Monthly Newsletter Issue 105 |
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National Staying Healthy Month,
Betsy Ross's Birthday,
Louis Braille's Birthday,
National Cocoa Day,
Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
Benjamin Franklin's Birthday,
National Handwriting Day,
Jackson Pollock's Birthday,
National Puzzle Day,
FDR's Birthday
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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
information on our site and urge you to visit often.
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This month's blog is
STEM Learning and How to Implement It in the Classroom
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STEM learning involves implementation of four subjects: Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics as the core basis of
teaching. This education technique gains its focus by embracing
approaches such as observation, research, innovation and
problem-solving. Experts have contended that in this
information-based society, students require scientific and
technological skills to face challenges that arise with the adjusting
economy. The purpose of this article is to define STEM learning and
how it can be implemented in classroom curriculum. STEM education
is the key to finding solutions to problems that occur as a result
of technology and globalization.
Guest blogger Paul Bates is a writer, speaker, and young
entrepreneur living in Fresno, California. He likes to explore
new things and then describe it in his writing.
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Things To Celebrate This Month |
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January brings National Staying Healthy Month, MLK Day, National Puzzle Day, and much more. You never know what wonderful resources you can find to enrich your classroom experience. Let's get started:
National Staying Healthy Month
Betsy Ross's Birthday (1/1/1752)
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Did you know that Betsy Ross sewed the first flag of the United States? I4C has printables and other resources to help students learn about the evolution of flag of the United States of America.
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Louis Braille's Birthday (1/4/1809)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1/15)
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Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in your classroom today. Learn about his life and his accomplishments, read and watch his 'I Have a Dream' speech, and learn about the Civil Rights Movement on our Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resource page
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Benjamin Franklin's Birthday (1/17/1706)
National Handwriting Day (1/23)
Jackson Pollock's Birthday (1/28/1912)
National Puzzle Day (1/29)
FDR's Birthday (1/30/1882)
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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.
New Online Practice Quizzes Made Available in AUGUSTWe have released many new online quizzes during the last months supporting the Common Core Standards.
Try them out, and then use them with your students as: - Bell Ringers,
- In Class Assignments,
- Homework or
- Extra Credit.
Here is a list of the newest quizzes by grade.
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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.
New Printables Worksheets Made Available in AUGUSTWe have released thousands of new printables worksheets during the last months supporting the Common Core Standards.
Try them out, and then use them with your students as: - Bell Ringers,
- In Class Assignments,
- Homework or
- Extra Credit.
Here is a list of the newest worksheet sets by grade:
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New Worksheet Answer Keys Made Available in AUGUST
We have released thousands of new answer keys for our printables worksheets during the last months supporting the Common Core Standards.
Remember that you can sign up for answer key access here: https://i4c.xyz/n89msyv.
Here is a list of the newest answer key sets by grade:
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Every month we are going to feature a different 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 January is Canva By Canva ( iOS / Android ).
Fabulous designs and templates. Perfect for teachers for posters,
infographics and presentations.
Create beautiful designs and professional graphics with Canva.
Whether it's a photo editor, pic collage, logo, invitation or poster
maker you're looking for - Canva makes graphic design easy. Canva is
available on your iPhone, iPad, Android and computer so you can
create, edit and share your designs when it suits you most.
Edit photos, add text, elements, stickers, borders, frames and
more. Get started in seconds with thousands of professional templates
and just tweak them to suit your needs.
Use your own photos or choose from more than one million layouts,
stock photographs and illustrations. Search for the best fonts,
photo filters, graphics, stickers and shapes, then use Canva's simple
drag and drop tool to create a design. Share your design directly to
your favourite social media app, via email, text messaging apps or
export to your camera roll.
BEAUTIFUL LAYOUTS
Choose from hundreds of professionally designed layouts for
- Social Media & Post Maker - for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
- Social Media Banners - Facebook cover, Twitter Header, YouTube Art
- Snapchat Geofilter templates
- Blog & Website Posts - Inspirational, Travel, Food, Music
- Cards - Birthday, Thank you, Party, Wedding, Engagement, Love greetings
- Invitations - Birthday, Party, Wedding, Engagement, Christmas, Baby Shower
- Photo Collages - Birthday, Love, Family, Music
- Posters - Sale, Events, Clubs, Party, Inspirational, Music
- Flyers - Events, Clubs, Band, Real Estate, Business
- Presentations - Sales, Business, Education
- Business cards - Photographic, Modern, Minimalist
- Logos - for your Event, Business, Team
- Album & CD covers - Playlist, Podcast, Music Mix, Singles
- Kindle covers & Book covers - Romance, Thriller, Non-Fiction
and much more being added every week.
ADD TEXT ON PHOTOS
Convey your message by adding text or captions to your designs. Choose
from over a 100 fonts to suit your style, tone and voice. Adjust the
font size, colour, line height, line spacing, alignment, position and
rotation of your words to get your design picture-perfect.
ONE MILLION IMAGES
Choose from our library of more than 1 million premium images or
design with hundreds of free elements and fonts. Use images from your
Camera roll in your designs, or take photos on the go.
PHOTO EDITING
Take your photos to the next level with Canva's stunningly simple
photo editor. Present a consistent look and feel on social media and
in your marketing materials. You can edit your photos using preset
filters or get advanced with photo editing tools like brightness,
contrast, saturation, tint, blur, x-process and vignette. With more
than six quadrillion options, you'll never be stuck for choice.
SHARE AND PUBLISH
Share directly to your favourite social media including Facebook,
Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Google +
Or, save your design to your Camera Roll and share via email, text,
messaging apps and more.
GET IN TOUCH
Got questions or comments? Get in touch using https://canva.me/support.
We're here to help.
Canva is available for Apple and Android devices.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.1 or later (Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) and Android version 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.
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.
National Handwriting Day-I4C has tons of handwriting resources for you to use in your classroom. We have a page for kindergartners with tons of handwriting worksheets, help for uppercase and lowercase letters, resources for your students to practice manuscript and cursive,
and handwriting help for students with ADHD.
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 Vocabulary Quizzes and 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: A Cell Phone Policy that Actually Works
for Technology Teachers
Every school and every teacher seems to have a different philosophy with
student cell phones -- and also with classroom management as a whole.
Whether you are on the FORBIDDEN end of the spectrum or on the
"do what you want, it's your grade" end, this article might just
have a solution that will help in your classroom.
Learn more in the article found: HERE.
Tech Tip #2: 8 Must-Have Websites and Apps for Science Reading Passages
Finding high-interest, informational text is an important part of
locating just right resources for your classroom. If you're on the
hunt for digital reading material for your students, there are a few
different websites and apps that have science reading passages for
kids. The resources in this article include text appropriate for a
range of readers. Many of these resources let you search by grade
level, reading level and topic to find a science reading passage
that connects to your learning goals.
Learn more in the article found: HERE.
Tech Tip #3: 14 Virtual Tools & Favorite Math Apps
More and more classrooms are gaining access to technology that can
be used with students. Whether you're modeling a lesson, creating
stations, or working in a one-to-one classroom, virtual tools can
promote student engagement while increasing academic success.
Here are some apps for iPads - along with a few other tips - that
can transform your daily lessons and are definitely worth checking
out.
You can find out more: HERE.
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Internet4classrooms.com is an 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
email us and we will help you find resources to fit your needs.
Sincerely,
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