PenPal Schools is a global learning community where teachers can foster global awareness and understanding of a variety of cultures. Students are able to practice reading and writing skills, learn more about digital literacy, and gain social and emotional learning skills. PenPal Schools connects students from over 144 countries to learn together through collaborative online projects! The website is a safe environment that only registered students and teachers can take part in.

PenPal Schools connects students from 144 countries to learn together through collaborative online projects. Once you log in and select a topic and grade level, PenPal Schools connects each student with a group of PenPals from multiple classrooms around the world, so that students can collaborate with newfound international friends. The possibilities are endless!!!

So many animals need a home! Students will visit the Humane Society’s Adoptable Animals page to pick an animal they’d like to see get a forever home. Students will use ChatterPix an iOS app and the power of persuasion to animate a photograph of an animal in need of adoption. There are several alternatives for those who don't have iPads in the classroom.

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based simulations for math and science. The simulations are written in HTML5, and can be used online or downloaded to your computer. This is free for all students and teachers. There are hundreds of lesson plans and materials using the simulations.

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based simulations for math and science. The simulations are written in HTML5, and can be used online or downloaded to your computer. This is free for all students and teachers. There are hundreds of lesson plans and materials using the simulations.

Children love to take pictures and videos. They also like to move around and find things. This lesson combines these to things into one fun and active lesson. Students will be showing their knowledge of the alphabet and letter sounds as they move around their classroom or school taking pictures of different items they find.

In this activity, students will solve a math problem and explain their thinking using SeeSaw.

Place value is a concept that children have a difficult time grasping. The virtual manipulative at Toy Theater helps to teach place value by providing a visual representation for ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, and millions place value.

Students should begin at a young age to plan out their stories before they write them. There are resources that make the brainstorming task engaging for students so they get in the habit of mind mapping out their story or essay.

Provides an overview of all aspects of podcasting. From equipment selection to interviewing techniques to maximizing your audience and building a brand, this resource provides simple and practical advice and recommendations to take your podcast to the next level.

Created to support those interested in podcasting, with a focus on using podcasting in education, these resources help answer common questions and how-to's and are designed with classroom teachers, students, administrators, and support staff in mind.

Designed as a visual FAQ to address very specific questions and queries about podcasting, each of the 26 videos is less than 2 minutes to get you up and running in the next step in your podcasting journey.

Students may create new images in the style of Andy Warhol while learning photo editing skills. The Pixlr photo editor is a free site where students may create or modify images and then download them for use on other projects.

Children can set goals, create action plans, select resources & examples of their work to show their personal growth and success . They can put this work into their own portfolios. Children who are creative thinkers and problem-solvers develop as innovative designers. Teachers will use SeeSaw to guide students to create their portfolios for goal-setting and sharing their progress and growth towards their goals.

Powtoon is a free app that quickly and easily creates animated videos and presentations. The free version allows students to create accounts and provides access to a host of options to customize any project in a highly engaging fashion. Students will use nearly identical skills needed to create a Powerpoint or Google Slideshow with the addition of learning how to use a timeline to add or remove objects in the video.

Puzzel is a free puzzle platform where teachers can create different types of puzzles for students such as crossword puzzles, word searches, memory games, and lots more!

Students will be able to learn about the preamble of the constitution of the United States by watching instructional videos and reading articles in MeL (Michigan eLibrary). Students will be able to create a rewriting of the preamble into today’s terminology.

Resources and activities to help you create a sense of culture in a short window of time among participants who may or may not know each other along with resources on sharing, licensing and intellectual property rights.

Within this topic area, two or three presentation-specific skills are identified as essential to building capacity to present orally such as Storytelling, Listening & Responding to an Audience, Adaptability & Flexibility and Designer.

Within this topic area, two or three presentation-specific skills around audience-centric design, engaging the audience and determining the impact your presentation will have on the audience.