and up on your Android device.
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Focus On: Teacher Resources |
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Internet4Classrooms offers a wide variety of informative online resources, tips, tools, and tutorials regarding your classroom needs. There is always something you can utilize with your students. Each month we'll feature a few links to useful topics.
Many historical events happened this month which you can cover in your classroom. Check out I4C's History page for lesson plans, videos, activities, and other resources to supplement your lessons.
Get all of your assessment assistance needs here sorted by grade and subject.
Need online interactive games and activities to reinforce the day's lessons? We have it.Kids can practice in the computer labs and at home.
School may be in full swing but teachers still need organizational help, worksheet ideas, bulletin board inspiration, and lesson plans throughout the year. Our Teacher tools page has it all.
February honors Black History Month. As we mentioned in the section above, I4C has a large page of resources dedicated to Black History month and African American History. Take our online Black History Quiz. Discover 500 Famous African American Mathematicians. Click on the many links to timelines, historical exhibits, and Black History teacher resources.
In need of project ideas for the second half of the school year? We have them: subject areas, inventors, biographies,
middle/high school level projects, and countries and continents.
Keep your students and yourself healthy this cold and flu season. Here are some great tips to share with your students and their parents.
Looking for lesson plans to bring in the new year? We have a whole page dedicated to lesson plans by grades and subjects.
Are you using our Site Map? Don't forget it's an easy and quick way to search alphabetically by topic.
We now have answer guides for our Common Core Math Printables. Request teacher access here.
Remember to visit our Teacher Tools section. This homepage contains all the topics you may need to use during the school year.
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Common Core State Standards
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Check out our Common Core English Language Arts Standards. Each Grade Level is full of resources for every individual standard. Students can take control of their own learning by clicking on the page with the standard number, and choosing their own resource to practice that skill. Click on your Grade Level to find English Language Arts Standard Resources and learning tools. Also, check out our Common Core Math Standards. It's hard to find sites that have math standards examples that follow the specific criteria, but they're here. Click on your Grade Level to find Math Standard Resources and learning tools.
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| Focus On: Parent Resources |
In addition to our teachers, parents can take advantage of our online resources as well.
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I4C already has Free Vocabulary Quizzes and Free Math Quizzes in our ACT/SAT Test Preparation Guide.
We're looking for new ideas for quizzes and informational resources that you'd feel are useful to you and your students. Please email us and let us know what you could use to make your teaching experience better.
Write to: susan.brooks@internet4classrooms.com
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Tech Tip #1: Screenshots and more screenshot methods for Windows 10
Need a screenshot
of your entire monitor, want it saved in a file or just placed on the clipboard? Want
to get an image of just the active window? How about only part of a window or parts of
multiple overlapping windows? Need to annotate these images quickly? Learn the many
ways of sampling parts of your monitor area with the screenshot techniques found: HERE.
Tech Tip #2: Virtual Reality: Getting Started?
Thinking about bring virtual reality
technology into your classroom? This short "how to" article discusses use of the
View-Master VR and Google Cardboard smartphone holders, and covers "do's and dont's"
as well as possible classroom activities. Read more about it: HERE.
Tech Tip #3: How to Make the iPhone's Touch ID Work With Gloves
It's cold and
with what feels like an eternity of wintery weather ahead of us, it's most
definitely glove-wearing season. So learn how to get your gloves to work as an
additional finger print with the touch ID sensor on your smartphone. Read about
how to do it: HERE.
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Internet4classrooms.com is a free educational portal for teachers, parents, homeschoolers and students. Visitors come from around the world to find Internet resources for their educational needs. One can find resources ranging from lesson plans to worksheets, individual grade level resources to templates, and even interactive learning games. We were very honored when one teacher called the site a "Walmart for Teachers". If you cannot find what you need for instruction on any topic, please feel free to
email us and we will help you find resources to fit your needs.
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