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.