Five on Friday

1.  Pre-made Google Templates for learning tasks.  This site has tons and tons of templates.  The link above takes you to the Google Draw templates but then there are more links to take you to templates for Docs and Slides.  Check it out!  You may need to weed through it a bit.  Anyone can submit a template to Google's database and there is lots of junk stuff too.  But don't discount looking at the business templates.  Here are a few suggestions:

• Download the business card template and have students keep a business card for each character in the books they read.
• Have them create a resume for a historical character.
• Use the calendars done in Google Draw to teach ordinal numbers.  
• The budget template could be used from any grade 2-HS.  

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2.  Math Manipulatives Clipart for Google Apps.  I have started and am still working on creating clipart that you can use in your Google documents.  Just click the link, open up the Google Draw document, make a copy of it (File -> Make a Copy) and it is yours.  You can copy and paste from the Google Draw page onto a slide or document.  I have tangrams, pentominoes, counters, base 10 blocks, unit cubes, and math u see rods.  Fraction manipulatives coming next.

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3.  More children's read-alouds on technology;

• But I Read It on the Internet! - Great book to help students understand how we should not believe everything we see online.  How can we evaluate websites? 
• Dot -  I LOVE this book!  Dot's a spunky little girl well versed in electronic devices. Dot knows a lot. She knows how to tap . . . to swipe . . . to share . . . and she pays little attention to anything else, until one day Dot sets off on an interactive adventure with the world surrounding her. Dot's tech-savvy expertise, mingled with her resourceful imagination, proves Dot really does know lots and lots.
• The Berenstain Bears' Computer Trouble - Papa Bear needs to help his family get unplugged from the computer when they all become too attached to the screen.

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4.  Read Write Think is a web site full of resources that I was made aware of years ago during my time as an NTTI Master Teacher.  We lost the funding for the NTTI but many of the resources are still there and are only getting better.  This site has interactives, project based learning ideas, lesson plans and much more!  Returning to an amazing resource like Read, Write, Think is almost like opening the box of Christmas decorations each year.  

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5.  Friday at the Movies - Just a "feel good" video on unlikely friendships.