Today is Digital Learning Day! Below are three ways Annenberg Learner and our partner, Journey North, can help you incorporate technology into your lessons.
1. Browse our interactives page for online activities that students can use to improve spelling, control the U.S. debt, build a roller coaster, and create an ecosystem. You can search by subject area and grade level. Many of the interactives include online printable assessments. Interactives make great classroom lab activities, as well as great self-paced homework assignments.
2. Considering flipping your classroom? Learner.org streams content videos in all subject areas. Assign videos or parts of videos as homework to prepare for cooperative learning projects or discussion activities in the classroom. Since the videos are streamed free, students can watch and rewatch them at their own pace, take notes, and jot down questions they have. Search available programs here.
3. The Journey North citizen science program, now run from UW-Madison Arboretum, and Explore.org teamed up to present live cams of animals around the world. Live cams capture moments in time from places around the globe. Bring the outside world into the classroom. Explore how sunlight drives seasonal change and affects all living things. The live cam experience is a springboard to research and discovery. How do animals in different parts of the world respond to seasonal change? Viewing guides with classroom activities are available for each cam.