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Winter Websites
Here are some Winter activities to share the joy of winter (click here for updates to list):
- 5 Videos to teach about winter
- Winter Facts and Worksheets
- The Winter Solstice, from PBS–a video for youngers
- Winter Vocabulary–a video
- What is a Solstice, from National Geographic–a video
- What is the Winter Season–a video
- Winter Coloring Pages, Printables, and more
- Winter Games–digital
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17 Websites and Videos on Natural Disasters
Natural disasters is a related discussion to any number of topics–geography, ecology, Earth Day, even problem solving. Here are 17 websites that bring the power of these natural forces to students (click here for updates to the list):
- Avalanches
- Earthquakes
- Earthquakes–an animation
- Earthquakes for Kids
- Hurricanes
- Natural Disasters–for kids–video
- Natural disaster videos
Click image below for slideshow of many natural disasters
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Top Ten Posts and Tips for 2024
Since we started Ask a Tech Teacher fifteen years ago, we’ve had almost 6.3 million views and 3300 comments from about 11,500 followers who read some or all of our 2,454 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like:
If you’ve just arrived at Ask a Tech Teacher, start here.
Here are our top 10 lists of most popular posts and tips for 2024:
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14 Holiday Websites and 5 Projects
Need a few websites to fill in free minutes? Here are holiday websites that will keep students busy while teaching them (click for updates to list):
- 12 Days of Christmas
- 55 Christmas Project Ideas for Elementary Schoolage Students
- Christmas Celebrations Across the World (video)
- Christmas puzzles and games
- Christmas—history—fun video
- Christmas Traditions Around the World (video)
- Gift Hunt–updated version of 12 Days of Christmas–just as much fun
- Holiday Crossword
- Holiday Elf Games
- Holiday—Math Facts
- Holiday—North Pole Academy
- Holiday STEM Activities
- Phone call from Santa
- Santa Tracker
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14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving
Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them (click for updated links):
- Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app)
- Canadian Thanksgiving
- Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities
- Plimoth Plantation–a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.
- Thanksgiving edu-websites–CybraryMan
- Thanksgiving Games
- Thanksgiving games and puzzles
- Thanksgiving games–Quia
- Thanksgiving Lesson Plans
- Turkey Templates — activities in Google Slides
If you’re looking for projects, you’ll find two on Ask a Tech Teacher:
For more, click here:
- Thanksgiving ASCII Art
- Comics
- Countdown Clock for the Holiday
- Team Challenge
- Thanksgiving Poll
Here’s a gallery of some of the Thanksgiving/Holiday projects:
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Autumn Websites
- Autumn Facts for Kids
- Don’t “Leaf” Out Fall’s Most Valuable Lesson
- EEK! A Tree’s True Color
- Fall Bucket List For Families Printable
- Fall Crafts, Decorations, and Printouts
- Fall Books & Short Stories For Kids about Autumn
- Primary Games’ Fall Fun
- Science Made Simple: Why Do Leaves Change Color in Fall?
- Why Leaves Change Color
Click for an updated list (more…)
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22 Back To School Websites
Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to
- BTS resources from Microsoft
- BTS resources from Teachers Pay Teachers
- Back to School Survival Kits
- BTS Toolkit from Education.com
- Make a class photo in Pixton EDU
We write about back to school often on Ask a Tech Teacher. Here are some of the past articles I think you’ll like:
- 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons
- 5 FREE Web Tools for a New School Year
- 5 Tech Ed Tools to Use this Fall
- 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year
- 5 Ways Teachers Can Stay on Top of Technology
- 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class
- 6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers
- 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School
- 11 Back-to-school Activities for the First Month of School
- Back to School–Tech Makes it Easy to Stay On Top of Everything
- Dear Otto: I need year-long assessments
- Great Activities for the First Week of School
- Great Back to School Classroom Activities
- How to Build Your PLN
- New School Year? New Tech? I Got You Covered
- Plan a Memorable Back to School Night
- Ready To Go Back To School? 7 Fun Lesson Ideas To Start The New Year
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Invention Convention 2024 is coming
Invention Convention Worldwide is a global K-12 invention education curricular program mapped to national and state educational standards that teaches students problem-identification, problem-solving, entrepreneurship and creativity skills and builds confidence in invention, innovation and entrepreneurship for life. Signups for the annual Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention US Nationals start March 29, 2024 (that’s today–publication day for this article).
RTX Invention Convention U.S. Nationals 2024 will be held at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI on June 5-7, 2024. Here’s a calendar of events (from Invention Convention Worldwide):
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35+ Easter Websites and Apps
Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. To non-Christians (or non-traditional Christians), that event signifies a rebirth of spring that is filled with joy and gifts — and chocolate! Overall, it is America’s most-popular holiday with Christmas a close second. The date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. This year, it’s March 31, 2024.
Here’s a good mixture of games, lesson plans, stories, and songs that can be blended into many academic subjects (for updates on this Easter-themed list of websites, click here):
18+ Interactive Easter websites
Preschool-2
This website includes a colorful collection of Easter (and Spring) games and information that is visual and enticing to youngers. Games are Easter Math, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Egg Dress-up, Easter Word hunt, complete-the-sentence, and more. Also, viewers will find websites about the history of Easter around the world.
ABCYa Easter Egg Hunt
Preschool-Kindergarten
Like all of ABCYa’s games and activities, Easter Egg Hunt is a colorful and intuitive educational game for young children. It is easy-to-understand, playful, with favorite Easter symbols and energetic music that will engage children. The five Easter-themed games are easy-to-understand (no directions required) with a countdown clock to motivate activity. Nicely, it also aligns gameplay with the national standards met.
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Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring
A few spring websites, lesson plans, printables, activities:
- 7 Science Experiments that Teach About Spring
- Books from Scholastic about Spring
- Life cycle of a snake
- Life Cycle Lesson Plans
- Life Cycle resources
- Life Cycles
- Life Cycle Symbaloo
- Plant life cycle
- Spring Puzzle
- Spring Games
- Spring Vocabulary (video)
- Spring Word Scramble
- Spring Word Search
- What Happens in Spring (video)
- What Happens in Spring–PS (video)