Happy Holidays
From the Learning Technologies Department
Let's get creative this season!
Our newsletter this month will focus on ways to let your students demonstrate mastery in creative, tech-integrated ways! We'd love to see what you come up with...so don't forget to share your masterpieces with the LT Dept.
A Dickens of a Christmas!
Check out an amazing 360 degree tour of a Victorian home all decked out for Christmas. Learn about the time period and traditions practiced by Dickens himself! Just click HERE!
Want to learn how to make your own 360 degree tours? Contact the LT Dept. today!
Christmas Movie Math!
Kids get creative with money as they work to analyze movie data and figure out the highest grossing holiday movie of all time! Students will round, estimate, compare, calculate percent increase, and graph their data! Click HERE.
Write Your Own Christmas Carols!
Have students write lyrics and create the music for their very own Christmas Carols! Or have students create a soundtrack for a reading piece that captures the theme/mood of the piece! Use the Chrome Music Lab for all kinds of exciting ways to make music this season!
Winter Magnetic Poetry in Google Slides!
Have your students create their own winter poetry using this manipulative Google Slide! Frosty fun is just waiting to be had as your students compose their very own poetry! Don't forget to share your poems with us! We'd love to read them!
December Holiday Lessons
The National Education Association has put together some holiday lesson resources for grades 6-12 teachers! Check out this great list HERE.
Secondary Math Goodies
This site has lots of fun, printable holiday lessons that cover topics for middle school and high school math! Get some for your students HERE.
Secret Santa's Little Helper
Ready to do Secret Santa on your campus, but hate the paperwork and trying to match everyone up? Use this handy online tool to add people, let them create wish lists, and automatically assign your Secret Santas! Click HERE.
Create Your Own Christmas Story!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgGvURLrEY
Students can create their own books with Book Creator! Easy and fun to use! Watch the video above and then click below to get started!
Portable North Pole
Send personalized videos from Santa to the special people in your life! The free version of this site has lots of fun options for sharing some Christmas magic! Click HERE.
Elf Yourself!
Jib Jab lets you create videos and ecards with your face (or your friends faces...or your principal's face) in them! Tons of holiday fun to be had as you create memorable videos to share! Click HERE.
Google Santa Tracker
Follow along with the online advent calendar and on the 24th, you can track Santa's progress across the globe! Fun for class and at home! Click HERE.