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What is Verizon Thinkfinity? Catherine Giddens South Carolina Department of Education

What is Verizon Thinkfinity? Catherine Giddens South Carolina Department of Education. What is Verizon Thinkfinity?.

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What is Verizon Thinkfinity? Catherine Giddens South Carolina Department of Education

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  1. What is Verizon Thinkfinity?Catherine Giddens • South Carolina Department • of Education

  2. What is Verizon Thinkfinity? The website (www.thinkfinity.org) contains thousands of free lesson plans and student materials for every core subject, designed by the leading educational organizations in the United States. Tens of thousands of FREE educational resources Accessible from school or home! A partnership between the Verizon Foundation and the nation’s leading educational organizations FREE professional development

  3. Verizon Thinkfinity is affiliated with these organizations: • ISTE 100 Alliance • Partnership for 21st Century Skills • State Educational Technology Directors Association • National Education Association • Council of Chief State School Officers

  4. Verizon Thinkfinity Content Partners:

  5. How did you become aware of energy issues? Blah, blah, blah, fossilfuels, blah, blah, blah, oil reserves ….. Huh? Zzzzz… ?!?!?!

  6. Power Issues – Environment and Economics • Can you generate enough energy for your town without running out of money? • How does the use of an energy source impact the quality of life for the people in the community? Lesson Plan

  7. Verizon Thinkfinity Educational Resources Learning Objects • For students • For teachers • Online (to be used on the computer) • Offline (Print-ready)

  8. Verizon Thinkfinity Content Partners Ready to Use Lesson Plans (Learning Objects are embedded!)

  9. Verizon Thinkfinity Content Partners Partner-Reviewed Web Links (These are Learning Objects, too!)

  10. Learning Objects Video Clips Interactives Web sites E-Sheets Primary Source Documents Graphic Organizers Quizzes Online Manipulatives Rubrics Printable Maps Photographs Podcasts Virtual Museums Worksheets Audio Clips

  11. Navigating the Thinkfinity.org Homepage(go to live site)

  12. Resources to Demo: --MS>>Highlight these: Read Write Think— Resume lesson-- http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/book-report-alternative-writing-295.html Interactive: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/resume/ EdSitement—monthly features and related lessons--poetry keyword search Illuminations—home improvement—The Cost of a Great Looking Floor” http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L788 Patch Tool Interactive Science Net Links—featured PowerUp in PPT-intro. wow EconEdlink—keyword search careers –“To Be or Not to Be” http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=393&type=educator AND “Wages and Me” http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=305&type=educator Arts Edge—keyword search Myths http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-6-8/A_World_of_Myths.aspx Xpeditions—Atlas and sample search off Thinkfinity search “US geography” grades 6-8th—note yellow star for SC standards for “Migration:Why People Move” http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g68/tgmigration.html Smithsonian—search term “Civil rights” grades 6th-8th—also note “How to Use this Site” at bottom of home page

  13. Resources to Demo: --HS>>Highlight these: Read Write Think— Resume lesson-- http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/book-report-alternative-writing-295.html Interactive: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/resume/ EdSitement—monthly features and related lessons--poetry keyword search Illuminations—demo search off home page> Compound Interest Calculator— http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=172 Science Net Links—featured PowerUp in PPT-intro. Wow EconEdlink—keyword search careers –“To Be or Not to Be” http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=393&type=educator AND “Wages and Me” http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=305&type=educator Arts Edge— http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-9-12/Southern_Puritanism_Tennessee_Williams.aspx Xpeditions—Atlas and sample search off Thinkfinity search “geography” grades 9-12—note yellow star for SC standards http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/17/g912/greece.html Smithsonian—search term “Brown vs Board of Education” grades 9-12—also note “How to Use this Site” at bottom of home page http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/resources/six.html

  14. Librarians Teaching Research: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/factfrenzy/opening.html http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/creating-question-answer-books-353.html http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/wading-through-teaching-internet-983.html http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/guided-comprehension-action-teaching-1028.html Partner Reviewed Sites: http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/professionals/librarians http://www.bibme.org/

  15. Thinkfinity.org Homepage

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  20. Thinkfinity.org Homepage Begin search here with keyword…

  21. Contact Information for Free PD: Catherine Giddens, SCDE Office of eLearning cgiddens@ed.sc.gov 843-654-4356 Cgiddens on Skype Online course – Thinkfinity for SC Teachers 40 renewal credits $60 Falll 2013 www.Elearningscpd.com

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