User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2017

I absolutely love all of the new robotics toys that have been coming out for elementary age learners. The free SPRK education program (which can be used with both Sphero and Ollie) has series of lab exercises to teach kids programming and robotics concepts. One of my gifted girls noted, “Where do all of these robots come from?”

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best part is the conversations that I get to have with learners, especially at the elementary level. Downing Elementary School with principal Marcos Lopez as part of some broader work in Ector County ISD. The brain needs regular stimulation to properly function and this can come in the form of exercise or movement.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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Libraries Mobility eBook Tablets 543

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

But this kind of giant flashcard activity is gaining traction across elementary schools around the country. Clements and Sarama recommend using subitizing exercises through the end of elementary school. Sarama says each dot exercise can be completed in 10 seconds for a total of three minutes a day.

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User Generated Education

MAY 17, 2024

But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. We read the Kidpreneurs’ book and did exercises from book – these readings and exercises continued throughout the unit. Online Games.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. Students can engage in various counting exercises related to the number 100. Have students do ten sets of ten different exercises (i.e.,

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As the father of an elementary school student, I’m one of these parents. It can provide varied resources such as videos, interactive exercises, and reading materials to cater to these preferences. It can offer practice exercises that develop analytical skills and provide immediate feedback on their performance.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2024

Today, I interviewed Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and host of the Teacher Burnout Podcast and the Less Stressed Principal Podcast. Subscribe to the Show This week's guest Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and seasoned educator life coach, brings 14 years of invaluable experience in education. Oh my goodness.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We did a fairy tale exercise in which teams of students programmed their robot to act like a little pig running away from the Big Bad Wolf. To my fellow educators who are new to robotics for elementary students: I know that the logistics of setting up coding lessons for young learners can be daunting when you’re teaching seven classes a day.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In general, teachers spend more of their personal time creating lessons and reviewing homework than socializing with friends and family, cooking for themselves, exercising, and traveling. 44% of teachers feel the biggest misconception about teachers is that they have an “easy job” with lots of free time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Most books are only available through the website or a link to the website.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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Libraries Mobility eBook Tablets 459

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When teachers grade these exercises, it creates anxiety among students still grappling with new concepts or skills. In the example below, elementary students working on a narrative are encouraged to look at their rough draft and evaluate where they believe they are in relation to specific criteria.

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Waterford

MAY 3, 2021

25 Field Day Games for Elementary School Students. If you teach in an early elementary classroom, this pretend roller coaster can be a fun field day game for kids. Share this Mission: Save Earth exercise with your students and complete it together. game can get students exercising as you call out different moves for them to do.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Experience tells us there are three key features that, taken together, contribute to successful SEL and whole-child outcomes in elementary and middle school. You should look for programs that allow teachers to confidently exercise their professional judgment and student experience to help increase learning outcomes. The good news?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Carly Chillmon (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): My kids are active, very active. DeLisha Sylvester (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): I am the mother of two children who are six and a half years apart. Vic Vuchic (Elementary and Middle School Parent): My son is in third grade and my daughter is in sixth grade.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. During breaks, I play movement songs or exercise videos so students can release some energy. I have found the smart board very helpful in my classroom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2015

My notes from yesterday’s Code.org elementary coding workshop… Ben Schafer , University of Northern Iowa, Facilitator. Code.org’s elementary school courses overview [VIDEO]. Code.org elementary curriculum was created in conjunction with Cal-Berkeley. Short 20-hour courses for elementary school. Ben’s slides (PPT).

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Waterford

APRIL 9, 2024

Social Skills Activities for Elementary Students with Autism Students with autism often have trouble interpreting and mirroring neurotypical social cues; the same is true of non-autistic students for interpreting and responding to autistic social cues. This means that about 1 in 36 of the children you teach will be diagnosed with autism.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

As a blended learning coach, I often see students at the elementary level rotate through a station rotation lesson like the one pictured below. Although I appreciate the value of adaptive software, it is important to pair online practice with a metacognitive exercise.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

The matching column resources are perfect for kindergarten and lower elementary teachers working with phonetic sounds and word recognition. I also like the PE teacher who had students match muscles with exercises and then encouraged them to do the exercise after completing the match.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2020

From March to June, while their parents worked, Savannah and Mia passed their weekdays “going on field trips” with the family’s chickens around the house, playing outside and spending about an hour doing math and reading exercises on ABCMouse.com, which the school provided access to for free. The in-person element of the program was unusual.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This is just as true for the elementary classroom as it is for the lecture hall. Under that model, students were forced to sit in seats for a long time listening to the teacher or writing exercises. It should be no surprise that studies show engaged students retain more of what they have learned.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

In the vein of VR, Lynch also notes that virtual laboratories, which allow students to try lab exercises with no pressure of getting it right, will likely start to emerge. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 16, 2019

One resolution my elementary students and I are setting is to be more healthy with our digital use. With the Move It Chrome browser extension , you can set notification intervals on the students’ computers, and the screen will present a random brain break and exercise to complete. Some videos are as short as 30 seconds.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific notation, but fifteen minutes in, some students had lost focus. Students in eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccios class work through an exercise. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media. This becomes especially important when we realize that elementary and teen-aged students are already swimming in the digital ecosystem.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The problem isn’t with timed retrieval practice exercises like the Mad Minute. In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. It is true of parents and it is true of teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: Upper elementary. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Financial Football.

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Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

Five-Minute Mindfulness Meditation : This age-appropriate meditation teaches elementary students how to clear their minds and focus on the present. Calm-Down Kit : This activity (#8 on the list) will show you how to stock a kit full of calming items and exercises to help students when they are overwhelmed. Pianta, R. and Stuhlman, M.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. I remember several occasions when I discussed coping strategies with students, often suggesting techniques like breathing exercises, journaling, meditation or talking to someone.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problems these educators wrestle with daily are no longer merely academic exercises. More problematic, these issues also include how to educate students who cannot learn online, such as students with special needs, English language learners and early elementary children. Public education will never be the same.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Then that too changed when rote drills and worksheets were replaced with cerebral challenges and dynamic exercises. Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2018

Debi DePaul is ORIGO’s elementary mathematics consultant. They are accustomed to cerebral challenges that keep them motivated and summer arrives with its sports, naps, and vacations. Num fu is a free learning game developed by ORIGO Education and found on the App Store for Apple devices. Summer is an ideal time to mix fun with learning.

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Digital Citizenship Blended Learning Exercises Elementary 274

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2020

Louis Hanon became famous for designing piano exercises that train fingers using intervals. This reminded me of a hopscotch game we played on our elementary playground in the 1960s. If, as we so often do when texting on a cell phone, we look down at the keyboard and then up at the monitor, it slows us down.

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