CEESA 2015 Tool: Gapminder World

Time for our third installment. Today I have for you an amazing resource that is information and amazing to play with (you have to pry my fingers from the computer once I get started!) Gapminder World is a wonderful website that gives you a graphic display of data from around the world from many different topics and shows growth over time from different countries. If I were you, I would click full screen and just play around with it. There are so many different ways this can be used in the classroom. If you get a chance to use it, share what you did below!


 

CEESA 2015 Tool: Newsela

The CEESA 2015 tool of the day is a website called Newsela. Here you will find popular news articles that you can read by Lexile reading levels. When you click on an article, tabs will be included on the right with different reading levels. This is a wonderful tool for students and teachers and makes the news accessible for more students.

If you want more information on Lexile Reading levels you can go here and see the Lexile to grade correspondence and much, much more.
 

CEESA 2015 Tool: Newspapermap.com

I had a wonderful time in Dubrovnik sharing my behavior expertise and learning from some amazing educators. The last day's Keynote speaker was Heidi Hayes Jacobs and she was so fantastic that I went to her other session too. She talked about the importance of building global citizens for a changing world and shared some amazing, amazing, amazing resources. You can find more about her and what she offers to the field of education at her website Curriculum 21.

Today, I showed the class newspapermap.com. This is a tool that shows a map of many of the newspapers written around the world and will translate them into many different languages. The kids loved exploring it and sharing their learning with their classmates. It gave me a chance to show them a newspaper from my hometown and kids also explored news from places that interested them. The excitement and conversations were fantastic and the students were making many observations and connections to previous learning this year. Check it out if you get a chance.