Program Areas

Source: Spelling City by Spelling City (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Create customizable online activities to review, practice, and test spelling.

Using the Web site Word It Out, students will create a word cloud from newly-learned vocabulary (colors, transportation, feelings, clothing, places in a city, rooms in a house, etc.).

Source: Flickr by Berkeley Lab by flickr (License: Creative Commons 4.0)

 

A skill we need to teach our students is to fact-check those things they read, hear, or see in the media. Using online checkers:  snopes, FactCheck and Politifact, students will investigate a current story presented in the media.

Source: http://famous-trials.com/lincoln (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students research text, pictures, and comments about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in preparation for a mock trial simulating the real one that followed the assassination in 1865. This site, which is about the assassination of President Lincoln, was created by the American history teacher, Roger Norton. He used this site to do mock trials with his students simulating the real one that followed the assassination in 1865.