2. Discovery Education
Discovery Education engage students through dynamic curricular
resources like Discovery Education streaming Plus and Discovery
Education Science, support teachers through customized professional
development and assessment services, and ultimately improve student
achievement (Discovery Education, 2011)
3. In more simple terms
Discovery Education is a great website for:
Free teacher resources
Lesson Planning
Interactive Simulations
Free Math and Science Tutorials
Puzzlemaking
and much more!
4. How can I acquire this technology?
Its easy!Just browse to
www.discoveryeducation.com
The main page will offer several log-in options:
5. Students 6. Teachers Click on which best suits you and start
using the free resources available!
7. How can I use this for education?
Discovery Education can be used in a numerous amount of ways in any
educational environment.
Teachers can find lesson plans, videos, worksheet tools,
simulations, and webinars for the following subject areas: English,
Social Studies, Science, Math, Health, and Technology.
8. How can I use this in education?
Students can find an abundance of tutorials, videos, and practice
worksheets to aid in their learning for all subject areas.
9. How can I use this in education?
Parents can use resources such as WebMath and Homework Help to
provide their children with proper assistance and tutoring in any
subject area.
Parents can also download practice worksheets, flash cards, and
find motivational tools to help get their children engaged in
learning!
10. Lesson Plans
11. Interactive Simulations
These two examples show
Interactive simulations found on DiscoveryEducation.com
12. Blooms Taxonomy
Students can use the interactive simulations provided online to
apply knowledge to their everyday lives.For example, the weather
simulation shows how thunderclouds are created, which then leads
into explaining where thunderstorms come from.The greenhouse
simulation shows how global warming occurs in our environment.Both
of these simulations, along with others included on the website,
are useful simulations that students can apply to their daily
lives.
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13. Worksheets & Puzzles
14. Blooms Taxonomy
Using worksheets and puzzles provided by Discovery Educationallow
students to recall information and comprehend the meaning and
interpretation of instructions and problems (Clark, 2010).
Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/2061712190/
Citation: Clark, D. (1999). Blooms Taxonomy, retrieved 25 July 2011
from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html
15. Group Presentations & Projects
16. Blooms Taxonomy
Discovery Education provides teachers with the resource to upload
student presentations and projects. Teachers and students have
access to other student projects that have been uploaded as well,
thus allowing students to view these projects and analyze their
peers works as well as their own ideasand products.
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17. Why use Discovery Education.com?
This resource provides great features for students, teachers, and
parents alike.It is a great website recommendation that teachers
can give parents to engage and motivate them in their childs
learning.Teachers can also use this website as a free resource for
peer evaluations, worksheet making, and providing simulations in
the classroom, all which incorporate Blooms Taxonomy .
18. Read, Write, Think
Our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool
professionals with access to the highest quality practices in
reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in
free materials (Read, Write, Think, 2011)
19. In more simple terms
This website, like Discovery Education, offers an abundance of
teacher and parent resources.However, these resources are more
interactive and geared towards application in the classroom.
20. How can I acquire this technology?
Simple.Just go to www.readwritethink.org so start using the free
resources provided for you.
21. How can I use this for education?
Read Write Think offers many tools that can be used in the
classroom.
Teachers and students can create interactive calendars, graphic
organizers, easy to read lesson plans, as well as find hundreds of
interactive simulations for the students to use.
22. How can I use this for education?
Parents can also find resources on Read Write Think such as
games,activities, projects, tips & how tos, and tools that can
allow them to successfully aid in their students learning!
23. Creating Calendars
24. Creating Calendars
One of the reasons I loved this free technological resource is
because of the Calendar tool.Students and teachers can
interactively create a class calendar,adding fun graphics and facts
to each day of the month.
25. Blooms Taxonomy
Creating calendars falls in to the application level of Blooms
taxonomy, since the students are creating a written project with
text.The calendar tool is also a great way to get students involved
in the day to day functions of the classroom!The calendars can be
viewed online or even printed out and passed out to the class
individually!
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26. Student Interactives
27. Student Interactives
Read Write Think has some of the best web simulations and
interactive activities that Ive seen.
Organizing & Summarizing interactive: allow students to map out
arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
Inquiry & Analysis interactive: students identify and create
questions and then use their recorded findings to solve them.
28. Student Interactives
There are also web interactive activities for students to aid in
creating poetry, writing and publishing, and learning about
language.All of these simulations are available for the student or
teacher to use at any time.
29. Blooms Taxonomy
By using the interactives, students can define the problem,
Identify goals and objectives, and thus the synthesis level of
Blooms taxonomy occurs.Students can apply these interactive
simulations to their daily routines to create, solve, discuss, and
organize their day to day activities.
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30. Why should I use Read, Write, Think?
This is an absolutely fantastic website for interactive
learning.The abundance of web videos provided that engage and
motivate students to learn is endless, and any method of
instruction that allows our students to enjoy learning should be
used heavily in instruction.This website is also free, easy to
navigate, and fun for all!
31. The End
I hope these technologies have aided in understanding how Blooms
Taxonomy can be used in teacher resources.They are free and all
teachers should incorporate their use into daily routines to ensure
that our classrooms are abundant in efficient
instruction.